While going through the administrative process for international child adoption, the first form that prospective families are required to complete asks the question “Why do you want to have a child?” The candidates for parenthood are given only two lines to answer this life-sized question.
This plain question illuminates the difference between the processes of becoming an [...]
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Why do you want to have a child? (2009)
Posted in Artworks on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forthcoming exhibitions and screenings
Posted in Artworks on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts will be presenting and participating in the WAM Chatter event at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis on November 19.
Why do you want to have a child? will premiere in the exhibition Tänään Kotona (Home Today) at the Aine Art Musuem, Tornio, Finland, 27.11.2009 – 24.1.2010
Angles of Incidence and other works will [...]
Eight Rooms premiere at Korjaamo, Helsinki
Posted in Eight Rooms, Exhibitions on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eight Rooms received its premiere at Korjaamo in Helsinki on 5.11.2008. The new eight-screen video installation focuses on the international trafficking of women for prostitution.
The exhibition runs from 5.11 – 30.11.2008.
Read more about Eight Rooms…
If you could see me now
Posted in Artworks, If you could see me now on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you could see me now is a trilogy of multi-screen DVD video installations by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts.
The series is comprised of the works Rajamailla (Borderlands) (2004), Angles of Incidence (2006) and Eight Rooms (2008). THe three works explore how different groups of people experience their changing social positions and relations, and focus on [...]
Eight Rooms (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Eight Rooms, If you could see me now on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Eight Rooms is an eight screen video installation that deals with the trafficking of women as part of international sex trade.
International human trafficking is a phenomenon that exists in the shadows of globalisation and in which Finland also participates. This trade in women – mostly from ex-Soviet nations but also further afield – is perpetuated [...]
‘Surfaces’ album
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Surfaces’ is an edited selection of tracks from the performance ‘Working Space / Surface Time’ by John Court and Mark Roberts.
The sound sources used were generated entirely by the movements of Court’s body as he moved slowly over a raised wooden platform. The sounds of his movements were picked up by four piezo microphones, amplified, [...]
How Everything Turns Away – mp3 Album
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works, tagged music on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘How Everything Turns Away’ is a mini-album of guitar experiments recorded by Mark Roberts under the pseudonym ‘_R’.
The album presents 4 tracks of entropic decay. Individual tracks and a printable CD wallet are available for download below.
1 We need to create a political crisis in order to rescue art from a quagmire of impotence
2 Action [...]
The Fact of the Matter
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works, tagged music on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘The Fact of the Matter’ was a live, four-hour sound performance in the abandoned Lokstall (train depot) of a closed iron-ore mine in Kirkenes, Norway. The sounds used in the performance were sourced from field recordings around the mine and depot. Narration is provided by an ex-worker reading extracts from a 1950s promotional book. The [...]
Scenograph #2: Foreign Apples (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Foreign Apples is the second work in the Scenograph series, and examines the way that nationalism secretes itself into the everyday.
Beside the video, the latest edition of Kotiruoka – a Finnish home-cookery book – is open to a recipe for apple pie, the first line of which instructs the cook to “Wash the apples and peel the [...]
Scenograph #1: Terra Incognita (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Terra Incognita is the first in a series of single-screen video works grouped under the title of Scenographs.
The aim of the each work is to explore one issue in a single scene. As the title suggests, the intention is to combine the static elements of the photograph with the temporality of video and the idea of a [...]
