KAARINA ORMIO

Princess as the Sun

 Prince Betelgeuze, Princess Algieba and Princess Bellatrix
Travel Around the Baltic Sea


A performance project from 1997, in co-operation with Jaan Pärnamäe (EST) and Elin T. Sørensen (NO).
The project consists of performance, its documentation in different ways (photo, text, 8 mm film, music...) and of publishing the documentation for example in books and in the form of installations.
We visit different places around the Baltic Sea. In the performances, that often last for several days, we live as fairy-tale Princesses and a fairy-tale Prince. For people who happen to see us, we hope to create moments of recalling dreams of something Else.
As the Princess in me expresses the longing for the Other, I am also seeking the other coast of the Baltic Sea, my home sea. Longing for the Other in me, is like longing for the other coast of the sea, on the shore of which I live.

The book on our journeys


Extracts from the book:

Prinsessat uivat
Paha hais
Prinsessa Bellatrix
Prinsen och badkaren




3 fairy tale royal persons

Laitosaari 1998

The narrow gauge railway in Latvia

The narrow gauge railway in Latvia

The Livonian giant 2001

The Livonian giant 2001

Ire

Irê

Paide 2001

Paide 2001

Berlin 2000

Berlin 2000

Eckerö 1999

Eckerö 1999

River Shuja 1999

River Shuja 1999





Exhibitions:

Play

Leikki MUU galleriassa Helsingissä

Mäng

Mäng G Galeriis Tallinnas

Mäng

Kluuvi, Helsinki

kapsekki

Ämbrisse või Läänemerre?
Tampere maja, Tartu   

Mab

Mab, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki





CV
Bibliography
Østersøen / The Baltic Sea





Suurin taide
Iseendast / Om selvet
Arvamus, lk 249 - 252;    (htm-versioon)