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W.A.F.P (Maija Kujanen & Tomi Leppänen) interviewed by Antti.
How was W.A.F.P started?
We noticed that our certain personal works have kind of the same aesthetic quality in them and wanted to make things under one name. Our first product was a bra made out of silver gaffer tape. It was a huge success and we decided to continue.
Tell me a bit about the numerology? At least sequences 2000 and 666 are peppered through out the exhibition.
It’s about deciding to see certain things in our environment and forcing to make meanings for them. For example 2000, it used to be the most futuristic sequence of numbers until the millennium came and ruined it all. Now all the shops and businesses who chose to be futuristic 20 years ago are totally retro and looking behind. Even 1998 looks more futuristic now. And 666, number of the beast, loses its power every time it’s seen in a car register plate or some random telephone number. Alternatively you can see that the evil places itself to everyday normal life to spread the word. You never know…
How do you work together? Do you complement each others works a lot, or you do the pieces more individually?
It depends of the works… Some of them are made totally independent without W.A.F.P. in mind and some are made together. We just choose the suitable ones for this context.
If you could design a drug and apply any effect to it, limited only by human imagination, what the effect would be like?
It would be called Burana and it would make all sort of aches go away.
If you could marry anyone in the world, who would you marry?
We have some suggestions…
Love or gravity? Or both?
L O V E X
How do you see the future of mankind? You see the salvation in technology, or in the back-to-nature movement?
It’s the combination. Wild combination.
When will postmodernism end?
There is no end, there is just new beginnings.
The exhibition contains lot of robots. Are humans actually robots, just organic robots?
No. Actually robots are mechanical human beings added with a bit of sense and sensibility. But of course certain people may remind us of robots. In a modern society it’s hard to say which one effects the other and that’s the beauty of it. It’s all in the numbers. And in our mothers’ soft fluffy stuffy funny animals.
Picture a perfect robot?
It makes ice-cream and candy and it’s huge and it’s made of plastic and it moves and it has lots of lights. It’d be even bigger than marshmallow man.
Tomi, you play at least in 200 bands, mention 100 of them?
To quote one great finnish composer: I’m a musician, not a mathematician.
How you see your future? More exhibitions coming?
This kind of exhibition and concert series in art gallery is one way to bring WeAreFunnyPeople to the people. But it’s not all about the arts and for some of the ideas we are trying to find other ways to expose them.
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