I did videos and sound to Marimekko spring and summer 2012 fashion show. The show was in Tokyo and Helsinki. I also participated in designing the actual runway. Here are couple of images of the material. More images coming soon.
My film “Rising” will be screened in the festival´s program.
10th of October at 9 pm
Institut finlandais
60, des Ecoles,
75005 Paris
展期 Duration：2011.09.08 – 10.08
出品 Produced ：三月空间 March Art
承办 Cooperation：中信泰富广场 CITIC Square
策展 Curator ：黎宁春 Li Ningchun
主场地点：上海静安区南京西路1168号，中信泰富广场地下一层中庭
Main Venue: CITIC Square LG Atrium, 1168 West Nanjing Rd, Shanghai
Urban Skin
The theme of the 1st N Minutes Video Art Festival is “Urban Skin” and it´s a public project with the aim to promote video art among the city’s public and commercial spaces.
My film “Rising” will be part of the festival program.
As part of the NOTCH11 program, I worked with local artists and community at Darshilar, in the heart of Beijing to make a light installation in an old factory that has been turned into a creative space facing one of Beijing’s traditional Hutong neighborghoods. The work was based on my previous installation “Wall Street”.
Collaborators: Beijing Maxpace
The work used field recordings from the Dashilar Hutong area to control a set of neon lights.
Time: 17/09/2011-9/10/2011
Detail of the neon/sound installation “Realism”, 2011:
Installation views from the Mildura Palimpsest Kar-rama Motel Project, Mildura, Australia.
Kar-rama motel:
The 1960’s-style Kar-Rama Motel in central Mildura is a place where people in transit stop momentarily: traveling sales representatives, holidaying families, discrete lovers and people in hiding. These temporary inhabitants are bound by a contractual arrangement that basically allows them to use consumables, not to extend their stay further than the agreed timeline and to leave the place intact. The external spaces of such Motels may look the same, but what happens internally, creates their ghosts.
Curator Kristian Haggblom
“Undercurrent”, 2011
Hd-video, installation view, Room 19
Tuomas Aleksander Laitinen & Kristian Haggblom. “Wish you were here…”, 2011
Live video installation, Room 25
Miniature figures, camera, water, meditation music
Documentation video coming soon.
Project was supported by Frame - Finnish fund for art exchange.
Mildura Palimpsest #8 - ‘Collaborators and Saboteurs’
9 -11 September 2011
Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Mildura Palimpsest #8 is curated by Helen Vivian and Kristian Haggblom who along with the committee, aim at giving opportunities to both local and national artists, in addition to showcasing international projects and artists from Australia, Tibet, Finland, UK, China and Japan.
The theme ‘Collaborators and Saboteurs’ explores the idea that we are all collaborators and saboteurs in the created worlds we inhabit. Inaugurated in 1998 Mildura Palimpsest is a biennial site-specific visual arts exposition and cross-disciplinary symposium. Palimpsest is significant for its direct engagement with issues of environmental and social sustainability and its remarkable regional location; near the border of three states (Vic, NSW and SA), the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, one of Australia’s most important cultural sites - Lake Mungo National Park, and set in the intersecting terrain of desert and irrigated horticulture.
Palimpsest, meaning a parchment which has been partly erased and re-inscribed, evokes the marks made by human settlement on the land, the passage of time, presence and absence, and the web of inter-dependence connecting the natural and the cultural, the material and the immaterial, spheres of existence.
My film Undercurrent (2011) will have it´s world premiere here:
Undercurrent deals with contemporary conflict between individualism and collective consciousness and was filmed in Tokyo. This theme is mirrored in the film by contrasting locations: a remote human construction that is now defunct and overtaken by nature and a pulsing, hectic Shibuya cityscape. Formally, the work makes use of cinematic technique, particularly from the thriller genre.
Artists include: Chim↑Pom, Ken + Julia Yonetani, Paul Carter, Tracey Moffatt, Jonathan Kimberley + Jim Everett, Sara Oscar, John Vella, Jill Orr, Brendan Lee, Keith Armstrong and many more.
Full program of the event is here
From the link below you can view a Pdf presentation of our Museum of Oblivion sculptures:
Link: MUSEUM OF OBLIVION PDF (900kb)
Shot in Tokyo during february 2011, “Undercurrent” is a film / projection piece that poses questions about conflicts of individual and collective consciousness.
The film was produced during my residency @ Youkobo Art Space.
These works were produced for the Art+Shanghai exhibition.
From left to right: Traffic, Landscape & Living room 2011
Uv-print on acrylic, light
These light boxes are based on actual images from X-ray cameras set up at border-crossings.
Rising (Passage), 2011
Wooden frame, Uv-print, light
My film Rising will be screened at Youkobo Art Space on thursday 10th of February.
Link: Youkobo Art Space