This website uses cookies to analyze the traffic
Information on the use of our website is therefore transferred to Google.

Accept

blinkvideo - research of video art, performance and multimedia installations.

blinkvideo - research of video art, performance and multimedia installations.

blinkvideo the platform for . . .

artists we provide a platform for extensive presentation of media works, gallerists get a direct contact to international professional audiences, collectors find a worldwide overview of contemporary trends in moving image, curators can do research via keywords and compilations, teachers use presentation opportunities for students and all professionals get password protected, extensive information about video works worldwide.

FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

Share your thoughts with the blinkvideo community.

Would you like to share your videos online? Or would you like to focus attention on a video work? Or would you like to compile and show videos on a specific topic? You can do so with the new tool on blinkvideo.
Create a favorites list as follows:
When you're logged in, a little sign "add to favorite list" will appear below each video. With the click on it, you add the film to your favorites list. When you have collected all the works, open your favorites list and you can share the list with blinkvideo. We will then receive a message and put the compilation online.
We are very curious about your selection!

Our Partners

Follow us on Instagram

blinkvideo mediaart
blinkvideo is a website for the research of video art. Founders: Julia Sökeland, Anita Beckers. blinkvideo ist eine Plattform zur Recherche nach Videokunst

Erkka Nissinen

Works


Galleries

Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS
Ellen de Bruijne
Singel 372
1016 AH Amsterdam
Netherlands

Phone: +31 6 494 85 207
E-Mail: info@edbprojects.com




Biography

Finland, 1975
Lives and works in Helsinki, Hong Kong and Amsterdam


Solo shows

2018
The Aalto Natives, Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
Erkka Nissinen, Solo Show, Blain|Southern, London, UK

2016
What is Community, Solo Show, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
We have to change/These material conditions, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico City

2015
Mikä on yhteisö?/What is a Community? Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki, FI
God or Terror or Retro Dog, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, NL
Erkka Nissinen, Jyväskylän Taidemuseo – Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, FI

2011
Polis X, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Dialectic Illicit Cell Aid, Helsinki City Art Museum Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FI

2010
Erkka Nissinen, Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam, NL

2009
Rigid Regime, 1646, Den Haag, NL

2008
Absolute Moron, Dolores/Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam, NL
Vantaa, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York City, US

2006
Erkka Nissinen, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FI

2005
Erkka Nissinen – Taidehalli – Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI

2004
Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, FI

2003
1a Space, Hong Kong, CH

2000
Erkka ja kumppanit, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FI
Group shows, screenings and performances

2018
Kiasma, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, FI together with Nathaniel Mellors
Progressive Rocks, Nathaniel Mellors (with participation of Erkka Nissinen), New Museum, New York, USA
Screening Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen - EYE on Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Dismantling the Scaffold, Group Show, Spring Workshop, Hongkong

2017
The Aalto Natives by Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, NL
Finland Pavilion, Erkka Nissinen and Nathaniel Mellors, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Dismantling the Scaffold, Group Show, Spring Workshop, Hongkong

2015
7th Turku Biennial, The Unexpected Guest, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, FI
The Varieties, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire, UK
La La La Human Steps – Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

2014
Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen Haarlem, NL
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, CH

2013
Erkka Nissinen and Nathaniel Mellors, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
The Invisible Lady, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Call of the Mall, Utrecht, NL
My Dear, You Shouldn’t Believe in Fairytales, 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, Hong Kong, CH

2012
Camouflage, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
Jump Cut, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, DE
This Obscure Object of Desire or, “No ideas except in things”, curated by Elena Filipovic, ICA, London, UK
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
Papay Gyro Nights, Hong Kong, CH
Go Short International Film Festival, Nijmegen, NL
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, DE
Mecal, International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, ES
No longer human, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, CH

2011
Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, AE
Jump Cut, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, DE
No Longer Human, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, CH
Film Program, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Hypercolon, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL

2010
City-O-Rama, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, CH
Alligators ! – performance, De Appel Amsterdam, NL
On Demand – Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Erkka Nissinen / Vincent Vulsma, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
FAX, Para/Site, Hong Kong, CH

2009
Kunst Kaapt Fort, KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan, NL
Stranger things are Happening, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
Out of Context, General Public, Berlin, DE
Valumateoria, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, FI
Rudezeit Abgelaufen, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NL
Matthijs Bredewold, Erkka Nissinen & Midas Zwaan, Sign Gallery, Groningen, NL
I’m my own private dancer, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2008
Thomas Rentmeister / Erkka Nissinen, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Brussels Biennial Off Program – Laugh Track, Brussels, BE
Lost and Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, NL
Hippolyte Summer, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL

