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Appu Jasu
Nowhere Specific screened at 21st doclisboa in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday, October 25 2023, in the Cinema São Jorge.
Drift screened at WNDX Festival of Moving Image in Winnipeg, Canada, on Friday, October 6 2023, in the Cinematheque.
Group exhibition Marmeladi / Marmalade in SIC gallery in Helsinki from 3rd of February to 19th of March 2023.
Artists: Aino Autere, Sonja Donner, Adele Hyry, Essi Immonen, Appu Jasu, Astri Laitinen and Jere Vainio.
In a building over the tracks of Malmi railway station.
Opening hours: thu– fri: 2 – 6 pm, sat – sun: 12 – 4 pm
One minute sound made at Mikko Kuorinki's S/T exhibition at Alkovi gallery in Helsinki:
I created sound design for Paavo Halonen's exhibition paino, iho, taivas shown currently at Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki from 6th to 30th January 2022.
The Poetics of a Line released! Order by mailing me or find it somewhere. Published by Kerber Verlag.
I wrote about Madonna's Frozen to Nuorgam.
My work Looking at “Four Seasons in the Abyss (Winter)” by Timo Marila for 1 Minute and 55 Seconds is part of the exhibition Abstract! 100 Years of Abstract Photography, 1917–2017 at The Finnish Museum of Photography.
CHAPTER XXVIII
Stairway, seventh floor
Now the barking emanates into the apartment through the open window. The dog has advanced down in the elevator, then towards the front door in the lobby and through the door outside, and its voice now travels correspondingly back but in an inverted shape, first up from the ground along the facade of the building then making a ninety degree turn in from the open window into the apartment, all the way to its farthest wall. The window gives a view of a yard confined by adjacent apartment buildings, by the other side of which lies a short road. On the sidewalk of the road walks an elderly woman carrying a bag with the logo of Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team on it.
The cyclists are moving without a plan, imperceptibly following a loud but distant sound of music drifting from an unclear direction. They are in the western side of the city, in an area that rests bordered by a railroad making a soft turn of ninety degrees. One road they follow ends up into an empty sand field restricted by a barrier, another one ends to a fence siding the railroad. The music comes from a direction straight on the other side of the railroad, from a direction where a fox is running on the other side of the tracks. Allured by the fox and the music they climb first one barrier to the tracks and then over another into yet another empty sand field. The fox is not visible anymore, but the music is audible louder than before, its direction now clearer but still wide, a direction where only adjancet fields, woods and a power line can be seen, not one building nor a human. Appu imagines that the source of the sound must be somewhere in the middle of the woods, and that if you'd go search it you'd have to walk a long way during which it feels like the amplitude of the music would increase inside your head but the distance from it would stay the same, like the reverberation/echo contained in the sound which in this case builds up from hundreds or thousands of trees, kilometers of grass, moss and dry twigs, random deer and hare, hills and trenches, would be included in the sound inherently already in the point where it comes into existence, not only in the ears of an arbitrary listener kilometers away. Finally the walker would arrive to the spot where the sound arises, but instead of a speaker or a vocal cord there would be only empty air, and what might look like vibrations from the power of the sound waves. They climb over one bank, see only more fields and woods, and decide to give up searching. They hear the music, but can't seem to find it.