Goth

Pink Twins
New work

Gothic shadows reveal cables and machinery. Shots from a particle accelerator laboratory are processed into a hyper-fast, highly textured imagery. Digital image processing and noisy electronic music create a dark sonata of deep shadows and brilliant highlights.

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Goth (Smooth)

Pink Twins
New work
A spatial study, in which original images from a particle accelerator laboratory are fused into a steady, slowly transforming landscape. Distanced from its technical origins through digital manipulation, the picture surface is dissolved and reformed into an earth-toned organic space, seemingly desolate, but swarming with... Read more »

Green Matters - A handbook for algae gatherers

Mia Mäkelä
New work
The title Green Matters refers to filamentous green algae which is growing excessively in the Baltic Sea. Green Matters approaches eutrophication from a new perspective. Considering the enormous importance green algae had in the evolution of flora and fauna, its importance as an essential source of oxygen, and its energetic... Read more »

Greener Grass

Mari Keski-Korsu
New work

Greener Grass is a documentary about a cross-Atlantic sea travel following the historical Finnish immigration routes to the US. It features interviews with Finnish-Americans in many generations. Can we learn from history in order to meet the challenges of today's immigration?

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Grey

Minna Parkkinen
New work

'Grey' is the second part of a series of experimental films dealing with emotional distress caused by the death of a close person. The film depicts a stand still and the pressure for building a new life: the encountering of the greyness of the everyday life and re-connecting with the outside world.

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Grotesque & Arabesque (blood)

Saara Ekström
New work
Grotesque & Arabesque is a series of works dealing with micro and macrocosmic events, a storm in a teacup. The series illustrates the events that hover on the perimeter of our observational capacity or remain totally invisible. Installing the work as large projections change the proportions of microscopic scenes and... Read more »

Grotesque & Arabesque (milk)

Saara Ekström
New work
Grotesque & Arabesque is a series of works dealing with micro and macrocosmic events, a storm in a teacup. The series illustrates the events that hover on the perimeter of our observational capacity or remain totally invisible. Installing the work as large projections change the proportions of... Read more »

Grounded

Oliver Whitehead
New work

Two groups of teenagers draw outlines of their friends lying down on the pavement in a car park with colourful crayons. The same method is used to draw chalk outlines of dead bodies at accident scenes.

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Groxx

Ulla Väätäinen Liisa Karvonen
New work
GroXX has the shamanistic quality of a journey undertaken to reconnect with past eras and generations. It is a multilayered, dreamy video work which takes the spectator to the unconscious mental levels and towards the origins of memory and the rites of humankind. Gro refers to the word grotto, a cave, and XX to the... Read more »

Guapa

Denise Ziegler
New work

A Guapa poster is attached on to the rear window of the digger cab. The poster shows the upper body of a woman in her underwear. The image is moving and turning with the movements of the machine.

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Guardian Creatures

Kari Yli-Annala
New work

In Guardian Creatures, the father-figure is taking care of the baby with great enthusiasm. Terrible Light Creatures are also on guard. The general atmosphere of the piece is close to a fairytale or a horror story in reverse, where the most gentle creatures can look quite horrific.

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Guilty

Sari Tervaniemi
New work
Guilty is a video that borrows its narrative technique from horror films. The theme is not as much violence as the fear of violence and the stagnation that this fear creates. Yet the video has another, more optimistic theme: the beauty and the power of the friendship. Humor - albeit dark humor - is also an important element... Read more »

Günter and Mutti

Nina Lassila
New work

A Groucho Marx -like character analyzes two found objects – wooden trivets with the inscription Mutti and Günter on them. He makes up a story about Günter and Mutti. He also debates over whether these trivets would work as art works exhibited in a gallery.

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Gyrus

Marikki Hakola
New work

Gyrus deals with the image politics of the authorities by combining minimal acting, dance, sound collage and video montage. The video is based on Marikki Hakola’s co-produced multi media performance Piipää (1987).

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H20

Oliver Whitehead
New work

This video is a symbolic reminder of the uneven distribution of water that is likely to cause even more disruption and suffering in the future.

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Haapavesi-Helsinki

Hannu Karjalainen
New work
The video installation Haapavesi – Helsinki is a narrative work dealing with themes of growing up, memory and movement. It is dominated by a voice-over from a 1960s documentary about Haapavesi, a rural municipality in Northern Finland, where the artist was born and raised. The narration talks about... Read more »

Haarband

Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
New work

In a hypnotic video, the artist’s head is soaked in blue colour. But the hair keep swaying and cascading, following their organic routes.

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Haïti Chérie

Sasha Huber
New work
Haïti Chérie is a respond to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. A few weeks after the catastrophe Huber carries out a performance over the snowy, seemingly endless, frozen sea in Finland, waters carrying on to reach the coasts of Haiti. Snow angels drawn by Huber’s body symbolize sorrow and lives lost, but also... Read more »

We wanted to be bad

Marko Lampisuo
New work

Four heavy metal musicians are gathered in the studio to paint their frightening stage masks. A close-up reveals how the masks turn gradually into funny clown faces. This masquarade is accompanied with lyrics: 'We wanted to be bad...but we did not dare to'

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Hammu

Sami van Ingen
New work
Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed to be my only friend and some-one to identify with. One day it disappeared and was never to be seen again. That marked the end of my childhood, of unreserved trust and commitment. This film is a visualisation of memories I had about this event, of obsession and... Read more »

Handbag

Aurora Reinhard
New work
In the image-like video, a woman is trapped in by her fancy handbag. Read more »

A-Bit-To-Bite

Laura Horelli
New work
A kitchen in a television studio. A woman wearing an apron is speaking with a puppet dog. The 1980s popular children’s programme is broadcast on a Finnish national television channel weekly at 6pm. The woman is Horelli’s mother who died when her daughter was ten. In this personal work, we hear Horelli, in... Read more »

Heavenly bodies (II)

Marika Orenius
New work
Heavenly Bodies is a poetic two-channel video work. The protagonist experiences feelings of compassion when going through news reports about the Fritzl family tragedy that happened in Austria in 2008. She is shown living in a doll's house with the sky as a ceiling. The open ceiling and twinkling stars remind of hope and... Read more »

Reflections in a window pane

Elina Saloranta
New work
The image track of the video consists of snowfall behind a window. The soundtrack is based on material produced in 2010–11 at two conferences on artistic research. At both conferences, the artist screened her video Two rooms and a kitchen (2010) and asked viewers what they saw and heard in it. The new piece is thus a... Read more »

Tribe

Iiris Saaren-Seppälä
New work

A family dinner reveals: You are what you eat – or are you? Tribe is a one-minute black comedy about human relations and brotherhood. The cast is a real family acting together.

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Hay Chant

Gun Holmström
New work

A glitched chant of hay made by deliberate corruption of the digital code. The soundtrack is digitally generated from a still image frame, deriving from the videotrack.

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