With Spirit There's No Limit
Takala Pilvi
Finland has risen to become one of the top countries within international competitive cheerleading, alongside Japan and the USA. Golden Spirit is one of the main teams in Finland, having won numerous European and Finnish championships as well as taking silver at the World Championships. Takala invited Golden Spirit to perform as part of Pimeä Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki. The team wrote and choreographed their own routines. Here we see the cheerleaders, who would normally only perform publicly as part of a competition, performing in the street over the course of two nights during the darkest time of the year.
Production Year
2004
Duration
00:04:02
Tyyppi
Asiasana
athletes, cheerleading, choreography, festivals, media art, performance (art forms), sports, urban space, world championships
Original Title
With Spririt There's No Limit
English Title
With Spirit There's No Limit
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pilvi Takala (Author), Pilvi Takala (Cinematographer), Pilvi Takala (Director), Pilvi Takala (Editor), Pilvi Takala (Producer), Pilvi Takala (Script), 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