ROLE: New coding and sensor implementation for Heidi Tikka´s installation Mother and Child for Tampere Art Museum´s “Illusions”– exhibition on 26.2.2022 in Tampere, Finland.
Earlier revisions of the installation done by Heidi Tikka and her prior team in 2000 for F2F: New Media Art from Finland exhibition in the U.S. and Canada; in 2011 for Finnish Museum of Photography; and in 2015 for Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland.
WWW link for Illusions exhibition:
Artwork description:
Mother, Child 2022/2011/2000
Mother, Child 2011/2000/2022 Interactive video projection
Digital files, custom software and hardware
Tampere Art Museum 26.2. – 22.5.2022
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art 5.12.2014 –1.3.2015
Finnish Museum of Photography 21.10.-20.11.2011
Mother, Child provides a performative space for enacting an affective relation to the other, who appears to be more than a moving image, but less than a real living being.
The image of an infant is projected onto a white fabric that the spectator is advised to spread across her arms. The child is seen from the point of view of the nursing mother. He reacts to the audience movement around him by crying, as if disturbed, but can be comforted by the person holding him. These behaviors are intuitive and the audience gradually discovers them while interacting with the child. The installation is based on the double exposure of two kinds of projections: the video projection is aligned with the psychical projective experience of responding to an infant.
Mother, Child has been completely technically reconstructed in 2011 while it was exhibited at the Finnish Museum of Photography. The first version premiered in New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles in 2000.
Mother, Child (2000/2011/2022) Exhibitions:
2022 Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2015 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
2011 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Credits
Concept, production, video work, Heidi Tikka
New sensor and coding implementation 2022, Marko Tandefelt
Software development 2011, Juho Jouhtimäki
Software development 2000, Juhana Kallio
Technical design 2011/2000, Seppo Väkevä
Stage design 2011, Jaakko Pesonen
Exhibition architecture design 2000, Ilkka Suppanen, F2F
Financial support
Arts Council of Finland
Mother, Child 2000 in collaboration with F2F: New Media Art from Finland exhibition tour, by Finnish Cultural Institute in New York