Summer Artist 2017: Julia Kukkonen

Julia Kukkonen explored Seinäjoki, a completely unfamiliar city with the means of performance over the Summer. She organised  open performance walks where the group explored the city centre in different ways, such as following a colour or a map of another city. The summer artist also sent messages in a bottle to flow in the Seinäjoki river and took over a parking spot in the centre for one day, to turn it into a pop-up café where locals would tell her about their home town. At the end of the two-month long exploration, she made the publication Where they do it themselves – an alternative guide to Seinäjoki.

Julia Kukkonen (born 1988) is a visual artist, innovator and gentle activist. She studied architecture at the Aalto University and graduated from the Kankaanpää Art School.