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Final Scenes of Disaster Movies
For Final Scenes for Disaster Movies (2023), me and Oliver invited residents of Helsinki to imagine final scenes of imaginary disaster movies. The only condition was that the scenes had to take place in Kansalaistori, a square in the heart of Helsinki. Of the 105 submissions, we realised three. One hundred volunteers performed in the…
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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…
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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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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
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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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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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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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.