Featherweight Portable Museum is a concept borrowed from Susan Sontag’s book, On Photography, in which she analyses how we perceive photography and how it transforms our self-image and society. We want to see the beautiful, the strange and something that makes us see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Featherweight Portable Museum addresses the problem of how emerging artists can show their work without undue economical strain and offers the answer by using galleries slack time in between exhibitions and other unused spaces. With a portable museum -concept we are collecting art works that are easy to transport around art associations in different countries. The mix of Finnish and Irish/British art in this event is a celebration for the art in slack spaces, a tour of media art where nationalities come together, give presentations about their actions and uses empty free space to show media art in different forms. After the events in Tampere and Belfast the media art screening will travel to different art associations, who are willing to have a screening in their space for a day or two.