Spinning Top
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
The revolving human body is paralleled with a spinning top.
Production Year
1978
Duration
00:27:00
Type
Genre
Tags
Original Title
Kreisel
Finnish Title
Hyrrä
English Title
Spinning Top
Production Countries
Germany
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (Author), Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (Director)
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Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl
Born: 1948
Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl was born in Imatra, Finland and currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Kytösalmi-Buhl is a pioneer of Finnish video art, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s can be considered as the beginning of Finnish video art. The artist has studied in the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany under the guidance of famous pioneers artists such as Nam June Paik. In her resent works, she has used photography, object collages and crocheting. Her works can be found in the collections of e.g. the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.
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