Thru' & Thru' (Finland)
Thru’ & Thru’ is a 360-degree video installation on a cylinder. Video is projected from two opposite directions, creating an edgeless, 360-degree projection surface where any picture can continously revolve around and around and around. The result is an ongoing journey of a person, a bus, and a landscape perpetually moving forward in an edgeless, endless dimention. There are no single destinations, only multiple journeys.
Thru’ & Thru’ (Vol. 1) - PixelACHE Exhibition, Kiasma Seminar Room
The original gallery version of the work is an ambient narritive about one man on a journey. He emerges into a void, white, round dimetion where he can walk in one direction and still keep coming back to where he left from. He makes his way on a bus. He arrives at a landscape. As he stands still, the landscape behind him revolves and changes and revolves as he stands there. He walks around once more. The voyage abstracts onto a chaos of running, colors flowing faster, and neverending landscapes. Certainly, the man has gone somewhere, but the world that he lives in looks exactly as incoprehensibly similar, as identical as before.
Thru’ & Thru’ (Vol. 2) - LASIPALATSI CLOCKTOWER . Thu, 1.4 - Sun, 4.4, 8pm - 12pm.
Further volumes of Thru’ & Thru’ are projected onto existing monuments and architecture in public envirnoments. Each site gives a new context to the work and is an exciting challenge and opportunity to show different interpretaitions of the work - different points of view about travelling. The central location of the Lasipalatsi Clocktower urges me to apply images of buses and crowds revolving around and around, as they do in central Helsinki. At the same time, the size and visibility of the tower allows an uplifing contrast to the reality of the form, in a transformation, where it becomes an amazing tower of galactic space energy and color patters.
Thru’ & Thru’ has been supported by City of Helsinki, Lasipalatsi Media Centre, Kruunuradio (Vol. 1) and RGB Oy (Vol. 2).