2000.katastro.fi
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 […]
Heavy Snowflakes
Heavy Snowflakes Filmed in Kirkkonummi, a small town 30 kilometers from Helsinki, when the first snow was falling. I filmed the portrait of my parents in a landscape which created a space separating and connecting me with the camera and my subject. Only the local cars drive on the road which is isolated from the […]
A Monument for the Invisible
A Monument for the Invisible A Monument for the Invisible investigates urban Helsinki from a blind person´s perspective. The 2-screen video installation focuses on Ruoholahti neighbourhood and the Kamppi construction site. These areas represent new city planning, Ruoholahti being the high-tech hub of the town and the huge Kamppi construction site becoming another shopping centre […]
Clean Air
Clean Air “Helsinki, the capital with the cleanest air in Europe” In the summer of 2002 Helsinki advertised itself as the capital with the cleanest air in Europe. The video installation makes an overt reference to this statement, which could also be interpreted as a manifestation of the non-mixed, almost exclusively white, ethnic “purity” of […]
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires A series of photographs depicting the architectural concretisation of the most abstract element ever: money. Pictures from Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 2006 | Chromogenic color prints 60cm X 60cm each
Zero Information
Zero Information “Stop the Scribble!?” The city of Helsinki has been running a zero-tolerance project for graffiti since 1998: ‘Stop Töhryille!’ (Stop the Scribble!), a campaign targeted against any kind of visual or textual intervention in a public space by a private citizen. Zero Information is a public bill board artwork using tags photographed before […]
A Day in the Office
A Day in the Office A Day in the Office looks at both the exterior and the interior of the developing city of Liverpool in a double perspective on its current expansion. Juxtaposing the decaying office buildings once at the centre of trade and commerce with the new blue-chip developments cropping up on once derelict […]
Sõprus (Friendship)
Sõprus (Friendship) “You don’t realize it used to be different” The long-term film and photographic project is an exploration of Tallinn, a city in a stage of transition from a post-Soviet state to a country with the most liberal economic system in European Union. A group of teenagers from both Estonian and Russian backgrounds interpret […]
Viesti (Relay)
Viesti (Relay) “Everything else, except sleeping, half-dead life!” Minna Canth Viesti (Relay) Eight groups and/or individuals from the north-east Finnish town of Kuopio manifest a cause by running a lap of honor at the legendary Väinölänniemi sports stadium, today out of the limelight. Paired, one group runs and the other talks about the running group’s […]
La ruine du regard
La ruine du regard “RER A, RER B, RER C” Les Halles is Europe’s biggest metro station/shopping center complex in Paris. The metro station’s central traffic interchange has been nicknamed ‘The Flipper’. The pinball metaphor aptly depicts the uncertain, violent character of the liberal world: stay in the game as long as possible, follow the […]