#73 SYKSY / AUTUMN 2024
© Taiteilijat / Artists ISSN 1796-587X www.kutikuti.com
Toimitus ja julkaisija / Editorial & publisher Kutikuti Päätoimittaja / Editor-in-chief Petra Virtanen
Taitto / Layout Ivanda Jansone Kansikuva / Cover Kimmo Lust Painos / Print-run 7 000 Kirjapaino / Printer Printall Mainosmyynti / Ad sales kutimagazine@gmail.com
Tässä numerossa / In this issue Sara Ahola, Benjamin Bergman, Frida Hinders, Sanna Hukkanen, Antti Kurvinen, Kimmo Lust, Joonas Rinta-Kanto, Anna Sailamaa, Tiitu Takalo
Kutikutin 20-vuotisnäyttelyjen graafisen ilmeen, jota on käytetty myös tässä lehdessä, ovat suunnitelleet Kaisa ja Christoffer Leka . / The visual guidelines for Kutikuti’s 20th anniversary exhibitions, also used in this magazine, were created by Kaisa and Christoffer Leka
Kiitämme / Thanks to
Kuti-lehteä julkaiseva Kutikuti ry on vuonna 2005 perustettu nykysarjakuvaan erikoistunut yleishyödyllinen ja taiteilijavetoinen yhdistys. Voit tilata Kuti-lehden myös kotiisi. Neljä numeroa sisältävän vuositilauksen hinta on 20 euroa, ulkomaille 26 euroa. Teet tilauksen kätevimmin kotisivuillamme osoitteessa www.kutikuti.com. Kuti-lehden seuraava numero ilmestyy joulukuussa 2024.
Hanna Kanto 6.–29.9.2024
Ville Löppönen 4.–27.10.2024
Hanna Westerberg 1.–24.11.2024
Galleria Halmetoja Kalevankatu 16, Helsinki tue-fri 11-18, sat-sun 12-16
www.galleryhalmetoja.com @galleriahalmetoja
1 The expanded time consciousness comes in handy when Hannu is called into the interview… / Hannu Yli-Kännykkä, please. 2 and the interviewer asks him the question: / Can you explain this gap in your CV? 3 Hannu is able to say: I can. It’s not a gap. It’s a rift in space-time. 4 Look into the rift and you will see my work history. / Wha… 5 The rift reveals Hannu’s stone age workplace. / That’s the cave where I worked as a fire supervisor. 6 Hannu’s prehistoric foreman stumbles out from inside the cave.
1 Hannu’s foreman gives him his recommendations. 2 The interviewer is impressed. / Okay, wow, impressive. 3 The interview ends on a good note. / Thank you. We’ll let you know. / Thank you. 4 Hannu returns home. At night, in a state of time unconsciousness, he dreams about dodging the pulsing hands of time at the last moment.* / No… Nnnooooo… Eww! / *a typical time capsule withdrawal symptom 5 Sadly for Hannu, the job is given to a more qualified candidate. / Welcome to the team, Ygä! 6 Ygä has a future here as a senior stone age tool developer. And unlike some, he didn’t show up to the interview with
in his
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that? / Drawn in Helsinki by
in the year 2024 and, under the influence of a time capsule, in a Norwegian land hole in the 16th century.
Tiitu Takalo: Koski / The Rapids 1 I’ll tell you! It used to be only a small stream, but last spring the flood waters rose so much that the waters of the big lake started rushing down the hill. 2 And now there are those great rapids there. 3 We came by boat from Pirkkala to help my sister Kylli and to bring all kinds of things. Kylli became a widow and now keeps a house alone on the edge of the rapids. There’s no lack of suitors. But does she want any of them? 4 Kylli wants the piece of jewelry that I have exchanged from the merchant, so that she can show the dignity of an independent hostess. They say that the beautiful silver coins were brought from far away. They have patterns that no one understands.
1 I started working at the cotton factory in the upper reaches almost three years ago. I’m about to turn fifteen. According to the new law, I can decide for myself what to do with my pennies. Heikki said yesterday that he would like to marry me. 2 I don’t want to! I want to manage my own money myself. I can do it! The work is so hard that self-earned money feels like a treasure. That’s why I can withstand the dangers, dust and roaring machines of the factory hall. Long working hours. I don’t want to give my money to Heikki. 3 I passed the matriculation exam last spring. I bought a mountain bike with the money gifts. In the summer I went to Prague with my friend. The city was full of American youths who flocked to kick the footbag in the square of the town hall to the point of annoyance. 4 I started the art school in autumn. The school operates in an old cotton factory by the rapids. The old walls around me exude history. How many people have walked here before me?
This is a staircase between universes and dimensions. We walk along this through time.
Then we lean on the railing between the two worlds.
Antti Kurvinen: Aika / Time
1 This is my attempt to process time. The problem is the continuous movement of time. Sometimes I took the movement into account, and the time stopped, but the movement around it continued. 2 With me, it raptures 3 I tried to divide time into sections. / It always unravels no matter how hard I try to trap it. / Where does it even come from? 4 I follow time. / Time follows me.
1 When time runs out, more time is revealed underneath. / I can divide time into pieces that suit me. Scared, that the tentacles scoop it up for themselves. / Control it. / I can determine how I use my time. Still, the roots of other time reach it. 2 Fragments of time, possibly from the past get stuck in the layers of the earth. Observing more closely, I noticed that time is still moving in every direction, although it has passed.
1 I need to feel time. / If I can’t see time, it does not go as usual. 2 Define speed. / Measure. 3 Time consumes everything, nothing is saved from it. / Endlessly.
1 Can I detect movement without time? I don’t know in which direction I was moving. 2 Gravity / attraction helped me detect time. 3 To which 4 Direction 5 Did it take time? 6 Did I recognize time without movement, or did I move in every direction? 7 Time helps detect gravity / attraction. 8 Time bends and arches. It was in multiple different forms. I couldn’t find it anywhere.
1 Here, I start investigating time. 2 Other things don’t move by seeing. / Other things continue to move unseen. 3 However, you only have your own time. / I have decided to start dealing with time.
Miss. What is the greatest thing that you have done in your life? / Miss. What is the worst thing that a human can do? / Miss. Do you have people in your life that you wish you had never met? / First I am sure I’ll be able to fix the problem. I calculate the budget for table top sharpeners and come up with new rules and regulations and instructions.
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