Timo has works in private collections.
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Please download my CV from one of the links below.
Timo Tuhkanen (b. 1983) is an artist-composer, curator, and writer, whose work intersects between contemporary art, music, and research into the cultural and historical aspects of touch. Their work is concerned with designing and creating direct actions and socio-political interventions as an artistic practice through collective intelligence, relational aesthetics, and operational realism, and their subject matters often adapt inside an occupied environment of urban landscapes, digital platforms, and hydrosocial-spaces. Tuhkanen likes to describe their work as lived-through narrative fiction and mythopoetics, and they are interested in the psychological conflict between what is imaginable and what is realistically achievable and how this conflict materialises in the resources we construct.
Tuhkanen received their BA and MMus from Brunel University of West London where their work focused on algorithmic music and stage craft, including opera. They received their PhD from the University of Leeds where their research focused on the aesthetics of touch in the philosophy and practice of musical aesthetics. As well as currently being the director of the artist-run gallery Myymälä2 in Helsinki, they are an Affiliate Researcher of the Department of Musicology at the University of Turku.
Being born in Muscat, Oman and growing up in Amman, Jordan, in Beit Jala, Palestine and in Jerusalem (Al-Quds) during the first and second Intifada, as well as living in France, England, Italy and Finland has given Tuhkanen cultural capital and an understanding of privilege which they feel a duty to put to use. Their experiences have led them to social artworks that try to go beyond nation states, individualism, religion, and colonial hegemonic and patriarchal practices to find queer, fluid non-European objects, conditions, and spaces for experimenting with the real. Their work as a composer and artist have been featured in galleries, museums, biennale's and festivals such as BAM – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Manifesta12, 3éme Biennale di l’Art Contemporain Casablanca, XXV Mänttä Art Festival, Tulkinnanvaraista, European Mediterranean Art Association, Emma Museum of Modern Art, FILE Electronic Language Festival, Moscow Philharmonica, Kallion New Music Days, Alvar Aalto -museum, Dimitria Festival, Time of Music Festival, AAVE-Festival, Musica Nova Festival, Canterbury Jazz Festival, and the Royal Festival Hall.
Tuhkanen received their BA and MMus from Brunel University of West London where their work focused on algorithmic music and stage craft, including opera. They received their PhD from the University of Leeds where their research focused on the aesthetics of touch in the philosophy and practice of musical aesthetics. As well as currently being the director of the artist-run gallery Myymälä2 in Helsinki, they are an Affiliate Researcher of the Department of Musicology at the University of Turku.
Being born in Muscat, Oman and growing up in Amman, Jordan, in Beit Jala, Palestine and in Jerusalem (Al-Quds) during the first and second Intifada, as well as living in France, England, Italy and Finland has given Tuhkanen cultural capital and an understanding of privilege which they feel a duty to put to use. Their experiences have led them to social artworks that try to go beyond nation states, individualism, religion, and colonial hegemonic and patriarchal practices to find queer, fluid non-European objects, conditions, and spaces for experimenting with the real. Their work as a composer and artist have been featured in galleries, museums, biennale's and festivals such as BAM – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Manifesta12, 3éme Biennale di l’Art Contemporain Casablanca, XXV Mänttä Art Festival, Tulkinnanvaraista, European Mediterranean Art Association, Emma Museum of Modern Art, FILE Electronic Language Festival, Moscow Philharmonica, Kallion New Music Days, Alvar Aalto -museum, Dimitria Festival, Time of Music Festival, AAVE-Festival, Musica Nova Festival, Canterbury Jazz Festival, and the Royal Festival Hall.
