Author: John Collingswood

Corridoors of Sound

For a few years, I was part of a loose collective of sound artists based in Oulu. We would take over a gallery or venue for durational improvised audiovisual events. Sometimes I would be contributing to the soundscape with a turntable or mic and looper pedal, etc. Sometimes I focused on video, live-coding video effects…
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Human Touch

Founded by Juliet Seger and Christina Albrecht in Berlin, HUMAN TOUCH is a clothing brand where all garments are handmade by skilled workers who regularly dip their hands in paint while they are sewing. This evidence of this process is then fixed and becomes the main design element of the clothing. The process is also…
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Strings of Light

An ongoing research project, working with musician Osmo Hakosalo to create projection installations and performances that involve mapping onto a kantele – the traditional Finnish instrument. We are developing interactive systems of layered sound and small-scale projection mapping, using natural imagery and field recordings to create a very Finnish experience, combining ancient traditions with digital…
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CORTEX

Lighting design

The Beat Hotel

The Beat Hotel was installed in Oulu Library for Lumo 2022. A collaboration with three other local artists, this multi-room experience was inspired by the Beat Poets who lived in a cheap and shabby hotel in Paris during the 60s and 70s. Working for 2 weeks with Ansku Nousiainen, Tiina Vehkaperä and Jared van Earle,…
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Keho on Dacha

large format book about an art project

Kuin kylpisin nestemäisessä kivessä

video made with dancers Tanja Råman and Kaisa Rundelin

Another Day Without Rain

music video created in collaboration with Kepposet folk dance collective

Pohjois-Karjala

Pohjois-Karjala by YL Male Voice ChoirA beautiful song and video about life in Northern Karelia

1989

An installation created for LUMO 2021 – under the theme of ‘Back to New’. 9 pieces were installed throughout an empty shop for he weekend of the light festival. Mainly based on creating moving shapes by combining straight lines of light and organic structures of material. This was an idea originally developed with an animator…
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