”An Isle And Other Cuts”
Cable Gallery at Cable Factory, Helsinki
5 . 7 . – 31 . 7. 2002
What is it , that makes us distinguish between fictional and documentary? Can we locate a line between the two or is it arbitrary? What does fiction consist of?
The exhibition is a deconstruction of the concept of fiction. My main concern is to study the structures behind the so called fiction. My aim is to reveal the construction of a fictional piece and to stress the relativity of the line between fiction and reality. My working method is to construct a fictional piece after which I deconstruct it. This aims to point out that once the elements of a fictional piece have been separated from the original use they become independent. What starts to characterise the essence of these elements now, is no longer utility, but location, space and environment.
The exhibition consists of a video piece, an installation and a series of photographs. The video is the main piece – the core – of the exhibiton as a whole. The installation is the staging construction at which the video was filmed. The series of photographs reveals the scene behind the screen. It represents the scenery at which the video was filmed as well as presents the actual working process of the video.
1.A videoprojection of ”The Isle” and a staging contsruction
2.”Cross-sections”, a seres of photographs
SYNOPSIS, SAARI
Työ käsittelee tilannetta, jossa yksilö ei voi toimia
haluamallaan tavalla, koska se on joko sopimatonta tai hän ei tiedä
muista toimintatavoista.
Teoksessa kokeilen lavastuksen ja videokerronnan
suhdetta. Jos lavastus muuttuu itsenäiseksi visuaaliseksi teokseksi,
mitä tapahtuu kertomukselle.
Björn Aho: Saari, videoteos, dvd 2 min 40 sec, 2002
Kuvaustilanne: lavastettu huone.
Kuvauspaikka: lavastus meren rannala.
Henkilöt: kolme miestä ja nainen
Tapahtumain kulku:
1) Ikkunasta näkyy meri. Mies istuu pöydän ääressä ja tekee töitään hajamieleisesti. Nainen kävelee tilaan.
2) Nainen ja mies kohtaavat.
3) Mies kääntää naiselle selkänsä ja kävelee pois. Taustalla tapahtuu kahden miehen välinen draama. He istuvat rinnakkain sängyllä. Yhtäkkiä toinen mies heittää toisen maahan.
4) Mies, joka lähti naisen luota, palaa huoneeseen, jossa on pöytä. Mies heittää pöydän nurin ja menee katsomaan ikkunasta merta.
5) Maahan heitetty mies nousee ja istuu sängylle heittäjän viereen.
Björn Aho ”An Isle” a video piece, dvd 2 min 40 sec, 2002
Synopsis
The video piece presents a situation at which a person is incapable of behaving the way he/she would prefer to, because it is either inappropriate or he/she does not know how to handle things.
In the video piece I aim to examine the positions of staging and video narration. The question is, does it affect the script if the staging construction is turned into an independent entity – a piece of an art work.
Filming scene: a staged room.
Filming scenery: a staging construction by the sea.
Actors: three men and a woman.
Scenario:
1) A view towards a sea through a window. A man sits at a table drawing something absent-mindedly. A woman enters the room.
2) The woman and the man confront each other -face to face.
3) The man turns his back on the woman and walks away. At the back of the stage there is a scene at which two men sit on a bed numb. Suddenly the other one throws the other onto the floor.
4) The man who left the woman returns to the room with the table in it. He crushes the table onto the floor and walks to the window to look at the sea.
5) The man thrown onto the floor gets up and sits down to the bed beside the other man.
Björn Aho Artist 