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Pekka Niskanen

Artist, Researcher, Doctor of Fine Arts

  • ART
    • 2020-
    • 2010-2019
    • 2000-2009
    • 1990-1999
    • -1989
  • THEATRE
  • CURATING
  • RESEARCH
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This happened to me.

In January 2015, I lived a kilometer from the offices of Charlie Hebdo when the terrorist attack took place. I decided to stay in Paris.

One evening in March the same year, I was walking along Rue Bonaparte when the army came to the streets of Paris.

Since then, the soldiers carrying machine guns guarded our home street day and night. In August, I decided to move out.

In November 2015, I lived twenty meters from the Bataclan Theater when Isis terrorists killed 90 people in the theater and on our street.

I became ill after the attack. I was operated five times. After five years, my body was almost the same as at the beginning of 2015 in Paris.

In December 2018, I ran away from the bullets of the Isis terrorist attack in Strasbourg.

I ended up in a labyrinth of a concrete parking garage. In its dark silence, I tried to hear approaching footsteps.

I exited, escaped, and decided to exist.

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