Year of the Monkey – Tomtebo
video documentary 22 min. (2005)
I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a ledge on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island, 43 times, approximately once a week from April 11, 2004 to March 20, 2005.
https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/apinan-vuosi-tomtebo/
Year of the Monkey (installation)
One, two or three channel installation (3 x 3 min. 40 sec.)
Part 1. I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a ledge on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island, 43 times, approximately once a week from 11 April 2004 to 20 March 2005.
Part 2. I am standing with a red scarf on my shoulders on a cliff on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island and looking out to sea, 43 times, on the same occasions.
Part 3. The same cliff on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island filmed 43 times, on the same occasions.
The work can be shown as an installation for one screen (part 1), two screens (part 1 and 2) or three screens (part 1, 2 and 3).
“Years on Harakka” – project presentation and demonstration on audio art/ environmental art (live performance recorded and projected together with Year of the Monkey Tomtebo) in Taiteiden kohtaaminen [Meeting of Arts – multimediality in the arts] Vapriikki Tampere 11.11.2005.
How to perform landscape?
Year of the Monkey was the third year I documented
changes in the landscape on Harakka Island by posing
for the camera in the same pace once a week, as well as
with two hour intervals for one day and night.
This time I experimented with using two cameras from
two different angles simultaneously.
The video essay The Cliff Revisited (with text) (15 min.) was presented at the research day "How are things done, produced or effected with performance? on 8 November 2017 at University of the Arts Helsinki Theatre Academy. It contains a compilation of Year of the Monkey - Tomtebo (2005) and Day and Night of the Rooster - Midsummer (2005) inserted into the revisit to the site on 15 October 2017.
Year of the Monkey 1-2
video documentary 7 min. (2 x 3 min 40 sec.)
Part 1. I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a ledge on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island, 43 times, approximately once a week from April 11, 2004 to March 20, 2005.
Part 2. I am standing with a red scarf on my shoulders on a cliff on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island and looking out to sea, 43 times, on the same occasions.
https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/apinan-vuosi-1-2/
A longer version of the video essay The Cliff Revisited - with text (long) (25 min 40 sec), edited of the same material.
Day and Night of the Rooster 1-2
video documentary 13 min. (2 x 6 min.14 sec.) 2005
Part 1. I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a ledge on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island, during Midsummer, for a day and a night, with two hour intervals, from June 24 at 14:30 to June 25 at 12:30 in 2005.
Part 2. The same situation filmed with another camera from a different position, on the same occasions.
Day and Night of the Rooster (Installation)
2 x 6 min. or 4 x 1 min. 30 sec. (2005)
Part 1. I am sitting with a red scarf on my shoulders on a ledge on the northwestern shore of Harakka Island, for a day and a night, with two hour intervals, during Midsummer,
from June 24 at 14:30 to June 25 at 12:30 in 2005.
Part 2. The same ledge filmed, on the same occasions.
Part 3. The same situation, sitting with a red scarf, filmed with another camera from a different position, simultaneously, on the same occasions.
Part 4. The same ledge filmed with another camera from a different position, simultaneously,
on the same occasions.
The work can be presented as an installation for two screens (2 x 6 min.) or as an installation for four monitors (4 x 1 min. 30 sec.)
https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/kukon-vuorokausi-installaatio/
Publications
“Breathing and Growth – performing with plants”, Journal of dance and Somatic Practices Volume 10. Number 2.2018, pp 175-187.
Chapter 10.2. in Performing Landscape – Notes on Site-specific Work and Artistic Research. Texts 2001-2011. Acta Scenica 28. Theatre Academy Helsinki 2012., 287-307. Available here.
“Finding your way through the woods – experiences in artistic research” Nordic Theatre Studies Vol. 20. 2008, 28-41.
