Video performance (Ask for full length version by emailing leena@leenakela.com)
Find a site which is either permanently or remarkably destroyed by human beings and make a flagging ceremony with an emergency blanket to commemorate the biodiversity loss in the area.
Performance sites: a clearcutting site, a peat bog, a quarry and a gravel pit. Video duration 4:25, premiered in June 2020 Performance Crossing festival, Prague, Czech
Performance: Leena Kela, Video and editing: Jussi Virkkumaa, Supporters: AVEK, FRAME and Arts Promotion Centre Finland
The project also includes performances made for camera in various sites where humans have made either permanent or remarkable destruction. Juomasuo is an area in Kuusamo Finland, where several multinational mining companies after one another has has been active in trying to start mining in the location and its surroundings. In the Juomasuo can be found cobalt, gold, but also uranium. There has been active local resistance towards mining in Juomasuo and the fight continues. Performance action in Juomasuo was made in July 2020.
- Poikilo Art Museum, Kouvola, Finland 2024
- Nykyaika gallery, Tampere, Finland 2023
- Turku Art Hall, Turku, Finland 2022
- Filmfront Festival screening, Novi Sad, Serbia 2022
- MUU Mediataidetori, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, Finland 2022
- VAFT-video art festival screening, Turku, Finland 2022
- KampusART-media art programme, EduCity media wall, Turku, Finland 2022
- Posture of Impermanence group exhibition, Art Museum Artsi, Vantaa, Finland 2021
- Northern Lights tour: Chicago, IL / Compound Yellow, Duluth, MN / Nordic Center, Los Angeles, CA / NOMAD by Torrance Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY / Open Source gallery 2021
- MUU Gala, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, Finland 2020
- Performance Crossing festival, Prague, Czech 2020
- The work was acquired to State Art Collection in 2020