101 For All


101 For All (Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, 2015) explores the personal stories behind opinions and the power of those who frame the results of surveys.

The 100 participants in the artwork form a cross-section of the Finnish population in terms of gender, age, region, education, income level, country of origin, and native language. Fifty-one of them are women, thirteen are over 70 years old and one holds a PhD.

In 2015, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen visited the participants in their homes and interviewed them about their personal relationships to 30 divisive topics. The interviewees tried to identify personal life experiences and influences that shape their opinions.

The 1900 responses were used in an interactive video installation. The installation gives one viewer at a time the power to choose who speaks. Other visitors experience the work through the choices of that viewer, who controls which voices are heard and on which topics.