https://tinjaruusuvuori.com Tinja Ruusuvuori Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:56:56 +0000 https://tinjaruusuvuori.com en https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/About-Footer Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:34:44 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/About-Footer tinja ruusuvuori︎ ︎tinja.ruusuvuori (at) gmail.com https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/about-1 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:14:57 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/about-1 visual artist tinja.ruusuvuori (at) gmail.com How is your collective~~ wire-body today? What is the sound of interference~~ in your community? How might a shy sound be amplified ~ without losing its softness? Tinja is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a focus on creative documentary-making. She uses film, pirate radio, letter writing, and printmaking as investigative tools to examine how intimacy and power are shaped temporally by material conditions. Field research becomes a way of staying with others, of building relationships that make room for a radical redistribution of nurture. Her current work turns toward matriarchal orcas, earth-stewarding nuns, and queer motorcyclists—communities that suggest other systems of orientation and exchange. Held within a quiet, distinctive humor, the work gestures toward the fallibility of egos, of order, and of process. Exploring these self-determined systems of care and communication within and against dominant frameworks, her work aims to open up worlds of collectivity, care and collectivizing intimacy. Ruusuvuori’s work has been shown at film festivals such as Visions du Réel, Toronto Hot Docs, Clermont-Ferrand, and Camden International Film Festival. She was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2022 and 2023, and participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2025. She lives and works in Finland, where she takes part in community organizing in her neighborhood of&nbsp;Pispala. CV EDUCATION 2025 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, summer, US2018 Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK2016 BA in documentary film directing, Aalto University the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, FI SOLO / COLLABORATIONS 2027 (upcoming) collaboration with Sasha Wortzel,&nbsp;Galleria Sinne, Helsinki, Finland 2025 Waterfall Tongue, collaboration with gentian rhosa, USF Visningsrummet, Bergen, Norway2024 Speaking Into Being collaboration&nbsp;with Niamh Moloney, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, UK2024 Grounded-- Pulsating, The Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, US2023 Server error occurred while getting Cemetery collaboration with Georgia Dickie, The Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, US2021 Flock Circumstance with Aga Paulina Mlynczak and Madde Edlund, curated by Aga Paulina Mlynczak, assistant curator Nell Cardozo, 16 Nicholson Street gallery, Glasgow, UK2019 Logbook collaboration with Emilia Rüf, Turun Taidehalli (Kunsthalle Turku), Turku, FI2019 Logbook collaboration with Emilia Rüf, Galleria Rantakasarmi (Jetty Barracks Gallery), Helsinki, FI GROUP 2025 At Home with (7), event hosted and curated by Sini Pelkki and&nbsp;Magnús Logi Kristinsson, Helsinki, FI2024 FAWC Fellows 2024, Provincetown Arts Association and Museum PAAM, MA, U.S.2023 Pinni47, purkutaidetalo / demolition art house, Tampere, FI2023 FAWC Fellows 2023, Provincetown Arts Association and Museum PAAM, MA, U.S.2019 Relay, Tramway, Glasgow, UK2018 GSA graduate degree show 2018, Tontine Building, Glasgow, UK2018 Top 40 Juried Competition, LACDA - Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, curated by Rebecca Matalon, U.S.2016 A flying kiss for paper cells, pixel bones and a big fat origami, collective installation, text in a space and body diary on TitanPad platform. Collaboration with Aura Saarikoski, Eeva Hannula and Liina Kuittinen, Curated by Maria Savela, Kuvan Kevät, Helsinki, FI SELECTED SCREENINGS 2025 Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland Bogiaisso Video Art Festival, Chioggia, Italy2019-2020Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, Toronto, Canada London International Short Film Festival, ICA, UKClermont-Ferrand, FRA Glasgow Short Film Festival, ScotlandCamden International Film Festival, Short Competition, Camden, U.S.DUMBO Film Festival, New York, U.S.Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, BrazilTacoma Film Festival, WA, U.S.Indy Shorts, Indianapolis, U.S.Pittsburg Short Film Festival, U.S.Leeds International Film Festival, UKLjubljana International Film Festival, SloveniaNordisk Panorama, short competition, SwedenPoitiers Film Festival, FranceTrento Film Festival, Italy Love &amp; Anarchy Helsinki International Film Festival, short competition, Helsinki, FIInterfilm, Berlin, GermanyTromsø International Film Festival, NorwayMinimalen Short Film Festival, NorwayGo Short, NetherlandsBraziers International Film Festival, UK 34th Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, FIEncounters, UKBrussels Short Film Festival, BergiumThe Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, NorwayThe Best of Tampere Film Festival screening, Kiasma, Helsinki, FITampere Film Festival, national competition, FI (premiere)Visions du Réel, Opening Scenes, Nyon, Switzerland (premiere)2016 EMAP 2016 – Ewha International Media Art Presentation, Seoul, South-Korea Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal Love &amp; Anarchy - Helsinki International Film Festival, FI DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, FI Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, FI PRIZES &amp; NOMINATIONS 2020 Best Nordic Documentary Award at Minimalen Short Film Festival2019 Jury's Special Prize, Poitiers Film Festival2019 The Uusi Aalto Award / Love &amp; Anarchy Helsinki International Film Festival2019 Jussi Award shortlisted for the Best Finnish Short Film2019 Honorable mention / Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2019 Main Prize under 30 min. documentaries / National Competition / Tampere Film Festival2019 Nominee for the European Short Film Audience Award2019 Student Award / Tampere Film FestivalRESIDENCIES &amp; FELLOWSHIP 2025 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, VT, U.S.2025 BEK Studio Residency, Bergen, Norway2025 USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway2023-2024 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, MA, U.S.2022-2023 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, MA, U.S.2018 Graduate Residency, Hospitalfield, Scotland, UK2016 Cité International des Arts, Paris, FRA WORKSHOPS &amp; WORKS FOR RADIO 19.4.2026 LungA Radio School: Love Letters ~ response / Seydisfjordur Community Radio3.9.2025 well radio: Tinja Ruusuvuori / Editorial Content / Skowhegan Library 2026 radio workshop, a collective love letter / Seydisfjordus Community Radio2025 Born To Scream, public workshop in sustainable screaming, led together with Oda Braanaas and gentian rhosa, USF Visningsrommet, Bergen, Norway2025 radio workshop in napping on air / Seydisfjordur Community Radio2025 radio workshop in colonization of time, a past-listening experiment / Seydisfjordur Community Radio23.3.2024 radio uncertainty: bells bells bells with Jay Critchley PRESS &amp; PUBLICATIONS&nbsp; 27.3.2024 Tinja Ruusuvuori Practices Giving Up Control / Abraham Storer / Provincetown Independent 12.1.2024&nbsp;A Grab Bag of Goodies from the Edge of the World / Jacqueline Houton / Boston Art Review 4.1.2024 Radio of uncertainty - sound echoes at Provincetown’s FAWC / 10 for 2024 / Laura Shabott / Artscope28.12.2023 Marconi Mythology / Aden Choate / Provincetown Independent18.10.2023 New Kids on the Block / Elias Duncan / Provincetown Independent 24.9.2023 Nordisk Panorama Forum interview with Iris Olsson / Geoffrey Macnab / Business Doc Europe22.6.2023 “Paskannäköisen” toimistorakennuksen kaunis loppu - purkutaidetalo Pinni47 on enemmän kuin pelkkä ryhmänäyttely / Antti Kurko / Voima6.6.2023 Onko tässä kesän hittikohde? / Sanni Isomäki / Yle22.2.2023 Creating a System for the Nonsensical / Amelia Roth-Dishy / Provincetown Independent 25.1.2023 The New FAWC Fellows Make Their Mark / Abraham Storer / Provincetown Independent2021 New Rituals - in Contemporary Art in Scotland and Austria, edited by Oktavia Schreiner2021 Flock Circumstances, 16 Nicholson Street Publications21.12.2019 Tinja Ruusuvuoren hykerryttävä lyhytdokumentti selvittää salaperäisten rengasjälkien alkuperää Norjassa / Harri Römpötti / Helsingin Sanomat 23.5.19 Välimeren kulkijat / Heli Peltoniemi / Turun Sanomat 15.5.2016 Melkein kuin performanssi / Tuomas Laulainen / EDIT RELATED 2025 Lunga Radio School, 10 months temporary schooling community on air 2024 Nordisk Panorama Forum, Malmö, Sweden2024 DOC FORWARD Talent Workshop, Finland and Norway2023 Free