Tiio Suorsa

I work with moving images, moving text, reflections and interfaces. The material consists of handwritten text, field recordings, movement and code. My working method is to weave that which is organic and that which is digital together by introducing them to each other. The work is guided by slow media thinking, which manifests itself in collaboration, slowing down, and examining memory and agency.

At Saari, I focus on the poetics of virtuality – the meanings of lifelike imagination. I deepen my work on my media archaeological Engobes project and make room for something new. I explore and experiment with how we understand and structure our environment and its inhabitants, how we create connections, how we dream, and how we construct meanings even when the available reality is ragged. I examine vulnerable digital matter, which is sometimes displayed according to its own laws, and organic life that is in endless transformation. I observe what within it wants to emerge from them.

Sometimes the work is more about combing out images and text, raggedness and tolerance of uncertainty than producing anything new. The key to my work is being in the vicinity of other beings, where something pulsating takes hold and something crusty falls away. I enjoy being in an environment of multiple languages and meeting points where one can experience and observe how different fragments create forms of coexistence.

Tiio Suorsa is a media artist who works with moving images and installations. Her recent works have been movement and body-based journeys that explore fragmentation and vulnerable digitality. Suorsa studied interactive art at the University of Arts Linz (AT), digital culture and cultural heritage at the University of Turku (FI) and multimedia at the Turku Arts Academy (FI). In recent years, her works have been on view in Finland, Portugal, Austria, Greece and Argentina. Her studio is based in an artists’ residence on an island in Helsinki.