New artist-in-residence: Priss Niinikoski

We are excited to welcome Priss Niinikoski for a week residency, part of our On Weaving program.

Priss Niinikoski (FI/FR) is an artist/researcher working with textiles beyond soft surfaces. She explores the element of ‘risk’ when operating with tools and systems. Conceptually her works investigate material cultures and the ethical complexities of designing technologies, preservation and replication. Her artistic focus is on contemporary application of craft, material studies and their relation with technologies.
Niinikoski is actively combining textiles with sonic and digital materialities. Her interest is in positioning bodies in technologies to create personal interactions and companionships that formulate through material engagements. Building up on coding interactive environments and electronic textiles interfaces her studies currently focus on gesturality, translation between the digital and the analogue and how uncertainties, the risks that bodies pose in systems, embark new patterns for expression.

As an alumni of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2022 her graduate collection was one of the 10 finalist at the 37th edition of International HyeĚres Festival for Fashion, Photography and Accessories. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Belgium, France, Japan and the Netherlands.

Artist Talk: June 14th, 6.30 pm