new video work for Slippery Terrain at the Nordic House May 7th - May 29th 2011
video, 4.32min 2011
Synopsis:
In my work I often combine different works, I make connections and use parts of texts that I write on daily basis. I often ponder with the question "what is important" - and this pondering mostly leads to a immense feeling of frustration. And the only way of getting rid of this feeling is allowing myself to act out the feeling. These moments often result in video performances, photographs and texts.
A voice over is describing the work of an artist while she is trying to create a topic specific artwork for an exhibition. The topic is endangered wetlands, human versus Nature.
During the process the artist is feeling both artistic and sexual frustration and has difficulties in channeling her work in a satisfying direction.
She keeps referring to Nature and sex. Back and forth. She finds connections that at first glance seem far fetched - natural wetlands, marshlands and female genitalia. Somewhere the myth of the water spirit sneaks in. Topped with Japanese cars and famous paintings.
In the end she finds a closure, where the circle closes and everything seems connected.
In my work I often combine different works, I make connections and use parts of texts that I write on daily basis. I often ponder with the question "what is important" - and this pondering mostly leads to a immense feeling of frustration. And the only way of getting rid of this feeling is allowing myself to act out the feeling. These moments often result in video performances, photographs and texts.
For the exhibition Slippery Terrain in the Nordic House I have created 2 new pieces, 1 photograph and 1 video.
Both works are connected to each other. Both of them incapsulate a perhaps subtle wish of a better world.
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| The Protagonist at Slippery Terrain Draakon Gallery Tallinn EST |
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| Experiment 2:10 Paris 2009 |
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| The Great Lake, video 07.14min 2010 |
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| Drilljob video 2011 |
Nina Lassila is a visual artist working mainly with video and photography. She was born 1974 in Helsinki Finland but lives and works in Gothenburg SE/ Berlin since 2003.
In many of her works she deals with questions of identity – specifically identity affected by social barriers, conventions based on gender and upbringing and cultural differences. The field of her interest spans from cultural & political issues to paranormal science.
Nina Lassila:
Education: School of Photography & film 2000-2002, Valand School of Fine Arts (MFA) 2004-2006, Guest at ENSAD Paris 2009
Groupshows, festivals:
2007 700IS Iceland, Directors Lounge Berlin, Rencontres Internationales 07/08 Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2008 Reykjavik Arts Festival, Twilight Suite at Louise T.Blouin Institute London, EMAA"Art is in Lefkosa" Cyprus, Deviant Art Festival Trollhättan SE 2009 Slippery Terrain, Eastern Edge Gallery St Johns (NFL) Canada , Proyección Festival Barcelona, Amiens international Film Festival France, Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival Germany, Polyforme Performance Festival Marseilles, PLATFORMA VIDEO9 Athens 2010 Survival Kit Riga Latvia, Reality Check TSSK Trondheim NO,,XV Art Fair Mänttä FIN, Screen Realities IG Bildende Kunst Vienna AUT, Blanche-Neige Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Performance Stammtisch Berlin, Cartes Flux Espoo FiN, Slippery Terrain at Draakon Gallery Tallinn EST, Screening at Riff Raff Tel Aviv, Cartes Flux Festival of New Media, Kassel Documentary & Film & Video festival DE, Nordic Art Express Oslo, 2011: Strike at Atelierhof Kreuzberg Berlin, Gothenburg FIlm Festival SE, "A room of ones own" Galerie Christophe Gaillard Paris, Nordic Art Express - Nordic Video Art on tour, "In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliege" Kunsthalle M3 Berlin
Solo-shows
2008 "Nainen Työssä - woman at Work" Gallery Sinne Helsinki FI, 2008 "Nainen Työssä - woman at Work" Formverk Eskilstuna SE, 2004 Good Boys at Draakon Gallery Tallinn EST
coming up:
2011: Slippery Terrain at Nordic House Reykjavik IS, NYT2011 Harkko Museum Raisio, Nordic Art Express - Nordic Video Art on tour, Screening Beaconsfield London UK
Recidencies:
Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes Residency Paris 2009, Nifca, Nordic Air : Tallinn Estonia 2004, AtelierHaus Mengerzeile Berlin 2011
Website: www.ninalassila.com
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