Under Control
2021, video, ‘18
Under Control portrays human actions from the level of an insect; The Botanical Garden starts to look different. The garden is full of life – some is brought there, some is born there. Among their other tasks, the gardeners fight for and against life using heavy force, poisons and cryptobugs ordered from abroad. The cyrptobugs are bred to be predators, their sole raison d’être is to eat the pests. Plants are a battlefield in the struggle for life and beauty. For some, the garden is just a peaceful place to relax or take pictures, for others a workplace, for some a prison.
In Forum Box’s Mediabox, Under Control is seen for the first time as a loop, merging the beginning and end of the work and mixing the sequence and consequences of events.
Mediabox is Forum Box gallery’s space dedicated to media art. The program is created in collaboration with AV-arkki.
There are three steps to the media art space Mediabox, but the work is also available for viewing on a tablet by request. Please don’t hestitate to contact our staff if Mediabox is inaccessible for you.