I’m proud to share my installation “Pläsnt Dschörnie – Rest Room” at Sports Hall Window
@sportshallwindow in Helsinki — on view for two more weeks!
Imagined as a space made for (and by) employees of the Pläsnt Dschörnie moving company, the Rest Room proposes a den of retreat and recentering, away from the hustle and bustle of the main floor of Pläsnt Dschörnie’s ever-growing, decentralized headquarters, and offers moments of calm and solace for these practitioners of relocation, a potentially overwhelming task given the emotional (and physical) labor that comes along with easing the stress of those dealing with a impending move.
Born in an underused supply closet and proportioned for short-term individual use, the Rest Room is a communally cobbled-together collection of improvised and reconstructed furnishings with multiple uses, collected elements of diversion, hobby, and amusement along with practical fittings. Traces of the space’s original use (storage shelves, old paint layers) are layered under more recent uses (paperbacks, snack remnants, used tea-bags) amidst the slow accumulation of individual employees’ activities (craft projects, hand-written signs and notes, trophies, etc). It’s cluttered, comfortable, and perhaps a bit claustrophobic.
➧ Pläsnt Dschörnie is a parafictional moving company operational since 2014, manifested first and foremost via printed advertisements (
@movingflyer ), then expanding to installations, performances, sculptures, and videos. The Pläsnt Dschörnie headquarters was initially spawned at
@lilithperformancestudio in Malmö in 2019 as the performative installation “Pläsnt Dschörnie – New Moves”, and continues to grow today.
I’m grateful to
@evetuulonen for providing the space and opportunity to present this new expansion of the Pläsnt Dschörnie universe at Sports Hall Window!
Pläsnt Dschörnie – Rest Room is on view from April 12 – June 30, 2025, 24 hours a day.