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Collective Mindscape
Collective Mindscape brings together the mental landscapes of eight people who have experienced cancer. The viewer can spend time in the virtual world featuring the participants’ sanctuaries as well as more challenging landscapes reflecting their experiences of living with cancer. The work is experienced by sitting in front of the screen and following the on-screen…
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Oodi Y:lle / Ode to Y
On its 35th anniversary, the Y-Foundation commissioned us to create a public artwork involving its residents. The foundation is Finland’s largest nationwide non-profit landlord and an internationally recognised expert on ending homelessness. Ode to Y consists of five mosaic-covered tables and an interactive mobile app. Together, the tables contain approximately 17,400 mosaic tiles, which is…
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Keskustelupuisto / Conversation Park – A Public Space Game
Thirty residents between the ages of 6 and 89 took part in a two-year Public Space Game. Their mission was to transform thirty individual visions into a single urban park in the centre of Rauma, Finland. The game-like process, designed and moderated by Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and me during 2019-2020, unfolded over six phases, structured as…
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9 CARTUCHOS – PAPERBAG STORIES FROM CUBA
In Cuba, paper bags represent both the past and the future. “Cartuchos” were once an essential part of everyday life, but were replaced by plastic bags after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and I commissioned nine local writers and thinkers to write speeches about Cuba, using a paper bag as a point…
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COMPLAINTS CHOIR
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen 2005-2014Many commissioners, including Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Kiasma (Helsinki), Nordwind festival (Berlin), Pro Arte (St. Petersburg), Fringe festival (Singapore) The COMPLAINTS CHOIR project invites people to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. We organised the first choir in Birmingham followed by the Complaints Choirs of Helsinki, St.…