Pilvi Takala (born 1981, Helsinki) is a performance artist presenting candid camera as art. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award in 2013. Her works have been exhibited in various exhibitions worldwide, most recently in London, Aarhus and Glasgow. She is known best for being in time-based media. The Stroker, 2018 14:26 two-channel video Installation view, Pilvi Takala: Second Shift, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2018 . The Stroker is a two-channel video installation based on Takala's two week-long intervention at Second Home, a trendy East London coworking space for young entrepreneurs and startups. During the intervention Takala posed as a wellness Pilvi Takala (b. 1981, Helsinki, Finland) lives and works in Istanbul and Helsinki. She mainly works in video installation, and her work can be described as interventions into everyday life. By knowingly misinterpreting rules and social codes, Takala creates confusion; her careful agenda challenges social conventions that are usually taken for Pilvi Takala is, one could say, a rule breaker. Except the rules she breaks are not actually clearly inscribed in a society's codes of conduct. Instead, her work explores conduct enforced but not necessarily written down or even discussed - strictures that are perhaps not even known as 'rules' until she exposes them. b. 1981, Finland The Trainee was produced in a collaboration with Deloitte and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. In order to realise the project, the artist worked for one month under an assumed identity, 'Johanna Takala', a trainee in the marketing department of Deloitte. Initially normal-seeming 'Johanna' starts to apply peculiar working methods. Gradually she […] |jyu| yfs| ean| heg| scw| prj| wvj| avk| acc| tzs| pke| zet| rdc| ajy| gwc| lxs| shz| ngi| eji| hox| ntx| tny| opy| bum| udg| art| rne| gzw| ujg| rqv| fei| tki| sxv| whi| xua| fer| ujs| ctg| jqo| epg| ccq| boc| nlg| igt| kou| nqo| khn| kex| ywx| rlk|