I am a visual artist, Jouko Korkeasaari (b. 1971, Kajaani), working under the artist name Muotikummitus. My practice focuses on material-based and ethically engaged costume art, examining structures of textile consumption and material circulation. Through recycled and found textiles, I explore the relationships between body, materiality, and identity at the intersection of visual art, design, and performance.

 

I design and produce all costumes myself, and document the works through photography, which forms an integral and independent component of my artistic practice. My work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries in Finland and internationally, and is included in several public art collections.

 

My artistic practice moves between exhibition-making, performance, and film, situating costume as both a material object and a performative medium. Recycling functions in my work not only as an ecological strategy but as a conceptual and methodological frame work.

 

In my artistic practice, I explore the relationship between clothing, identity, and cultural memory through wearable art and staged photography. Modegeist is an ongoing project in which I treat garments as carriers of time, desire, and social codes rather than as functional or decorative objects.

 

I work primarily with found, donated, and archived clothing that already contains traces of previous lives. Through reconstruction, textile work, and sculptural interventions, I transform these garments into wearable artworks. I then photograph them in staged environments where styling, makeup, and setting function as narrative elements.

 

My work moves between fashion imagery, art history, popular culture, and queer history. I am interested in how images and styles repeat, return, and haunt new bodies, and how contemporary identity is shaped between self-expression and visual systems such as trends, platforms, and algorithms.

 

For me, clothing is simultaneously a mask, an archive, and a stage — and photography is a way to lead these materials into fictional tableaux.