Remembering the Year of Tiger
Image, Memory, Site
Abstract
As part of the research project How to do things with performance (HTDTWP 2016–2020) one of my tasks has been to re-activate the twelveyear project “Performing Landscape” (2002–2014) and the series of video works Animal Years. In this article, I focus on the video compilation “Remembering the Year of the Tiger”, with the videos Year of the Tiger 1–4 inserted in the recording of a revisit, in June 2019, to the site where those works were performed in 2010–2011 on Harakka Island in Helsinki. A former emphasis on a strong distinction between animate and inanimate, influenced by Teresa Brennan, is juxtaposed with an understanding of the materiality of the site, influenced by Karen Barad’s agential realism and Stacy Alaimo’s notion trans-corporeality. By returning to the performance site and combining images and ideas from then and now, issues related to memory, image and performance are brought to the fore and discussed.
