Tapiola Garden City
2019
Two-Channel Video Projection
The utopic city of Tapiola was developed in the 1950s to allow people to live close to nature in a modern setting. The city’s name is derived from “Tapio”, the forest god of Finnish mythology, which hunters prayed to before the hunt. In this video “TAPIOLA GARDEN CITY", hunters are repurposing the fading epitome of a Garden City, by setting up animal traps of found and natural materials amidst the city’s modernist architecture by well-known Finnish architects as Alvar Aalto, Aarne Ervi and Viljo Revell and others. Yet these modern buildings are not the only structures to be found in Tapiola, foundations of an ancient Russian fortress appears unexpectedly alongside the new, providing additional territory for the hunt. This odd, but hopeful video, is a homage to Tapiola and its vision of an idyllic future.
Director: Louise Noguchi
Camera: Louise Noguchi & June Pak
Video Editor: June Pak
Sound Editor & Mix: Michelle Irving
2019
Two-Channel Video Projection
The utopic city of Tapiola was developed in the 1950s to allow people to live close to nature in a modern setting. The city’s name is derived from “Tapio”, the forest god of Finnish mythology, which hunters prayed to before the hunt. In this video “TAPIOLA GARDEN CITY", hunters are repurposing the fading epitome of a Garden City, by setting up animal traps of found and natural materials amidst the city’s modernist architecture by well-known Finnish architects as Alvar Aalto, Aarne Ervi and Viljo Revell and others. Yet these modern buildings are not the only structures to be found in Tapiola, foundations of an ancient Russian fortress appears unexpectedly alongside the new, providing additional territory for the hunt. This odd, but hopeful video, is a homage to Tapiola and its vision of an idyllic future.
Director: Louise Noguchi
Camera: Louise Noguchi & June Pak
Video Editor: June Pak
Sound Editor & Mix: Michelle Irving