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Exhibition text (pdf 2.3mb)
List of works (pdf 1.7mb)
A small dog cast in cello rosin 61 x 33mm (withers 19mm)
"Invisible dancing" for Mira and Ella, cyanotype on towel fabric 35 x 22cm
"Milk tattoo 1" ink and paint on latex, 29,5 x 15,5cm
No title; alginate, ink, hard pastel, cardboard 18 x 15cm
A talisman to accompany the playing of a small piece for piano four hands (below), palm wax and dye 10,5 x 6,5cm
"Red nudes after Olivia Laing" shadows of digital drawings made with red lighting gel
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Helsinki, November 2019
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An oracle based on the I Ching in a large white tent on the 3rd floor landing of the Ateneum museum in Helsinki, presented as part of Urbanapa x Ateneum, October 2018
With Emily Boswell and John W. Fail.
Try the oracle online:
(1) Ask a question that you don't know the answer to,
(2) randomly cast a number between 1-64,
(3) and use the pdf version of the oracle to find your answer.
Two samples from the Ateneum museum, selected from a total of 13 hours of recorded material with over 200 guests:
Others:
Voice for Jaakko Pallasvuo's 'Angels & Demons', Montez Press Radio, 2021
Sound and text for 'For god', a dance solo by Soili Huhtakallio, 2019
'Total Rekola', an audio play with Tuukka Haapakorpi & Emily Boswell at Space21 group show in Erbil, Kurdistan 2018
'Slavoj Zizek emerges from the swamp', a lecture performance from 2016
Audio play 'The Hunchback of South Bermondsey', written by Jaakko Pallasvuo, Transformation Marathon / Serpentine Gallery 2015
'Bad Magic & Artistic Autonomy' lecture performance, 2015
Sound for Eeva Muilu's dance piece 'Passage', 2013
'Pohjari 1 — 31', sound miniatures, 2013
Music, sound and automaton instruments for the performance 'WCWBF', 2012
Music projects AA (2000 — 2008), No clouds (2008 — 2011),
one-offs: Drummers (2007), Boswell-Haapakorpi-Sun mutsis Trio (2017)