Tämä Loputon Ranta (This Endless Beach) is a private event on the 15th of July, combining a video screening by media artist Paju Hämäläinen, and a live music performance by music producer huntu (Matias Heinonen), curated and organized by Hertta Salokorpi.
The screening and performance takes place in the cellar of Villa Eläintarha, which served as an intimate, unique space for the first presentations of the works to an audience. The programme is followed by a relaxed gathering in the idyllic backyard of the Villa.
The video piece Life’s a Beach explores Paju’s generation’s relationship with nature, and the desire to nurture the quality of this current relationship: “My generation’s relationship with nature is often characterized by otherness or mystification: nature is seen as a non-human counterpart to humans, leading to a division where human beings and human-related matters are considered separate from nature. Instead of making such distinctions, the work examines a young adult’s relationship with nature as a dynamic phenomenon that manifests through actions and agency within the environment”. The work will be presented at Galleria Toinen Silmä on the 5th of September.
Matias, performing under the artist name huntu, played a live set based on their recently released EP Tämä Loputon Aava, a 20-minute thematic work exploring grief: “Grief is not a veil or a state of numbness: it is a driving, surging force that moves one forward and closer to oneself.”
