Teemu Mäki

As a visual artist Mäki started out as painter, then expanded his practice to include photography, installation, performance and videos.

The latter book is a sequel to the written/theoretical part of his doctoral dissertation, Näkyvä pimeys – esseitä taiteesta, filosofiasta ja politiikasta / Darkness Visible – Essays on Art, Philosophy and Politics (2005/2007).

Demanding quick reduction of consumption of goods and natural resources in order to stop ecological catastrophe is third.

and its accompanying text, in which Mäki writes that: "That gender roles are products of culture is potentially both an oppressive and emancipatory fact.

The oppressing side is that as gender roles are created and defined in by social and political forces, they can be – and usually are – as unequal, as unfair as any other structure in society.

All of these themes are easy to detect both in Mäki's visual artworks, theatre works, poetry and also in his doctoral dissertation and in his non-artistic, regular column that he writes for the Finnish magazine Voima.

He has for example campaigned against criminalization of prostitution and claimed that as long as sex work is voluntary it's not worse than many other jobs in capitalist labor market.

Then he started to make long form films, often documentaries, working with bigger budgets cinema production companies.