SuomiDream of telescope and horse
Sound installation based on Kristiina Wallin’s poems. The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland, June 10-September 24, 2006; stereo version at Rikhardinkatu library, Helsinki. Nov-Dec, 2006; radio version at Ääniversumi, YLE 1, Finnish Broadcasting Company, February 5, 2007. ”Runojen ymmärrettävyydestä huolimatta Uni kaukoputkesta ja hevosesta kuuluu niihin taideteoksiin, joiden sisältöä on vaikea vangita mihinkään selväkieliseen tulkintaan.… Read more
A pole-bloke
After the Wanderer, which I made with Tero Nauha and Kristian Smeds, we started to think about the second part of our religious trilogy. We read a lot about stylites. In autumn 2005, Heikki Törmi called and asked, if I wanted to climb up to a tower for two days in Ristijärvi, in June 2006. Sure. In… Read more
Memory Works
Exhibition of three artists, visual artists Nea Lindgren and Sándor Vály & JV. Vály’s & JV’s collaboration was called Pro Deo et Patria. It contained an installation with two videos, opening performance and final concert by SV & JV, and two solo concerts by JV, theme being our grandfathers. Galleria U, Helsinki, February 3- March… Read more
DADAILY LIFE
Ten Nordic text and sound artists’ – Lars Bokdahl and Hans Sydow (DK), Outi-Illuusia Parviainen and JV (FI), Kristin Björk and Thorkell Atlason (ICE), Ewa Jacobsson and Oysten Hauge (N), Hanna Hartman and Staffan Mossanmark (S) – net dialogue and workshop that finished with an installation concert at the Roskilde museum of modern art and… Read more
Whole
among others 5 was an interdisciplinary project curated by Jens Brand & An Seebach. It took place at Dortmund Künstlerhaus in May-July, 2004. I worked there with Belgian Peter Morrens, building an installation; we built a wall, a door and a hole, thus creating a white room where you could look into An’s ateljé upstairs. At… Read more
Cinderella
I made Cinderella together with visual artist Jaana Partanen, to medieval Häme Castle, Hämeenlinna, in July-August 2003. It was commissioned by Hippalot 03, art festival for children and youth. Visually and spatially Cinderella had its roots in Jaana Partanen’s “daily alchemy”, installations made of gold-plated everyday objects. I used these objects in my two different… Read more
KESKEN
kesken was a duo formed by Jaakko Nousiainen and Juha Valkeapää. Starting in 1992 they utilised vocal improvisation to explore the possibilities of human voice. The duo gave a wide variety of live performances as well as constructed sound installations in Finland and in several European countries. Their main works include kesken sound bus for The Tampere International… Read more
