CERAMICS
CERAMICS
With my art, I want to open new ways of being. I wish to draw the invisible visible, break down norms, and build lasting and tolerant realities. I find it important to give a chance to identify to others struggling with the structures. In my art, I want to emphasize the importance of empathy, caring, and listening.
My path to art has not been straightforward. I have lost, and found. As pansexual in the small town I was repressed and made small. When I moved out, the emptiness was filled with the clubs and open-mindedness of the big cities. I was drunk on freedom. My hunger for culture grew into a need to create, and through it, to understand myself and the world around me.
In Aalto University's bachelor's program in design, I studied various materials – glass, ceramics, wood, biomaterials. However, my interests gradually shifted into the materiality of the body. My body, in addition to video, is the medium with which I explore the world and the essence of art. Where does my body extend to, what are its limits, and what can be said with a body? Are the materiality of the body and e.g. the painting comparable?
I am currently finishing my master's studies in Contemporary Design at Aalto University. In the autumn of 2021, I also began studying the history and theory of contemporary art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
Keywords:
Class, Norms, Sexuality, Gender, Neurodiversity, Empathy, Humanity, Body, Materiality, Curiosity
Performance Proposals on Cultural Heritage
2021
The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki
I made a 30-minute video for the show, which was built into the live performance. The video broke into the National Museum
for the three screens of the Prehistory exhibition, while Suvi Tuominen and Dasha Che performed live.
Director:
Suvi Tuominen
Video director:
Sini Henttu
Performers:
Suvi Tuominen, Dasha Che, Milton Nuñez, Riikka Thitz
Sound design:
Oula Rytkönen, Jouni Ilari Tapio
Performance Proposals on Cultural Heritage
presented at the National Museum
4.-10.09.2021.
filia
video
length: 9:58
2020
Aavistus-festival
Helsinki City Museum
filia is a collaborative audiovisual piece by Sini Henttu, Reetta Nummi (Sitoi) and Noah Kin (Exploited Body) that explores empathy and acceptance as a cleansing force.
Sini Henttu: video and editing
Reetta Nummi: poem
Noah Kin: audio design
"I'm always happiest alone"
video
length: 9:09
2020
"I'm always happiest alone" reflects on loneliness in a society that pressures us into sociality. Everyone feels an individual need for loneliness and each of us is alone in a different way. The desire to be alone is also a privilege that can be safely felt, when social networks and relationships are plentiful and healthy. It’s easy to want to be alone, when you don’t feel lonely.
morning coffee
video
length: 1:04
2020
Music video for the cassette release "Looped Thought Patterns in Audible Format" released by Kaukana Väijyy Ambient.
Satoi - Shored
2018
tahmee
glass made with kiln method
video
length 6:38
2019-2020
Kalleria, Helsinki
Focus of the piece is on the sleeplessness caused by a disorder – on the gooey twilight zone between being awake and asleep, between real and unreal.
Dreamy
3500 x 3500 x 3000
mixed media
2019
Espoo-päivän konsertti, Espoo
31.08.2019
Solstice Festival, Ruka
20.06.2019-22.06.2019
Hullu
glass made with kiln method
video
2019
BOA'19
Väre, Espoo
sini.henttu(at)uniarts.fi
@sininnokas
EDUCATION
2021 > Academy of Fine Arts
History and Theory of Contemporary Art
Bachelor of Arts
2019 > Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Master’s Programme in Contemporary Design
2018 Exchange studies in Musashino Art University,
Craft Department, Tokyo, Japan
2016 – 2019 Aalto University
School of Art, Design and Architecture
Bachelor of Arts (Arts and Design)
2010 – 2011 HEO Adult Education College, Photo Journalism
2004 – 2007 Kouvola Region Vocational College, Textiles and
Clothing Design and Production, Artisan
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2020 filia, audiovisual installation, Aavistus-festival,
Helsinki City Museum, Finland
2020 tahmee, solo exhibition, Kalleria, Helsinki, Finland
2019 The 2nd Illustrations and Images Exhibition of China and Europe,
Green Hills of Yangpu District, Shangai
2019 BOA’19, Aalto-University, Espoo, Finland
2018 Sustainable Design, Espacio Gallery, London, England
EVENTS (selected)
2023 Live Art Performance, Fracpturing, Zodiak, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Live Art performance, Esitysehdotuksia Kulttuuriperinnöstä, Kansallismuseo, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Installation – Dream, Espoo-päivän konsertti, Espoo, Finland
2019 Installation – Dreamy, Solstice Festival, Ruka, Finland
2019 VJ at Urban Apa Festival, Ateneum, Finland
2019 VJ at Pink Box, Ruisrock, Turku, Finland
2019 VJ at Let me be your fantasy, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2019 VJ at Audiovisual Laboratory 2, Oodi, Helsinki, Finland
2019 VJ at 2x4, Kaiku, Helsinki, Finland
2019 VJ at Ystävyys ja rappio FND, Loukku UG, Helsinki, Finland
2019 VJ at Sössöting & Tyckiting, Loukku UG, Helsinki, Finland
2019 VJ at Decadence & Friends, Merikerho, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at Valot, Knock Koenji, Tokyo, Japan
2018 VJ at Onniboi, Tenho, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at Herrensauna, Kaiku, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at Spacewerks, Turbiinisali, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at Kotimaan Teknokatsaus, Ääniwalli, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at Decadence & Friends #2, Merikerho, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at GUSH, Vallila UG, Helsinki, Finland
2018 VJ at Sound Emission, Loukku UG, Helsinki, Finland
2017 VJ at Sexodus, Loukku UG, Helsinki, Finland
2017 VJ at Agents, Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland
2017 VJ at sössöting & tyckiting, Loukku UG, Helsinki, Finland
2017 VJ at Decadence & Friends #1, Merikerho, Helsinki, Finland
EVENT ORGANIZER (selected)
2018 Gush, Vallila UG. Helsinki, Finland
2017 Kinky.3rd, Club Ääniwalli, Helsinki, Finland
2017 FND label night, VTT, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Kinky.2nd, Mäkelänkatu UG, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Kinky.Black.Vinyl, Mäkelänkatu UG, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Deep Seas, Better Things to Do UG, Helsinki, Finland
OTHER (selected)
2016 > Friendship & Decadence / Graphic Designer
2011 Photo journalist trainee at Etelä-Suomen Sanomat newspaper
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sini.henttu(at)uniarts.fi