The Tourist Project

Vappu Rossi
New work
The Tourist Project (2000-) is a continual photo project. The project ironizes the narsistic side of travelling and comments the present snap-shot era. After over ten years, the fruits of the project are now harvested for the first time. The presentation is a combination of web art, media art and installation. The... Read more »

TURKU GOES OUKKIDOUKKI

Gun Holmström
New work

'Turku goes Oukkidoukki' uses the world and language of a computer game to comment on the role of an art museum as a social space.

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Turn the Light

Mikko Kuorinki
New work
The spectator steps between two large-scale projections, and sees how on either side two floodlights are turned alternately towards a forest and towards the camera, and hence towards the spectator. Read more »

The Investigators

Anssi Kasitonni
New work
This submarine movie that combines sci-fi with love story goes from underwater up in the air and onto dry land with an eccentric dramatic logic. An unexplained menace shadows a love story conveyed in the midst of specialized technical equipment, blinking lights, various computer monitors and minor laser battle.... Read more »

Tuula

New work
'Tuula' is a work about the role of memory, narrative and interpretation in biographical reconstruction. A Finnish woman in her sixties tells us how she met her ex-husband and moved to the United States 35 years ago. Tuula's story is presented in a series of transitions: she moves from one place to... Read more »

Wind Power

Tuomo Kangasmaa
New work
This video installation is composed of two video channels: a windmill and a sine graph. The soundtrack is created using the authentic sound of a running windmill. Wind and electricity are both phenomena that are hard to detect without any observational aid. In the installation, the windmill image visualizes the blowing... Read more »

TV

Pekka Sassi
New work
A nostalgic short film about punk music and bright colours. Read more »

TV-suckers

Juha Mäki-Jussila
New work

A slightly manipulated image of a kissing couple on the monitor. Suction cups attached to the TV screen.

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Two Blondies

Anneli Nygren
New work

Two girls held a beauty contest for their Barbie dolls in 1972. The prize was a role in a film. During the shooting, the girls started to quarrel. Thirty years later, Miss Barbie girl 1972 returns and demands her share of stardom.

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Two Islands

Jan Ijäs
New work
Two Islands is a film about two enormous waste dumps in Staten Island and Hart Island, NYC. One is a now closed landfill, which at one point was the largest in the world, the other is a cemetary of unidentified people, still in use. Two Islands bluntly asks: what does the existence of these two huge mountains of economic... Read more »

Twone

New work
Twone is a series of cinema trailers based on a poem. It explores the relationship between audiovisual information and recognition. The starting point was a poem written by dr. Seuss in a childrens’ poem-book and an inquiry to the means of visual communication. To be screened with other trailers, before a commercial... Read more »

Girlwoman

Johanna Lecklin
New work

A portrait of a lonely woman in the Finnish countryside. The woman spends her days gardening, skiing, skating and dreaming of an exciting life in London, or just of an idle life at home.

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Girls are not able to paint cars

New work
A postcard-sized image of a racing car has been painted repeatedly onto a canvas in a grid formation. The place where the final image would be remains unpainted. Into this empty space a... Read more »

The Most Important Place in the World

Tuomo Kangasmaa
New work

A furniture store has been built next to a migratory birds’ nesting area. Looking from the entrance side, you may not know what is behind the building. The video was shot on the Torne river delta, Northern Finland, where IKEA built its store in 2006.

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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Heli Rekula
New work
Innocence and the loss of innocence is one of Rekula’s main themes, one she approaches precisely through the image of the child undergoing socialization towards womanhood. In a sense, the first loss of innocence takes place at the moment when the child first senses her separeteness, seeing herself through another... Read more »

Ufo

Pink Twins
New work

A sequence of flickering images of flying saucers, blown-up fragments and coloured patterns that, like a litmus test, begin to reveal the hidden within the familiar.

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Umbrellas

Pasi Karjula
New work

People walk in and out of the Helsinki main railway station. It is raining outside. They open their umbrellas as they step outside.

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Unconsuming Flame

Saara Ekström
New work
The work 'Unconsuming Flame' presents a flaming apple, split in half, which resembles a fruit from the enchanted tree on the sixth terrace of Dante's Purgatory. The tree grows upside down and offers fruits of paradise with a wonderful fragrance, but a penitent, in the name of his salvation, must refuse the... Read more »

Under the Spruce I - III

Annette Arlander
New work

I sit under the only spruce tree on Harakka Island once a week for over a year (6 January 2007 - 3 February 2008). The video is shot from three angles: the hill, the path and underneath the tree.

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Unearth

New work

This work is a collection of anonymous Super 8 mm home movies. Modified sequences are rhythmically edited and accompanied with sounds found from home movies.

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A Daydream

Helinä Hukkataival
New work

White fluffy clouds, white wedding dress, white flowers, white bed linen are all included in her daydream about Prince Charming. The dancing couple is framed with shimmering glitter. Does the vow of eternal love live through the grey routine? 'A Daydream' is a video work painted in shades of white.

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The Sleep Lab

Minna Långström
New work
Built to resemble an expo stand, this installation invites viewers to closely monitor the sleep stages and sleeping rhythms of people sleeping in a fully functional sleeping laboratory. But this sleep lab offers an unusual feature: it shows the sleepers' dreams on a video screen. The ‘dreams’... Read more »

Dream Land

Tellervo Kalleinen
New work

In a wide-ranging media campaign Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen asked Finnish people to send them descriptions of the dreams that featured the current president of Finland. Out of the 85 they received, the artists chose 20 that they dramatized and shot.

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Words Left Behind

Elina Saloranta
New work
'The Lovers' Bed is based on Marguerite Duras' novel The North China Lover. The artist has collected sentences from the book and then created a new text based on them, a collage. Words Left Behind complements The Lovers’ Bed, forming a diphtych whose parts mirror each other. Finally the bed is brought into the... Read more »