Calling the Dragon (North, East, South & West)
Annette Arlander
Wrapped in a green scarf, I call the dragon by ringing a small ceramic bell on the roof of the bunker on Harakka, in part 1 facing North, in part 2 facing East, in part 3 facing South and in part 4 facing West. The round of the year is repeated twice, once from the left and once from the right. The work was recorded in four directors from the roof of the bunker in the southern part of Harakka Island, approximately once a week between February 4, 2012 and February 3, 2013. It is best presented as four synchronised projections towards the four cardinal directions.
Production Year
2013
Duration
00:46:50
Type
Genre
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Original Title
Calling the Dragon (North, East, South & West)
Finnish Title
Lohikäärmettä kutsumassa (Pohjoinen, Itä, Etelä, Länsi)
English Title
Calling the Dragon (North, East, South & West)
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Annette Arlander (Author), Annette Arlander (Cinematographer), Annette Arlander (Director), Annette Arlander (Editor), Annette Arlander (Script), Annette Arlander (Actor), Annette Arlander (Sound)
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Annette Arlander is a Helsinki-based artist, researcher and a pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. She graduated as a director from Theatre Academy in 1981 and as Doctor of Art in 1999. Arlander was Professor of Performance Art and Theory at Theatre Academy 2001–13, Professor of Artistic Research 2015-16 at University of the Arts Helsinki and visiting professor at Stockholm University of the Arts. Her art work focuses on performing (in, with, through) landscape by means of video or recorded voice, in the border zone between performance art, video and environmental art.
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