SuomiMale Spaces
“Now I know what daddy does in the daytime.” Äijä is full of desire. Äijä is a pal and friend you can trust. Äijä has big lap. Äijä makes lot of noise. Äijä can make tiny sound. Äijä has power. Äijä is feeling. In every one of us there lives a little Äijä. I directed… Read more
Dream 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
Elephant march
A naiv, foolish act in the middle of the town, wearing longjohns, trunk on face and plastic animals on rope. Kajaani, Finland, May 6; International Street Theatre Festival, Halmstad, Sweden, August 9-10, 2006. Photo: Arto Tulima
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
Val Afumo
Improvised music with or without films. Marcelo Aguirre, voice and percussions, Andreas Fulgosi, electric guitar, Peter Morrens, voice and turntables, JV, voice. Without films at Event#1 24u, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium, March 25, 2005; with Mike Ballou films, same place, March 26, 2005.
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
TAUKO/PAUSE
A Finnish-German-Italian living work by musician Andreas Fulgosi, dancer Pia Karaspuro, director Sibylla Klein, lighting designer Pekka Pitkänen and JV. Two weeks of work, three performances, October 26-28, 2004, at Hurjaruuth, Cable Factory, Helsinki. Photo: Pekka Pitkänen
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
Princess
Radio play. Text Kristiina Wallin, direction Hanna Kirjavainen, sound composition JV, sound design Raija Munck-Lagus, actors Minna Kivelä, Tuula Nyman, Janne Kinnunen, Jarkko Tiainen and Petteri Pennilä. Radio Theatre, Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE 1, September 26, 2004.
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
