Sketch for the Last Map
Lauri Astala
In the core of Sketch for the Last Map, overlapping translucent indoor and outdoor spaces relate to the multi-layered and placeless world in our digital era. Many faces of cities – private spaces, less “public” realities, cleared, restricted or fenced off out of sight - stay excluded from maps and the stream of images. The work was shot in several cities in Belgium, South Korea, India, France, Turkey and Uruguay.
Production Year
2022
Duration
00:12:50
Type
Tags
alienation,
architecture,
Belgium,
culture,
environment,
existence,
France,
globalisation,
India,
indoor spaces,
landscape,
light,
observation,
outsiderness,
perspective,
processions,
public spaces,
religiousness,
rooms,
society,
South Korea,
space,
time,
towns and cities,
transparency,
Turkey,
urban landscape,
urban space,
Uruguay
Original Title
Sketch for the Last Map
English Title
Sketch for the Last Map
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Lauri Astala (Author), Lauri Astala (Cinematographer), Lauri Astala (Director), Lauri Astala (Editor), Lauri Astala (Producer), Lauri Astala (Script), Lauri Astala (Sound Design), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Funder)
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Lauri Astala lives in Helsinki, Finland and Avalon, France. He graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1989 and Chicago Art Institute in 2001. Astala is one of of the most distinguished media artists in Finland. He makes sculptures, videos and installations, that concentrate on our concepts and experiences of space and the ways in which cultural structures shapes them. His works have been presented at numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1989, including Eyebeam in New York (2013), Helsinki Art Museum (2010) KUMU art museum in Tallinn (2008) and Institut finlandais in Paris (2008). In 2007, Astala was awarded with the Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts.
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