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Suburbia
July 7, 2007
Published on Point of view
A year ago I did a video project together with my ‘associate’ Oskar Lindström about the phenomenon Suburbia. As point of departure we took a text by Robert Smithson about the construction of Passaic, a suburb of New Jersey, a landscape he describes in terms of monuments.
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July 7, 2007
Published on Point of view
A year ago I did a video project together with my ‘associate’ Oskar Lindström about the phenomenon Suburbia. As point of departure we took a text by Robert Smithson about the construction of Passaic, a suburb of New Jersey, a landscape he describes in terms of monuments.
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it's better to build than to fade away
Title: part #4 / Sundsberg - Sveaborg
Year: 2006
'it's better to build than to fade away' is an ongoing project by Oskar Lindström and me. Read more...
Produced with the support of the Swedish Culture Foundation in Finland
Watch a compilation of the video
Year: 2006
'it's better to build than to fade away' is an ongoing project by Oskar Lindström and me. Read more...
Produced with the support of the Swedish Culture Foundation in Finland
Watch a compilation of the video
in short
Part #4 is a two-screen video installation that documents and critically reflects on the construction of two identical suburbs, in Rotterdam and Helsinki, juxtaposing them with identical filming and editing. With a voice-over quoting from the critical text 'A Tour Of The Monuments Of The Passaic', by Robert Smithson. Read more...
Stills, click picture to see enlargement
Stills, click picture to see enlargement