A portrait of a place and time, concealing and revealing, a figure in the middle of a strongly structured, mechanisized nature unfolds life from within.
Read more »The video is based on a private ritual Mäki executed during the winter 1990. In this ritual he urned the palm of his left hand with a candle while praying out loud a poem by Samuel Beckett: 'My way is in the sand flowing'. He repeated the ritual 50 times during a month.
Read more »A variation for thumb and radio.
Read more »Divisions of light and dark.
Read more »Contemplation begins with darkness, from which, little by little, a face appears. Background and face lighten gradually, until the picture is completely white and illuminated. The soundtrack has been recorded on a commuter train.
Read more »The work is based on a dialogue from Stanley Milgram's book 'Obedience to Authority'. The book describes a psychological test on the people resigning themselves to authority. The testee is told to give electric shocks to another person.
Read more »'A Creation Myth' referring to the concept of holy geometry in Islamic art. First there is a point, which grows into a line, which rotates into a circle. The plurality of our world grows from the repetition of the circle and the hexagon’s geometry.
Read more »Cricket shows how the totalitary mass culture standardizes the individual features of a human being. The theme is treated by connecting the figures to the artificial context, by puritan, frontal camera angles and by speed transitions.
Read more »The video triptych of Cries and Whispers shows the last movements of three oysters before their lives end. The work is defined by the contemplation of the living and limited nature of life and, thus, the interconnected processes of life and death.
Read more »This video lesson offers an insight into corporate and political structures through the use of photo analysis. The artist-lecturer-critic is known for her deep and thorough knowledge of photographic image.
Read more »A documentary about an environmental art project in Väänäjoki 1990.
Read more »Part 1. (Sitting on the Shore). The artist is sitting on the shore on concrete blocks looking out at the sea, with a dark blue scarf on her shoulders. Part 2. (Crystal Ball on the Shore). A crystal ball is sitting on the same concrete blocks, video filmed from varying distances.
Read more »Dark blotches, women and beetles draws its primitive strength from the forest’s spellbinding magic. It traces mysterious messages hidden in trees, on and underlying the surface of cliffs, residing in the patterns of lichen. Weird creatures travel in dark rivers following the borders of snow, water and ice.
Read more »With a rust-coloured scarf around my shoulders, I walk in a circle tied with a chain to an iron ring on a cliff on the South Eastern shore of Helsinki's Harakka Island every two hours during a day and night between 1 May 2009 at 6pm and 2 May at 6pm.
Read more »Holding a grey shawl and two small torches, I spin around against the backdrop of a city on the northwestern cliffs of Harakka Island every two hours for a day and night during the autumnal equinox between 22 September at 4pm and 23 September at 2pm.
Read more »With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit on a rock by the northern shore of Harakka Island every two hours after the winter solstice for a day and night from 22nd December 2008 at 4 p.m. to 23rd December at 2 p.m.
Read more »Wrapped in a white shawl I walk on the remains of the stone base of a small building on Harakka Island for a day and night with three hour intervals between 24th June 2011 at 5 pm and 25th June 2011 at 5 pm.
Read more »Days is a visualization of the dilemma between mythology and actuality, human desire for mystification evoked with the consequential outcome of eventual destruction – in this case the jungle.
Read more »Deep is a computer animation that discusses the problematics of seeing and learning to see. Humans, animals, and organic material are basic ingredients that can be cut into pieces, x-rayed, and reduced to similar forms, movements and matter.
Read more »A spectacle of grandiose spaces, monumental halls and majestic architecture. Overpowering architectural constructions disintegrate, deform and transform into a flowing stream of lava, creating new distorted spaces for building blocks of a new order.
Read more »'Desire' is an experimental short film, based on split projections. It presents two different images simultaneously side by side. The visual lightness and the music video style creates contrast to the cynical, even bitter attitude of the text. A transformation in the image expresses the twist in the plot.
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