Year of the Dog – Sitting in a Tree 2007 (8 min. 10 sec.)
I sit with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders in a pine tree on Southern Harakka island 54 times, once a week 7.1.2006 – 11.2.2007.
Shadow of a Pine I, Shadow of a Pine II 2007 (16 min.)
Shadow of a Pine I. I sit with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on the rock below a pine tree on the western shore of Harakka island, with the camera directed towards the city in the North, 51 times, approximately once a week 7.11..2006 – 11.2.2007. Shadow of a Pine II. I sit with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on the rock below a pine tree on the western shore of Harakka island, with the camera directed towards the sea in the South, 51 times, approximately once a week 7.11..2006 – 11.2.2007.
Video in two parts, each 8 min. Parts I and II can be shown after each other, or separately.
https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/mannyn-varjo-i-mannyn-varjo-ii/
Year of the Dog in Kalvola – Calendar 2007 ( 2 x 4 min.)
Part 1. I hang with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders from an old pine tree in Kalvola twelve times, once a month in 2006 (with the exception of April, which was made in 2007). Part 2. I lean with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on an old pine tree in Kalvola twelve times, on the same occasions.
Installation for two projectors or monitors, part 1 to the left, part 2 to the right (loop).
https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/koiran-vuosi-kalvolassa-kalenteri-1-2/
Lying on a Cliff 1 + 2 2007 ( 2 x 8 min.)
Part 1. I am lying with a yellowish scarf covering my head fourteen times on the rocks on the western shore of Harakka island. Part 2. A yellowish scarf is lying on the rocks on the western shore of Harakka island on the same occasions.
Installation for two projectors or monitors, part 1 to the left, part 2 to the right.
Day and Night of the Dog. In Performance Voyage 3 – A Series of International Video Performances, Muu Studio (start of international tour) 8.2.-3.3.2013.
From there into Helsingin Taidemuseon kokoelma [City of Helsinki Art collection]
Year of the Dog in Kalvola – Calendar 2007 (4 min. 10 sec.)
I lean with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on an old pine tree in Kalvola and hang from it twelve times, once a month in 2006 (with the exception of April, which was made in 2007).
https://www.av-arkki.fi/works/koiran-vuosi-kalvolassa-kalenteri/
The Pine Revisited (16 min. 36 sec.) combines the record of a revisit on 28 February 2018 to the site where the Year of the Dog - Sitting in a Tree (2007) and Day and Night of the Dog (2007) were performed during the year 2006, with those two videos inserted into it. It was presented as part of "Regurgitated perspectives" with How To Do Things With Performance -project at the 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Plymouth, April 11th-13th, 2018.
The Pine on the Shore Revisited (17 min ) combines the record of an attempt on 19 March 2018 at revisiting the site where Shadow of a Pine 1-4 (2007) was performed during 2006, with that 4-channel video installation inserted into it. The video was presented as part of “What is Performativity in Finnish?” with How To Do Things With Performance -project at Cultural Mobility of Performance and Performativity Studies International Conference, Kraków 28-30.5.2018
Day and Night of the Dog 2007 (4 min.)
I sit with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders in a pine tree on Southern Harakka island 13 times at Halloween time, from 20.10 at 12.15 – 21.10. at 12.15 2006, with two-hour intervals.
Voice in Finnish, English subtitles.
Shadow of a Pine I, II, III + IV 2007 (4 x 16 min.)
Part I. I am lying with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on the rock below a pine tree on the western shore of Harakka island, with the camera directed towards the city in the North, 51 times, approximately once a week 7.11..2006 – 11.2.2007. Part II. I am lying with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on the rock below a pine tree on the western shore of Harakka island, with the camera directed towards the sea in the South, 51 times, approximately once a week 7.11..2006 – 11.2.2007. Part III. I am lying with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on the rock next to a pine tree on the western shore of Harakka island, with the camera directed towards the city in the North, on the same occasions. Part IV. I am lying with a yellowish scarf on my shoulders on the rock next to a pine tree on the western shore of Harakka island, with the camera directed towards the sea in the South, on the same occasions.
Installation for four projectors or monitors, with the pair I (left) and II (right) next to the pair III (left) and IV (right). The installation can be shown as a version for two projectors, then only parts I + II.
Publications
“The Shadow of a Pine Tree. Authorship, Agency and Performing beyond the Human” in Ewa Bal & Mateusz Chaberski (eds.) Situated Knowing. Epistemic Perspectives on Performance (forthcoming)
“Regurgitated Perspectives – Performance” Annette Arlander, Hanna Järvinen, Tero Nauha and Pilvi Porkola. In Geoff Cox, Hannah Drayson, Azadeh Fatehrad, Allister Gall, Laura Hopes, Anya Lewin, Andrew Prior, (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Plymouth, April 11th-13th, 2018, pp. 299-311.
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/512748/512749
“Performing with Trees: Landscape and Artistic Research”. In John Freeman Blood, Sweat & Theory – Research through practice in performance. Libri Publishing 2010, 158-176.
“Event scores for performing interruptions” in Tiina Mäntymäki and Olli Mäkinen (eds). Art and Resistance. University of Vaasa. Research Papers 290. 2009, 153-168.