Porta-pottie prizes

Festival food and drinks are a simple combination that can produce a veritable cornucopia of bodily art. Festival porta-potties are art galleries that showcase this particular oeuvre.

Spelunking. Photo: Markus Korpi-Hallila

The investigative journalism department of the Ilosaarirock web press went out to review the rear end results of the first festival day. Contrary to commonly held beliefs, the atmosphere in the potties was clean and odor-free. The lines weren’t particularly long either, so the road to redemption was short.

We found a few more or less used contraceptive devices that tell their sordid tales of the heat of the summer. A lonely egg shell had found a new home in the tank. It was nice to know that the festival audience had rembered to hydrate; the contents were clearly more liquid than solid. We didn’t find any porta-pottie prizes, but there was more than enough material for a thorough anatomy and sex-ed lesson. To be continued?

Text: Antti Parkkinen
Photo: Markus Korpi-Hallila
Translation: Jaakko Suvanto