Andrus Laansalu x Järva-Jaani Koduloomuuseum

Thank you: Silva Kärner

Andrus Laansalu  is a practitioner of technological theatre and an experimental writer who works with creating and researching connections between technology and people. He teaches at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is also writing his doctoral dissertation on the breakage of art objects and the properties of materials. Laansalu has worked as a journalist (specialising in motor vehicles) and a cultural critic, as a sound engineer in the computer game industry and has participated in the group MIMproject. In his free time he plays the double bass or saxophone and builds a motorcycle

Orina mõis was added to the list of manors in 1643. A primary school was built in the house in 1919. The manor’s home economics school was founded in 1924. The teaching of mechanics, with the aim of promoting agriculture, began in 1947. After the closing of the Järva-Jaani agricultural school, the building was handed over to the rural municipality and the domestic education classroom was renovated while the rest of the premises were used to record the history of the school and the history of the parish. The manor house was handed over to the JÄRVA-JAANI LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM. One of the most interesting objects is the tractor classroom built in the former hall of the manor with a turntable.