What Is Whoredom?
Mäki Teemu
An installation around the subject of prostitution, containing filmed interviews with sex workers, photographs, and an essay.
Production Year
2007
Duration
00:56:50
Tyyppi
Asiasana
documentarism, ethics, human relations, installations (works of art), interviews, moralism, personal narrative, political art, prostitution, sex, sexuality, women, work
Original Title
Mitä huoruus on?
Finnish Title
What Is Whoredom?
English Title
What Is Whoredom?
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Teemu Mäki (Author), Teemu Mäki (Director), Tallinna Kunstihoone (Producer), Teemu Mäki (Producer), Teemu Mäki (Writer), Ville Hyvönen (Camera), two anonymous sex workers (Cast), Teemu Mäki (Photographer), Ville Hyvönen (Sound Recording)
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Teemu Mäki (b. 1967) is an artist, theatre director, writer and researcher. He completed his PhD in 2005 and worked as a Professor in Aalto University during 2008–13. Mäki works in the fields of art, philosophy and politics. The results are visual art, theater, literature or theory. For Mäki art is the most flexible, versatile and comprehensive form of philosophy and politics. His works have been presented in museums and galleries in Finland and abroad, as well as in theatres, film screenings and festivals.
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