The Skinny on... Hanna Tuulikki

What’s your favourite place to visit and why? 
I enjoy visiting islands and archipelagos –  places surrounded by water, with expansive horizons. Also, island ecologies tend to be very unique.

Favourite food and why?
Finnish rye bread, because it tastes of childhood.

Favourite colour and why?
Black. Or white. Or black and white together – I do enjoy a monochrome pattern. In the studio, I like to make drawings with indian ink on paper. Outside, I love all the blues, greens, browns and greys of the Scottish hills, woodlands and sea.

Who was your hero growing up?
David Attenborough.

Whose work inspires you now?
Right now, I feel pretty inspired by the work of Timothy Morton – they write sentences about ecological awareness. I'm also inspired by contemporary electronic music composers such as Laurel Halo, Holly Herndon, Gazelle Twin and Caterina Barbieri.

What three people would you invite to your dinner party and what are you cooking?
Derek Jarman, Pauline Oliveros and Ursula Le Guin for a vegan pot luck in Dungeness.

What’s your all time favourite album?
That's a hard one, but Kate Bush's Hounds of Love is probably up there. 

What’s the worst film you’ve ever seen?
James Bond. All of them.

What book would you take to a desert island?
A book to identify edible plants.

What's your all-time favourite artwork?
Probably Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet, an audio installation reworking the sixteenth century choral work Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, where forty separately recorded voices are played back through forty speakers. It is sublime, intimate and playful all at once.

Who’s the worst?
The worst human? Sadly, there's quite a few, eh... Boris and Putin for a start...

When did you last cry?
This morning, when I was thinking about a friend who passed away this time last year.

What are you most scared of?
All the multiple overlapping crises that are happening in the world right now.

Tell us a secret?
If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret anymore.

Which artist could you take in a fight?
The art world is already way too competitive and I don't really like fighting. Also I'm 5ft 2.

If you could be reincarnated as an animal, which animal would it be?
At the moment, because I'm spending so much time listening to recordings of bat echolocation calls, maybe a bat? Specifically, I'd choose the Greater Horseshoe Bat, because their calls are amazing, and their faces are magnificent.

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Echo in the Dark bat rave, 8, 9 & 10 Sep, Hospitalfield, Arbroath
hospitalfield.org.uk/visit/events/echo-in-the-dark-hanna-tuulikki/