Artist’s Work Hours

HNGR - NikoSkorpio (frame grab)

There’s the notion that the artist is always as work, even if it doesn’t always seem like it. At least some parts of their brain are at work. I have to agree, and often it’s not the question of choice but simply the way the mind works.

Out 2 collective film installation @ Venice Biennale

Out 2 installation at Research Pavilion / Venice Biennale

Out 2 is a collective film installation and related explorative events, inspired by Jacques Rivette’s enigmatic 13-hour film Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971). Out 2 investigates “accessibility” to contemporaneity via historical moments. It intertwines documentary and fabricated fragments, also produced in the event, into a sculptural moving image composition. Friday, August 18, 2017 – … Read more

PARAFERAL

It is time to begin revealing things I’ve been preparing some time. PARAFERAL is my studio and a new creative outlet for visual, sonic and other productions. A great deal of the work remains under the surface, but some things will soon begin to pop up for public consumption. There’s also a page on FB. … Read more

A Glimpse of Sleep

Setting up prints - Niko Skorpio

The other day I set up some photographic prints and a video for an exhibition in Humppila. The photos present a brief early selection from something I’m currently working on, now known as Centennial Sleep (Satavuotinen uni). The moving image piece is called From Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Unen seinämän takaa), a video installation … Read more