The relationship of humanity with time and our ability to change the world are key themes in Jukka Silokunnas’s works. Time is same for us all whether our environment is closed or global. Silokunnas typically works in a site-specific manner. Art for him is a way to carry on a dialogue with the environment and the world.

Jukka Silokunnas is unattached to any medium – he does what he wants to do. He is best known for demolition animations that explore our attitudes towards objects, matter and the world, and also the impermanence of all things. The animations investigate our proprietary relationship with objects and what happens to matter when it is no longer needed. The audience sees the works as video art, but for Silokunnas they are performances.

Jukka Silokunnas (b. 1982, Jyväskylä) is a media artist who currently lives in Jyväskylä. His mediums include video, animation, photography and graffiti. Ever since he was a child he has had a particular fondness for two things: breaking things and making a mess – activities he used to be scolded for as a child, nowadays less so.