The Skull is a ghost ride into the head. It begins and ends in the external world of perception but in the middle it enters the subjective world of imagination. In the imaginary world the skeleton is driving a car and the man lurking in a coffin.
Read more »A single channel video about the atmosphere of secrecy. It is as if something private, weird, even unpleasant was revealed. The character is hidden behind a dim glass that could be perceived as a sheltering sheeting between the audience and the artist.
Read more »A woman is eating candies glued to her skin.
Read more »Katinka’s Daughter is a story of a girl who plays ice hockey but is pressed to change her hobby to figure skating.
Read more »I was looking at the moon and the street lights; a deep experience of how both close and distant light sources are reflected in the same situation. Distant and close as equal experiences of being.
Read more »The hand-held camera shows emotionally charged pictures of children at home. The energetic sisters are playing, drawing and dining together. A song tells about the situations where requests, rules and good manners determine activities.
Read more »The installation work Swing! combines the artist’s childhood memories with the present situation of a child who is still in the process of growing and building his life. The piece consists of the interaction between the audience, the swing, and the video projection.
Read more »A documentation of an installation in Oulu 1991: An 8000Kg ice cube. A process where a passerby is faced with something familiar in a way that some element of normality is transformed to abnormal.
Read more »We see a desert forest road in summer. The sound of distant percussion instruments grows louder. A woman banging a drum and a man crashing cymbals together march on the road, towards and past the camera. “Summer Parade” is a sequel to Kuorinki’s earlier work, 'Fall Parade'.
Read more »In Summer Night at Lake Tarhia, a scene of a lake in the summer night keeps repeating on a television monitor, as an image within an image. Gradually the original scene disappears, changing into a new image pulsing with blue light.
Read more »A child sways in a swing with his back toward to the camera. The camera accompanies the swinging motion with the zoom. Pictures of the cityscape and a man appear on the child's back.
Read more »A man returns to his home farm to help with the spring chores. He discovers the combination of physical labour and poetry and experiences a little, unexpected miracle.
Read more »Kids learning how to fly.
Read more »A video installation based on two statues in Helsinki: one of the Marshal Mannerheim, the other of two boxers. The work discusses the culturally transmitted violence from the Finnish perspective.
Read more »Taanila shows how video images degrade from excessive use. How it becomes ever less visible the more often it gets copied - scorched earth indeed, instructions, their sense vanishing due to excessive consultancy. Desire giveth, then taketh away. (Olaf Möller)
Read more »Kirsti belongs to a series of works mixing video and photography. The series investigates people's experiences of metaphysical alienation and their attempts to construct an alternative, more suitable reality for themselves.
Read more »I sit with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders in a pine tree on Southern Harakka island 13 times around Halloween, from 20.10 at 12.15 – 21.10. at 12.15 in 2006, with two-hour intervals.
Read more »I sit with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders in a pine tree on Southern Harakka island 54 times, once a week 7.1.2006–11.2.2007.
Read more »I lean with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on an old pine tree in Kalvola and hang from it twelve times, once a month in 2006 (with the exception of April, which was made in 2007).
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