The Trainee
Takala Pilvi
In The Trainee, the artist worked for a month as a trainee in the marketing department of Deloitte, an international accounting and consulting firm, where only a few people knew the true nature of the project. During the month-long intervention, an initially normal-seeming marketing trainee starts to apply peculiar working methods. Gradually she shifts from the position of someone others believe to be normal, to the object of avoidance and speculation.
Production Year
2008
Duration
00:13:56
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
The Trainee
English Title
The Trainee
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pilvi Takala (Cinematographer), Pilvi Takala (Author), Pilvi Takala (Director), Pilvi Takala (Editor), Pilvi Takala (Producer), Pilvi Takala (Script), Pilvi Takala (Actor), Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Funder), Kiasma (Funder), Pilvi Takala (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.
18 works