2007
Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
The 25 Best Artists in Finland, XII Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, FI

2006
Serendipity, 1a space, Hong Kong, CH
Selected works from VIEW06, 300m3 art space, Göteborg, SE

2005
Irreality, Para/Site, Hong Kong, CH
Forum Box, Helsinki, FI
MUU 18th anniversary, MUU Gallery and Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI

2004
Superego, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, FI

2003
Greetings! Galleria Huudon kesänäyttely, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, FI

2002
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, DE
A party in every room, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Finlandia. New Video Work from Finland. Screening Programme Connected, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Photography and Video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, FI

2001
9e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, CH
Young Artists 2001, Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya, TR
BRRR, Porto, PT
Les Rencontres de Video, Annecy, FR
Short Film Turkey, Altin Portakal Kultur Ve Sanat Vakfi, Istanbul, TR
Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Tampere, FI

2000
Connected?, Tate Modern, London, UK
Nuorten näyttely, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki, FI

1999
Alagalleria, Helsinki, FI

1998
Push Firma Beige, Helsinki, FI
Residencies

2007-2008
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL

2006
1A Space, Hong Kong, CH









Erkka Nissinen
Finland, 1975Lives and works in Helsinki, Hong Kong and AmsterdamSolo shows2018The Aalto Natives, Kiasma, Helsinki, FIErkka Nissinen, Solo Show, Blain|Southern, London, UK2016What is Community, Solo Show, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NLWe have to change/These material conditions, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico City2015Mikä on yhteisö?/What is a Community? Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki, FIGod or Terror or Retro Dog, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, NLErkka Nissinen, Jyväskylän Taidemuseo – Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, FI2011Polis X, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NLDialectic Illicit Cell Aid, Helsinki City Art Museum Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FI2010Erkka Nissinen, Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam, NL2009Rigid Regime, 1646, Den Haag, NL2008Absolute Moron, Dolores/Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam, NLVantaa, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York City, US2006Erkka Nissinen, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FI2005Erkka Nissinen – Taidehalli – Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI2004Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, FI20031a Space, Hong Kong, CH2000Erkka ja kumppanit, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FIGroup shows, screenings and performances2018Kiasma, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, FI together with Nathaniel MellorsProgressive Rocks, Nathaniel Mellors (with participation of Erkka Nissinen), New Museum, New York, USAScreening Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen - EYE on Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NLDismantling the Scaffold, Group Show, Spring Workshop, Hongkong2017The Aalto Natives by Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, NLFinland Pavilion, Erkka Nissinen and Nathaniel Mellors, Venice Biennale, Venice, ITDismantling the Scaffold, Group Show, Spring Workshop, Hongkong20157th Turku Biennial, The Unexpected Guest, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, FIThe Varieties, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire, UKLa La La Human Steps – Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL2014Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen Haarlem, NLTen Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, CH2013Erkka Nissinen and Nathaniel Mellors, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NLThe Invisible Lady, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, FICall of the Mall, Utrecht, NLMy Dear, You Shouldn’t Believe in Fairytales, 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, Hong Kong, CH2012Camouflage, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FIJump Cut, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, DEThis Obscure Object of Desire or, “No ideas except in things”, curated by Elena Filipovic, ICA, London, UKInternational Film Festival Rotterdam, NLPapay Gyro Nights, Hong Kong, CHGo Short International Film Festival, Nijmegen, NLEuropean Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, DEMecal, International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, ESNo longer human, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, CH2011Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, AEJump Cut, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, DENo Longer Human, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, CHFilm Program, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NLHypercolon, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL2010City-O-Rama, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, CHAlligators ! – performance, De Appel Amsterdam, NLOn Demand – Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NLErkka Nissinen / Vincent Vulsma, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NLFAX, Para/Site, Hong Kong, CH2009Kunst Kaapt Fort, KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan, NLStranger things are Happening, Aspex, Portsmouth, UKOut of Context, General Public, Berlin, DEValumateoria, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, FIRudezeit Abgelaufen, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NLMatthijs Bredewold, Erkka Nissinen & Midas Zwaan, Sign Gallery, Groningen, NLI’m my own private dancer, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE2008Thomas Rentmeister / Erkka Nissinen, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NLBrussels Biennial Off Program – Laugh Track, Brussels, BELost and Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, NLHippolyte Summer, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FIRijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL2007Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NLGalerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, NLThe 25 Best Artists in Finland, XII Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, FI2006Serendipity, 1a space, Hong Kong, CHSelected works from VIEW06, 300m3 art space, Göteborg, SE2005Irreality, Para/Site, Hong Kong, CHForum Box, Helsinki, FIMUU 18th anniversary, MUU Gallery and Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI2004Superego, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, FI2003Greetings! Galleria Huudon kesänäyttely, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, FI2002European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, DEA party in every room, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, FIFinlandia. New Video Work from Finland. Screening Programme Connected, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UKPhotography and Video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, FI20019e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, CHYoung Artists 2001, Kunsthalle Helsinki, FIAntalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya, TRBRRR, Porto, PTLes Rencontres de Video, Annecy, FRShort Film Turkey, Altin Portakal Kultur Ve Sanat Vakfi, Istanbul, TRValokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Tampere, FI2000Connected?, Tate Modern, London, UKNuorten näyttely, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki, FI1999Alagalleria, Helsinki, FI1998Push Firma Beige, Helsinki, FIResidencies2007-2008 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL2006 1A Space, Hong Kong, CH

