Lotta-Pia Kallio: Building a Sacred tree
Completion year: 2012
Technique: Media
Edition: 5
Keywords: Lotta-Pia Kallio, videotaide, puu, mytologia, Building a Sacred tree
Building a Sacred Tree is 7min 14 seconds long video where the laborers (Salo firemen) assemble a large tree. Tree represents in many cultures the link between the worlds. These trees were worshiped and they were offerings. They listened to the prayers, improved, helped and determined the fate. The Sacred Tree acts as a mediator of humans and gods, as well as between the living and the dead. Centuries later, on this day, we still have trees, which we respect, protect and defend at all costs.
Exhibitions:
2017 Silmänjuhla, media-art week in Salo city center
2015 Motion Art, Richard Eversley, Kendra Fleischman, Lotta-Pia Kallio, Heidi Eversley, Electronic Art Gallery, Colorado State University, Department of Art and Art History
2014 Art of Motion, International Digital Motion Arts Exhibition, Lakewood, Colorado
2014 Fluxations, outside video screening in Turku
2013 Utopie Distribuée, Gallery White Project, Paris, France
2012 Estivales dÁrt contemporain, Sceaux, France
2012 Baladez vot´tele, Larcade Gallery, paris, France
2012 StreeTVideoArt -street art happening, Paris, France
2012 Building a Sacred tree, bublic videoscrening (20.10-8.11. 2012, jumboscreen, Astrum-centre)