Research Catalogue

research expositions

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  Videoteos laatukuvana/ A videowork as a genre picture (2015) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
  This exposition consists of a 22-minute video piece, Aamu (Morning, 2013), and an essay titled "Videoteos laatukuvana" ("A videowork as a genre picture"). The video shows a family at breakfast. The essay views the piece as a contemporary genre picture — an interior painting depicting everyday life. The whole process reflects the many different ways in which art history can serve as material for contemporary art. In the text the words, too, take on a special, tangible, material form.
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  Miltä hiljaisuus kuulostaa? What does silence sound like? (2011) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: Journal for Artistic Research
  The contribution consists of a nine-minute video Room and a text entitled ’What Does Silence Sound Like?’ The video records changes that take place in a bedroom after the occupant’s death. The text describes the making of the video soundtrack, focusing on the question of how to render auditive the silence of an emptying room. The text is mostly in the form of a dialogue, and it is based on taped conversations between Saloranta and sound designer Tatu Virtamo.
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  Lohdutusten arkisto (An Archive of Consolation) (2017) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
  This exposition consists of my video piece Voices of Consolation (2014) and my essay "Lohdutusten arkisto" ("An Archive of Consolation"). The video shows interior paintings by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). On the soundtrack a group of people are trying to console the black-clad woman seen in the paintings. In the essay I describe the process of making the piece. The essay's structure reflects the video: the text is like an apartment with several rooms.
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  Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja / Genre pictures and experiments in writing (2017) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  GENRE PICTURES AND EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING is a doctoral thesis in article form of the interaction between image, word and sound. It consists of five essays, which have been published or otherwise made accessible to the public in various forums for artistic research, plus a total of seven videoworks. The last of these videos is a wordless epilogue. The thesis also includes an introduction in the form of a letter.
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  An archive of consolation (2017) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: Research Catalogue
  This exposition consists of my videowork Voices of Consolation (2014), which is an attempt to console the black-clad woman seen in Vilhelm Hammershøi's (1864–1916) interior paintings, and an experimental essay in which I ask: Could a research text be constructed in the same way as a picture? This was previously published in Finnish with the title “Lohdutusten arkisto” (Ruukku 4, 2015) and is part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).
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  Tangon oppitunti / Tango Lesson (2017) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: Research Catalogue
  This exposition is an encounter between art and empirical science at a dance lesson. It is also part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017). 
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  Hienopesu 40 astetta / Delicate wash 40 degrees (2017) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: Research Catalogue
  This exposition contains two video pieces that mirror each other (Two rooms and a kitchen 2010, Reflections in a window pane 2012) and an essay originally published in the Finnish-language audiovisual-culture journal Lähikuva 3/2013. The essay and the videos are part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017). 
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