“ KUSIPÄÄ “ (English translation Piss head) project is a sculptural installation including communal and environmental art as part of the the project. Kusipää is taking part of Minun Kouvolani process and Ars Sippola environmental art exhibition.

First sequence was made during winter 2010 when I sculpted small scale fjeld, arctic mountain (Kusipää) in my backyard. Actual Kusipää is situated at Finnish Lapland east from Muonio and its one peaks of Pomo fjeld.

During the winter I took ten men for a hike to the small scale Kusipää. On the trip I asked personal questions about urinating, We discussed about the scientific and cultural aspects such as how it is used fertilizer and how common people were using it medically. How men in Finland is piss row and how we used have pissing competitions when we were children. One quite hidden subject was womens behavior and social codes of this everyday matter in abroad We also discussed how urine is used in art for example Pissing boy in Brussels or Helen Chadwics “Piss flowers” 91-92. One interesting phenomena men make autographs and drawings to the snow. This brought me the idea to use urinating as a experimental sculptural technique.

In Finnish language is a reference how piss rises to head if a person is too proud or is being bossy.

Kusipää is used as English asshole in Finnish slang.

…Now the guest was taken to the top of Kusipää where he made his own individual hole, marking to the snow and was initiated to to the Kusipää group.

After this I made wax model of the cavity which was then cast to bronze.

During the summer 2010 Kusipää “group” and individuals have appeared in Ars Sippola and in six different locations of Kouvola.