Remedies - Rongoã
Huber Sasha, Saarikko Petri
There is a long tradition for various methods for healing – the individual, the collective, society or nature. Artists Huber and Saarikko choreographed this performance or video action during a residency in Wellington, New Zealand, much inspired by the local Maori culture, but also by the imminent threat of nature – earthquake and tsunami – against a city which is located on the very edge of a potential disaster. The participants of the collective performance are also co-authors of the work.
Production Year
2016
Duration
00:06:05
Tyyppi
Asiasana
dance films, natural disasters, performance (art forms), political art, remedies, rituals, singing, threats
Original Title
Remedies - Rongoā
Finnish Title
Rohdot - Rongoã
English Title
Remedies - Rongoã
Production Countries
New Zealand,Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Sasha Huber (Author), Petri Saarikko (Author), Tam Webster (Cinematographer), Petri Saarikko (Cinematographer), Michelle Scullion (Composer), Petri Saarikko (Director), Sasha Huber (Director), Sasha Huber (Producer), Petri Saarikko (Producer), Petri Saarikko (Script), Sasha Huber (Script), Petri Saarikko (Sound Design), Louise Rutledge (Actor), Rosie Evans (Actor), Cassandra Barnett (Actor), Christopher Ulutupu (Actor), Michelle Scullion (Actor), Lis Elisson-Löschmann (Actor), Tasha Maree Dangerfield Smith (Actor), Sasha Huber (Actor), Tessa Hall (Actor), Petri Saarikko (Actor), Scott Morrison (Actor), Mica Hubertus Mick (Actor), Jordana Bragg (Actor), Elisabeth Pointon (Actor), Arihia Latham (Actor), Tam Webster (Editor), Massey University (Funder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Tam Webster (Sound Design), Michelle Scullion (Sound Design), Petri Saarikko (Sound Design)
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Petri Saarikko
Born: 1973
Petri Saarikko (b. 1973) is Helsinki-based artist and designer. In his site-specific installations, Saarikko combines social commentary with his work as a designer and his background in new media. His work is highly performative in nature. Saarikko does not shy away from provocation. He often challenges ideas of national identity, artistic authorship or official political discourses by changing their context and thus showing the true, artificial nature of these phenomena. His work seeks to expose power relations, to make room for individual narratives, and takes a stand on behalf of equality. Saarikko collaborates regularly with his partner Sasha Huber Saarikko.
6 works
Sasha Huber (CH/FI) is a Helsinki based multidisciplinary visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage. She works and presents her work internationally and is primarily concerned with the politics of memory and belonging, particularly in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Sensitive to the subtle threads connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Huber is also claiming the compressed-air staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics. Huber works regularly in a creative partnership with her partner artist Petri Saarikko. She holds an MA from the University of Art and Design Helsinki and is presently undertaking practice-based PhD studies.
12 works