The Helsinki Festival Night of the Arts in August
2009: A beautiful art performance took place at the Helsinki Senate Square; Plasticiens Volantsin Perle, by a group of artists directed by Marc
Bureau, tells the story of the journey of a pearl through underwater dangers.
Sea serpents, medusas, whales and fish dance in the air above to the tune of
music composed by Phillippe Bonnet. Thousands of people saw the
poetically beautiful work in the Helsinki summer night – and the performance
was immortalized in their camera phones. I myself also filmed the creatures
floating in the air, and afterwards noticed in the images the sea of light
produced by thousands of mobile phone cameras.
Image 22: The Senate Square in Helsinki, August 2008.
Capture from unpublished mobile video taken by Marjo Mäenpää, 2009
What do people do with all these pictures and videos?
In what kind of situations do they watch their videos? Do those who were
present compare their angles of view with each other? Do they send their
glimpses of atmosphere out as greetings somewhere to the other side of the
world?
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