Portfolio // Antti Pussinen
public & street art
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Himmeli
Pictures of installation
2009,Pispala Center for Contemoprary Arts, Tampere Finland, installation, fluorocent lights, climbing hooks, metal wire, extension cord
Himmeli is a traditional Finnish winter and christmas decoration. The name comes from German word "himmel" meaning heaven
Pidä kaupunki siistinä/ Keep The City Clean
Pictures of installation
2007-2009, Tampere, Finland, installation, trash cans from public space, spray paint, wood, aluminium, ceramic tile, ~90x50x35cm each
Keeping the city clean is duty for everyone of its inhabitants, one way or another.
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Lääketalot / Medicine Buildings
Pictures of installation
2008, Tampere, Finland, installation, empty medicine packages, glue,size variable
Empty medicine packages are building blocks for a healthier society. First version of Medicine City installation
Installation is made with Martta-Kaisa Virta
Hökkeli / Shack
Pictures of installation
2008, Vaasa, Finland, installation, wood, concrete, pvc, 6x15x18 m
Everyone want's to live in they're dream home; a detached house in good area, at countryside driving distance from a shop, in a jugend-style apartment with high ceilings or a loft-flat. And of course a summer cottage by a lake. What happens to human psyche if the dream ends in eviction or a fire? Or if self-built lifetime-project cottage never seems to get complete. As the climate changes even us fortunate one's of the mankind can't afford to choose our living style just as we please.
Installation is made out of left-over wood from the national housing fair, seen in the background
Jack To The Sound of The Underground
Pictures of installation
2007,Helsinki beside metro tracks, Installation, fluorescent spary on black plywood, blacklights, 1,5x260x1m
Using a private car in the cities is mad!
By walking, biking, and travelling with public transport one becomes a part of living city and can observe the dynamics that keep city alive and interesting.
In this work the artist creates an animation in the spirit of old flip book animation. Several pictures will be attached to the sheltering fence beside metro tracks so that a passenger can see the animation through the window while the train passes by the pictures.
Ylikansallissoitin / Multinational Instrument
Pictures of installation
2007,Kaustinen Folks Arts Center, Finland, Installation, Sea-container, wood, cargo strap, metal cable, 3x3x6m
Containers have become a basic unit of measurement.
Weapons, food aid, drugs, people, computers and everything in between moves inside these metal boxes.
This instrument is built from materials found almost everywhere in the world and all the materials can be used inside the container for tightening the cargo.
Miten pääsen kotiin?/How can i get home?
pictures of installations
2006, installation, 120x500x400xcm, plywood, spraypaint, electric light
The installations deal with the concept of home and buildings as a home. Ugly and bulky plywood houses represent the attitudes and methods in recent building projects in Finland.
Shown in:
Forces of Light, Helsinki, Finland
AVO, Finlayson urban art exhibition, Tampere, Finland
Pispala Center of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland
SWAEG ART collective collage workshop
Pictures of collage, download video here
2006, Gallery Huoltamo, Tampere, Finland
220x1100cm, prints and staples, old curtains and old paintings
In a week long workshop we invited people to the gallery to do posters and other pieces of the collage. We also collected old paintings and drawings to be recycled in the collage. After the workshop some of the participants and SWAEG collective installed the collage by staples into a construction site wall downtown Tampere. It stayed there six months.
In the video, participants of SWAEG ART collage workshop install a collague made out of prints into public space by the tammerkoski falls.
Antti Pussinen: concept & edit
Camera: Jenni Rutanen & Joonas Jokiranta
Music: Toiminto: Gen Relativ
more material about the collage & SWAEG ART: www.swaeg.net
Tässä talossa syntyi / Was born in this house
Pictures of installation
2006, Installatioon in urban environment, map distribution in a container in central square, Tampere Finland
Antti Pussinen’s work gathers visual memorial plates found in cityscape into an urban memory game of collective and personal memories and meanings.
A map is given to the viewer as a tool to explore and play with the concept of collective memories of the city -its history and tragedies, but also dwellers of the city and their joys and losses.
Kuprulinna/Kupru Castle
Pictures of installation processes
2004- , Continuing project in public space
In this continuing project i build castles from leftover material found near road constructions. After documenting building process the castles are left to their own, defending the area i reclaimed from public space by building them.
Suomen luonto/The Nature of Finland
Pictures of installation
2004, Undercover, environmental art exhibition, Viikinsaari island, Tampere, Finland
The nature of Finland: slow and heavy. Soft-looking but bulky.
Kupru 2003
Pictures of plates and map
2003, Installation in urban environment, map distribution at Työmaakoppi, Mobile Art-space
An experiment with painted plates in a public space. A map was distributed as a part of Mail Art group show in Tampere, Finland
