{"id":86,"date":"2014-06-22T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T09:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freygish.com\/saara\/wordpress\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:58:32","slug":"videot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/?page_id=86","title":{"rendered":"Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since 2013, I have been creating performance videos. The performance always involves painting, either as animation or otherwise as part of the video. Often, it also includes a song sung by me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DURME \/ NUKU \/ SLEEP <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durme (Nuku, Sleep)<\/strong> tells a story of love and care in the midst of persecution. Spanning from the Middle Ages to the present, the work connects histories of displacement and refuge.

In the video, I sing a Ladino-language lullaby inside an Ice Age cave that has sheltered people for thousands of years. The performance also includes a painting that slowly comes to life as an animation.

After the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1492, Jewish communities carried Ladino\u2014medieval Spanish\u2014into exile, preserving it as a living language for more than 500 years.
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Durme, durme oil painting 100 cm x 366 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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EN M\u00c5LARINNAS SJ\u00c4LPORTR\u00c4TT \/ TAIDEMAALARIN OMAKUVA \/<\/strong><\/span>
SELF-PORTRAIT OF A PAINTER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

En m\u00e5larinnas sj\u00e4lvportr\u00e4tt, Taidemaalarin omakuva, Self-potrait of a painter <\/strong> i<\/span>n the video, the narrator is as if having a conversation with Helene Schjerfbeck. The narrative elements include drawing a shadow image referring to the myth of the birth of visual arts, the narrator’s own painting animation, painting over Schjerfbeck’s self-portrait, and a Me\u00e4nkieli (Tornedalian Finnish) song called ”Kryyvimaa.” Me\u00e4nkieli, based on Old Finnish, is a vanishing language in the Tornedalen region of Sweden, even though it has official minority language status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding Self-Portrait with Palette I seen in the video, Schjerfbeck has said that there is little red on the palette because there has been so little love in her life.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Self-Potrait of a painter, oil painting 100 cm x 100 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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HIRVI \/ ELK\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Hirvi (Elk) <\/strong>performance video, I clean an elk’s head that has been boiled in the forest and then take it to my studio as a model. I use the elk skull as a reference in a painting animation. In the performance, I establish a connection with the elk, which was a crucial subject in the rock paintings of the Stone Age throughout the Nordic regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skull, oil painting 150 cm x 105 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SYD\u00c4MENI LAULU \/ THE SONG OF MY HART<\/strong>
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”Syd\u00e4meni laulu” (The Song of My Heart) deals with death and the perplexity of a person in the face of death. When confronted with death, a person enters a strange intermediate state where ordinary everyday life fades away, and shared experiences with the deceased fill the mind. I seek words and expression for this state. The inspiration for the work comes from the poem ”Syd\u00e4meni laulu” by Aleksis Kivi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The song of my hart, oil painting 154,5 cm x 247,5 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 2013, I have been creating performance videos. The performance always involves painting, either as animation or otherwise as part of the video. Often, it also includes a song sung by me. DURME \/ NUKU \/ SLEEP Durme (Nuku, Sleep) tells a story of love and care in the midst of persecution. Spanning from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":185,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/saaramesterton_en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}