THE SCENT OF THE CHANGING SEA
The Scent of the Changing Sea is a video essay and installation that combines multisensory, experiential knowledge with scientific observations to poetically reflect on the possible futures of the Baltic Sea. The video essay takes an empathetic approach to marine ecosystems and their manifold transformations.
Video installation 14:30 min, 2024
Commissioned by CAA - Contemporary Art Archipelago (2022) in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku) in the project Spectres in Change.
Together with SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute.
https://contemporaryartarchipelago.org
DO RIVERS REALLY EVER END?
‘Do Rivers Really Ever End?' is a poetic essay film in which personal, indigenous/local, mythological and scientific knowledge are combined. What are the poetic and life-giving significances of river waters for individuals, communities and other beings? What happens when a person enters the river ecosystem, influencing and being influenced by its cycles? What would it mean for a river and its associated natural elements to have rights?
Do Rivers Really Ever End attempts to evoke empathy towards these inanimate, flowing ecosystems at a time when life-giving rivers and freshwater ecosystems are drying up, being dammed, polluted and transformed.
It is inspired by the Võhandu River in Estonia, the Klong Saeng River in Thailand, the Whanganui River in New Zealand, the Rio Negro and Solimões rivers in Brazil, the Deatnu (Teno) River in northern Finland, the glacier rivers in eastern Iceland, the alpine rivers in Italy, and the Red River in Canada.
Full HD video 24:51min, 2017-2020
COEXISTENCE
The Amazon rainforest is the tropical rainforest that is most prevalent in the global imagination. For much of modern history, they have been emblematic of 'nature' in its rawest and most pristine state. They present an opportunity to experience a paradise on earth. However, anthropologists and archaeologists have begun to paint a more complicated picture of the region.
The region has many faces and layers of human and non-human history and change. The region's forested landscapes have been shaped by human populations ever since hunter-gatherers first arrived in the lowlands of South America. As I walked through the forest with my camera, I tried to capture its multidimensional presence, with its many layers of plants, soils, stories, sounds, smells, changes, knowledge and beings coexisting. It felt almost impossible to capture its essence.
This essay film is a collection of subjective thoughts and moments in the forest, combined with scientific knowledge and dreams influenced by the Amazon forest.
Full HD video installation 22:44 min, 2018
FLOWING PLACE
Flowing Place is a dreamy elegy, a meditation upon being in the middle of a slow change, and an attempt to deal with the irreversible imprint humanity has made. Everything is connected in the constant flow and movement.
Video 14:59 min 2017
BLANC
A fear of heights interweaves with a fear of futures, in this video work that shifts between transparent and opaque landscapes. Filmed on Europe's highest mountain Mont Blanc, the video uses the mountain climber as a figure of projected anxieties witnessing the sublime scenery and the melting glaciers.
Full HD video, one and two channel, 6:22 min, prints, 2016
ECLIPSE
The Eclipse project is a collage-like body of work that explores different ways of knowing. It brings scientific and indigenous knowledge together. The gap between these two types of knowledge is marked by a long history of colonisation.
3:04 min video installation, prints 2016
