
2000.katastro.fi
"This Moments Futures?"
2000.katastro.fi – This Moments Futures? is a website and video projection in public space by the media art collective katastro.fi, in collaboration with the writers’ club Nobelistiklubi.
Conceived as a platform for alternative views into the new millennium, the project was realized during the autumn of 1999 and peaked during the change of the millennium, when the video was projected onto the outer wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. The wall faces the national Parliament building as well as the main street of the city. The website, updated weekly for the 13 weeks leading up to the millennium, included interviews and short stories related to fundamental issues such as love, work, reproduction, age, death, consumption, religion, power, and questions for visitors to the site. The various answers served as subtitles for the video, which took on a pseudo-documentary form accompanying the visitors’ thoughts with scenes of ordinary people; including a young couple kissing under a quilt, a kid’s lonely jump off the diving board at a swimming hall, and pigeons hungrily following a lady with pieces of bread.

Video still from 2000.katastro.fi
Exhibitions & Festivals
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
In cooperation with
Helsinki Cultural Capital 2000 and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
2000.katastro.fi
1999 | 24 min | color | miniDV transferred to digital file| stereo sound, and a website
Producer: katastro.fi