Riiko Sakkinen | Blog

ONE PERCENT

31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

31 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

Some outlaw capitalist clubs can be distinguished by a 1% patch worn on the colors. This is claimed to be a reference to [...]

DO YOU LIKE VOTING AND BEER

27 Jan 2012 16:58:00 +0000

27 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H.L. Mencken

I bussed to Madrid to vote in the decisive second [...]

THE BLACK BOOK OF DEMOCRACY

24 Jan 2012 00:22:00 +0000

24 January 2012, Cervera de los Monte

The democratic regimes have killed, tortured, deliberated wars, built concentration camps, financed terrorist groups and employed weapons of mass destruction. Where there is [...]

CORRESPONDENCE WITH A CURATOR

20 Jan 2012 23:18:00 +0000

20 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

Fragments of the correspondence between the curator Siv Hofsvang and the artist Riiko Sakkinen:

20 May 2010
Dear Riiko Sakkinen,
My name is Siv [...]

NO MORE INSTANT NOODLES

16 Jan 2012 11:52:00 +0000

16 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

I'm making drawings about Monterrey, one of most dangerous cities of the world. When I visited there last year I saw big recruitment [...]

OXFORD CAPACITY ANALYSIS FOR ARTISTS

12 Jan 2012 09:25:00 +0000

12 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

Certain traits of your personality can play a very important influence on your career as an artist. Your personality has everything to do [...]

OSTRANENIE

08 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000

08 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

One of the best things of being married is that you can discover in your own library books you didn't know. Today, I [...]

DO THEY KNOW IT'S CAPITALISM

04 Jan 2012 11:07:00 +0000

04 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes

It's Capitalism
There's no need to be afraid
in the Capitalist world
We let in light and banish shade
and in our world [...]

CASINO ROYALE WITH CHEESE

02 Jan 2012 15:36:00 +0000
02 January 2012, Cervera de los Montes
To begin this year, I'm going back to Mexico. Not phycisically but finally I begin to work with the material I got from [...]

MY FAVORITE THINGS IN 2011

27 Dec 2011 14:29:00 +0000
27 December 2011, Cervera de los Montes
- Muammar Gaddafi's golden gun
- Syrian fruit smoothies
- Scootering in Paris
- Erkka Nissinen's video Rigid Regime
- Spicy breakfast tacos [...]

A STRESS TEST

20 Dec 2011 09:33:00 +0000
20 December 2011, Cervera de los Montes
It's true that I have often conflicts with exhibition organizers, residency hosts and whatever institutions I work with. It doesn't happen by coincidence [...]

KIDS IN NORTH KOREA

19 Dec 2011 08:39:00 +0000
19 December 2011, Cervera de los Montes
Kim Wilde sang in the 80's we're the kids in America, everybody lives for the music-go-round. Her homonym Kim Jong-il had a different [...]