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Nykarleby
April 4, 2009
Published on my personal blog
In 2002 I visited the town Nykarleby in Finland twice for two artists-in-residence periods at the Nykarleby Art School. Nykarleby is small… REALLY small. Nonetheless, there was a genuine and irresistible charm about the place that I felt during these visits.
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April 4, 2009
Published on my personal blog
In 2002 I visited the town Nykarleby in Finland twice for two artists-in-residence periods at the Nykarleby Art School. Nykarleby is small… REALLY small. Nonetheless, there was a genuine and irresistible charm about the place that I felt during these visits.
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Invisible cities
March 24, 2008
Published on Point of view
Yesterday evening I dusted off the video case of What’s eating Gilbert Grape. In the opening sequence the protagonist, the young man Gilbert Grape, introduces the small town he is living in: ‘describing Endora is like dancing with no music’.
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March 24, 2008
Published on Point of view
Yesterday evening I dusted off the video case of What’s eating Gilbert Grape. In the opening sequence the protagonist, the young man Gilbert Grape, introduces the small town he is living in: ‘describing Endora is like dancing with no music’.
continue reading...
Ciao Nykarleby
These two videos were both filmed in Finland and were produced for the exhibition Ciao Nykarleby, in Gallery Blaak 10 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They were shown as diptych.
This is Nykarleby
5.38 min / 2005
This is Nykarleby is a modest tribute to the peculiarities of life on the countryside. Nykarleby is a small town in the middle of Finland. Far away from the urbanised south of Finland, it has preserved several strange habits among which the tractor get-togethers that take place every Friday evening. Part of this teenage ritual is racing and spinning daddy's tractor around town, resulting in somewhat hallucinari situations.
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This is Nykarleby is a modest tribute to the peculiarities of life on the countryside. Nykarleby is a small town in the middle of Finland. Far away from the urbanised south of Finland, it has preserved several strange habits among which the tractor get-togethers that take place every Friday evening. Part of this teenage ritual is racing and spinning daddy's tractor around town, resulting in somewhat hallucinari situations.
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Sisu
3.40 min / 2003
Sisu consists of the recording of three men taking an ice bath at dawn. Even though it is trivial, the event is carried out with great care: the bath is being prepared with precision, and the men carefully walk in one by one. On another level the video stands for a Finnish cultural identity: a lakeside view, a traditional habit, and the typical strength and determination deriving from Sisu.
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Sisu consists of the recording of three men taking an ice bath at dawn. Even though it is trivial, the event is carried out with great care: the bath is being prepared with precision, and the men carefully walk in one by one. On another level the video stands for a Finnish cultural identity: a lakeside view, a traditional habit, and the typical strength and determination deriving from Sisu.
Watch the video