Year of the Ox - In a Yoke 1-2

Arlander Annette

Wrapped in a rust-coloured scarf and with a piece of wood on my shoulders, I sit on rocks on the Eastern shore of Helsinki’s Harakka Island approximately once a week for a year from 25 January 2009 to 6 February 2010.

Production Year
2010
Duration
00:05:10
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Year of the Ox - In a Yoke 1-2
Finnish Title
Härän vuosi - Ikeessä 1-2
English Title
Year of the Ox - In a Yoke 1-2
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Annette Arlander (Cinematographer), Annette Arlander (Author), Annette Arlander (Director), Annette Arlander (Editor), Annette Arlander (Producer), Annette Arlander (Performer)
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Annette Arlander is a Helsinki-based artist, researcher and a pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. She graduated as a director from Theatre Academy in 1981 and as Doctor of Art in 1999. Arlander was Professor of Performance Art and Theory at Theatre Academy 2001–13, Professor of Artistic Research 2015-16 at University of the Arts Helsinki and visiting professor at Stockholm University of the Arts. Her art work focuses on performing (in, with, through) landscape by means of video or recorded voice, in the border zone between performance art, video and environmental art.

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