Reading Finnish magazines suffers in the digital age, but the Finnish self-published zine culture is alive and well! Juho Hännis from Helsinki can be thanked at least in part for cherishing the culture of small magazines. Together with Juuso Paason, he has compiled and digitized the Orange Small Magazine Archive, which consists of punk magazines published between 1977 and 1982 during 2014-2016. The work was awarded in 2015 as the archival work of the year. Hänninen has also edited the legendary Tekken-zine, and later a small magazine known as Led Cake.
Opposite Vallila's Hacienda, or Black Bull, is the Asbestos Art Gallery on Mäkelänkatu. The seventh LED cake supplied by Hänninen is currently on display in the premises run by the Asbestos collective. What is really surprising in this context is that the magazine edited by Hänninen is actually a jelly cake or, in fact, there are two of these on a wooden pedestal, a traditional jelly cake made of gelatin and its vegan version. Inside the cakes are a couple of pieces of LED lights and the leaf itself. The content of the magazine, on the other hand, is in B2-size large-format prints hung on the gallery walls. The third stand has a cassette recorder painted with silver spray, which plays AC / DC with an endless tape. The content of the magazine itself is reminiscent of current trends in graphic design and the advertising industry in its best aesthetic aspects and caricature. Archaeological catalogs such as Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider game have been found in the history of the Internet and technology. The materials use rugged color skills in typography and fonts in harmony between italic and arial, combined with depressingly ironic and cornish “welcome to the world” -style slogans. By no means do the works follow or court the anarchical graphic competence in the style of the GRMMXI collective, for example, but challenge us to reflect on the intellectual nature of the Internet age in a multidimensional way. With his exhibition, Hänninen manages to lengthen our time in both the semantic and visual language of our time without ruthless imitation. “Rock music and ice cream have winged the process along with other stimulating substances. Saturday 27.1. The event also saw some kind of miracle when one of the lamps in the fridge of the cake suddenly started working. The cakes have started to mold from the surface. ” Hänninen illuminates the sources and course of inspiration for the content of the exhibition.
“The idea for the LED Cake came from a question that preoccupied the mind in 2014. If you put the LED lamp and the battery firmly inside the cling film, would the end result return inside the jelly? I got the necessary tools and made a prototype for a children’s sand toy mold from a yellow jelly and a red lamp. The end result worked and tasted like mango. ” says Hänninen the birth of his ideas and the history of the magazine. In 2014, Hänninen had discontinued his Tekken, focusing on university entrance exams. At the time of reading the manic experiments, the head was also full of manic ideas, which coincidentally followed the first Led cake magazine. “In June 2015, two manic weeks followed, during which, among other things, I stood at the Railway Station for the day with the I Want a Work sign, interviewed two stone foot traders from Töölö and the Candy Machine Band Jansku. I wrote one parody of a light straight edge band, cycled in Lahti and accidentally recorded the beating of a local record dealer. ” describes the stages of the first issue of Hänninen. Hänninen had the idea for the magazine ending in a cake from the first issue. “I refer to Led-Kaku myself in the pages of the first issue when I interview Asko Laine, an antique dealer from Töölö, about the intoxicant use of bay leaves. He once donated a branch of his tree to me and guided me to mutilate the bay leaves. I didn't see the effect myself. ” says Hänninen.
The relationship between newspaper publications and art is not unique in art history. In avant-garde early 20th-century art movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism, printed matter had a role to play in manifestos, poetry, and the visual arts. Later, the magazine base has been used, for example, by the Bernadette Corporation collective, which represents a fictional fashion company, in its own exhibitions. Finnish Hai Jump-zine, which focuses on skateboarding, once again published one of its issues as skateboard graphics. However, Hänninen manages to create a multimedia print product in Asbestos, as well as an authentic gallery experience. Was Led # 7 then art or not. “LED Cake is not a particularly striking or mouth-watering name. Mostly weird and busy. By making the LED cake true, the name of the magazine series was also justified. ” thinks Hänninen. Originally intended as a series of seven magazines, the magazine may now have come to an end. “I still have an idea for the eighth issue of the magazine, but I have no content and no real need to implement it. I think the idea of the eighth issue will move into some future series of magazines. "
Asbestos Art Space, Mäkelänkatu 45, 00550 Helsinki. Led cake 7 # still on display 4.2 Open Mon-Sat 13-18.00. Hanna Räty, Pauliina Holopainen, Erkka Luutonen and Sakari Tervo will have a discussion on open cultural spaces on Saturday, February 4, from 7 pm to 7 pm. The recipes for the cakes themselves
LED Cake recipe.
Water (1 liter)
Sand (2 pcs)
Food color
Elmukelmu
Battery
Led lamp
* Dissolve half of the gelatin in boiling water (½ liters) and add the desired color. Wait for the gelatin liquid to cool to a thick liquid.
* Cut baking paper on the bottom of the cake mold. Tip, moisten the paper to make it stick to the bottom of the mold.
* Pour the cooled and slightly solidified gelatin liquid into the mold. Fill the mold a little less than halfway. Put the mold in the refrigerator.
* Insert the LED lamp into the battery. The lamp lights up.
* Wrap the lamp tightly. Tip, wrap the remaining film around the “neck” of the lamp.
* Once the gelatin in the refrigerator has gelled, add the bulbs wrapped in cling film over the jelly.
* Repeat the first step and pour the liquid into the mold.
TIP:
* You can season the cake liquid with whatever you want. Sugar, tea or alcohol are all possible options.
* You can choose to use multiple colors for different layers of the cake.
* The cake may have several lamps or other objects inside. Also edible.
LED Cake Recipe (Vegan)
Water (1 liter)
Agar agar (2 pags)
Food color
Elmukelmu
Battery
Led lamp
* Dissolve the agar in boiling water (½ liters) and add the desired color. Wait for the agar to cool to a thick liquid.
* Pour the cooled and slightly solidified agar ahar liquid into the mold. Fill the mold a little less than halfway. Put the mold in the refrigerator.
* Insert the LED lamp into the battery. The lamp lights up.
* Wrap the lamp tightly. Tip, wrap the remaining film around the “neck” of the lamp.
* Once the agar in the agar refrigerator has gelled, add the bulbs wrapped in cling film over the jelly.
* Repeat the first step and pour the liquid into the mold.
TIP:
* You can season the cake liquid with whatever you want. Sugar, tea or alcohol are all possible options.
* You can choose to use multiple colors on different layers of the cake.
* The cake may have several lamps or other objects inside. Also edible.