The Stroker
Pilvi Takala
The Stroker is based on Takala’s two week-long intervention at Second Home, a trendy East London coworking space for young entrepreneurs and startups. During the intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant named Nina Nieminen, the founder of cutting-edge company Personnel Touch who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace.
Production Year
2019
Duration
00:15:00
Type
Tags
business life,
deviant behaviour,
documentarism,
experimental films,
gossiping,
humanity (mental properties),
infiltration (covert operations),
intervention study,
London,
manners and customs,
performance (art forms),
personal integrity (fundamental rights),
reactions,
rumours,
social norms,
social stigma,
society,
startup companies,
touch,
undercover operations,
work,
work communities,
working spaces
Original Title
The Stroker
English Title
The Stroker
Production Countries
Finland,United Kingdom
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pilvi Takala (Author), Katharina Dießner (Cinematographer), Pilvi Takala (Director), Elisa Purfürst (Editor), Pilvi Takala (Producer), Iona Roisin (Producer), Iona Roisin (Script), Pilvi Takala (Script), Hais Hassan (Actor), Emma Waltraud Howes (Actor), Donna Celay (Actor), Matthew Moorhouse (Actor), Manos Koutsis (Actor), Iona Roisin (Actor), Laura Hemming-Lowe (Actor), Patricia Mories (Actor), Emma Waltraud Howes (Choreographer), Second Home (Funder), Koneen säätiö (Funder), AVEK (Funder), Finnish Institute in London (Funder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), Amelie Befeldt (Production Assistant), Karl Laeufer (Sound), Luke David Harris (Sound), Christian Obermaier (Sound Design)
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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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