HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
Open: Tue-Fr 12:00-17:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00 (on the Night of the Arts, Fri 21 Aug: 12:00-22:00)


14 August – 6 September 2009
Kari Yli-Annala
LANDSCAPE: EUROPE 1.0

 
Landscape: Europe 1.0 is an exhibition consisting of short, aphoristic video works based on documentary material. It is part of a work in progress in which I examine human activity in the European urban landscape, and the possibility of expressing ongoing political changes in my art. The video works in Hippolyte Studio are now shown for the first time as a single whole.
 
The focus in my creative work is on moving image, installation and performance art. My aim is to understand contemporary discourse on society and its significance. In my work I combine this interest with moving image technologies. The starting points of my current creative work are indistinguishable from the failure of the politics of responsibility in its new phase in the 1990s, a failure I feel has also corrupted my own thinking. I see the autonomy of art as a kind of self-delusion, and am searching for a new ethics to interrogate the idea of its purity.
 
Kari Yli-Annala
 
Kari Yli-Annala (born 1965) is a moving image artist, researcher and lecturer, as well as a member of FixC, a co-operative for the promotion of video and media art. In addition to moving image art, Yli-Annala studied painting at the Kankaanpää Art School from 1987–88, and graduated from the Department of Fine Art Media at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. His solo exhibitions include Galleri Leena Kuumola, Galleria Huuto and Kluuvi Gallery in Helsinki. Yli-Annala's video works have been screened at the Helsinki Photography Festival, in the MUU Studio, at the Kettupäivät short film festival, in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, at the Tampere Film Festival as well as several media art festivals around the world (including Germany, China and Hungary).
 
 
We wish to thank CARTES Centre of Art and Technology Espoo for the loan of audiovisual equipment for this exhibition.

The exhibition is a part of the program of the Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts.
(http://nomadinenakatemia.blogspot.com)

Kari Yli-Annala, 2009 (videostill)






Information and press images:
Anna Talassalo-Costa / Hippolyte Studio, +358 9 612 33 44, info@hippolyte.fi