Erkka Nissinen
What is Community?

Artist Erkka Nissinen
Year 2016
Duration 13:00 min
Contact
Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS
Ellen de Bruijne
Singel 372
1016 AH Amsterdam
Netherlands

Phone: +31 6 494 85 207
E-Mail: info@edbprojects.com

About the video

Existentialism meets reality TV as Erkka Nissinen starts by questioning whether his own hand is connected to his body when his arm is behind a tree, then draws himself – literally - into an imaginary community in which truth and fiction no longer seem distinguishable. Immediately there is trouble as the typical resident he selects demands considerable cash to have his home life filmed, but proves so dull the artist hires an actor to kill him to spice up the footage.

Soon enough, as the wry voice-over explains in an attractively thick Finish accent, another resident has fallen in love with a pothole – a tent is built over it to afford them some privacy – and a meatmaster finds it necessary to impersonate the newly-dead cheesemaster who was his business and sparring partner, only to fall out with both wives as he takes on fresh conjugal duties for the sake of authenticity. All four, we are told, are played by the same actor… As matters conclude in naked rituals and an all-consuming fire, we’re left none the wiser about just what community is, but considerably entertained.

Curtesy of the artist and Ellen de Bruijne Projects

Erkka Nissinen - What is Community?
Existentialism meets reality TV as Erkka Nissinen starts by questioning whether his own hand is connected to his body when his arm is behind a tree, then draws himself – literally - into an imaginary community in which truth and fiction no longer seem distinguishable. Immediately there is trouble as the typical resident he selects demands considerable cash to have his home life filmed, but proves so dull the artist hires an actor to kill him to spice up the footage. Soon enough, as the wry voice-over explains in an attractively thick Finish accent, another resident has fallen in love with a pothole – a tent is built over it to afford them some privacy – and a meatmaster finds it necessary to impersonate the newly-dead cheesemaster who was his business and sparring partner, only to fall out with both wives as he takes on fresh conjugal duties for the sake of authenticity. All four, we are told, are played by the same actor… As matters conclude in naked rituals and an all-consuming fire, we’re left none the wiser about just what community is, but considerably entertained. Curtesy of the artist and Ellen de Bruijne Projects

Please fill out the application form.

  • Please select
  • Mr.
  • Mrs.
  • Please select
  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • American Samoa
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Antarctica
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burma
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo Republic of the
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Curacao
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • France Metropolitan
  • French Guiana
  • French Polynesia
  • French Southern and Antarctic Lands
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Guernsey
  • Guinea
  • Guinea Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Holy See (Vatican City)
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Korea North
  • Korea South
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macau
  • Macedonia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Martinique
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia Federated States of
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pitcairn Islands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Reunion
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Barthelemy
  • Saint Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Martin
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Sint Maarten
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Georgia and the Islands
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Svalbard
  • Swaziland
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Virgin Islands
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • West Bank
  • Western Sahara
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Data you submit will only be used by us for contact purposes, sending you the password and information about our activities. Your data will not be shared with other companies.


Enter your E-mail address below and we'll get you back to the art.