Game Boys
Suoniemi Minna
The artist asked six men to hold a heavy gun as long as they could. Soon the playful game turned into a competition and everyone wanted to win. The guns point straight into the camera, as the minutes go by the men’s faces start to grimace and their bodies to contort. In the installation, two screens are set facing each other turning the game into a duel.
Production Year
2003
Duration
00:20:40
Tyyppi
Asiasana
aggressions, battles, competitions, corporality, duels, duration, experimental films, facial expressions, firearms, games, installations (works of art), intensity, masculinity, media art, men, nudity, pistols, rock music, sights (optical instruments), sway, threats, video art, video installations, violence (activity)
Original Title
Pelimiehiä
Finnish Title
Pelimiehiä
English Title
Game Boys
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Suoniemi (Author), Niko Kalliojärvi (Music), Matias Teittinen (Actor), Mika Ihanus (Actor), Jefunne Gimpel (Actor), Hans-Cristian Berg (Actor), Sakke Yrjölä (Actor), Simo Vehmas (Actor)
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Minna Suoniemi (b. 1972) is a Helsinki-based artist working with moving image and video installation. She's interested in how disruption and failure can make normative structures and models visible and has worked on loaded subjects such as gender roles, motherhood and power relations. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, South America and Asia including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Preus Museum of Photography in Norway, 2nd International Festival for Photography and Video in Seoul and Moscow Biennial for young art, and her work is in Collections of major Finnish Art Museums. Suoniemi is a member of The Finnish State audiovisual Art Committee and works as a lecturer in Aalto University, Department of Art.
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