Day and Night of the Ox

Arlander Annette

With a rust-coloured scarf around my shoulders, I walk in a circle tied with a chain to an iron ring on a cliff on the South Eastern shore of Helsinki's Harakka Island every two hours during a day and night between 1 May 2009 at 6pm and 2 May at 6pm.

Production Year
2010
Duration
00:14:15
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Day and Night of the Ox
Finnish Title
Härän vuorokausi
English Title
Day and Night of the Ox
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Annette Arlander (Cinematographer), Annette Arlander (Author), Annette Arlander (Director), Annette Arlander (Editor), Annette Arlander (Producer), Annette Arlander (Performer)
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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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