Celebrating its first birthday this autumn, OK Do has lived, worked and travelled in many places and different contexts over the past year. Currently based in London and Paris, we took a moment to reflect on our collaboration in the borderlands of home and work, different disciplines, cultures and environments. …(more)

Having become acquainted with BLESS through an interview with Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag, the duo behind the conceptual fashion label, a couple of weeks ago we found ourselves eating their scoubidou candy lace tank tops as part of BLESS N°42 Plädoyer de Jetztzeit presentation at Paris Fashion Week. …(more)

This is a mini catalogue of OK Do’s Science Poems exhibition, launched at the 0fr gallery, Paris, in June 2010. The exhibition will travel around the world in the form of the Science Poems book and small-scale displays. Welcome to our next Science Poems party in Helsinki on July 10 from 6 pm onwards at Napa Gallery (Eerikinkatu 18)!

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Anna Mikkola, a Berlin designer and friend with a particular interest in books and exhibitions, approached Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela of OK Do with an idea of doing a project on the life of publications. As it happened, OK Do was just planning Science Poems, their first book and exhibition, which felt like a natural point of departure for common ventures. So, the three ended up in a discussion about the both. …(more)

Following the traditional mindset of science fiction, OK Do’s Science Poems project explores the poetry and multi-sensorial aesthetics of science rather than its functionality and logic. This summer, on June 4–6, 2010, it brought together a group of designers and artists for an exhibition at 0fr gallery and bookstore. The weekend also saw the launch of the Science Poems book which explores the topic through images and texts by us and the people around us. The book and the exhibition are now travelling around the world – the latest Science Poems party took place in Helsinki on July 10 at Napa Gallery. …(more)

OK Do met Marc-Olivier Wahler, the director and curator of Palais de Tokyo, to talk about his recent exhibition trilogy in the intersection of science and imagination, and about practices of curating and interpretation. We also asked him to name the 3 most interesting areas or concepts in which art and science meet. Wahler’s 1–3 list links to our forthcoming Science Poems exhibition and publication. …(more)

Spending the past six weeks in Paris, some random things occurred to me. This is a small inventory from the Paris night to surrealism and the architecture of Jean Renaudie. …(more)

On the occasion of preparing a Paris exhibition under one of our projects, Science Poems, OK Do met Marc-Olivier Wahler, the director and curator of Palais de Tokyo. We talked about Gakona, Spy Numbers and Chasing Napoleon, the ongoing exhibition trilogy in the intersection of science and imagination, and about practices of curating and interpretation.

Dispersed in Paris and Berlin, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss of the conceptual fashion label BLESS always talk about their work together. We learned this when we asked to interview both of them face to face, yet separately, with the same questions, since Jenna happened to be in Berlin and Anni in Paris at the time. Their kind refusal was explained by the fact that BLESS is something between the two, and therefore they don’t do interviews alone. So, we ended up in an email conversation with the twosome on the issues of identity and privacy as well as working together from two different cities. …(more)