7) Jogging Sauna

Place: Töölönlahti (Virpi's place) and public sauna Harjutori Activity: Jogging and sauna Key Words: Body experienceThis jogging in Töölönlahti is something what Virpi does many times a week. We wanted to have experience of that powerful feeling what she got from jogging and try have our body is cope with this extremely exhausting experience. What was important that we are jogging together or anyway we are share the experience together. We had conversation about cultural differences in education. We noticed that finnish-swedish ? culture they believe more their children's skills. Finns often has a poor self esteem and they need to struggle with believing them selves that they can do things and they are good enough. In Harjutori sauna we med old women who was like at home in public sauna. We were welcome to her place. We could image how sauna was the place where people came to meet each other, relax and feel pure and fresh. This sauna is not the place were people comes to criticizes bodies. This place is free from that kind of thinking especially in day time and middle of the week.

Afterward I felt unreal. Am I aloud to do such a things middle of the week and they time. Should I be more effective and busy with important things? Why I felt that this was important to do this together. All those conversations and body experiences was important and inspiring me to art in many different ways. I could do artist research with body. What kind of associations these experiments give as though talking. Why we started to talk these theme while we were jogging and were sauna? Is it something to do with our body and/or environment? What happens if I concentrating only the places with through the body?