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Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski

 







Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen, installation view
A monument of obsession to the True Blood protagonist, Sookie Stackhouse. Sculptures, video, merch, dust and readymades of the installation were all placed in the space tell the story of a fan’s true love of the 25 year old telepath and waitress.
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2024 exhibition text





Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen, detail
Screenshots on photopaper, synthetic rose petals, stickers
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm 2024






Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen, installation view
Sculpture, video, merch, dust and readymades
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm 2024








Orphan Girl
Jesmonite, glass fiber straw, wood filler, styrofoam, spray paint, paper, pin
130 x 142 x 80 cm
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2024







Orphan Girl
Jesmonite, glass fiber straw, wood filler, styrofoam, spray paint, paper, pin
130 x 142 x 80 cm
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2024









Detail of Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen
Dust, found glass and plasticware, pistachio nut shells and bag, cellophane wrapping, broken glass, synthetic rose petals
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm 2024
Photo by Jean-Baptiste Béranger







Sookie is mine
Customised sticker sheet in cellophane bag
15 x 21 cm
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2024








Obsessed with this girl 
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper 
41 x 59 cm, Galleri Mejan, 2024
Photo by Jean-Baptiste Béranger







Snookie
Enlarged screenshot and digital drawing on cardboard cut out
Height: 165 cm. Galleri Mejan, Stockholm,  2024
Photo by Jean-Baptiste Béranger








The King of My Show and Best Girlfriend
Pigmented jesmonite, glass fiber, styrofoam, wood filler, crystal plate, paper collage, metal chain and customized stuffed toy
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2024
























Suicide Aesthetics
Text, performance, video
Performed at the examination of Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen
Duration: 12 mins
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 2024





Suicide Aesthetics
Text, performance, video 
Duration: 30 mins
Performed at Stockholm School of Economics
in Perfarmonce Misterclass with Prof. Susan Wongtag directed by Ming Wong, 2024















The Text That Ended Rape
Monologue revolving around a dream of a violent rape revenge. Shaped by splatter, fantasy and cautionary tales, the work explores sexual trauma as it is inflicted collectively, and perpetuated through supposedly benign anti-rape storytelling. Clips in the video are from the video studio at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2024) respectively Industra, Brno (2023). The latter in the exhibition Genealogy of a Scapegoat by Mary Furniss.
Duration: 11 mins.














The Real Ritual
Theatre play about attraction, play and fear in collaboration with Marie Karlberg, Sigrid Windolf and Nina Kihlborg
Duration: 40 mins.
Peformed at Beau Travail, Stockholm, 2024
Photo by Andreas Bertman











Story of a Fist
Digital drawing on photograph, giclee print, wire, dry pastels on canvas, sewing thread, glue. Dimensions variable. In Venture Capitalist Strategies, curated by Jeronim Horvat, Stücki Park, Basel, 2022
Photo by Gina Folly







Captain
Front and back 
Handmade pine wood frame, digital drawing on photograph, dry pastel and acryllic paint
50 x 45 cm
in Hagazussa curated by Kruger, Stockholm, 2022
Photo Julia Malmquist













TWO COWS
Performance and video in collaboration with Ella Fleck
Duration: 5 min
In I wouldn’t touch that if I were you, curated by Nicole Walker, A-House, Stockholm, 2022



















NAHCO
Participatory performance and installation. 
The audience navigates the installation on the basis of character cards containing instructions, changing the installation as the performance unfolds. The artist is by the oven on the stage, baking sponge cakes.
Duration: 4 h
At Pogon Jedinstvo for Močvara Gallery, Zagreb, 2022
Photo by Ive Trojanovic