Exit Song
Koski Kaisu
Exit Song embraces one of the most misunderstood nocturnal creatures, the rat. It is a requiem to a rat-like creature, Bramble Cay Melomys, the first mammal recorded to become extinct as a result of anthropogenic climate change in 2016. The music video includes speculative-performative interventions with real and imaginary rats, drawing from the Medieval legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The legend is considered a multi-layered and early version of nonhuman displacement engineered by humans and stigmatizing another species.
Production Year
2024
Duration
00:04:09
Tyyppi
Asiasana
climate crisis, extinction (death), media art, music videos, recorder (flute instruments), rodents, sea level
Original Title
Exit Song
English Title
Exit Song
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Kaisu Koski (Author), Kaisu Koski (Cinematographer), Nick Dunn (Director), Kaisu Koski (Director), Kaisu Koski (Editor), Kaisu Koski (Producer), Nick Dunn (Script), Kaisu Koski (Script), Jurida Lea (Sound Design), Research England (Funder)
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Kaisu Koski is an artist-researcher with background in media art and performance. She earned her doctoral degree with a dissertation "Augmenting Theatre” on interactive performances and installations in 2007 in the University of Lapland. Koski is an Adjunct Professor of Arts-based Research in Tampere University, Finland. She collaborates with scientists, clinicians and engineers, and currently carries out a project developing films for medical curricula. Koski’s work has been exhibited in platforms such as Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Hasselt Triennial, The Lab in San Francisco and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and received multiple official selections on the film festival circuit.
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