Category Archives: Text

Outlining Sound Graffiti

1 Political Aspects, Question of Public Space
While sound graffiti might carry resemblance to sound sculptures or installations, its attitude towards public space is similar to the one of visual graffiti. Our auditory space is as much ours to own as is the public architectural space. While many struggle either aesthetically or philosophically for the public [...]

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 [...]

The Knot Graffiti

August 2008 —
The Knot Graffiti is an ongoing project that originated from the same idea as the urban padlock project. I wanted to experiment with something that is at the same time completely public but also carries a hidden message. The knot graffiti can be decrypted only by persons with a certain knowledge of knot [...]

The Black Box of Nothingness

Galleria Välivuosi, Helsinki
6.–16.9.2007
I wanted to study the idea of a mystery, something that is unknown to us. People tend to believe they are capable of communicating with the parts of the universe that remain out of their reach — may it be the subconscious, unseen forces of nature or God.
My plan was to set up [...]