Cake by mom.
After nine months of incubation, OK Do opened on September 11, 2009. The launch was a house party, hosted at a friend Tuula Pöyhönen’s place. The party was held in a home because we think it must be one of the most interesting and inspiring venues in the world. Moreover, the first OK Do party started a research project Home-Work-Home which looks at the idea of two merging spheres: home and work. Based on meetings with creative people, the project explores how the mixing of home and office affects creative processes, results and, ultimately, life.
Although we sympathise with Momus who finds internet his home, the meaning of corporeal home and its influence on creative ideas cannot be trivialised. Author Harriet Beecher Stowe has said that “home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.” It has the potential to be a place where the rough and rampant ideas can flow freely and undisturbed – in other words, safely.
In the OK Do party, a home functioned as a club for Renaissance Man and Jaakko Eino Kalevi as well as a studio and a gallery for Jesse Auersalo and Daniel Palillo who performed live painting to the music. It was also a restaurant that served cakes by mom and Karelian pies by friends, not to forget it’s role as a cosy exchange arena for Onni goods and OK Do thoughts. The party crystallised the significance of good people to a practice like OK Do. Thank you all!
Live painting kicks off.
OK Do live painting by Jesse Auersalo and Daniel Palillo. Music by Renaissance Man and Jaakko Eino Kalevi.