Radio Pyrenees with Magz Hall and Andrew O'Connor, CAMP FR, FR2020 jury member, Tampere Film Festival's national competition, FI 2019 Opening Scenes Lab, Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland2019 Access to fabrication and welding, New College of Lanarkshire, Glasgow, UK2017 DOX: ACADEMY and Project Lab – pitching workshop CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark2015 Surviving the Rabbit Hole - pitching and screenwriting workshop WIFT Nordic, Iceland2010-2011 How to Inhabit a Transitory Space with Egle Oddo – Art School MAA, FI2008-2017 freelance writer and director, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, FI&nbsp;FUNDINGThe work has been generously supported by following organizations and funding bodies:Kone Foundation, The Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Kansan Sivistysrahasto, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Earth-Sisters-work-in-process Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:58:15 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Earth-Sisters-work-in-process Earth Sisters (work in process) <img width="1559" height="1166" width_o="1559" height_o="1166" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27c79cb741e4c21047227d1c3bb8f962e5fe50fd441f85840b85f991dfbe0301/image.png" data-mid="247373881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27c79cb741e4c21047227d1c3bb8f962e5fe50fd441f85840b85f991dfbe0301/image.png" /> Collaboration with Sasha Wortzel Earth Sisters (working title) is a 16mm video installation and short film centered on a community of Catholic nuns in rural USA, who devote their lives to the study of tending the earth and learning interspecies communication. Through movement-based practices, the nuns engage in embodied dialogue with animals, plants, and the forest they inhabit, cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the 16-acre ecosystem under their care. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Untitled-burned-rubber-on-asphalt-2018-2019 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:04:09 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Untitled-burned-rubber-on-asphalt-2018-2019 Untitled (burned rubber on asphalt, 2018) &nbsp;2019documentary film, 20 min HD Norwegian, Finnish, English cinematographer: Pietari Peltolaeditor: Inka Lahtisound designer: Juuso Oksalaproducer: Marja Pihlaja / Aalto ARTSdirector: Tinja Ruusuvuori In a remote Norwegian village the weaving roads have become the subject of controversy. Assuming the role of detective, the documentary investigates the bewildering phenomena of car skid marks and their mysterious appearance. Winding, looping, curving, the hypnotising patterns reveal unexpected frictions in the village, as well as prompting the villagers to reflect on their sense of beauty. <img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7165b60ac227f18ad1da8973b369d58df261aef8991ccbbdfa636ceeb94dd53b/jaljet1.jpg" data-mid="237375290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7165b60ac227f18ad1da8973b369d58df261aef8991ccbbdfa636ceeb94dd53b/jaljet1.jpg" />“When you live a long way out you make your own fun.” (Annie Proulx, “55 Miles to the Gas Pump”) A portrait of a remote Northern place – where isolation and boredom breed an imaginative escape that turns everyday vehicles into instruments of art. Through an investigative approach the filmmaker elevates the activity from an immature pastime to a creative expression worthy of an artful consideration. - Jury of Tampere Film Festival 2019 Helsingin Sanomat 21.12.2019 / Harri Römpötti Trailer <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15feddffad6d0ba9115e448ef9f49e1f24acf732e77a4b9870f0dcc0bfb0f979/laaja-jaljet-lumimaisema.jpg" data-mid="237375279" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15feddffad6d0ba9115e448ef9f49e1f24acf732e77a4b9870f0dcc0bfb0f979/laaja-jaljet-lumimaisema.jpg" /> &nbsp; https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Wishing-Well-2025 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:30:40 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Wishing-Well-2025 Wishing Well (2025) micro-FM radio stationSkowhegan, Maine&nbsp;Wishing Well was a participatory radio work I did with Lara Castro Lema: Over nine weeks we invited stories of unrequited love from the Skowhegan community, transformed them into sounds, and returned them in an intimate one-night transmission from an old spring well. 60 people gathered on blankets in the nearby field, listening together in the spirit of shared romance.