Yli-Vakkuri’s experimentations with live-art events hinge on the idea of audience participation. He develops site-specific projects that aim to understand and alter cultural and economic systems that effect human behavior. Instead of seducing audiences into contemplating their position vis a vis static art works, he creates proto-typical business models and participatory projects that act as functional entities within existing economical systems, social situations and have a practical effect on how people behave at a given site. The actual production of artworks remains an open process, one which enables audiences to participate in the planning of the works. Under the headline “peer-productions,” Yli-Vakkuri has worked as a telemarketer selling performance documentation dvds, aided in the production of an alternative currency, produced peer-funded artworks, exported copper from Benin, made commercials for local entrepreneurs, and stole money from audience members of his performances.

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