Other works in Finland, 1998:

Lapland Birch
Ukkonkivi
Porohauta
Tunturi

All above video-performance works made in Finnish Lapland, 1998. Analog video/hi-8.

A significant body of my work has been created in the boreal landscapes of Finland over a twenty-year period from 1998-2018.  It was in Finland in 1998 during a Fulbright period there that I initiated a practice of glacially-slow minimalist performances for the camera in which my naked body was embedded in various landscapes – forest, tundra, a rocky island, a frozen lake, embodying the landscape and temporality in nature - often not perceptible in the moment in its gradual process, but as after-image. With all my maternal great-grandparents originating in Finland, these in-situ works created there invoked ancestral memories that felt physical, poetic and female.

All of these video-performance works are part of the permanent collection of the Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.

 

SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS:

  • "Puut Punalle, Maat Sinelle," Solo Exhibition, MEDIAPiste Gallery, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland. November 29, 2013 - January 19, 2014.
  • Aesthetics of Stone & Rock Conference, Luontokeskus Ukko, Koli, Finland. 2007
  • 10th Annual Film Festival, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan, USA.  2007
  • Northern Passages, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan, USA. 2005 
  • Treelines, Solo exhibition, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. 1999