The Shining Shining
Takala Pilvi
Shining Shining focuses on a specific TV studio audience who regularly attend a morning programme in Istanbul. This show is hosted by the famous Seda Sayan and watched by housewives all over Turkey for two and a half hours on weekdays. Across the two screens of the installation, we see the insincere host being worshipped by the heartbreakingly sincere audience.
Production Year
2007
Duration
00:11:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
advertisements, audience, documentarism, documentary films, idols, installations (works of art), Istanbul, love, media, media art, pop music, singing, stay-at-home mothers, television (mass media), television programmes, Turkey, video art, video installations, women
Original Title
The Shining Shining
Finnish Title
The Shining Shining
English Title
The Shining Shining
Production Countries
Turkey,Netherlands
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pilvi Takala (Author), Ahmet Ögut (Assistant), Ahmet Ögut (Interpreter), Henri Tani (Post-prod Supervisor)
Press Photos
Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Her video works are based on performative interventions in which she researches specific communities in order to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different contexts. Her works show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, Kiasma, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Basel, Manifesta 11, Witte de With, and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award and Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts in 2013.
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