Waterfall Tongue
USF Visningsrommet, March 2025
Waterfall Tongue was a collaboration between gentian rhosa and Tinja Ruusuvuori. The exhibition explored themes of grief, rage and voiceless through screaming into waterfalls. The exhibition included a public screaming workshop with hardcore vocalist Oda Braanaas, where we learned to care for our throats in a long-term grief and to scream together in a sustainable way.
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Installation view, Waterfall Tongue (2025)
Six-channel sound installation with candles, found materials, and charcoal drawing on floor and linen. Sound of waterfall, human voices through a waterfall, distant protest chants. Single-channel video projection.
The exhibition in USF Visningsrommet was developed during Ruusuvuori’s artist residency at USF Verftet and the studio residency at BEK - Bergen Center for Electronic Arts. Thank you Line Nord, Michalis Lavdas, Ida Helland-Hansen, BEK staff, and everyone else helping with sourcing materials ja tech.
USF Visningsrommet, March 2025
Waterfall Tongue was a collaboration between gentian rhosa and Tinja Ruusuvuori. The exhibition explored themes of grief, rage and voiceless through screaming into waterfalls. The exhibition included a public screaming workshop with hardcore vocalist Oda Braanaas, where we learned to care for our throats in a long-term grief and to scream together in a sustainable way.
Installation view, Waterfall Tongue (2025)
Six-channel sound installation with candles, found materials, and charcoal drawing on floor and linen. Sound of waterfall, human voices through a waterfall, distant protest chants. Single-channel video projection.
The exhibition in USF Visningsrommet was developed during Ruusuvuori’s artist residency at USF Verftet and the studio residency at BEK - Bergen Center for Electronic Arts. Thank you Line Nord, Michalis Lavdas, Ida Helland-Hansen, BEK staff, and everyone else helping with sourcing materials ja tech.
Grounded-- Pulsating
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, April 2024
During the winter of 2023-2024, radio uncertainty operated from my studio at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. The station was open for the community, functioning in a random and spontaneous manner, accommodating the act of falling between frequencies. Grounded-- Pulsating presents these signals from the collective, translated into video, prints, home-made radio receivers*, and a love letter to (radio) uncertainty.
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Antenna (2024)
Site spesific installation, emergency blanket, sticks, duct tape
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detail, Resuscitation (2024)
marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker
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Resuscitation (2024)
marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker
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detail, Untitled (2024)
antenna wire, birtch bark, galena crystal, crocodile clip, safety pin
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Scared-- Sacred Heart (2024)
Monotype with antenna wire, marine debris, copper wire, seashell
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X-ray for a Kite (2024)
Monotype with antenna wire
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, April 2024
During the winter of 2023-2024, radio uncertainty operated from my studio at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. The station was open for the community, functioning in a random and spontaneous manner, accommodating the act of falling between frequencies. Grounded-- Pulsating presents these signals from the collective, translated into video, prints, home-made radio receivers*, and a love letter to (radio) uncertainty.
Antenna (2024)
Site spesific installation, emergency blanket, sticks, duct tape
detail, Resuscitation (2024)
marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker
Resuscitation (2024)
marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker
detail, Untitled (2024)
antenna wire, birtch bark, galena crystal, crocodile clip, safety pin
Scared-- Sacred Heart (2024)
Monotype with antenna wire, marine debris, copper wire, seashell
X-ray for a Kite (2024)
Monotype with antenna wire
Séance (2024)Monotype on paper
Radio Uncertainty (2024)
HD video, 2:13
photos: Jesse Bennett and Tinja Ruusuvuori
*credit for technical development of home-made radio receivers: Shortwave Collective
The exhibition was developed during Ruusuvuori’s artist residency at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Thank you Irina Ruusuvuori, Vicky Tomayko, FAWC staff, fellow residents, and CAMP FR Free Radio Pyrenees participants for help and inspiration.
Speaking Into Being
Glasgow Project Room, July 2024
Collaboration between Niamh Moloney and Tinja Ruusuvuori. A walking experiment between two countries spanning four years.
photos: Bart Urbanski
Installation view, Speaking Into Being (2024)
Single-channel video installation with linen, copper wire and embroidery thread. A radio altar to river Clyde.
Server error occurred while getting Cemetery
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, February 2023
Exhibition of experimental and collaborative mixed-media works
by Georgia Dickie and Tinja Ruusuvuori.
Installation view, Server error occurred while getting Cemetery (2023)
Single-channel video installation with cardboard, found objects and PAYDAY Peanut Caramel Bar
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Server error occurred while getting Cemetery (2023)
pencil, charcoal, tape and gum arabic prints on Amazon boxes bringing art supplies for artists, with found objects
Dimensions variable
Beyond the Beyond,
an otherwhere—
grid of old-growth
+ graphite, shadow-
strokes.
We fueled
the prairie-fire, our engine
for art in afterburn
toward burnout,
exhaust, exhausted, hot
to the touch.
