The Bath House
Halonen Henna-Riikka
“The Bath House” is a cinematic re-imagination of a 1930s Russian constructivist play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky and directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold. The work is set at the modernist Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Production Year
2009
Duration
00:12:43
Asiasana
children (age groups), constructivism, expressionism, fiction, interpretation, performance (art forms), swimming, water, women
Original Title
The Bath House
Finnish Title
The Bath House
English Title
The Bath House
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director), Collective Gallery (Producer), Scott Ward (Camera), Minttu Mäntynen (Camera), Martin Palmer (Lighting), Marcelo De Oliveira (Sound Recording), Arnaud Moinet (Still Photography), Yael Schmidt (Still Photography)
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Henna-Riikka Halonen’s works are often responses to a specific context or a site, aiming to highlight our need to structure experiences as fiction to gain an understanding of them. By creating speculative systems or worlds, her work explores our relationship to materials, objects, words, and living and non-living beings. Halonen has worked on and produced many collaborative and large- scale projects and commissions and has shown her work widely in international exhibitions and festivals such as Incheon Biennale of Women Artists, South-Korea, IFFR, Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery London, 2017, Biennale of Sydney 2014, Lilith Performance Studio. Malmo, Centre Pompidou, Paris etc and Gus Fisher Gallery, New Zealand. Halonen graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. She completed a Doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2020.
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