SuomiLife as we know it
The starting point for the performance Life as we know it by Maija Hirvanen and Juha Valkeapää has been in imagining directions, to which life could go or where it would be desired to go. A small part of this process has been selected to be cultivated into a stage performance. The imagined directions of… Read more
Silent Death
A quiet death can mean a merciful death: I want to die after a good and fulfilling life, peacefully. In reality, death often occurs too hard, too painfully, too loud, too early or too late. A quiet death can also be understood as dying secretly, without nobody noticing. Or in undistinguished way. Or it can… Read more
Juha Biitsillä
The author trio traveled to Pori for August. They asked each other, where do you come from. I come from my father’s Ray-Ban’s. My mother’s arthritis and earrings. Alcoholism and apple slices cut with knife. Tarting up and male image one doesn’t identify oneself with. Juha Biitsillä (Juha on/with Biitsi) is the first collaboration between artist… Read more
Pelko/Fear
Pelko/Fear was a collaboration with musician Taito Hoffrén. Taito passed away on 18 October, 2024. Rest in peace, dear friend. As the title suggests, Pelko/Fear was a performance about fear. Fears unite people, passing social classes. The performance moved from detail to general, from local to global, from small to big; we talked about personal… Read more
Bird Concert
Together with sound artist Juhani Liimatainen, we create a scenery of everyday and mythological birds, like sparrow, great tit, starling, pigeon, seagull, swan, eagle owl, raven, loon, cuckoo, phoenix, and Tux penguin. Jussi plays synthesizers, me my voice, and we talk a bit, too. And we dress in feathers. The concert lasts 30-40 minutes. The… Read more
Hospital Symphonies
Hospital Symphonies is a vocal piece, that is based on wordless human voice and participation. It is part of Heidi Fast’s artistic doctoral dissertation for Aalto University’s Department of Arts. The work was realised with the psychiatric dept. of HYKS Helsinki Hospital. Vocal artist-researcher Fast invited eight people, who had been given therapy at HYKS Psykiatria,… Read more
Private Dancer
Performing in WAUHAUS‘ Private Dancer. Private Dancer invites the audience to listen, to observe and to engage in fantasies. It is an intimate experience in a shared space. It is a performance offered simultaneously for one and for many. Private Dancer builds and deconstructs the borderline between private and public using sound. Headphones worn by the audience… Read more
MAD HOUSE
MAD HOUSE AND ME We are friends. What kind of friends? Friendships are bilateral, give and take. What do I give to Mad House, what do I get from there? I belong to the group, that Mad House is, right now. Everyone is not there always but someone is, always. The group keeps changing but the common… Read more
A Guy and a Wooden Guy
I asked sculptor Tapani Kokko to make me a wooden guy for a sound installation. Tapani said, Do it yourself! I began sculpting in August 2014. And finished in March 2016. The wooden guy made his first appearance at Tampere Biennale in April 2016. The work is called A Guy and a Wooden Guy, when we are… Read more
B Funeral
The B funeral is Pro-Art, Pro-Life, attached to Reality and Convention. It is irrational, dramatic, overemotional, sad for the whole Universe, and respectful towards life. We want to say, in the spirit of that: “We would rather have our new DADA with the old DADA taste!” Jovanka Trbojevic composed and directed, Petri Kekoni and Juha… Read more
