SuomiSilent 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
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
Haloo!, Ear Channel, Cloud Nest
With architect Kari Sivonen, we built three sound installations to Pori Art Museum exhibition Peace, Love & My iPad Interactive sound works and sound art workshops in February–May, 2014. They offered three angles to listen to the museum; entering them, one listened to the museum building, which sounded different every time. All three modified the acoustics… Read more
Star Rain
Star Rain is a sound installation. Star Rain was recorded in empty, deserted places, when the crowd has left, and the high season is over: on a winter beach, side alley of bazar, in tunnel underneath a busy road. One can hear people, but see nobody. And just now they were here! Under the Star… Read more
Electric WoMan
Electric WoMan is an audio-visual installation, made of two elements: body part stories & images people have donated to it, and body part images based on stencil graffiti. Electric WoMan is an image of or a proposal for a contemporary human being. Or more generally, a living being. Fragmented, scattered, transformable, now and then disoriented.… 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
