Projects
Jennie June
Suzanne
Silt
Pins & Needles
Vers le Blanc
Depressions & Elevations
Fuck U, Live at Volksbühne
Greywater
CV
Contact:
studio@iidassi.com
They pursue this through multi-layered investigations into perceived dualisms, questioning received narratives around the natural and the built environment, institutional and geological history, and national and individual identity. Projects often span multiple years and evolve across a variety of media, with an emphasis on the perspective of the camera operator.
Formally trained as cinematographers, Jonsson and Saarinen use film, photography, and the embodied movement of the camera - often shooting hand-held, without stabilizing devices, creating a choreography of and for the lens. They combine their cinematographic assays with archival materials, found objects and artifacts, original field research, and collaborations with sound artists and performers to translate these ongoing studies into formats for public display, with an emphasis on site-specific installations.
As such, their work operates within, outside, and between the walls of the “institution,” broadly defined — revealing the contours of the museum, the university, the archive, the state, and the edifice that is the art world in order to permeate them, opening new doors to interpretation and experience of the histories, ideas, and narrative environments that surround and structure life.
Suzanne, Terrarium, Greywater, Fuck U, Live at Volksbühne, and Silt were made with artist Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė. Vers le Blanc was made with musician Hannes Ferm. Data Free Zone was made with researcher Victoria Harnesk.