entropy

source: finlandse

Videoinstallationen Entropy har filmats med infrarödkamera och visar nedkylningen av en död hästkropp. Terike Haapojas verk handlar ofta om minnet, människans relation till naturen, dödligheten och samvaron. Hon utnyttjar olika tekniska apparater från värmekameror till koldioxidsensorer och skapar en scen där den vetenskapligt mätbara informationen möts av den vi får genom våra upplevelser.
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source: av-arkkifi

“Entropy” installation is a thermo cam image of a horse’s body cooling down after its death. The corpse’s hottest areas are indicated with red colour and the coldest areas with blue and black. Visual evidence of life’s presence slowly vanishes as heat flees from the horse’s body. The original documentation, lasting for several hours, is edited down to a half an hour. Presented as a life-size projection.
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source: suomestagallerianet

Terike Haapoja
The video installation Entropy (2004), shows the cooling down of a horse’s body after its death, recorded with an infrared camera. The original recording of 9 hours has been edited to a 25 minutes loop. In the painting-like video the figure of the animal slowly disappears as the body looses its heat.

Terike Haapoja (b.1974) is a visual artist, working and living in Helsinki, Finland. Her work consists of videos, installations and performance projects, characterized by the innovative use of new media and new technology. Haapoja’s work deals with human – non-human relations and the clash of subjective experience of the world with objective knowledge of it. Haapoja works extensively with professionals from natural sciences, and different fields of art.
Haapoja’s work has been shown widely in solo –and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally (Including UM festival, Lisbon, Prague Biennale, L’Art en Europe, Reims, Insitute Finlandais, Paris, Gallery Rekord, Oslo, Rauma Art Museum, Finland, Pori Art Museum, Finland, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Oulu Art Museum). She also works as a director and visual designer in contemporary performance projects. Haapoja’s articles and essays have been pubished in art journals in Finland and internationally.
She was honoured with Finnish Art Association’s Dukaatti-prize in 2008, with Finland Festivals’ Young Artist of the year –prize in 2007 and was one of the 2011 Ars Fennica Prize candidates. She has received numerous project- and working grants form the Finnish State Art Fund and private foundations since 2001. Haapoja has a MA degree both from the Theater Academy of Finland (dep. of Performance art and -theory) and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. She is currently working on her artistic reasearch PhD in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Haapoja is represented by Gallery Kalhama&Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki..
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source: terikehaapojanet

Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist. With a specific focus in encounters with nature, death and other species, Haapoja’s work investigates the existential and political boundaries of our world. Haapoja’s work raises questions about the existential basis radical otherness provide for being, and about how different structures of exclusion and discrimination function as foundations for identity and culture. In recent projects, Haapoja’s work has been focusing more explicitly on how the otherness of nature and other species is constructed by political, theoretical and societal structures.. Haapoja’s work reveals how these structures are linked to both the oppression of people and the effect of neoliberal ideology in general. The notion of a world that is deeply rooted in the physicality and co-existence of beings and their multiple lifeworlds is at the core of Haapoja’s politically and ethically driven practice.

Haapoja approaches the previously mentioned themes by building up large projects, often realized in the forms of installations, related publications and participatory acts. Recent projects include Closed Circuit – Open Duration (2008/2013), last seen in the Venice Biennale, which focused on questions of mortality, co-existence and the relationship between humans and nature while adopting scientific technologies, The Party of Others -project (2011-ongoing), which looks at the status of other species and other groups excluded from the law by appropriating the form of a political party, and The History of Others (2012-ongoing) with author Laura Gustafsson. Haapoja’s work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in Finland and internationally.

Haapoja contributes regularly to Finnish and international art publications. She was the editor of mustekala.info issue ”After the Animal” (2013), co-editor of special issue ”Animal” of Esitys -journal (2013) and co-editor of the Finnish Bioart Society’s publication Field_Notes: From Landscape to Laboratory (2013).

Haapoja represented Finland in the Venice Biennale in 2013 with a solo show in the Nordic Pavilion. Her work has been awarded with Dukaatti prize (2008), Säde -prize (2009) and Finland’s Festival’s artist of the year -honorary mention in 2007. Haapoja was nominated for Ars Fennica – prize candidate in 2011. The History of Others was awarded with Kiila-prize in 2013.