Selected works
Rolling board picture
Still from the site in Vienna
Zero Information is a public art project investigating the limits of what is permitted in public space.
The city of Helsinki has been running a zero-tolerance project for graffiti
since 1998. The project, entitled “Stop Töhryille” (Stop the
Scribble) is targeted against any kind of visual or textual intervention in
a public space by a private individual. The city has hired a private security
company, which has been successful in catching city residents gluing stickers
and posters or writing graffiti “tags” on public property including
grey utility boxes, metro corridors and underpasses, as well as on the walls
of apartment blocks and preserved buildings. The individuals responsible for
those contraventions have been punished with fines described as “considerable.” The
tags are from the archives of the Public Works Department
of the City of Helsinki.
Various private companies responsible for violating regulations of the use of public space in Helsinki have been reported as promptly paying their fines described as “minor.” Those violations include gluing a remarkable number of posters launching a local MTV Sunday programme on grey utility boxes, giving away stickers promoting a British pop star to passers-by and placing advertisements on preserved buildings. The billboard is rented for advertising by the leading outdoor media company in Helsinki, JC Decaux.
2 illuminated rolling boards for public art project “EUROPART” in Vienna.
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Various private companies responsible for violating regulations of the use of public space in Helsinki have been reported as promptly paying their fines described as “minor.” Those violations include gluing a remarkable number of posters launching a local MTV Sunday programme on grey utility boxes, giving away stickers promoting a British pop star to passers-by and placing advertisements on preserved buildings. The billboard is rented for advertising by the leading outdoor media company in Helsinki, JC Decaux.
2 illuminated rolling boards for public art project “EUROPART” in Vienna.
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