If you could decide, what kind of a park would you like to have in your home town? This question was put to thirty Rauma residents between the ages 6–89 who had volunteered to participate in the Common Ground contemporary art project by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. In the project, a new park was […]
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen Havana Biennale, 2019 Video, paper bags, wood Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen commissioned nine local writers and thinkers to write a speech about Cuba – using a paper bag as a reference point. An edition of 9 paper bags with excerpts of each of the speeches were printed on 100.000 bags. The […]
The work is an interactive video installation, which shows parallel realities of Dar es Salaam through one weekday of 11 local inhabitants. The spectator have to make choices which of the video clips to watch, recorded in different parts of the city during that day, and which of the people to follow and listen. The soundtrack consists of recorded interviews with the participants as […]
JOKAklubi´s video is based on the instrumental piece The Long Goodbye by Karl Jonas Winqvist & Blood Music
The exhibition, which premiered at Kunsthalle Helsinki in October 2015, looks beyond the opinions and statistics of a cross-section of the Finnish population as 100 individuals address sensitive topics in the intimacy of their own homes. The interviewees try to pinpoint experiences and influences that play a role on how their opinions are shaped.
100 people who form a statistical cross section of the Finnish population were asked to name one book which have strongly influenced their thinking. The books – together with the texts describing how they influenced the people – form The Library of Influential Books.
Dreamland is a film montage containing dramatizations of dreams of Finnish citizens in which the President of Finland makes an appearance.
In the video different individuals are posing with the instrument they wish to be played at their funeral.
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.
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.
A film, which looks into the dynamic between caregiver and care receiver from the subjective viewpoint of people with mental illnesses.
Daily complaints are transformed into an impressive choir song with the help of a local musician – and performed in public.
The Making of Utopia portrays intentional communities in Australia and their learnings and challenges after the 30 years of living together.
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.
