Jouko Turkka

[4][5] The method was to progressively search for a mental borderline state by way of psychological and physical exertion, and the result was frequently an acting performance characterised by actors shaking uncontrollably and spewing spit and snot and other bodily fluids around them.

The organizers had specifically requested that the group should present something "shocking" so that there would be a bit of fuel for late night discussions at the bar.

[6] However the young students overshot expectations by staging a performance art piece in which they cut themselves to bleed, smeared each other with excrement, and crucified and whipped one of their number.

The group, called "Jumalan teatteri" (The Theatre of God) in a direct reference to Antonin Artaud, also hurled excrement at the audience, resulting in well-publicised laundry bills and court cases for the recompense for same.

[citation needed] When the Finnish Minister of Culture appointed Maija-Liisa Márton to follow him as headmaster, the whole student body occupied and barricaded the school building with desks and chairs, refusing to "give it up".