handkerchief

Our handkerchief refers to the little piece of fabric used by the magician to transform reality. The world shall be a better place after you have applied handkerchief – a platform/tool/blank canvas/interface for time to pause for magic to take place. We work across different fields such as fashion and wearable; visual and installation art; video and animation… We also organize talks, workshops, exhibitions and cultural exchange activities. In everything we do, we engage our projects and audiences with passion, humor and a child-like playfulness embedded with the magic handkerchief spirit.

We have shown our design-installation at MoMA in collaboration with Fashion 4 Development supporting UN's Every Woman Every Child initiative, "Camouflage"- Visual Art and Design in Disguise at KIASMA- the Museum of Contemporary Art for Helsinki 2012 World Design Capital and we have recently completed "Hankie Bank" - an immersive fashion theatre project at an Ex-Citi Bank venue in Mid-Town Manhattan. handkerchief was founded by Finnish video artist Erkka Nissinen and Hong Kong conceptual artist Amy Cheung. Erkka Nissinen is known for original performative media art that escapes specific genre definitions. He often combines unpredictability, rhythm of comedy with the narrative of time that challenges the viewer’s preconceptions and the ideas of good and bad taste. Amy Cheung specializes in interdisciplinary collaboration. She uses “question-as-medium” to begin her creative process as dialogue with an idea, object, people, site or societal construct, the resulted work often calls for reframing of our existential assumptions.