Spent some time looking at Eero’s work on Facebook: when you’re there, tap in Tukk and you’ll find it.
He finds pictures that people have uploaded and Photoshop’s Tukk into them, sends them to the owners of the photos and sees if they like them. Most people do.
I like the idea of this virtual itinerant character visiting virtual places all over the world and making new virtual friends. An important part of it is taking time to make relationships with the people whose photos he intervenes in, he says.
Also looked at the page of the Polymer factory in Tallin.There’s an ancient printing press there – a functioning one, with lots and lots of the cyrillic type that I loved so much in the Technology factory here.
They have a sauna made from old windows, workshops – it looks great. Used to make plastic toys in the daytime and sex toys at night, on the quiet. The old people who used to work there all came to a big perfomance party there – called the Homecoming.
Another project is Migrating Realities – Miga’s been working on it for a while and in September, a group of people are going to travel, across three borders, ending up in Linz.
I’m interested in migration. There’s a part of me that’d be happy to take the bus back to London, I see them through Peckham and down the Camberwell New Road on their way to Victoria all the time.
