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PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL
Tellervo Kalleinen & Niina Lehtonen Braun2013, Helsinki, Berlin, Stockholm Music video for Blood Music´s song “Play This At My Funeral” made by Tellervo Kalleinen and Niina Lehtonen Braun. The artists invited people to pose with an instrument, which they wish to be played at their funeral.
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IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOVIE
Tellervo Kalleinen2001-2003, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Hamburg, LA, Seydisfjördur, Tallinn Tellervo Kalleinen asked people to plan a film scene which takes place in their own home, and to give Tellervo a role in it.
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THE MAKING OF UTOPIA2006, Australia
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-KalleinenCommissioned by Art Space, Sydney THE MAKING OF UTOPIA brought us to four Utopian communities in Australia (Bodhi Farm, Dharmananda, Equilibrium and Moora Moora.) We sent an open letter to the communities inviting them to join a workshop and write a fiction film about themselves. The main questions we posed to…
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TRACKING DAR ES SALAAM
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, 2009Hosted by Nafasi Art Spae, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaCurated by ZK/U, Berlin TRACKIN DAR ES SALAAM is an interactive video installation that allows viewers to follow 11 residents of Dar es Salaam finding their daily paths trough the sprawling city of Dar – from dawn to dusk. The 11 particpants…
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DREAMLAND
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, 2009 DREAMLAND is a film montage containing dramatisations of dreams of local citizens in which the President of Finland makes an appearance. In Spring 2009 we collected 87 dreams from all around Finland. A selection of 21 dreams were then dramatized and filmed. The President was played by four different…
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PEOPLE IN WHITE
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, 2011Commissioned by Art and Madness -festival, Haarlem, The NeatherlandsCurated by Nina Folkersma People in White explores the relationship between doctor and patient in mental health care – strictly from a patient’s point of view. In the film, 9 former clients of mental health institutions return to their memories through storytelling…
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COMPLAINTS CHOIR
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen 2005-2014Many commissioners, including Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Kiasma (Helsinki), Nordwind festival (Berlin), Pro Arte (St. Petersburg), Fringe festival (Singapore) The COMPLAINTS CHOIR project invites people to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. We organised the first choir in Birmingham followed by the Complaints Choirs of Helsinki, St.…
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Archipelago Science Fiction
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, 2011-12Commissioned by CAA (Contemporary Art Archipelago)Curated by Taru Elfving and Lotta Petronella The work shows four possible future scenarios for the Finnish archipelago. Using web questionnaires and face to face interviews we mapped islanders´worst and best case scenarios about the future of the archipelago. In 3 workshops at Utö, Houtskär…
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101 For All
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, 2015 Why do we think like we think? 101 For All put it’s focus on the people hidden inside statistics – and to the stories behind their opinions. The 100 people in the art piece form a cross-section of the Finnish population in terms of gender, age, region, education, level…
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Final Scenes for Disaster Movies
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-KalleinenCommissioned by Helsinki Festival, 2023 For the Final Scenes for Disaster Movies, residents of Helsinki were invited to imagine a final scene for an imaginary disaster movie. The only condition set for participants: the scene had to take place at Kansalaistori, a square in the heart of Helsinki. From 105 submissions,…
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Dreamland
Dreamland is a film montage containing dramatizations of dreams of Finnish citizens in which the President of Finland makes an appearance.
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Play This at My Funeral
In the video different individuals are posing with the instrument they wish to be played at their funeral.
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I Love My Job
I Love My Job dramatizes conflicts experienced by employees of eight different work places. The episodes end with dark fantasies, that have grown in minds of the participants as a result of the unresolved conflicts.
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Archipelago Science Fiction
The Turku archipelago provide the framework for four sci-fi scenarios. The islanders themselves perform in the episodes they scripted based on their own fears and hopes of how the area will develop in 100 years.
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People in White
A film, which looks into the dynamic between caregiver and care receiver from the subjective viewpoint of people with mental illnesses.
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Complaints Choir
Daily complaints are transformed into an impressive choir song with the help of a local musician – and performed in public.
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The Making of Utopia
The Making of Utopia portrays intentional communities in Australia and their learnings and challenges after the 30 years of living together.
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In The Middle Of A Movie
Tellervo Kalleinen traveled around the world placing ads: “Plan a film scene in your home and give a Finnish woman a role in it”. She went to every home where she was invited and acted the roles she was given.