Year of the Rat - Mermaid 1-2
2009 video 33 min.33 sec.
1. With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit on a rock on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26.1.2008-24.1. 2009.
2. I sit on a rock further away from the camera on the same occasions.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-rat-mermaid-1-2/
Year of the Rat - Mermaid 1-2
2009 video 33 min.33 sec.
Part 1. (right) With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit on a rock on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26.1.2008-24.1. 2009.
Part 2. (left) I sit on a rock further away from the camera on the same occasions.
Two channel video installation with part 2 to the left, part 1 to the right.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-rat-mermaid-1-2/
The Little Mermaid – 95th Birthday
2009 video 5 min. 10 sec.
I’m sitting next to the statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen on her 95th birthday.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/the-little-mermaid-95th-birthday/
On the Atlantic Shore 1-2
2009 video 23 min. 17 sec.
Part 1. (right) With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit on a rock approximately twice a day during two weeks at Christmas time 2008 on the Atlantic shore on the island of Sal on Cape Verde.
Part 2. (left) The rock video filmed on the same occasions.
On the Atlantic Shore & On the Mediterranean Shore in With or without a human, video works, Ammunition cellar on Harakka island 4.8.–29.8. 2010
Sal - still photos in Sal – Salt basins on Cape Verde, Finnish Institute in Estonia, Tartu 6.12.2010- 30.1.2011
Year of the Rat Upphill-Downhill, in Me: Self-portraits Through Time, Kunsthalle Helsinki 27.5.- 6.8.2017.
Screenings:
Sal 1, Video Forever 28 Ocean at musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris 4.5.2016.
Year of the Rat – Dripping (short), Performance Voyage (exhibition tour) Titanic gallery Turku 23.-29.5 (and exhibition tour), 2011
Year of the Rat – Dripping (short), d2d direct to documentation, 7a*11d festival, Toronto 27.10.2010
Year of the Rat – Dripping (short), Cartes Flux festival, Cable factory, Helsinki 23-24.10.2010
Mermaid Variations 1-9
2009 video 3 x 3 min 58 sec.
With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit at the sea shore or in the water in various places around the world.
A. (left) Mermaid variations 5-4-7, Jeju, Jeju, Jeju. B. (centre) Mermaid variations 2-6-9 Kadermo, Jeju, Jeju. C. (right) Mermaid variations 1-3-8 Bergen, Kap Verde, Kap Verde.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/mermaid-variations-1-9/
“Returning to the Stairs – on temporality and self-portraiture”. PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research Vol.5 No.1 (2022). https://partakejournal.org/index.php/partake/article/view/1487
“Revisiting the Rock – Self-diffraction as a Strategy”, Global Performance Studies 3.2 (2020) https://gps.psi-web.org/article/view/57/55/
“Santa Marian suola-altaat – epäpaikoista ja performatiivisen tutkimuksen haasteista” [The Salt Basins at Santa Maria – Non-places and the Challenges of Performative Research] in Liisa Ikonen, Hanna Järvinen, Maiju Loukola (eds.) Näyttämöltä tutkimukseksi - esittävien taiteiden metodologiset haasteet [From Stage to Research – Methodological Challenges of Performing Arts]. Näyttämö ja tutkimus 4. Teatterintutkimuksen seura Helsinki 2012, 9-26. Available here:
https://journal.fi/teats/issue/view/8697
On the Mediterranean Shore 1-4
2009 video 10 min.
Part 1. (right) With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit on a rock approximately twice a day during a week in February 2008 on the Mediterranean shore in Tunisia.
Part 2. (right) The same situation video filmed with the horizon lower.
Part 3. (left) The rock video filmed on the same occasions.
Part 4. (left) The same rock video filmed with the horizon lower.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/on-the-mediterranean-shore-1-4/
Day and Night of the Rat – Mermaid
2009 video 11 min. 10 sec
With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I sit on a rock on the Northern shore of Harakka Island
after the winter solstice during a day and a night at two hour intervals between 22. 12. 2008 4 Pm and 23. 12. at 2 PM.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/day-and-night-of-the-rat-mermaid/
Sal 1-2
2010 video 26 min. 17 sec.
Part 1. With a lilac scarf wrapped around my shoulders, I sit by the salt basins on the island of Sal in Santa Maria after the Christmas 2008.
Part 2. The salt basins shot on the same occasions.
The work can be shown as a two-channel installation.
Still images on aluminium sal 1-6 and sal 7-12 (below) have been exhibited separately
Test images for Year of the Rat - deciding the position of the camera, the position of horizon and so on
Year of the Rat - Dripping (short)
2009 video 6 min. 47 sec.
With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I stand in the water, take water in a jar and let it drip it back into the sea on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26.1.2008-24.1. 2009. A longer version of the work exists (68 min. 47 sec.)
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-rat-dripping-short/
Year of the Rat - Dripping & Jar
2009 video 6 min. 47 sec.
1. With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I stand in the water, take water in a jar and let it drip it back into the sea on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26.1.2008-24.1. 2009. http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-rat-dripping-short/
2. Jar (6 min. 47 sec.) The jar with water videoed on the rcok on the same occasions (not in the AV-archive)
Year of the Rat - Uphill – Downhill
2009 video 19 min. 12 sec
1. With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I walk downhill on stairs on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26.1.2008-24.1. 2009.
2. I walk uphill on the stairs on the same occasions.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-rat-uphill-downhill/
Year of the Rat - Uphill – Downhill
2009 video 19 min. 12 sec
Part 1. (left) With a lilac scarf on my shoulders I walk downhill on stairs on the Northern shore of Harakka Island approximately once a week before sunset between 26.1.2008-24.1. 2009.
Part 2. (right) I walk uphill on the stairs on the same occasions.
As a two channel video installation with part 1 on the right, part 2 on the left.
http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-rat-uphill-downhill/
