SuomiOBLIVIA: TURN TURTLE TURN
In the beginning was the ocean. Wind, perhaps, and billowing waves. Life emerged in the ocean – single-cell organisms at first, and then, sometime later, tardigrades, able to survive even nuclear apocalypse. Following many millions of years later, dinosaurs appeared, and finally, after eons of time: Humans. In the age of the Anthropocene, they made… Read more
SOS
Guess who’s tweeting in distress? Guess who’s crying for help? Is it a baby bird or a collapsing house or a drying river or a clear-cut forest or a burning forest or a melting iceberg or a polluted land or a prince or princess of the fairy tale or a climate activist in the face… Read more
Animal beings
Animal beings (AB) is a performance that takes the shape of a guided tour. AB gives the human animal the opportunity to imagine and place itself in the lives of other animals and shows how interconnected all the lives on this planet are. In AB I play and wonder the world. My instruments are my… Read more
Herd
Two regional artists from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Krista Petäjäjärvi and Aura Seikkula, invited me and three other artists – Artor Jesus Inkerö, Harry Salmenniemi and Niina Vatanen –, as artist-experts to participate in The futures of aging project, together with eight “ordinary” experts. This was a joint project of the Committee for the… Read more
Firehead
Many have known it for ages, and some have even dared to admit the fact. Only now it has become mainstream but still there are people who refuse to accept it, while some pocket all the money there is to be made with it. Namely, if we burn all the fossil fuels there is in… Read more
Bakehouse
Once the firm had bakehouses for its employees’ use. At the Festival Norpas Bakehouse one can bake rye bread with baker Vuokko Nuorteva’s sourdough that originates from the 18th century, while Islaja & Lau Nau’s music accompanies the fermentation. One finds all the equipment needed on the spot. One needs only time – Vuokko’s rye sourdough… Read more
Water Concert
Water Concert is a collaboration between sound artists Juha Valkeapää and Juhani Liimatainen, and lighting and video artist Pietu Pietiäinen. Starting point: All the water on Earth has been here always, for 4,5 billion years. Water connects everything: people to people and to other living and non-living creatures. Everything is water and from water. In… 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
The Truth
The Truth is a live audio-visual installation, with video artist Pietu Pietiäinen. It is a sort of oracle and mouth of truth. The truths are from people who come to visit the work. We don’t own the truth. We built the first version at Ärjä Art Festival on Ärjänsaari, Kajaani, 2–4 August, 2019. The second… 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
