Scope
Saku Soukka
Scope consists of programmed photographs, texts and music. It deals with dissociative experience and fluidity of the human mind and the self. The ”I” and ”you” of the work merge into one at the beginning of the work. After that the human mind wanders, drifts, and associates unexpectedly.
Production Year
2020
Duration
00:23:45
Type
Tags
climate changes,
dissociative disorder,
flying,
identity (mental objects),
media art,
mental health,
paranoia,
photography,
programming,
reality,
travel,
vision
Original Title
Scope
Finnish Title
Scope
English Title
Scope
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Saku Soukka (Author), Saku Soukka (Cinematographer), Tatu Rönkkö (Composer), Saku Soukka (Director), Saku Soukka (Editor), Saku Soukka (Script), Tatu Rönkkö (Sound Design), Sarah Edith (Actor), Saku Soukka (Actor), Emanuel Sadiku (Actor), Magdalena Telka (Actor), Robin Hermann (Actor), Axel Oey (Actor), AVEK - The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (Funder), TAIKE (Funder), Valokuvaus Saku Soukka Tmi (Production Company)
Press Photos
Saku Soukka's primary tool in art-making is photography, which he often combines in different ways with text, sound, video and installation. In his works, through many kinds of sub-themes, identity emerges as the main theme. His creations reflect concepts of the self and otherness as well as hybridity. Encounters and dialogues between the internal and external, stagnation and movement as well as organic and industrial are present. The atmosphere in the artworks is often autobiographical and they have been presented for example in Soul in "EMAP 2016" (9th Ewha international Media Art Presentation) -exhibition and in "Tent Academy Awards 2014" -exhibition in Rotterdam. Soukka has been working as an assistant of photography artist Esko Männikkö, studied journalistic photography in West Lapland Vocational Institute and completed Master of Fine Arts degree in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Now he is living and working in Helsinki.