Year of the Horse (Sitting on a Rock)

Arlander Annette

Part 1. I am standing with a blue scarf on my shoulders close to the camera, blocking part of the view from the cliff, on Harakka Island, 64 times, approximately once a week from January 2002 to January 2003.
Part 2. I am sitting with a blue scarf on my shoulders on a rock in the landscape below the cliff, 64 times, on the same occasions.

Production Year
2003
Duration
00:12:46
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Hevosen vuosi (istun kivellä)
Finnish Title
Hevosen vuosi (istun kivellä)
English Title
Year of the Horse (Sitting on a Rock)
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
No
Cast
Annette Arlander (Author), Annette Arlander (Director)
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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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