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…
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Eight Rooms premiere at Korjaamo, Helsinki
Posted in Eight Rooms, Exhibitions on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 – [...]
Angles of Incidence (2006)
Posted in Angles of Incidence, Artworks, If you could see me now on January 5, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The installation ‘Angels of Incidence’ deals with some of the experiences of immigrants moving to Finland. The work is comprised of three video screens which show images of three different stages in the immigration process – border crossing interrogation rooms, immigration reception centres, and the Finnish Department of Immigration offices where decisions concerning an immigrant’s future [...]
Rajamailla (Borderlands) (2004)
Posted in Artworks, If you could see me now, Rajamailla (Borderlands) on January 5, 2004 | 3 Comments »
How can something as insignificant as a line have such a huge impact on people and how they live? How can a small patch of grass figure so importantly in the everyday lives of individuals? How can an apparently ‘empty’ space be so full of meaning? Rajamailla is a DVD-installation which takes the Finnish-Russian [...]
