Mother, Child
Tikka Heidi
The installation provides a performative space for enacting an affective relationship to another, who appears to be more than a moving image, but less than a real living being. The installation is based on a double exposure of two kinds of projections: the video projection is aligned with the psychical projective experience of responding to an infant.
Production Year
2011
Tyyppi
Asiasana
babies, body image, children (family members), families, feminism, human relations, media, mothers, performance (art forms)
Original Title
Mother, Child
Finnish Title
Mother, Child
English Title
Mother, Child
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Heidi Tikka (Author), Heidi Tikka (Director), Taiteen keskustoimikunta (Funder), Juho Jouhtimäki (Programming), Jaakko Pesonen (Set Designer), Seppo Väkevä (Technical Director)
Heidi Tikka is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She works on context and site-specific installations that often involve participatory processes. Her works inquire into the interfaces between humans and information systems and they often place the spectator in a performative, embodied relation with the work. In her artistic research Heidi Tikka investigates what kinds of ontological questions emerge when interactive media art installations are made accountable as technical systems and heterogenous networks of production. She works as a writer and a lecturer and is a doctorate candidate at the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Tikka graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in 1992.