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ABOUT
I’m a Finnish-Dutch artist, organiser, and teacher based in Amsterdam. My work explores the relationship between history, experience, and possibility, emerging in response to specific social, economic and political conditions.
I work with sound, moving image, pedagogy, and architecture to make room for desire, grief, refusal, imagination, and struggle. I focus on the role of solidarity, mutual aid, and collective joy in imagining a liberatory culture — one that moves beyond hierarchy and domination.
I’m self-taught and anti-disciplinary. Over the past two decades, I’ve initiated and organised club nights (Viral Radio, Anonymous, Progress Bar), exhibitions (Dread, A Screaming Comes Across the Sky), and interdisciplinary projects (Good Praxis, If I Must Die, You Must Live, To Tell My Story, This Is The Moment When You See Who You Are). My moving image environments RoXY and Every Body In The Place, both commissioned by the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and made in collaboration with various comrades, act as counter-archives to dominant histories.
My thinking is informed by the writings of Baruch Spinoza, Errico Malatesta, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as by the lived histories of resistance, club culture, and radical pedagogy.
My approach draws from liberatory pedagogical practices and critical institutionalism — shaped through roles such as founder of De Verdieping in Amsterdam (2009-2013), artistic director of Lighthouse in Brighton (2014-2017), and programme director at the Sandberg Instituut (2017-2021), among others. My writing, research and work have appeared in Dazed, Sleek, The FADER, Crack Magazine, The Guardian, El País, La Repubblica, De Volkskrant, NRC, Volume, and VICE. My book Dread—The Dizziness of Freedom was published by Valiz in 2013.
I have taught and still teach in a range of contexts, including at the Sandberg Instituut, DAS Graduate School and Art School Maa. I also work with independent schools, collectives, and temporary learning spaces that explore culture, politics, and pedagogy outside institutional frameworks.
I teach without authority, exhibit without neutrality, and work toward infrastructures of freedom.
I'm open to collaborations with individuals and groups who share an interest in collective learning, cultural experimentation, and building more just and imaginative worlds. I welcome conversations that may lead to new ideas, shared projects, or ongoing exchanges. If you're interested, hmu.