if I was a man....

See, there is a clear similarity between the MAN me and Kurt Cobain! Clearly!


As a man I needed to have my beard shaven by a real barber. So I went to one. This is the place I chose and me waiting for my turn.




My mum told me that my name would be Niko Teemu Taneli, if I would have been a boy. It's not that funny in English. It is a very embarrasing name, I can assure you. I was never really girly girl and now I am not the most feminine woman either. Still it was rather tricky to try to be like a man convinsingly. I went for a metrosexual type....That's what I would be like if I was a man.

Sweden versus Finland

This is the performance by Miriam and I on Speakers Corner. It is filmed from inside the massive cardboard telly, the one shown in previous post. We are demonstrating the relationship between 2 nordic countries: Sweden and Finland. It is a competitive relationship and well seen on icehockey games. Nothing is more important than have a victory from your neighbouring country.

Building a TV

This is the TV I build for our "Sweden versus Finland" performance. It shows a hockey match between these 2 countries. Our assistant and camerawoman Sara went inside the TV to film us who pretended to be fanatic icehockey fans watching the game.


Sara inside TV measuring the perfect place for the camera hole.


Me cutting the hole for camera.

Me in my Finnish icehockey fan outfit ready to go. Speakers Corner here we come....

The Stig

My film tries to have a slap on a face of over manliness; the MAN culture that idolises super MANLY things. Well it is just bit silly. And even though I consider my self as feminist I do actually like Top Gear. I think that Jeremy Clarkson and the other guys have probably the best job in the world. The sad thing is that it is all seen as masculing stuff. They should defianetly have a female presenter too. I am available....if BBC is interested.

Miriam and the tree

2 fridays ago Ana Laura made us to make location related performances there and then. The very second she had finished her sentence Miriam(who was sitting next to me) jumped up and started rushing outside with a vision. Me and Sonali (who was sitting close by as well) couldn't do anything else than follow her. She wanted to climb up a tree in a park near by. She had seen that tree several times and felt strongly that this was her chance to fulfil her dream. As you can see from this bad quality video, she failed. I managed in the task though! Well done me! Miriam wasn't happy with the failure and eventually tried to climb on everything and anything near by like the grave stones. It was a fun afternoon moment....

Deep Play Dark Play

Last friday we were asked to play deep and dark. I was forced to go to work. I decided to fart for work and everything annoying in this society.
Why it is a cat farting on my face? Well, it was easier to draw than human for example. And cats are often associated to women and women are not supposed to fart. Well I can prove that both women and cats do fart.

making of "The Sloth"

This is me in my sloth outfit infront of the chosen location(church in Crouch Hill). Main part of my outfit were my long claws . They made me look bit like a monster I guess. My camera man was Lee, my boyfriend. He also helped me with the whole idea. He is really into fucking the system and got rather excited by idea of laughing at religion. Our more ambitious plan was to film all of the seven deadly sins as animals in different churces. For example lust as rabbit etc. Guess I was bit lazy in the end. I chose SLOTH anyways!
I really wanted my film to look and sound like a nature documentary. I am big fan of those and I love David Attenborough. It took me 1 afternoon to record the voice while trying to sound a bit like him. It is tricky for a female... I thought that it would be ridicilous contrast to represent something like a sin as a scientific fact. Our society does deal with religions with surpising respect even though we should KNOW better.