Year of the Ox - Walking in Circles

Arlander Annette

(1.) A rust coloured scarf around my shoulders, I walk in a circle tied with a chain to an iron ring on a cliff on the South Eastern shore of Helsinki's Harakka Island once a week for a year, between 25 January 2009 and 6 February 2010. (2.) The cliff shot on the same occasions.

Production Year
2010
Duration
01:30:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Year of the Ox - Walking in Circles
Finnish Title
Härän vuosi - Kierrän kehää
English Title
Year of the Ox - Walking in Circles
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Annette Arlander (Author), Annette Arlander (Director), Annette Arlander (Editor), Annette Arlander (Producer), Annette Arlander (Camera), 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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