Asko Pyntikäinen

Calling himself "the last true communist in Finland", this eccentric artist has made himself a name in such rarely-explored fields of art as virtual poetry, postmodern horror cinema, shoe pornography, and dadaistic fishing. A borderline alcoholic, he claims to drink because he receives vivid visions and ideas while drunk: often, however, he ends up being too drunk to work on his "visions", and has no subsequent memory of them afterwards. He's occasionally assisted in his ventures by his long-suffering handymen Aki and Piisla, who usually try to reason with him and point out the flaws in his designs, but Asko is usually too drunk or simply too much of an artist to take notice.

After studying poetry in Vladivostok for three years, he returned to Finland, where he lived in the Martinlaakso district of Espoo for a while, before migrating "to a warmer climate": another apartment three hundred meters to the south. Following studies in the Tovaritsch International School of Friendship, he was active in the highly experimental "Geronimo!" -theatre for several years. When he isn't creating "art", he can be found lying next to ATM machines, hoping for them to malfunction and spew out money.

PROJECTS:

--Shoe Pornography--

-Sneaker’s Feeling Horny

-Adventures of the Sandal

-High Heels Fluffer

-Rubber Boots Don’t Need No Rubber

--Postmodern horror--

-Attack of the Cat People into the Kitchen of the Three-Room Apartment

-The Day the Carrots Fought Back

-Something Under My Bed is Masturbating