Outi-Illuusia works as a graphic designer, visual artist and a writer. She has also been performing in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, and in her works she is dealing with video, poetry and language, making both solo and group performances. Recently, she has debuted as a teacher, too.
October 2008
Slämärit starts again this year; Outi-Illuusia works again as a coach for one of the teams.
September 2008
Poetry slam SM: Outi-Illuusia makes it to the finals in Helsinki.
June 2008
Unelmien kirjasto at Kamppi, Helsinki presents poetry videos, including Outi-Illuusia's Rilkecoaster.
May 2008
Faraway voices, a website project from Holland. The "International mother language" site presents one poet per language by video clips. Virtual poetry slam! Illuusia writes and recites in Finnish.
The band Täydellisyys
performs at Là-Bas performance event on 11th at 8 pm and on Kolina-klubi, Rajasaari (Helsinki) on 23rd.
Täydellisyys is putting up a Myspace site.
March 2008
Slämärit comes to and end this year as the teens from 8 Finnish schools take part in a poetry slam competition in Sello-sali, Espoo. One of Outi-Illuusia's student groups win the honorary mention: "The most genuine message" ("Aidoin sanoma").
February 2008
Exhibition at Punavuoridesign Studiogalleria, Helsinki.
January 2008
Exhibition at Punavuoridesign Studiogalleria, Helsinki.
December 2007
7th at 8pm TehdasTeatteri, Fluxee club, Turku. Outi-Illuusia recites poems with herself on video.
November 2007
Slämärit starts; Outi-Illuusia works as a poet coach for schoolgirls and boys who take part in a big poetry slam youth contest in spring 2008. Two schools in the city of Espoo.
October 2007
17th at 8 pm Poetry Slam at Vanhan Kuppila, Helsinki
September 2007
A poetry book published by Ankkuri, a POD-publisher!!! Super dream come true special occasion! Order Memo at http://www.lulu.com/ankkuri !!!
9th at 9 pm Poetry Slam Finnish Championship contest, Jazzklubi, Kuopio
5th at about 8 pm Poetry at Muusa-juhlat, Oulu.
8th at 2pm Poetry video projections in Vuotalo, Helsinki. Nokturno-tapahtuma: Digitaalisen runouden iltapäivä.
August 2007
24th at 6pm Poetry Slam Helsinki trials, Black Door, Helsinki
23rd at 6pm Performance with sound-based poetry in Kirjasto 10, Helsinki. Helsingin Juhlaviikot, Runokuu, Kokeellisen runon keidas: "Ääniruno kajahtaa."
http://www.helsinginjuhlaviikot.fi
July 2007
Illuusia typesets Rocky comics for suomi24.fi web portal and some Sokal comics for Jalava.
(Wee-hoo!)
Summer & Fall 2007
Outi-Illuusia's poems are recited in the mornings in Rovaniemi Radio.
March 2007
9th at 6 pm Performance in Galleri Sinne, Helsinki, aside the exhibition of artist Katri Kainulainen.
http://www.sinne.proartibus.fi/utstallningar/
10th at 5 pm Outi-Illuusia performs in Nyrjähdys, a monthly club night for performance art in Taidepanimo, Lahti. This time simultaneously also Runorokki, a poetry happening, in Lahti.
http://www.taidepanimo.fi/
February 2007
Feb 7th–Mar 11th Collective art exhibition "Outsider Karaoke", a collection of works of visual art from different artists mapping their subjective spaces. Arranged and planned by Peter de Kan in Groningen, Holland, exhibition in The Wall House in Groningen. See exhibition dates and open hours at the address below.
http://www.wallhouse.nl
Feb 22nd at 6 pm Papperpuu poetry people in Runorokki, a poetry happening in the city library of Rovaniemi.
December 2006
Outi-Illuusia's poems in Särö, poetry magazine in South-Eastern Finland.
http://sarolehti.fi
November 2006
Outi-Illuusia's poems in Hallaus, poetry magazine of Huutomerkki ry from Oulu.
http://www.huutomerkki.fi
October 2006
27th Papperpuu people take some poetry to the opening club of Arktista Vimmaa movie and media festival in Pub Tupsu.
http://www.arktistavimmaa.org/
16th to 21st Outi-Illuusia takes part in a masterclass that works on music of Heiner Goebbels as well as the literature that has insipired him in his works. The project takes place in Groningen, Netherlands, and is arranged and supported by Pavlov Media Lab. Ending performance at Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities concert Afterparty at Pudding Factory on 20th October.
http://www.pavlov.nl/
10th at 9pm Outi-Illuusia and Junnu Mustikka from Papperpuu group perform with their poems in Muste-Klubi, a club night arranged by Huutomerkki ry in Oulu.