&nbsp;well radio was a micro-FM radio station that I operated from a well on the grounds of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Reviving the well’s role as a site of gathering and gossip, it hosted whispers, readings, screamings, and collective listening throughout the summer 2025. With its short range and fragile signal, well radio emphasized proximity, attentiveness, and intimacy.Listen to well radio <img width="2748" height="1542" width_o="2748" height_o="1542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d86ef49710e577c42ac6cca0ae1b640e6f50b0e4591ffb446bc7b39cbe7f5d4a/well115.jpg" data-mid="238931525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d86ef49710e577c42ac6cca0ae1b640e6f50b0e4591ffb446bc7b39cbe7f5d4a/well115.jpg" /><img width="2743" height="1500" width_o="2743" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e6e3a5058b216f29278d1eaf35bb36d1545765f656ae11d7a1a60fab47d385e/well229.jpg" data-mid="238931541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e6e3a5058b216f29278d1eaf35bb36d1545765f656ae11d7a1a60fab47d385e/well229.jpg" /><img width="2748" height="1542" width_o="2748" height_o="1542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88b856e8f8776ca5857e35acc057a7a31d1f1a76c07eddc4897cf74a2ef07659/well114.jpg" data-mid="238931523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88b856e8f8776ca5857e35acc057a7a31d1f1a76c07eddc4897cf74a2ef07659/well114.jpg" /><img width="2743" height="1500" width_o="2743" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12e1dee6eccc065ac89dfd715ad1e33bd3674544415a994a672ca39ddc10e6c0/well238.jpg" data-mid="238932380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12e1dee6eccc065ac89dfd715ad1e33bd3674544415a994a672ca39ddc10e6c0/well238.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6058a932b98067044e726e447297bbb964fa5f1928cc432776608bf18bc4c79b/unnamed.jpg" data-mid="239956986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6058a932b98067044e726e447297bbb964fa5f1928cc432776608bf18bc4c79b/unnamed.jpg" /><img width="2746" height="1542" width_o="2746" height_o="1542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc32667c88dca4ef8703bf44762070f523e128d121dc62c4fada82dfaad08794/well118.jpg" data-mid="238931527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc32667c88dca4ef8703bf44762070f523e128d121dc62c4fada82dfaad08794/well118.jpg" /> radio event documentation, Wishing Well (2025)transmission from the well, microphones, frogs, people and radios on blankets <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2850a26148ef0ea1ccc6353148c4bbb64ed565f2f490e1e7a58e5f790af7698/well_wide3.jpg" data-mid="239015132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2850a26148ef0ea1ccc6353148c4bbb64ed565f2f490e1e7a58e5f790af7698/well_wide3.jpg" /><img width="3992" height="2817" width_o="3992" height_o="2817" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/969cd9d9b3663746317377873d2a1f5fceb359833432b8412c05f052651d8a58/well120.jpg" data-mid="238931549" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/969cd9d9b3663746317377873d2a1f5fceb359833432b8412c05f052651d8a58/well120.jpg" /> installation view, well radio (2025)photos: Lindsey Arturo, Ruth Estévez and Tinja Ruusuvuori &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/radio-uncertainty-2024 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:30:13 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/radio-uncertainty-2024 radio uncertainty micro-FM radio station open to communityProvincetown, Massachusetts winter 2023-2024 When you scroll through the FM dial and hear the sounds of ocean waves and whale songs blending with the crackle of radio static, you know the program is about to begin. Some of our programs Radio Rice’s Whale - writer Philip Hoare and researcher Tommy Tucker delve into the concept of "home" for the endangered Rice's whale, a species that resides year-round in the Gulf of Mexico.Black Care- LaRissa Rogers and Aden Choate read Calvin Warren’s text Black Care and discuss about collectivizing care. Fish Stories - local fishing histories from Provincetown, Cape Cod, with fisherman Jacques Macara and Laura Shabott. ´Time and the Town´- collective live reading from writer and labor-organizer Mary Heaton Vorse’s (1874-1966) bedroom.Radio uncertainty - an open radio gathering for anyone without a place to go on Christmas day. All emotions welcome zone. Featuring sound works by Karen Werner and Sasha Wortzel. Bells bells bells - listening to Jay Critchley‘s bell collection and a symphony with Jay and Tinja.