Biography
Meri Pauliina Nikula
Voice, Performance and Visual Artist
25.02.1977 Finland
Meri has a varied background in the fields of music, theater, dance and visual arts. She has lived and studied in Finland, Iceland, Norway, Ghana, Japan and the Netherlands. As a singer and a flutist she has performed classical music and jazz, scandinavian, brazilian and african music as well as improvised and noise music. She has been acting in musicals and as a member of experimental performance groups. She has been intensively involved with modern dancers in collaboration both as a musician and a mover.
Lately she has been working on a concept she calls 'vocal mosaic', where she makes collages of her voice in layers, using different vocal techniques, both live and pre-recorded. In her visual work she creates video installations, based on simple interaction, where her voice and body plays an important part. She is working on combining the different elements to create a specific environment for herself to perform as a vocalist, a mover and a visual artist combined.
Meri graduated in June 2007 from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Interfaculty Image and Sound/ArtScience in The Hague, The Netherlands with her final exam project 'In The Flesh I Reside' - solo performance for a body, voice, video and meat. For her graduation work she got nominated for two awards: Jonge Talent 2007 prize by ArtOlive (Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam) and the Rene Coelho Prijs (Montevideo, Amsterdam).
This winter Meri is working, exhibiting and performing in Norway, The Netherlands, France and Japan.
Contact:
Meri Nikula
c/o Juhls' Silver Gallery
P.B.409
9521 Kautokeino
Norway
+358-40-7779464
e-mail: meri.nikula@gmail.com www: meri.nikula.interfaculty.nl