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.