Year of the Horse – Day and Night of the Goat (installation)

Arlander Annette

Year of the Horse (left image): Part 1. The artist is standing with a blue scarf on her 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. The artist is sitting with a blue scarf on her shoulders on a rock in the landscape below the cliff, 64 times, on the same occasions. Day and Night of the Goat (right image): Part 1. The artist is sitting with a blue scarf on her shoulders on a rock in the landscape, 13 times during a day and a night, with two-hour intervals, during Easter, April 20 noon to April 21 noon 2003. Part 2. The rock in the landscape filmed 13 times, on the same occasions. 

Production Year
2003
Duration
00:12:47
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Hevosen vuosi - Vuohen vuorokausi (installaatio)
Finnish Title
Hevosen vuosi - Vuohen vuorokausi (installaatio)
English Title
Year of the Horse – Day and Night of the Goat (installation)
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Annette Arlander (Author)
Press Photos
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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