Words by Kieron Walquist
photos: Yahna Harris
an otherwhere—
grid of old-growth
+ graphite, shadow-
strokes.
We fueled
the prairie-fire, our engine
for art in afterburn
toward burnout,
exhaust, exhausted, hot
to the touch.
Words by Kieron Walquist
photos: Yahna Harris
Undoings
Pinni47, June 2023
Mixed-media installation in a demolished office building in Finland. An archive of useless passivities.
Installation view, Undoings (2023)
single-channel video installation on a found dish drainer
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Undoings (2023)
chalk on a found chalkboard
Dimensions 300cm x 123cm
Shrug off your
everyday-skin,
callused by the
frictions + deep-push
of capitalism. Put on
a Cetacean way of being.
Become part
of a collective
celebrating in useless
practices + undoings—
passivities done for
pleasure despite progress
+ green-gain.
Words by Kieron Walkqvist and Tinja Ruusuvuori
Videos: Liina Kuittinen, Lori Frazer, Jonna Lehto, Matilda Matsi, Lada Wilson, Miina Puolitaival, Tinsel Edwards, Natasha Lall, Nikki Jääskeläinen, Edward Bruce, Oktavia Schreiner, Raila Mar, Gunilla Sjövall, Opri Kangas, Karkki, Bella Bellatrix Pirata, Madde Edlund, Jonna Lehto, Minta Metteri, Heather O’Donnell, Anasse Elhasnaoui, Hanna Marno, Venni P, Aleksi Pihkanen, Dexter Stokes-Mellor, Ali sha Sha, Hemn Hussein, Kate Theodore, Kerttu Ojalehto, Jan Ahlstedt, Sisko Pikkumäki, Irina Ruusuvuori, Aapo Sandberg, Heta-Maria Pyhäjärvi, Jane Sharkey, Emmi Hughes, Suzie Eggins, Anna Seppälä, Arto Patrikainen, Aga Paulina Młyńczak, Van Maltese, Elsa Delage, Clarisse Baleja Saïdi, Kim Coleman Foote, Siennie Lee, Gothataone Moeng, Hannah Perrin King, Elizabeth Flood, Sichong Xie, Vicky Tomayko, Georgia Dickie, David Simpson, Susan Blood, Tinja Ruusuvuori, Strange Nature collective, anonymous
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Collection of Undoings
16 Nickholson Street gallery, May 2022
‘Undoings’ is an ongoing video project that compiles selections from a crowdsourced archive compiled of ‘useless’ activities and passivities. The project was first time developed within the framework of 16Nicholson Street Gallery's 2021 curated programme and show in the same gallery as a part of 'Flock Circumstance' group exhibition by Madde Edlund, Aga Paulina Mlynczak and Tinja Ruusuvuori, curated by Aga Paulina Mlynczak.
photo: Nat Hairsine / 16 Nicholson Street gallery
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Collection of Undoings (2021)
Three-channel video installation with rope, spandex, fluorescent light
Dimensions variable
Installation tech during covid lockdown: Katie Eyre and Louie Pegna
16 Nickholson Street gallery, May 2022
‘Undoings’ is an ongoing video project that compiles selections from a crowdsourced archive compiled of ‘useless’ activities and passivities. The project was first time developed within the framework of 16Nicholson Street Gallery's 2021 curated programme and show in the same gallery as a part of 'Flock Circumstance' group exhibition by Madde Edlund, Aga Paulina Mlynczak and Tinja Ruusuvuori, curated by Aga Paulina Mlynczak.
photo: Nat Hairsine / 16 Nicholson Street gallery
photo: Nat Hairsine
Collection of Undoings (2021)
Three-channel video installation with rope, spandex, fluorescent light
Dimensions variable
Installation tech during covid lockdown: Katie Eyre and Louie Pegna
Installation view, Daily Hauntings, GSA Graduate Degree Show 2018
Coordinates for the Late Ones
GSA Graduate Degree Show, August 2018
GPS Sat Nav voice for afterlife
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2018
Installation view, Coordinates for the Late Ones (2018)
concrete, metal, digital print on silk, sound
Dimensions variable
voice: Stephanie Black
sound: Jarkko Räsänen
Listen to GPS-voice
GSA Graduate Degree Show, August 2018
GPS Sat Nav voice for afterlife
2018
Installation view, Coordinates for the Late Ones (2018)
concrete, metal, digital print on silk, sound
Dimensions variable
voice: Stephanie Black
sound: Jarkko Räsänen
Listen to GPS-voice
Afterlife Merch
A dystopian entry room for a post-mortem spa.
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2018
wall installation
pigment print on vinyl, print on fabric items, concrete earplugs
A dystopian entry room for a post-mortem spa.
2018
wall installation
pigment print on vinyl, print on fabric items, concrete earplugs
Untitled
Artwork created using objects from the estate of the artist’s late mother.
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Untitled (2018)
pigment print on aluminium, metal, Christmas tree, black sand
Artwork created using objects from the estate of the artist’s late mother.
Untitled (2018)
pigment print on aluminium, metal, Christmas tree, black sand