https://leenakangaskoski.com Leena Kangaskoski Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:07:40 +0000 https://leenakangaskoski.com en https://leenakangaskoski.com/Shooting-Star-Jelly Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:04:10 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Shooting-Star-Jelly Shooting Star Jelly&nbsp;Public sculpture, HAMGlass, 2021Hopealaakso Daycare Centre Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki.&nbsp; HAM Curators: Kristiina Ljokkoi and Aleksandra Kiskonen Photos: Sonja Hyytiäinen ©HAM Architecture: AFKS Arkkitehdit Space stretches like a giant piece of jelly, pulled by the masses of celestial bodies large and small. The piece Tähdenlentovanukas (‘Shooting Star Jelly’) is on the hall window. The moment after melting and blending has been captured in the glass, reminiscent of solidified lava in stone. The three works including Sand Grain Glow, Copper Mount Stash and Shooting Star Jelly are based on the history of Hopealaakso and the idea of mineral evolution. In the beginning there were only a few minerals, but oxygen generating life has encouraged minerals to evolve and shapeshift. In the 18th century many minerals were discovered in the area&nbsp; – named ‘Silver Valley’ in Finnish – silver, chalcopyrite, zinc pyrite, calcite, galena and sphalerite. In these works the minerals appear in glass and clay. “Kangaskoski’s pieces bring a throw-back to the last centuries’ local history into the daycare centre, but also parallel our day-to-day conception of time with geological time.” Kristiina Ljokkoi HAM https://leenakangaskoski.com/Public-Work-Kuparikumpujenkatko-iso Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:11:56 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Public-Work-Kuparikumpujenkatko-iso Copper Mound Stash Public sculpture, HAM Glazed ceramics, 2021Hopealaakso Daycare Centre Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki. HAM Curators: Kristiina Ljokkoi and Aleksandra KiskonenPhotos above: Hannu Rytky Photos below: Sonja Hyytiäinen ©HAM Architecture: AFKS Arkkitehdit The work Kuparikumpujenkätkö (‘Copper Mound Stash’) is located in the shaft of light between the building’s two floors. The work is made with glazed ceramics and built of shapes opening downwards, like boulders that seem ancient and peaceful when viewed from above. Inside, these boulders reveal the slow process of mineralisation and change that has lasted several million years. The three works including Sand Grain Glow, Copper Mount Stash and Shooting Star Jelly are based on the history of Hopealaakso and the idea of mineral evolution. In the beginning there were only a few minerals, but oxygen generating life has encouraged also minerals to evolve and shapeshift. In the 18th century many minerals were discovered in the area&nbsp; – named ‘Silver Valley’ in Finnish – silver, chalcopyrite, zinc pyrite, calcite, galena and sphalerite. In these works the minerals appear as glass and clay. https://leenakangaskoski.com/Hiekkahippuhohde Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:07:40 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Hiekkahippuhohde Sand Grain GlowPublic sculpture, HAMGlass, 2021Hopealaakso Daycare Centre Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki. HAM Curators: Kristiina Ljokkoi and Aleksandra KiskonenGlass-blowing: Kari Alakoski &amp; Marja Hepo-Aho, assistant Tiia TirronenPhotos: Sonja Hyytiäinen ©HAM Architecture: AFKS ArkkitehditThe pieces of glass poking through the wall are like jewels rising from the depths of the earth. The mineral deposit on the side of the building is a reminder of the wonders of nature crystallising over time. Glass consists mostly of fine sand that melts under intense heat and becomes a material that shimmers in the light. https://leenakangaskoski.com/Touch-Praise Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:32:38 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Touch-Praise <img width="1610" height="2000" width_o="1610" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4cbf1344724263f5acf967a7de0a5f6e7f55f3b08a9a7be2ad7c6cba9937f09/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_12.jpg" data-mid="84322710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4cbf1344724263f5acf967a7de0a5f6e7f55f3b08a9a7be2ad7c6cba9937f09/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_12.