Tissue
Halonen Henna-Riikka
In this film, series of long takes guide us from a fictional prosthetic factory through the nostril, skin and tissue to the nervous system and into the cell. The modified 3D model of an animal cell becomes a strange world inhabited by different living and non-living organisms. Here, we see the body simultaneously as a self-contained and porous multi-species organism and a site of conflict.
Production Year
2022
Duration
00:10:17
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Tissue
English Title
Tissue
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Vilja Achté (Animaattori), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Author), Kuplasound (Composer), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Director), Vilja Achté (Editor), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Editor), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Producer), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Script), Kuplasound (Sound Design), Outi Condit (Actor), Koneen säätiö (Funder)
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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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