The Glass Mountain
Halonen Henna-Riikka
The video work is based on a Polish folk tale about the glass mountain. The performers are Polish construction workers living in Ireland. Gradually, their work routine turns into a choreography.
Production Year
2008
Duration
00:07:35
Asiasana
Original Title
The Glass Mountain
Finnish Title
The Glass Mountain
English Title
The Glass Mountain
Production Countries
Ireland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director), Arnaud Moinet (Editor), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Editor), EV+a 2008 (Producer), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Camera), Arnaud Moinet (Sound Design)
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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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