Jenna Sutela,
Writer/Curator/OK Do/etc.

Jenna Sutela, *1983, works with words, structures and sound in analysing and performing contemporary culture.

Addressing critical modes of practice and knowledge production in the fields of art and design, and operating at the borderlands of rationality and imagination, her activities include writing and curating for both established organisations and independent projects—most recently with OK Do, an alternative cultural institute she co-founded in September 2009. In addition to self-published titles, including 'Science Poems' and 'OK Talk Helsinki/London' (OK Do 2010-2011), she contributes to publications such as Apartamento and The Wire, and is the co-author of Solution 239-246 Finland: The Welfare Game book (ed. Martti Kalliala, Sternberg Press 2011).

Jenna studied Media and design research in the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, MA 2008. There she later explored social technology in relation to the practices of everyday life within Arki research group, putting together, among other things, a Whole-Earth-Catalog-inspired map of digital tools and working methods useful for 21st-century countercultural lifestyles. Moreover, her background stretches from journalism to exhibition and interaction design, or relational experiments like the digital sandbox thisissand.com. She is also a founding member of B Gallery association and art space in Turku, set up in 2005.

Operating peripatetically, with the latest residencies at The Banff Centre, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, Jenna is currently based in Helsinki. There she co-organises Yé Yé, a casual night of musical visions and curates an event around artistic labour and sound art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, together with Kimmo Modig. 'Sounds Like Work' (working title) will take place in autumn 2012.

(This site features a limited selection of projects. For more work, see www.ok-do.eu or request a full CV.)

Twitter:
www.twitter.com/jennaemilia

Contact:
jenna.sutela@gmail.com
+358 40 574 3434

c/o Q&A:
Iso Roobertinkatu 48-50
00120 Helsinki, Finland