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Video documentation of GHOST DRIVE

The process and the installation phase of “Ghost Drive” by Korpihete & Laitinen.
Shanghai, China, 2010.

Quicktime video here (6 minutes)
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Typhoon Stage 2010

Stage 1: Carousel
Installation view from Gallery Huoltamo, Tampere.

The result of stages 1 & 2 (screenshots from videos)

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News, March 2010

29.3.–5.4 Mediapyhät exhibition @ Gallery Rajatila, Tampere
Korpihete & Laitinen will show one of the video installations from the “Vanishing point” series.
At the same time I´m opening a show in Gallery Huoltamo, a window display gallery in Tampere. The show will open on 25th of march and it is called “Typhoon Stage”.

Also, I just finished a [...]

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“Ghost Drive” by Korpihete & Laitinen @ URBAN STUDIES, the NUT space, Shanghai

Korpihete & Laitinen “Ghost Drive”, 2010.
Chinese car, white feathers, strobe light, air blower & sound.
First part of the work was a performance. We towed the white car in the streets of Shanghai to the gallery space with a motorcycle taxi. In the gallery, a snow storm was created to the cabin of the vehicle by [...]

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URBAN STUDIES in Shanghai

URBAN STUDIES - Interdisciplinary perspectives to urban life forms
At the NUT – UNDERCONSTRUCTION
Thursday January 21st, 2010, 6pm onwards
Urban Studies discusses the possibilities of sustainability in an urban environment. The project brings together various art practitioners in order to discuss and share ideas on the issues of sustainability, urban planning and development in the context of [...]

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Video documentations and a review of Vanishing Point, HS 3.9.2009

Review from Helsingin Sanomat newspaper here
(In finnish)

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“Vanishing Point”, 2009

An installation by Korpihete&Laitinen, video/sound piece made to a modified body of Toyota Corolla -90. Shown here at Korjaamo gallery.

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“New Pleasure - Contemporary art from Norway and Finland”

This exhibition is a part of Ekko Festival of electronic arts and music, http://www.ekkofest.no/, held in Bergen, Norway
24.9. - 25.10.2009
The show is curated by Silje Heggren and Tuomas Laitinen.
Participating artists
Tor Magnus Lundeby (NO/FIN)
Hannaleena Heiska (FIN)
Johannes Høye (NO)
Josefine Lyche (NO)
Hans Rosenström (FIN)
Minna L. Henrikkson (FIN)
Here´s some press about the show:
http://bstv.no/
http://www.upop.no/
http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/

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Vanishing Point 13.8-14.9.2009 @ Korjaamo gallery

“Wunderbaum”, 2009, neon tubes

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“Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision” @ Riga Art Space

Finnish contemporary art exhibition “Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision” will be held in the Riga City Exhibition Hall ”Riga Art Space” from July 11 till August 23, 2009.
I will participate to this show with my neon installation “Wall Street”.
Producers: Riga Culture Agency and Riga Art Space in cooperation with FRAME (Finnish Fund [...]

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