Category Archives: Portfolio

Two Sound Pieces (Hawaiian Rock & Wind In May)

Here are two sound pieces that I made recently.
First one is a comical noise remix of a song by my rock band, Väärät kaverit. The song is called Aika auringossa (”time in the sun”) and I named the reworked piece Hawaiian Rock Remix — the first Finnish rock recording ever was made in 1957 by [...]

The Sheep May Safely Graze

“The artist sneaks into a gallery and tunes up a photograph of another artist…”
I made this video/performance/art vandalism piece in a group exhibition at the Finnish Academy Of Fine Arts. The show “Searchers Of Life” is open at Kaiku Galleria until 26th of April 2009.

Spoken Music

In 2007-2008 I made two “spoken music” pieces for a sound art course by Shinji Kanki. First one, The Funniest Concerto, was made as a interpretation of the theme “Boring Music”. I tried to express the frustration that emerges when one has to wait on the phone and listen to the awkward waiting tunes. The [...]

Untitled Urban Project (”Locks”)

Spring 2008 —
For a long time I have been very interested in everyday experiences that for some reason become aesthetic. I have never been very attracted to conventional graffiti or street art but various public and social interventions constantly catch my attention.
As an urban art project I engraved words on padlocks and hid them around [...]

Self Portrait 2008

134 drawings (October 2008)
I believe that the self, or I, is a collective phenomenon. Whenever I meet a person a fragment of me is transmitted into him or her, and vice versa. In an interactive situation such as a conversation between two people, the so called selves intertwine through a bidirectional process of perception. [...]