Top performance
Orenius Marika
In the video a woman lies on the floor then arches into a bridge shape. A halo surrounding her body reminds the viewer of the neurologist Jean Charcot who in the late 1800's organised performances with hysteric patients in the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Top performance is also a stock market term, referring to the peak of the market.
Production Year
2007
Duration
00:00:40
Tyyppi
Asiasana
body image, bridges, feminism, gymnastics, halos (atmospherical light phenomena), humour, hysteria, installations (works of art), media, media art, patients, performance (art forms), physics, positions (physical properties), psychiatry, stock markets, video art, video installations, women
Original Title
Top performance
Finnish Title
Top performance
English Title
Top performance
Production Countries
Sweden
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Marika Orenius (Author), Marika Orenius (Composer), Marika Orenius (Editor), Marika Orenius (Script), Marika Orenius (Actor), Marika Orenius (Camera), Marika Orenius (Funder), Marika Orenius (Sound)
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Marika Orenius is a PhD from the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. Orenius graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, with additional studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Valand School of Fine Arts at the University of Gothenburg. She works with moving image, photography, drawing, performance art and installation art. She has participated in exhibitions, festivals and screenings in Finland and internationally since the mid-1990s.
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