´Knots´- read by Maya and henry from R.D. Laing's book describing the "knots" inherent to the bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. Delroy, Giulio, and Oscar talk about friend love, masculinity, and grandmothers. Bad Whale - music by Sara, Vicky and Dawn Syncronicity machine -&nbsp;Amy and Tinja build a sycronicity machine powered by queer yearning. Provincetown on a budget? with artist and facilities director Jerome Greene.A talking program - improvised night talk with Sara Stern, Cassie Packard and Pat Kearns. Jesus' Son - Molly Anders, Lindsay K. Miles and Niyi Ademoroti read and discuss a story from Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. <img width="2770" height="1552" width_o="2770" height_o="1552" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/314511e97e9bc4df819993481fc54a463f28ed6c26c6759a2637024a83b36aee/philipandtommy.jpg" data-mid="237386682" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/314511e97e9bc4df819993481fc54a463f28ed6c26c6759a2637024a83b36aee/philipandtommy.jpg" /> <img width="2752" height="1568" width_o="2752" height_o="1568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8825125f9ab94ea9c941d1495408a604b40551869ae51347fe8903958c4ed1f0/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-18.21.56.png" data-mid="244910620" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8825125f9ab94ea9c941d1495408a604b40551869ae51347fe8903958c4ed1f0/Screenshot-2026-02-12-at-18.21.56.png" /><img width="2754" height="1550" width_o="2754" height_o="1550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b71b407ae7de6f8f549368da54736800cfef7ab5bda4923c0e72b062239af25/radio_friendship2.jpg" data-mid="237386687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b71b407ae7de6f8f549368da54736800cfef7ab5bda4923c0e72b062239af25/radio_friendship2.jpg" /> installation view, radio uncertainty (2024)radio installation with cardboard, ocean-found objects and radio equipment Bell program on SoundCloud &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Letter-to-radio-uncertainty-2025 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:56:56 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Letter-to-radio-uncertainty-2025 &nbsp; Letter to radio uncertainty Radio performance in At Home With (7) — a home exhibition curated by Sini Pelkki and Magnús Logi Kristinsson. A collecive love letter transmitted through a momentarily occupied FM frequency, sent from the bedroom and received by the audience in the living room. <img width="2480" height="1654" width_o="2480" height_o="1654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18ac818276f61df756e23d6864851d8bcce7627b9e18b6da98b2ed2d7ad614ab/tinja_ahw7_7_.jpg" data-mid="240746652" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18ac818276f61df756e23d6864851d8bcce7627b9e18b6da98b2ed2d7ad614ab/tinja_ahw7_7_.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f48d272547c4f3777079aa2d696577ba9523d21d763b4e172a685e74e65fed7f/radio.jpg" data-mid="240747555" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f48d272547c4f3777079aa2d696577ba9523d21d763b4e172a685e74e65fed7f/radio.jpg" /> photos: Sini Pelkki, Magnús Logi Kristinsson You can read the letter here https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Grounded-Pulsating-2024 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:20:26 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Grounded-Pulsating-2024 Provincetown has always lived sideways to certainty~~ Grounded-- Pulsating Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, April 2024 During the 1980s, Provincetown became a safe place for people living with HIV, and its shoreline keeps shifting under climate change and the tides. It knows what shared uncertainty feels like. In the winter of 2023–2024, radio uncertainty broadcast from my studio at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, open to the town’s winter community: queer residents and fishermen. The station aimed to accommodate 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.