SuomiA 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
2341AD: a journey from the future
2341 AD: a journey from the future is an audio-visual poem that imagines the year 2341. People have vanished. What is left there? What is the world like after humanity, without us people? What would a venue be like if only echoes remain of a prior civilisation? Would it feel lonely? Would it feel relieved?… Read more
Bone Garden
Bone Garden With sound archaelogist Riitta Rainio, we built Bone Garden to Turku, into the medieval basement of The Old City Hall. Bone Garden aimed to become a Stone Ageish sound installation. It was based on Riitta’s research on the Ajvide burial ground on the island of Gotland. It had three parts: with stuff, without… Read more
From Bark til Tail
From Bark til Tail A half-an-hour long vocal performance of someone in cage, the cage being in his mind. Barked at: j-o-h-n @ Wolke, Brussels, 01/15; NoMad House Berlin, 06/16; New Performance Nights, Turku, 08/16. Picture: Aleks Slota
Silent man
I dress on a suit which I have equipped with cans on springs, broken clockenspiel, tiny bells. I walk slowly and silently, trying not to make any noise. Thus I create silence. The suit is a kind of fool’s dress. There one can see king’s fool, village looney, shaman, Toshiro Mifune’s mad man in a… Read more
Kõrv, heli ja hark puu otsas
Ear, sound and wig in a tree is a live audio play about listening. The main character is a tree. The author is sound artist Eleonora Tikas (EST), with whom I performed the piece in October, 2012, at Kanuti Gildi Saal’s studio, Tallinn. For audience we built light white space, tent, where they could take… Read more
MASKI
Art in Odd Places 2011 took place from 1st til 10th of October, on 14th St, Manhattan, NY. With Geert Vaes (BE), we participated in the festival with our piece MASKI. First we found ingredients for a mask on the street, then we holded them in front of our faces and went to 14th St.… Read more
Digested
Digested is a series of vocal pieces, taking place in 2011 at the writers’ statues in Helsinki, on the writer’s birthday. I digest the writer’s main work and perform a sound poem of it, as a conclusion. In the photo: half of the Välskärin kertomukset by Z. Topelius
Jargon
Jargon is a series of vocal pieces, taking place in 2011 at the politicians’ statues in Helsinki, on the politician’s birthday. For an hour I talk jargon. Päiväkirja / Diary Watch a video clip by Sándor Vály: Photo: Kaja Kann
