TERMINAL (Terminaali)

Audiovisual performance

Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art / Kiasma-theatre, 2006

 

Terminal was a performative installation that used live video stream as its main element. The performance investigated the ethics of real-time technologies, media as a place of construction of personal and collective truths, and media visibility as a form of control.

 

The hour-long performance was divided in three “acts”. First act was built from real-time lectures given by Sami people actiist Pauliina Feodoroff from Ivalo, Lapland, and media artist and activist Naeem Mohaiemen from NY, discussing audiovisual media as a political space. The second act looked at human-nature relations, using interviews of nature documentarists and webcam connections to wilderness. The third act looked at images of human body and how images constructed with and by audiovisual media affect our experience of the body.

 

The performance was realized almost only with video and sound; even the presence of the two actors was viewed mainly with live cam connection. The video's were projected on 4 transparent screens, making it impossible to view the whole space at once.

 

Artistic group

 

Terike Haapoja: director, spatial design

Ville Hyvönen: video design

Petteri Mård: sound design

Pauliina Feodoroff: performance design

Jukka Ruotsalainen, performer

Heli Sirviö: performer

Mikko Lipiäinen: animations

Piritta Puhto: producer

Janne Pellinen: assistant