Haapavesi-Helsinki
Karjalainen Hannu
The video installation Haapavesi – Helsinki is a narrative work dealing with themes of growing up, memory and movement. It is dominated by a voice-over from a 1960s documentary about Haapavesi, a rural municipality in Northern Finland, where the artist was born and raised. The narration talks about Haapavesi's main economies and industrial development. In this two-channel installation, the artist juxtaposes footage of his everyday rituals in his two bedroom apartment in Helsinki, with images of a Northern Finnish lake landscape. The piece shows how one’s childhood landscape continues to ring out into adulthood, and for many years to come.
Production Year
2004
Duration
00:03:30
Tyyppi
Asiasana
archival materials, autobiographical approach, childhood, countryside, documentarism, history, industry, installations (works of art), landscape, media art, memories (mental objects), nature, personal narrative, places of residence, video art, video installations
Original Title
Haapavesi-Helsinki
Finnish Title
Haapavesi-Helsinki
English Title
Haapavesi-Helsinki
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Hannu Karjalainen (Author), Hannu Karjalainen (Director)
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Hannu Karjalainen is an internationally acclaimed Finnish artist who lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated as MFA from the University of Industrial Arts Helsinki in 2005. His video and sound installations and films have been presented in museums, galleries and festivals since 2003 and he has held solo exhibitions participated in numerous group exhibitions and film screenings in Finland and abroad in e.g. Oslo, Zürich and Berlin. He was selected as the Young Artist of the Year in 2009.
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