&nbsp; <img width="4608" height="3072" width_o="4608" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1854255d09f87ea59b320a8809e1a1d6f08c2cca77ec467862719636d0c73d06/pho4.JPG" data-mid="237376019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1854255d09f87ea59b320a8809e1a1d6f08c2cca77ec467862719636d0c73d06/pho4.JPG" /> Antenna (2024) Site spesific installation, emergency blanket, sticks, duct tape <img width="4557" height="2485" width_o="4557" height_o="2485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1867d2f8eac105a5bd0f1bd8d2af6e942a4aadb844b334e85e74243d25acbf0/P1100756.jpg" data-mid="237376031" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1867d2f8eac105a5bd0f1bd8d2af6e942a4aadb844b334e85e74243d25acbf0/P1100756.jpg" /> detail, Resuscitation (2024)marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker (home-made radio receiver broadcasting from the kitenna outside the gallery) <img width="2592" height="3843" width_o="2592" height_o="3843" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbb885fc3b6d96d613f8a3197f90405fb639a260fb4541e6205936b75a07f49c/P1100694.jpg" data-mid="237376026" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbb885fc3b6d96d613f8a3197f90405fb639a260fb4541e6205936b75a07f49c/P1100694.jpg" />detail, Untitled (2024)antenna wire, birtch bark, galena crystal, crocodile clip, safety pin<img width="2241" height="2999" width_o="2241" height_o="2999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a14c59adca20c1095b111d16c2265d47ee9d4759c31c782eeb4c9d35ecf90b0/pho5_.jpg" data-mid="237376035" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a14c59adca20c1095b111d16c2265d47ee9d4759c31c782eeb4c9d35ecf90b0/pho5_.jpg" /> X-ray for a Kite (2024) Monotype with antenna wire <img width="2480" height="3507" width_o="2480" height_o="3507" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b636f02ca7fc6be082a83ff9d431870f4e517836f1e8291017bdb4df81d294e7/LETTER.jpg" data-mid="237376068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b636f02ca7fc6be082a83ff9d431870f4e517836f1e8291017bdb4df81d294e7/LETTER.jpg" /><img width="4327" height="2592" width_o="4327" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a5ea5550e0bfa0344743a1950edf39e99dfec3d69383dacdff3ae929cd96d51/P1100666_2.jpg" data-mid="237376036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a5ea5550e0bfa0344743a1950edf39e99dfec3d69383dacdff3ae929cd96d51/P1100666_2.jpg" />Scared- Shared Heart and X-ray for a Kite (2024) monoprint with antenna wire <img width="3395" height="2373" width_o="3395" height_o="2373" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ec5f2ac57ee9a243583d7ac8b96213e5aee49ef5af211438e620cbf815abc74/P1100685_.jpg" data-mid="239956942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ec5f2ac57ee9a243583d7ac8b96213e5aee49ef5af211438e620cbf815abc74/P1100685_.jpg" /> Utitled circuit (2024) monoprint and chalk &nbsp;on paper, antenna wire <img width="4399" height="2474" width_o="4399" height_o="2474" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2ceff6ab1ba1d82f361703db174f0ac176d26c54530f1d7f6fb58d53836ce6d/P1100712.jpg" data-mid="237376039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2ceff6ab1ba1d82f361703db174f0ac176d26c54530f1d7f6fb58d53836ce6d/P1100712.jpg" /> Séance (2024) Monotype on paper&nbsp;Radio Uncertainty (2024)HD video, 2:13 photos: Sterling Bennett and Tinja Ruusuvuori *credit for technical advice for building radio receivers: Shortwave CollectiveThe 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. https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Waterfall-Tongue-2025 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:10:04 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Waterfall-Tongue-2025 Waterfall Tongue USF Visningsrommet, March 2025 Waterfall Tongue was a collaboration between tinja ruusuvuori and gentian rhosa. The exhibition explored themes of grief, rage and voiceless through the act of cross-border communication by screaming into waterfalls. The artists considered the social and gendered conditions that limit loud expressions of rage and sorrow, finding allyship with the waterfall as a sonic environment charged with movement and power, where the screaming voice can find release. The exhibition included a public screaming workshop with hardcore vocalist Oda Braanaas,&nbsp;where we learned to care for our throats in a long-term grief and to scream together in a sustainable way. <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a8d5342fb66333db434d57b7897a5c3d0d09af9f21c8de523b3f09fcf35445b/DSC02420.JPG" data-mid="237375466" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a8d5342fb66333db434d57b7897a5c3d0d09af9f21c8de523b3f09fcf35445b/DSC02420.