Do Rivers Really Ever End?
Kati Roover
24 - 29.11.2018
Opening: Saturday 24.11 at 17:00 - 19:00
Visiting times: 25.11 - 29.11.2018
Tuesday - Sunday: 13:00 - 18:00 (28.11 13:00 - 17:00)
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Do Rivers Really Ever End? is a poetic essay film, in which the personal, indigenous/local and scientific knowledge are combined. What is the poetic and life giving significance of rivers for individuals, communities and other beings? What happens when a person enters into the flow of the river ecosystem and influences and is influenced by its cycles? What does it mean for a river, and its associated natural elements, to have rights?
Do Rivers Really Ever End? is an attempt to feel empathy toward these inanimate flowing ecosystems, rivers, at the time when life giving river ecosystems are drying, are dammed, polluted and transformed. The work is part of my larger hydrofeminist five part project Hydrologic.
Võhandu river in Estonia, Klong Saeng river in Thailand, Whanganui river in New Zealand, Amazon rivers Rio Negro and Solimōes in Brazil, Deatnu (Tana, Teno) river in Northern Finland, Alpine rivers in Italy and Red river in Canada.
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Kati Roover (b. 1982) lives and works in Helsinki. Her works are often based on different ways of forming knowledge as well as the fleeting concept of a place in the midst of massive environmental changes. Roover’s interests include natural sciences, anthropology and documentary essay films. She mainly works with moving image, photography, sound, text and installations. Roover received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Helsinki) in 2016. She has taken part in various festivals, screenings and exhibitions in Finland and abroad since year 2007.
http://www.katiroover.com/
Do Rivers Really Ever End? is an attempt to feel empathy toward these inanimate flowing ecosystems, rivers, at the time when life giving river ecosystems are drying, are dammed, polluted and transformed. The work is part of my larger hydrofeminist five part project Hydrologic.
Võhandu river in Estonia, Klong Saeng river in Thailand, Whanganui river in New Zealand, Amazon rivers Rio Negro and Solimōes in Brazil, Deatnu (Tana, Teno) river in Northern Finland, Alpine rivers in Italy and Red river in Canada.
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Kati Roover (b. 1982) lives and works in Helsinki. Her works are often based on different ways of forming knowledge as well as the fleeting concept of a place in the midst of massive environmental changes. Roover’s interests include natural sciences, anthropology and documentary essay films. She mainly works with moving image, photography, sound, text and installations. Roover received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Helsinki) in 2016. She has taken part in various festivals, screenings and exhibitions in Finland and abroad since year 2007.
http://www.katiroover.com/
