Müge Yildizin A Trip to The Moon ja Kai Okan Oblivion Way esitetään Fringe Gallerian ikkunanäyttelyssä MOONWALK, jonka on kuratoinut AV-arkki.
Näyttely on esillä gallerian ikkunassa 18.12.2025–4.1.2026.
Fringe on Vaasassa sijaitseva taiteilijavetoisesti toimiva galleria. Galleriaa pyörittää Filmverkstaden, analogiseen liikkuvaan kuvaan ja valokuvaukseen keskittynyt alusta, tietokeskus ja laboratorio.
Näyttelyn englanninkielinen esittelyteksti alla.
MOONWALK
Moonwalk is about walking on the moon and not about the moon and going to the moon and
walking with the moon and going forward with the moon and going backward with the moon
and staying exactly where you are with the moon
The window exhibition MOONWALK presents moving image works by Müge Yıldız and Kai Oka from AV-arkki’s archive.
Müge Yıldız’s film A Trip to the Moon (2016, 10’17) borrows its title from Georges Méliès renowned work of early cinema, created over 100 years ago. Yıldız wanted to revisit the idea of space travel by combining 16mm footage of NASA’s Apollo Missions with archival footage to express her feelings
about the human aspect of space travel, and life in general.
Kai Oka’s Oblivion Way (1974, 15’) is filmed near the futuristic office and shopping centre complex Place Ville Marie in Montréal. The bustling streets are juxtaposed with reproduced images of Raquel Welch, the walk on the Moon, op art, hospital series, and show wrestling shot from a television screen.
Müge Yıldız is a Turkish artist-filmmaker and researcher based in Finland. Her artistic practice blends experimental filmmaking with hybrid techniques–both analogue and digital–and nonhuman partnership, pushing the boundaries of traditional filmmaking. She produces experimental images, employing a shooting method she calls being a ghost. She works largely with analogue films such as 8mm, super 8 and 35mm, 16mm, archive sound and footage.
Kai Oka grew up in Belgium and Canada and is currently based in Finland. His interest in experimental film began during his studies at the McGill University, Montréal. Oka has very briefly worked in the film industry, mainly as a freelancer for The National Film Board of Canada. His work is inspired by well known directors such as Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Yasujirō Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard and Krzysztof Kieślowski.