http://www.huutomerkki.fi
7th A performance with poetry together with Maria Laitila in Rovaniemen valtakunnalliset harrastajateatteripäivät (nationwide amateur theatre people meeting event in Rovaniemi), in the University Theatre of Lapland.
http://www.lapinylioppilasteatteri.net/
September 2006
21st to 26th Spacing Out, a Nordic symposium on physical&visual stage dramaturgy, takes our woman to Vilnius to mindstorm for a week about space, time, us and our art in it as seen from multiple viewpoints. Most conveniently, supported by Nifca.
http://www.nordscen.org/spacingout
mid-September Tuli&Savu, a Finnish poetry and literature magazine, published visual poems by Outi-Illuusia.
http://tuli-savu.nihil.fi/
29th The final year before finishing her BA becomes supported by a grant from the fund Idmanin säätiö in Tampere.
August 2006
21st to 27th Outi-Illuusia and Thorkell Atlason participate in InterAct2006, a workshop for musicians and visual artists, in Roskilde, Denmark. The trip is supported by The Arts Council of Finland and Grafia ry.
Hear the radio programme by Danish radio station DR in the link below!
http://www.dr.dk/
http://www.interact2006.net
http://www.taiteenkeskustoimikunta.fi/
http://www.grafia.fi
May / June 2006
Outi-Illuusia to Turku for the summer. The work of a newspaper graphic designer in Turun Sanomat tempts to relocating.
http://www.turunsanomat.fi/
April 2006
Outi-Illuusia's poetry blog RunoMemo starts (in Finnish).
http://illuusia.blogspot.com
March 2006
Papperpuu provides live poetry in Kauppayhtiö, Rovaniemi. The poetry matinée afternoon is arranged together with some green politicians and the poems are accompanied by video screen illustrations.
December 2005 – January 2006
A mind-blowing and eye-opening journey to Vancouver, B.C. in Canada.
Parnasso publishes one of Outi-Illuusia's visual poems.
http://www.parnasso.fi/
November 2005
An organization for verbal art is established in Rovaniemi. It is decided that the name will be Papperpuu ry. The group hopes for growth with new active members and promotes performing, experimenting and finding new ways to attach poetry and other wordly art into society and for the audience to see.
The first poetry club is held in Pub Tupsu, Rovaniemi, with Papperpuu members and guests from Huutomerkki, Oulu. It becomes a success.
http://www.papperpuu.org
http://www.huutomerkki.fi
October 2005
Outi-Illuusia and an Icelandic composer Thorkell Atlason finally finish their first common piece of music, Meriphera. It is a piece for a mixed choir and will be performed by Coro Odysseia from Portugal.
September 2005
A Finnish funding organization Idmanin Säätiö provided Outi-Illuusia with a grant to support her studies in University of Lapland, Rovaniemi. The studies focus on graphic design as a major subject.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~idmanins/
August 2005
Outi-Illuusia took part in a Nordic symposium of performing arts Space&Composition. The symposium included lectures, workshops and other activities and was organized by NordScen (Nordisk Center for Scenekunst) and The Danish National Theater School. The trip was supported by Nifca.
http://www.nordscen.org
http://www.nifca.org/
June&July 2005
Outi-Illuusia performed in the 11th International Congress of Performance Art in Münster, Germany. The Congress was organized by Gallery SoToDo from Berlin in collaboration with local actives and artists.
http://www.sotodo.org/
May 2005
ARTSMO IP, a Finnish-Russian university student enchange program workshop dealing with interdisciplinary art. St.Petersburg.
February 2005
Participating in SOUNDS FROM NATURE SOUNDS FROM ICE, a CIRRUS area university network workshop to make ice instruments in Hällefors, Sweden.
http://www.hdk.gu.se/aktuellt/ice_05/index.html
August/September 2004
Participating in THE VOICE OF SOUND / DADAilylife, a NordScen project. The project included one month of anonymous work in a digital working space in the Internet, Scenerum.org, after which the working group of 10 people gathered in Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary art) in Roskilde.
http://scenerum.org/
http://www.mfsk.dk/
January/February/March 2004
MUSTA TUNTUU (’I FEEL’.), a group exhibition in Rauma Art Museum. Outi-Illuusia presented a crocheted installation, made in collaboration with visual artist Minna Alanko. They used a group name Mc Plotte Svärd.
http://www.raumantaidemuseo.fi/
BLIND SIGHT, an exhibition for visual/sound artists, curated by Annika Dahlsten, Eddie Summerton and Norman Shaw, presented sound art with CD covers. An exhibition of 50 artists in total was taken to Galleria Titanik, Turku, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre and Gallery of Royal Academy of Art, Edinborough.
http://www.arte.fi/
http://www.dca.org.uk