The video Luukkaankangas – updated, revisited deals with the traffic landscape of the motor highways and motorways in Finnland. They represent the dispositiv of today’s mobility that implicates a specific understanding of space. They form transit spaces without defining a historical or geographic reference point. The video work abstracts the road traffic-related task of the street and focuses its formal image as a line, lane or hieroglyph in the landscape.

In Finnland, there exists a country-wide road control system (Finnish Road Administration), which photographs motorways and country roads with respect to their weather condition via webcams, and feeds the internet with the information at an interval of about 15-30 min.

For the realization of the video installation Luukkaankangas – updated, revisited, more than 20.000 single photos were taken from the internet.
(Dariusz Kowalski)

Translation: Helga Droschl