Blackmarket expert number 10: Aiju von Schöneman

We are now publishing one expert every day until the event!

BLACKMARKET by Hannah Hurtzig (Mobile Academy Berlin) is a performance and an installation with 52 experts in which narrative formats of knowledge mediation will be tried out and presented. BLACKMARKET has been successfully organised all over Europe 13 times before, including Berlin, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Liverpool, Graz, Vienna and Dresden. The event is recreated anew for each venue with new themes and in cooperation with local experts.

Organised at the Turku Volunteer Fire Department building on 20 October, BLACKMARKET No. 14 speaks of quietness and silence. Finns are often considered as people with a special talent for and experience in keeping quiet. At BLACKMARKET, you can eavesdrop on them talking about quietness and silence.

Aiju von Schöneman is a travel guide from Turku, for whom speaking is an essential part of her work. Aiju also runs silent retreats. She has worked with cancer patients, amongst others, and on culture and convent tours and the children's Koiramäki tours, and in the summer at the Retretti Art Centre. A tree was planted in Samppalinna Park in 2007 in recognition of Aiju's work in cultural activities, and she was awarded her own street plaque in the WTC (World Trade Center) square in the 2008 "Turun Tähti" (Star of Turku) competition.

Speech is silver, silence is golden