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Therefore it is (has been) here

Marika Orenius
New work 23.5.2013
Stray dogs, wild cats, free cows, wandering people, leisure travellers...  "Where am I mentally when I travel, and where am I going?” the artist wonders in tropical night. The back of a red-brown dog flashes in passing car lights. A motorcycle scares a light-colored stray dog on the roadside. The dog’s... Read more »

Aamu

Elina Saloranta
New work 22.5.2013

Morning is a video work and also a contemporary genre painting – an 'interior painting' depicting everyday life. The image shows a family at a breakfast.

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Race Code

Timo Wright
New work 22.5.2013
Race Code is a seemingly interactive computer installation reflecting on our relation to ourselves and our position in our community, nation, and our so called race. The visitor enters the exhibition space full of projections of earlier visitor’s portraits. ”Race Code” computer programme takes a photo of... Read more »

MOLOCH - Earthly Gestures

Marikki Hakola
New work 22.5.2013

MOLOCH – Earthly Gestures is a web art piece, an online work based on the Baroque wall painting The Last Judgement. Flash animation and sound form together a playable interactive fresco. MOLOCH can also be shown as an installation.

 https://www.moloch.fi

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The End of Landscape

Marko Lampisuo
New work 22.5.2013
An old video camera takes its very last pictures recording the view from a train window, the sunset and the light playing on the trees. The same camera then re-shoots the material it shot earlier, this time playing on a television screen, thus witnessing the disintegrating landscapes and electric spaces hidden from the... Read more »

Friction - Life is Just a Gust of Wind

Ina Jaakkola
New work 21.5.2013
Video based on my idea that the space or the vacuum creates at first a small particle or disorder. The particle or disorder causes friction, which adds to this effect. Finally, the phenomenon is so powerful that it really pops to life on to Earth. Living creatures use their resources quickly and after they have... Read more »

Garden of Invasive Alien Species

Kalle Hamm
New work 21.5.2013
Video is based on the official list, where four plants are claimed as invasive alien species. They are accused of spoiling the landscape, suffocating original flora, degrading the value of land. All this resembles xenophobes' comments on refugees. Video gives a voice for Others by its special technique of recording... Read more »

Third Eye - People Can See More

Ina Jaakkola
New work 21.5.2013
Video is based on the artist's experience on how her brain is activated in the middle range when she falls into sleep or wakes up. She can see so called lucid dreams. The third eye is a symbol of the pineal gland. Rick Strassman has stated pineal gland to secrete DMT, a powerful hallucinogen. DMT may influence to... Read more »

I Don't Remember This

Marja Viitahuhta
New work 21.5.2013

A work about filling in the missing bits of memory with fiction. A silent work about absence and loss. A work shot at an inherited family house: a place to which the author is linked to via personal, imagined memories.

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Concern for Planet Earth

Ina Jaakkola
New work 21.5.2013
The young woman is concerned of the ecological state of the world. The woman dreams of visiting the Moon and getting the higher spiritual forces to help the Earth. She holds Earth in her loving embrace. The video is a sight from a current problem. The youth is concerned of the state of the world, and does not find a... Read more »

Passenger

Jukka Silokunnas
New work 20.5.2013

Passenger is a work of video realized by the means of the stop-motion animation. The basis for it is the set of scientific documentaries of decomposing animals. I filmed the work on the courtyard of my childhood home and the decomposing car I got from my father as a present when I was seventeen.

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First Time

Heta Kuchka
New work 20.5.2013

The installation deals with different fears and alarms related to the mental health of the youth. 

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Temporarily Out of Order

Heta Kuchka
New work 20.5.2013
Me and my mom are very close. A sudden herniated disc made us even closer. The back pain was so terrible she couldn’t walk on her own for almost a year. Our roles started to change. I became the caretaker and she was more and more dependent on me. We started to process our fears of pain and helplessness. In the... Read more »

Portrait of a Young Man

Heta Kuchka
New work 20.5.2013
Finland is a country with few people inhabiting quite a large area of forests and lakes, so everyone is used to having a lot of space around them. Being different is not easy; it is not acceptable to stand out. Finnish men do not sweet-talk, or say much at all for that matter. At least this is the stereotype. Is the... Read more »

Minä, Sinä, Hän, Me, Te, He

Heta Kuchka
New work 20.5.2013
Nowadays everyone is busy. Adults are busy. Children are busy, too. The artist and approximately 5000 children and teenagers stopped for a while in everyday situations to look at each other and spend a moment together. In the finished installation, each model for a 10 seconds portrait looks in to the eye of an unknown... Read more »

Present

Heta Kuchka
New work 16.5.2013
Present is an installation that features 11 video portraits realised by the artist of individuals with dementia as they listen to their favourite songs. Each individual reacts differently to a song that has had a special meaning to them at some point of their life. A certain song might take them back to a... Read more »

Today We Live

Hannaleena Heiska
New work 24.4.2013

Today We Live is an anonymous group portrait, shot in a rock club. Slow motion footage underlines the dancing audience's fleeing motions and facial expressions. Erik Satie's orchestral music makes a counterpoint to the dancers' aggressive movements.

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Passerby

Elena Näsänen
New work 21.3.2013
A young Japanese woman arrives to spend a day and night in Helsinki. She goes around by tram photographing buildings by the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Her pilgrimage takes her to the Finlandia Hall, Stora Enso’s Head Office, Aalto’s own home and his studio. This laconically constructed work... Read more »

Pam Pam

Maria Duncker
New work 26.2.2013

Sunrise, sunset... if I say so. The protagonist shoots the sun and makes the bright star fall behind the horizon.

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Niagara

Liisa Lounila
New work 18.2.2013
Niagara Falls, on the border between The United States and Canada, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the region, it has been voted one of the seven wonders of the world. As an eternal and unchained natural wonder, the falls offer a chance to experience the sublime through the overpowering... Read more »

Elle se sentait profondément honteuse

Eeva-Mari Haikala
New work 14.2.2013

Elle se sentait profondément honteuse is a performance series raising the issue of the artist exposing her body to the gaze of others, as a particular characteristic of performance and live art. The three parts "Tomato", "Ash" and "Dunce's Hat" can be shown together or separately.

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Polis X

Erkka Nissinen
New work 13.2.2013
The word Polis comes from Greek, meaning a city or an entity composed of citizens. Polis X is a kaleidoscope of human destinies that refer to the ancient Greek ideal of the city-state. Instead of depicting a perfected state of an utopian community, the viewer is confronted by the obscene historical traces of the... Read more »

Minispectacles 2 x Against

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen
New work 12.2.2013

Minispectacles is a continuing series of one-minute films, cinematic haikus. Minispectacles 2 x Against goes against with the French Resistance and Occupy Oakland.

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Things I've Seen

Tommi Matikka
New work 12.2.2013
A submarine's periscope is exploring a Finnish archipelago. In front of the viewer opens the checkered hodgepodge of reality mixed fairy tale with its flying lizards and shipwrecked man. The display of the periscope slides unimpressed towards new episodes with the aid of strong musical soundscape. Nothing seems to... Read more »

Mother, Child

Heidi Tikka
New work 12.2.2013
The installation provides a performative space for enacting an affective relationship to another, who appears to be more than a moving image, but less than a real living being. The installation is based on a double exposure of two kinds of projections: the video projection is aligned with the psychical... Read more »
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