IN THE RAW

Installation Finland    2004    English   0:10:40                                                    

Several years ago, I attended a lecture where the slides shown had no connection to the issue in question, or even to each other. The whole time I tried very hard to find some correlation because it seemed totally impossible that the images would have had nothing to do with what was being said.

In In the Raw  I used a similar technique. It is a kind of self-portrait, a video collage containing a wide range of footage and text from my own environment. It is a story about storytelling in different forms, a saga telling of -among other things - the spiritual aspect in everyday life. By combining elements with no apparent connections, I wanted to create a space that would allow for both the viewers' own associations and possibilities for new stories to evolve. I find distraction to be a useful tool for taking thoughts in unexpected directions.

BIO