22.10.2020
In
the Girls Castle
Community art project with a group of teenage girs.
Exhibition, installation, caféteria and a place for events.
27.6-6.9 2009 at Ramsholmen, Tammisaari, Finland
22.10.2020
In
The Womens Football Team of Istanbul
I was watching the football game between Turkey and Denmark on a big screen television in a cafe in Istanbul. The cafe was crowded but I was the only woman there. I was wondering wether there is a womans football team in Istanbul.
I wanted to make t-shirts for a womans football team, asking each player to choose a text for their own t-shirt. My plan was to exhibit photographs of the players wearing the t-shirt with their chosen text.
I asked around a bit and found that there has been a womens leauge, but they don’t play anymore. I decided to try to find the people who used to play in the womens leauge, and make the t-shirts for them anyway.
I was given the name of a company that used to have a team, I phoned to ask about who was in thir team, the person ansvering didn’t know, and claimed it was impossible to find out .
I talked to the journalist of amateur sports at Aksam newspaper, who told me to talk to the football association.
On the web page of UEFA, the european football association I found ot that Turkeys national womens team played their last game in 2002. They played against Hungary and lost 4:1, there were no upcoming games.
I phoned their office in Switzerland to ask for more information abot the Turkish womens national team, after beeing politely told, in five different languages, to wait until someone has the time to talk to me a person named Michael told me to call the Football association of Turkey.
At the football association of Turkey I was told that there is not a team at the moment and that they are looking for a coach and aiming at having a new team for the 19th european championship.
I was given the phonenumber of the man in charge of forming a new team, hoping to get in contact with some of the potential players in the team. He said he don’t know any players and asked me to phone Besiktas, Galtasaray and Istanbul Sport football clubs.
A lady at Besiktas club told me that their club doesn’t have a womens team and neither does any of the other big football clubs. Women in Turkey are not very interested in football unfortunately, she told me. There might be some smaller club having a womens team but not in Istanbul, she said.
Phoneing Turkish football association again, I asked for names of the players in the Turkish national team of 2002, they faxed me a list, but none of them were from an Istanbul club.
Finally on the last day before the exhibition, thanks to my friend Gözde, I found Ceren Togay. She used to play football with her rowing club and wants to be a football player but she doesn’t have team to play in.
On the day of the opening of the exhibition, she had a exam to get in to Marmara University because it has a football team and the university she is in now doesn’t.
I made the t-shirt for Ceren and after the exam, two hours before the opening of the exhibition she came to meet me. I gave her the t-shirt, took her photograph and ran to the lab, arriving just as they closed for the day.
Left for me to show at the exhibition was only the clotheshanger of her T-shirt.
The text on her T-shirt is her family name Togay.
3.12.2020
In
Future Map
A workshop series researching how citizens in Karjaa experience different places in their town and how they would like the city area to develop.
2.12.2020
In
TransFolk Kucku 2018-19
TransFolk Kucku 2018-19 was a art festival arranged by Loviisa Contemporary. It was curated by Heidi Lunabba and Beniamino Borghi and produced by Inari Porkka. The festival will consisted of small events ”Checkpoints”during 2018 and 2019 and ended with a big final event ”Final Destination” in the summer of 2019. We built the festival around an international art residency program Loviisa Art Residency (https://lovart.fi) in Loviisa, that provided a venue for artists work and integrate with the community of the small town. Every artist coming to Loviisa Art Residency during the festival period contributed to the festival, presenting their works in a smaller event during their residency. TransFolk was a festival of all forms of contemporary art visual as well as dance, music and anything else. The artists involved in our program worked with the local communities, within the region of Loviisa and included citizens in the working process.
TransFolk was he theme of the festival, Kucku festival is a artfestival arranged annually by Loviisa Contemporary https://loviisacontemporary.weebly.com/
TRANS
As in migration. As in moving from one place to another or staying, shaping the surroundings to be able to maintain oneself. As in cultures including nomadic tradition. As in transforming, developing, changing, becoming oneself. As in transgender (at times being forced to migration). As in cultures merging in to one, or existing side by side. As in normchritical thinking.
FOLK
As in folk culture and new popular influences. As in doing art with people rather than for them. As in working where people are or using what people do as a starting point. As in using what people already feel connected to. As in minorities struggles being a part of any culture.
2.12.2020
In
Other Comics Workshops
Invitation for anyone within the rainbow community:
LGBTQIA+ -people and their children
LGBTQIA+ -people of colour
LGBTQIA+ -people with disabilities
LGBTQIA-sami people
And other minorities within the minority.
Other is a norm-critical community comics project. Through photography, text and drawn elements we tell stories about how social norms affect and limit the lives of LGBTQIA-people.
22.10.2020
In
Dresscode
Helsinki 2012 and New York City 2013
A community based art project in collaboration with the artist duo Nutty Tarts (Katriina Haikala and Vilma Metteri). Our goal was to investige how people construct their social image and how it correlates with their socioeconomical status in society. We had several drop-in photo studios in different places Helsinki and New York City. People from the streets were photographed and interwieved by us. Based on the interviev ansvers and the way people in each place dressed we made a fashion picture inspiered by each place. Dresscode is exhibited as a installation wih fittingrooms, photographs, sound and text.
The project was first shown as Cultural Dresscode in Helsinki 2012 at Amos Anderson Art Museum as part of the Exhibition Boutique, the New york edition of the project is first shown at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design in New York as part of the Fashion Interactions exhibition. Both exhibitions are curated by Annamari Vänskä.
22.10.2020
In
Washingline in the Colors of the Rainbow
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