FAD ON A WIRE Tight rope performance, duration: 4,5 minutes. Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE. Created and performed by Stefan Lindfors 2007. Performance in front of live audience produced by YLE. Photos: Marco Melander, Jukka Lehtinen, Kirsi Tuura In the summer of 2007 Lindfors got a phone call from a producer at the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE asking if he would be interested in performing a circus act on TV. “If i can do a tight rope dance I'm interested, otherwise not", Lindfors figured. He had no idea how difficult it would be for a 45-year old artist to learn to walk on a wire in a few months time. Seven well-know Finnish men and women joined the TV series "Sirkus", all learning different traditional circus acts. After each TV show one in the group dropped out after votes by two judges and as well by the TV audience. Four made it to the final show aired live on national Finnish TV on December 22, 2007, Lindfors included. Already after the first TV program, and after a few weeks of practice in September Lindfors realized how incredibly difficult tight rope dancing turned out to be, and he made a decision on the concept for his up-coming performance: "There's no way in hell an artist at my age could possibly learn to do tricks on a tight wire in only three months that in any way at all would SERIOUSLY entertain an audience! Even if I'd learn to do a few tricks by the time for the show I obviously have to integrate my work as an Artist as the essence of my performance." Lindfors wrote a story for his tight rope show, built sculptures for the two ends of the 7 meter (23 feet) long wire, created music at sound studio HUMINA, and developed his character of an insect struggling through life. He called his 4,5 minute long performance "Fad on a Wire". Sculptures and wings in welded steel rod, transparent fiberglass and lights. Music and soundscapes by HUMINA, Helsinki, Finland. Lindfors' tight rope trainer was Circus Artist Hanna Moisala, and his choreographer and drama trainer for the show was Kazimir Kolesnik. The diameter of Lindfors' 7,5 meter steel wire was 13mm, half of an inch....