Laava is a love letter to things that cannot be written about; about love, exciting piles of twigs, longing, a disappearing landscape, memories you can’t trust. Writing either hurts, or it’s impossible to find the words. Lava is a love letter to things that cannot be written about: love, exciting piles of twigs, longing, a disappearing landscape, memories you can’t trust. Either writing hurts, or it is impossible to find the words. Lava is a continuation of the working group’s previous work Magma (2020). Both works deal with human relationships and ecology. The wishes for transformation, non-monogamy and boundless love, which were still partially smouldering under the surface, erupt in Lava, a video dealing with the end of a relationship.
Biography
Jade Kallio is working with a variety of media including experimental cinema, performance and installation art. Their personal and collaborative works mix speculative fiction with everyday life. Kallio’s works have been presented at festivals and institutions such as Europian Media Art Festival (2019, 2017), Beursschouwburg Art Center Brussels (2019), Kunsthalle Osnabrueck (2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019, 2017), CCA derry (2016), HAM gallery (2017), Turku Art Museum (2017), Gallery Sinne (2017).
Remi Vesala is a curator living in Helsinki. Vesala takes situations and places as starting points for curatorial work, aiming to make space for complexity, theory and emotions. Vesala shares an artistic practice together with visual artist Jade Kallio. Together they make experimental short films focusing on queer eco-fiction.