ON THE ROAD AGAIN!
On the road again! Right now I’m driving back to Ii with 33 exhibition prints for my forthcoming exhibition. Even if the temperature outside is only chilly 15 degrees I can promise you there’s only 3 days til Endless Summer!!!!
Endless Summer
RADIO INTERVIEW – YLE
YLE (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) made a radio interview with me working here in Ii/Kulttuurikauppila. It’s in Finnish so, hyvät herrat ja rouvat, tytöt ja pojat sekä kaikki muutkin immeiset: Jos haluatte juoda kupillisen kahvia ja kuunnella kun tää nuori ukkeli turinoi vanhemmista ukkeleista ja täällä Iissä olemisesta, niin nyt siihen olis elämänne tilaisuus. Ei muuta kuin kahvi tassuun ja äänet täysille.
http://www.korea.fi/OUL_IIN_VALOKUVAPROJEKTI_250615.mp3
Haastattelijana YLE Oulun toimittaja Kati Teirikko.
IIJOKI BY NIGHT
Iijoki, 01.30 a.m. Monday 6 July, 2015
12 DAYS TILL ENDLESS SUMMER
Hellou Bois and Göörls! It’s only 12 days till Endless Summer!
[ エンドレスサマー]
Here we go: ENDLESS SUMMER [ エンドレスサマー]
The first teaser is out now!
More details coming up soon.
MR. RENAISSANCE GENIUS
Last night exactly at 3.30 a.m. Mr. Renaissance Genius aka Artist Himself aka itte Sinikoski got an idea. He decided to create a masterpiece. He decided to give himself 15 days and after that he will show you the best art work ever created!
…or at least he came up with the title of his forthcoming exhibition and according to himself “that’s pretty revolutionary, too”.
Stay tuned!
II
Around 650 kilometers up north from Helsinki is a town called Ii. The place is not only blessed with the shortest place name in Finland but also with a amazingly active cultural life with for example an environmental art biennale. At the moment I’m working here as a guest artist together with another artist in residence from Japan and a bunch of local artists. It’s going to be an extremely busy month up here but I can already now say that I’m super happy to work here with all these people.
BTW, today I met a lady who told me that the origin of the name Ii comes from the North Sami word “idja” that means night… Hmmm… If you describe night as the time between sunset and sunrise then at this time of the year here in Ii there so much light that the idja lasts only for 1 hour and 31 minutes. –Sounds like the Sami people had a good sense of irony wink emoticon
I will try to be active here during this month so you will have a chance to follow my adventures here. Next time I will tell you more about my forthcoming project here.
Take care!
XXX, Peki