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c49c1ea70898315f3317dac1c2392f54dde3ce99ee7e83ace20e8586c27af041/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_13.jpg" data-mid="84323017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c49c1ea70898315f3317dac1c2392f54dde3ce99ee7e83ace20e8586c27af041/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_13.jpg" /> <img width="1610" height="2000" width_o="1610" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa3643783d3341d704eb8ad8630aaa34456eb3d963aadeabd0d99b5088dea79d/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_14.jpg" data-mid="84323532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa3643783d3341d704eb8ad8630aaa34456eb3d963aadeabd0d99b5088dea79d/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_14.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f3bf9322bb287738082ef7de655d51fb4512ac8c65b37bf34e6d8ee02786125/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_17.jpg" data-mid="84379986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f3bf9322bb287738082ef7de655d51fb4512ac8c65b37bf34e6d8ee02786125/L.Kangaskoski_Touch_Praise_17.jpg" /> HoldTouching series, 2020Unfired clay&nbsp; In the midst of the pandemic it became clear how important touch is for the individual as well as for the society at large. The building block of the sculpture is a cone formed by pressing clay again and again against the index finger.Located at Kulosaaren puistotie in Helsinki on a public space between the cycleway and the sound barrier to the metro. Subject to conditions, the unfired clay withered, slowly turning into ruins and eventually back to earth. This series was initiated during the Kone Foundation Home residency. https://leenakangaskoski.com/Conference-video Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:02:53 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Conference-video https://leenakangaskoski.com/Conference-landscape Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:14:49 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Conference-landscape <img width="3200" height="1800" width_o="3200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fab6bfcde83272316a8d349c7c8eed69d0d0673809e931f3e4fcd17865300ea7/PA270087.jpg" data-mid="57383745" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fab6bfcde83272316a8d349c7c8eed69d0d0673809e931f3e4fcd17865300ea7/PA270087.jpg" /> <img width="3200" height="1800" width_o="3200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/042900eaf2e3a25d540eb7578d5903292e80f4072689aac84fa2eeea75a18224/PA270099_1.jpg" data-mid="57383549" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/042900eaf2e3a25d540eb7578d5903292e80f4072689aac84fa2eeea75a18224/PA270099_1.jpg" /> <img width="3200" height="1800" width_o="3200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ee466d2d7cb8d92ca7c79c5a1b3e3325fb99265558531aa3d80ba5eb67271b0/PA270096-1.jpg" data-mid="57384433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ee466d2d7cb8d92ca7c79c5a1b3e3325fb99265558531aa3d80ba5eb67271b0/PA270096-1.jpg" /> <img width="3200" height="1800" width_o="3200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c95f4c1cdf87702e801d9ae3dc88b40493f25a733f2e3f2e323f853be21da88/PA270099.jpg" data-mid="57383550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c95f4c1cdf87702e801d9ae3dc88b40493f25a733f2e3f2e323f853be21da88/PA270099.jpg" /> Conference&nbsp;Rocks on human ± animal issuesKinetic installation, 2019Glass, rocks, rope, electric motors.Views from Rajatila Gallery, Tampere Finland.Conference is attended by rocks (Finland, France, New Zealand, Sweden) and glass cell cultures. Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Hôtel Chevillon residency. https://leenakangaskoski.com/Ripple Mon, 07 May 2018 17:56:20 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Ripple RippleKinetic installation, 2015Drinking straws, nails, porcelain, twigs, paint, thread, fans.View from Henry solo ahow at Galleria Katariina Studio.The border between the mind and the body is filled with inaccuracy. Where does one turn to the other? The work draws on material collected from interviews conducted with four professionals: a meditation teacher, a general practitioner who is also an hypnotist, a neuroscientist, and a lucid dreaming specialist. “Electric signals, information, run through the brain; nerve cells fire. The activity of the brain is the activity of the cells. Cells are firing. The brain is a big complex web, in which cells go on and off.” — Satu Palva, neuroscientist “It is possible to go deep into the background noise of consciousness through meditation. What you come across is proto thoughts, singular words, kind of thought soup put through a blender.