Absent Referent
Gröndahl Riikka
The video work Absent Referent explores the ways humans and nonhuman animals interact in a specific scientific setting, and how images of violence and care are being looked at and talked about by a variety of people. Some people turn their heads away and some watch without a blink.
Production Year
2018
Duration
00:10:14
Tyyppi
Asiasana
animal experiments, animals, discourse, documentarism, documentary films, human being, interpretation, media art, microsurgery, rattus norvegicus
Original Title
Absent Referent
English Title
Absent Referent
Production Countries
Sweden
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Riikka Gröndahl (Author), Riikka Gröndahl (Cinematographer), Riikka Gröndahl (Director), Riikka Gröndahl (Editor), Riikka Gröndahl (Producer), Riikka Gröndahl (Script), Riikka Gröndahl (Copyright Holder), Mikko Parttimaa (Color Grading), Riikka Gröndahl (Sound Design), Sofia Hysing (Translator)
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Riikka Gröndahl is a visual artist working with video, participatory art and drawing. Gröndahl is interested in meeting and filming people, in repetition, duration and encounters between the inner and outer worlds. Gröndahl holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.