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbebde60858880085fc286b7109fbfcc228a819cfa934c0cfd08b5e89b2c3df6/DSC02437.JPG" data-mid="237375462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbebde60858880085fc286b7109fbfcc228a819cfa934c0cfd08b5e89b2c3df6/DSC02437.JPG" /><img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca588de3528bec307e16e561ef224a21084dc250dbee1ff65266fec4ff8f0e71/DSC02429.JPG" data-mid="237375460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca588de3528bec307e16e561ef224a21084dc250dbee1ff65266fec4ff8f0e71/DSC02429.JPG" /><img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5419eac28f84524f7a2d929375a09249be46bbc3c52e80afdbcf045be2eb2c45/DSC02426.JPG" data-mid="237375461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5419eac28f84524f7a2d929375a09249be46bbc3c52e80afdbcf045be2eb2c45/DSC02426.JPG" /><img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82201267cba90dbb699040c42500726a5bebd31f1a0404abc99117e09f14a00e/DSC02369.JPG" data-mid="237375464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82201267cba90dbb699040c42500726a5bebd31f1a0404abc99117e09f14a00e/DSC02369.JPG" /> <img width="3000" height="1688" width_o="3000" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/700ad7d1ed4a982bc28ef4f90e19fca9ad4017d98b02eaaaf8aa3ab1ae7ce76f/speaker.jpeg" data-mid="237375459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/700ad7d1ed4a982bc28ef4f90e19fca9ad4017d98b02eaaaf8aa3ab1ae7ce76f/speaker.jpeg" /><img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9e2661c28e12f7c355f0a887459173453145ba559e9a9dc1ed803a069184957/DSC02436.JPG" data-mid="237375463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9e2661c28e12f7c355f0a887459173453145ba559e9a9dc1ed803a069184957/DSC02436.JPG" />Installation view, Waterfall Tongue (2025) Six-channel sound installation with candles, found materials, and charcoal drawing on canvas and floor. Sound of waterfall, human voices through a waterfall, distant protest chants. Single-channel video projection.&nbsp; <img width="1112" height="1482" width_o="1112" height_o="1482" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8346d84f1b787fcfc11fcf85081814c46df21c30754cf82fa4c02046ec610393/waterfall-tongue-workshop.jpg" data-mid="237375928" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8346d84f1b787fcfc11fcf85081814c46df21c30754cf82fa4c02046ec610393/waterfall-tongue-workshop.jpg" /> Workshop in sustainable screaming <img width="2739" height="3241" width_o="2739" height_o="3241" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3eea2b61857b6dd6ab89ea001fd1a13fc24187b3da5d79504fdf08535aba822a/gennitext.jpeg" data-mid="239999744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3eea2b61857b6dd6ab89ea001fd1a13fc24187b3da5d79504fdf08535aba822a/gennitext.jpeg" /> The exhibition in USF Visningsrommet was developed during the 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 and tech. https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Logbook-2019 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:07:33 +0000 Tinja Ruusuvuori https://tinjaruusuvuori.com/Logbook-2019 Logbook 2019 two-channel video work, 12:24 min HD English, Frencheditor: Inka Lahtisound designer: Eero Pulkkinen camera:&nbsp;Emilia Rüf directors: Emilia Rüf and Tinja Ruusuvuori Where movement of people is restrained, goods can travel more freely than ever. The sound of karaoke drifts out from the inside of an enormous container ship. Logbook notes of longing and sympathy felt by seafarers towards migrants. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f79b36382255aecee7712a3e4a9d02871af7e4d01f968ef26c614d7870737e1c/Logbook_kuva.jpg" data-mid="237375316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f79b36382255aecee7712a3e4a9d02871af7e4d01f968ef26c614d7870737e1c/Logbook_kuva.jpg" /><img width="2172" height="1224" width_o="2172" height_o="1224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b826634f9613e5ec973931593e4f96a37045db4be62b034935433c9449db327d/18.jpg" data-mid="237375320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b826634f9613e5ec973931593e4f96a37045db4be62b034935433c9449db327d/18.jpg" /><img width="2166" height="1224" width_o="2166" height_o="1224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2fc9ed0d250c90255f2709b7e33169f4d04f365d1b2726f070281cd1763a1bf/28.jpg" data-mid="237375318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2fc9ed0d250c90255f2709b7e33169f4d04f365d1b2726f070281cd1763a1bf/28.jpg" /> &nbsp;Välimeren kulkijat / Turun Sanomat 23.5.2019 / Heli Peltoniemi