&nbsp; These thoughts have no content, no meaning, and yet they shape our experience. An image flashes in consciousness and a narrative emerges. Steadily the narratives get more complex, they become chains and pull in other thoughts, which then grow into daydreams. &nbsp;Images flash. Bing — they are gone.” — Petri Saarelainen, meditation teacherSupport: Arts Promotion Centre Finland <img width="1500" height="2295" width_o="1500" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0afa76d6bb1b92b7e562232525c622d90668d8a218cf3facea4392a1f21c723b/Leena-Kangaskoski_Ripple.jpg" data-mid="15990679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0afa76d6bb1b92b7e562232525c622d90668d8a218cf3facea4392a1f21c723b/Leena-Kangaskoski_Ripple.jpg" /> <img width="3857" height="3266" width_o="3857" height_o="3266" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a023633b63a37fa421371de7cf5bc24db298cc7837a7586dd70dd31887da7989/Ripple_MG_7697.jpg" data-mid="45506597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a023633b63a37fa421371de7cf5bc24db298cc7837a7586dd70dd31887da7989/Ripple_MG_7697.jpg" /> <img width="1783" height="1500" width_o="1783" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25d2739723fe92576c1aff8f958b4df3d66e4a0219c383fa03d5e1e766027de4/Ripple_Uusi-muu_1.jpg" data-mid="45506871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25d2739723fe92576c1aff8f958b4df3d66e4a0219c383fa03d5e1e766027de4/Ripple_Uusi-muu_1.jpg" /> https://leenakangaskoski.com/Cell-cultures-I Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:03:54 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Cell-cultures-I https://leenakangaskoski.com/Animal-human-text Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:45:18 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Animal-human-text Human ± animalInstallation, 2019Enter the clean room clean. The clean room is the environment, where tests are made. Tests are made in controlled circumstances and your bacteria, viruses, slime and dirt will have to be&nbsp;left outside. Please leave them outside. The test begins. Imagine how the pig embryo is opened up. Out come the pig cells that govern pig kidneys, in go human cells that govern human kidneys. At this stage they are both developing and adjusting to each another, they start to grow together as one. Imagine how the pig cells in the pig embryo and the human kidney cells in the pig embryo feel out each other and fill in the gaps in each other and how they feel life is good and they go towards it. The cells are alive, they don’t want to die. They don’t know the one they are growing in is a mixed species and mythical in nature. They don’t know that humans have made them and yet the world in which humans and pigs live might&nbsp;not be ready for them. They don’t know that in them there is an ancient monster chimera blazing fire from its mouth, that in them there is hope for people who wait in queues for organ transplant donors, angels in pig disguise. There is life inside them and they don’t want to die. At the moment the pig-human chimeras are allowed to mature for 28 days. In Western Europe and the US there are strict codes of ethics and regulations in place that forbid certain experimentation using human cells. However, there are vast differences in the regulatory framework. With the creation of a human-chimera emerges the question: what rights does an animal-human chimera have? Human rights or animal rights? Can the scope of humanity be widened, could the human-chimeras be forerunners of future organisms? Animal ± human presents a still shot of an environment where tests are made. Here antibacterial curtains cover a hospital bed surrounded by tables filled with cell cultures made of glass. In the now still glass one can imagine how cells swam a moment ago, trying to find preferable constellations. The silence is pierced by a dripping sound. Clay has been pushed through a meat grinder and is struggling to hold shape. It is being hydrated and it is sweating. A forgotten meal, meant for dinner, sits in the corner. https://leenakangaskoski.com/Animal-human Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:33:34 +0000 Leena Kangaskoski https://leenakangaskoski.com/Animal-human <img width="4608" height="3686" width_o="4608" height_o="3686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c30c83ba1e233f5040df2e548bb96f8fd2cb069ff4a6474f436ced9582b99dc1/Leena-Kangaskoski_Glass-sculpture_2019.jpg" data-mid="244914988" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c30c83ba1e233f5040df2e548bb96f8fd2cb069ff4a6474f436ced9582b99dc1/Leena-Kangaskoski_Glass-sculpture_2019.jpg" />