i spent some time this afternoon in kiasma (helsinkis modern art museum). it was my second trip in eleven days, and this time thankfully i had a camera to take pictures of some of the cool things i saw when i was there the last time.

one of the things that stuck in my mind was this piece by finnish artist jaakko niemelä, it was called “hidas esitys” (slow motion) and it involved a very large block of concrete being slowly destroyed and day by day the arrival of tiny dinky sized emergency vehicles to attend to the rescue (complete with flashing lights).

i will try to go back closer to the date that it all finishes to see how it ends up.

the next thing that i really enjoyed was a video/computer instillation by a british artist called charles sandison. it was a series of five video projections in which he used computer code to represent the life of a village. as you can see from the above picture, there was males, females, children, old people and at the end dead people. they were surrounded by random bit of food to which the “male” would head off. they returned and “mated” with the females to produce several “child” characters. time would progress and death became commonplace. fascinating!.

i’ll try to post more pics from it all next week. i’m off to a summer cottage tomorrow and back sunday sometime.