Women in Kahves

Takala Pilvi

Women in Kahves is a multi-channel installation based on a series of interventions in Turkish teahouses, where traditionally only men spend time and play games. The artist and three Turkish women entered several teahouses to drink tea and to play a game of OKEY. A male assistant documented these actions with a hidden camera, with some of that material being used for the video piece. The work is also available as a screening version.

Production Year
2005
Duration
00:12:58
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Women in Kahves
English Title

Women in Kahves

Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
No
Cast
Pilvi Takala (Author), Osman Bingöl (Cinematographer), Pilvi Takala (Director), Pilvi Takala (Editor), Pilvi Takala (Producer), Hacer Kurt (Actor), Pilvi Takala (Actor), Arzu Akı (Actor), Elvan Ekren (Actor), Esme Karaman (Actor), Selma Yavaş (Actor), Istanbul Biennial (Funder), Frame Contemporary Art Finland (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.