Jani Ruscica: Begin. Again, 2023. Foto: HAM/Viljami Annanolli Begin. Again Artist Jani Ruscica Kiviparintie 1, 00920 Helsinki Indoor Sculpture Limited access: the work is available to view for the users of the premises only. Jani Ruscica’s work Begin. Again is spread around the new Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Languages in Myllypuro, in the form of figures cut from aluminium or taped on windows. The work is based on sign systems and signs that we use to transmit, construct and communicate verbal meanings. However, the work’s signs do not behave traditionally. They turn inside out, they are half-finished and they stretch to reach new limits. They contain various creatures and objects; they are both verbal signs and representational images. Ruscica wants to explore what happens when we try to interpret the open and labile meanings of these signs along with those associated with schools and education that strive for accuracy and unambiguity. The work includes sound. An algorithmic artificial-intelligence verse generator produces short, constantly changing poems based on all learning material used at the school. The artificial intelligence recites random verses a few times a day, using a variety of voices. The verses are never identical; they change constantly. Begin. Again invites us to see, hear, interpret and play: What will the language and vocabulary used at school consent to, and what new meanings and experiences will the work give rise to? Jani Ruscica, born 1978 in Savonlinna, Finland and raised in Italy, combines various techniques from video and sound art to performance, from sculpting to murals and woodcuts. He looks for a common ground between art forms and explores meanings’ ability to transform, the points of contact and slips between representation and interpretation. Ruscica questions categorisations and dichotomies by dismantling the barriers between language, gestures and meanings. The work belongs to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM. At map