Tuuli Malla is an installation and performance artist working primarily in Helsinki and Sápmi. Her work focuses on the themes of place and dialogue, often expressed through recorded sound, video or performance. Much of her work is made in collaboration with people and places.

. . . collaboration, improvisation, encounter, sound . . .

For Malla, research and practice start by listening to objects, people and places. Voices, public spaces and sites with traces of memory are reoccurring materials of her work. Malla’s installations and performances blur borders between artist and participating community, performer and audience, everyday life and art. Working in public space allows the distance between everyday life and “art” to shrink, creating open encounters between a performer/installation and people who happen to be present.

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Malla’s recent works include Kue’tt and three-part Pie’ss installations where audience can enter dens to listen to intergenerational audio where sounds of the site of the recording can be heard. The installations have been shown at Oulu Museum of Art, Kusthalle Helsinki and outdoors in Sápmi in villages of Sevettijärvi, Keväjärvi and Neiden.

Earlier, Malla has presented work internationally including Helsinki metro, Nahmad Projects London, Design Festa Gallery Tokyo and Month of Performance Art Berlin. She is also a board member at Artists Association MUU.

tuuli.mannin(a)gmail.com