The project Ferie was an investigation about the possibility for FinnFemFel to go on a relaxing holiday and at the same time have an exhibition in the gallery trans-art in Trondheim, Norway. The holiday was a caravan car journey from Nykarleby, Finland, to Trondheim and back. To make the holiday realistic Albert’s children Sara and Arne joined us and took a very active part in the project. It said on the invitation card to the opening of the exhibition FinnFemFel: “ In the project in the gallery trans-art the group FinnFemFel keeps what it promises: a Ferie (holiday). It’s a holiday for the group. We will drive a caravan car from Nykarleby in Finland, through the lovely Sweden to Trondheim.

During our journey we will stop as often as possible to do some fishing and sunbathe. We will report to trans-art by fax about everything we do and argue about. When we finally arrive we will show slides and invite you to a barbecue party.” We had the technique to have internet connection and edit DV and photographs and print them in the caravan car, but we chose faxing instead of e-mailing. In the strive of coming closer to real camping we wanted to use the most standardized low-tech equipment available.

The project was in three different parts.
Part one, 7th of June 2002 at 7 pm. The opening of the exhibition when we sent the first fax from Nykarleby and our journey to Trondheim begun. We drove via Haparanda and Arjeplog in Sweden and stayed in a fjord near Bodøn, Norway, for a couple of days. All the time we documented, by drawing, photographing and DV what we have experienced and what had happened. Due to the internet it is not easy to find a fax-machine nowadays and when you happen to find one they tend to be very slow. For that reason we could not send everything we produced.

Part two, 14th of June 2002 at 7 pm
We arrived to trans-art and and there was a second opening. During the opening we made a performance with objects we used during our journey. We also showed typical holiday videos we from the journey. The whole weekend we stayed in Trondheim where we were in charge of trans-art. Everyday we had a public barbecue outside the gallery. Since we were on holiday and the soccer world cup was going on, we closed the gallery and went to the pub to watch the games.

Part three, 17th of June 2002 at 3 pm
We started our trip back to Nykarleby via Åre, Östersund and Umeå in Sweden. It was our intention to take the ferry from Umeå to Vaasa in Finland, but due to the Midsummer eve 21st of June (the biggest summer holiday in the Nordic countries), the ferry was full. The only solution was to drive an 800 km detour, around the Gulf of Bothnia.

It was a very silent group of artists and children driving through the bright Nordic summer night and arriving at Nykarleby at 5 o clock on the morning of the 21st of June 2002. All the way we were documenting and sending faxes back to trans-art. Albert sent the last fax at noon the same day we arrived at Nykarleby. www.trans-art.no

	Some of the pictures sent by fax to TransArt in Trondheim
	Pictures from the exhibition
	Pictures from the "ferie"