Azar Saiyar
History bleeds under your fingernails
14.4. – 1.5. 2016
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Pikkujätkä
Gallery is open also on Mondays 12-17 until first of May!
The exhibition is open also on 30 April and 1 May.
a film piece | duration: 7 minutes
“ We say ignorance is bliss. And you want to ask – to whom.“
We used to believe that being left handed could lead to criminality, stupidity, immoral
behaviour. So we tried to educate our children not to use that hand. We punished the
children, beat the bad hand. We sometimes even put a mitten to the wrong hand – and so
prevented writing with that hand.
History bleeds under your fingernails is a short film piece on the history of taming the left
hand and on the culture of educating the bodies that do not fit.
a film piece by Azar Saiyar
cinematography Joonas Kiviharju
performer Dunja Saiyar
sound design Kimmo Modig
music and installation Jari Suominen
Thank you for support:
AVEK/ media art, Arts Promotion Centre Finland/ media art
Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture
contacts: azar.saiyar(at)gmail.com
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