Adapting
Ala-Ketola Kristoffer
The video combines elements from Finnish culture that can be seen as clichés with similar elements from gay culture. Subjects like loneliness, anxiety, sauna, and karaoke create a unity that reflects the identity of the artist and how it has been modified by the cultural structures. Ala-Ketola places the idea of adapting to a culture into the center of the work and considers how the process of adapting creates anxiety. The video is filmed in the Finnish national landscape by the shore of the lake Pielinen in the national park of Koli in early spring of 2017. Available as a three-channel installation and as a screening version.
Production Year
2017
Duration
00:08:14
Tyyppi
Asiasana
anxiety, body image, clichés, experimental films, gender variance, HLBTQI, homosexuality, human relations, karaoke, landscape, love, music videos, nature, performance (art forms), personal narrative, political art, self-destruction, sexual minorities, stereotypies, structuralism, violence (activity)
Original Title
Adapting
English Title
Adapting
Production Countries
Finland,United States
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Author), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Cinematographer), Maria Korkeila (Composer), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Director), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Editor), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Producer), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Script), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Sound Design), Maria Korkeila (Sound Design), Eetu Sihvonen (3d Animation), Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (Actor)
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Kristoffer Ala-Ketola
Born: 1991
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola (1991) graduated from Yale School of Art in 2019, and he works with moving image, sculpture, painting, and installation. His works have been shown in Shin Gallery in New York, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and other exhibitions around Europe and the United States. His video works have been shown for example in Helsinki International Film Festival and Video Art Festival Turku. Ala-Ketola's practice communicates culturally shared affects and meditates on current politics, the psyche, behaviour, and the structures of culture.