Upcoming!

Hajoamisen taito / The Art of Decomposition (2026–2028)
My practice explores embodiment, mortality, and interspecies relations within more-than-human environments. I approach death not as an endpoint, but as a material and ecological transformation: a passage from individual existence into ongoing cycles of matter, decomposition, and life.

Through video, performance, and ecosomatic methods, I investigate post-mortem processes as both biological realities and experiential states. My work draws on scientific knowledge, embodied research, and performative practice to examine how the boundaries of the self dissolve as the body becomes part of ecological circulation.

The personal and the collective are intertwined in my work. Encounters with death—particularly through the loss and burial of non-human companions—open spaces for grief, attachment, ritual, and reflection on interspecies hierarchies. I am interested in how cultural practices around death construct value systems that distinguish between human and non-human bodies, and how these systems might be reimagined.

Ritual, care and sensory attention are central methodologies in my practice. I create situations where death can be approached materially and without symbolic distance, while also allowing space for speculation: how might alternative practices of dying, burial, and bodily return to the earth exist?

Upcoming work:

The Art of Decomposition (video work, 2027, 60 min, stereo sound)
This video performance is developed in collaboration with a forensic archeologist and a biologist and a makeup/set designer. It stages post-mortem transformation through narrated temporal stages (immediately after death, minutes, hours, days, years, and decades after death), combining scientific description with embodied performance.
Based on an ecosomatic exercise developed by Satu Palokangas and the japanese middle age Kusōzu -drawings, the work explores the dissolution of personal identity alongside the continuation of cellular processes. The body moves through stages of autolysis, decomposition, and eventual skeletonization.

My Beloved’s Grave (video work, 2021–, 10 min, loop)
This work reflects on intimacy, loss, and burial rituals through the documentation of a long-term relationship with a non-human companion.
It is based on the burial of my life partner, a dog named Kerttu, and the shared experience of preparing for her death. The work combines memory, documentation, and montage spanning thirteen years of recorded material.
It reflects on grief, care, and bodily presence at the threshold of death, focusing on the sensory and emotional dimensions of farewell and burial.

Animal Burial (video work, 30 min, stereo sound)
This work examines culturally and legally constructed differences between human and non-human burial practices. It reflects on childhood experiences of animal burial rituals in domestic environments and the aesthetics and ethics of these practices.
The work stages an imagined burial ritual in a forest landscape, informed by ecological and ritual sensibilities. Multiple perspectives document the carrying, preparation, and burial of a wrapped body, emphasizing collective care and material return to the earth.
Sound is composed of ambient forest recordings, with no spoken language.