Poliisimeditaatio/ Meditations on The Police, 2022

Video Performative video art work ‘Meditations on The Police’ was presented as my MFA thesis project in The Mylly building of The Academy of Fine Arts in May 2022. The 20 minute long video called was accompanied by a 36-page publication describing the process behind the video as well as discussions concerning the piece. The publication was called ‘How is the work really like, what was your toughest gig – Artist’s thoughts about changing a career’. The first part of the name refers to two of the most common guestions that police officers have to answer when interviewed about their profession. The performative/ conceptual project deals with questions related to choosing a career, gaining knowledge through texts and images, police representations and the professional identity of an artist. It consists of following materials: Found fictional and documentrary images of police officers PR and recruitment material produced by the Police/ Police University Captions of texts written by different people working as a police Caption from a police interview. Digital photography describing my efforts trying to reach experiences of people working in law enforcement through different activities made by several people that I had a possibility to co-operate with Screen recordings describing photo manipulating of the images of local police A clip from a podcast interview of a researcher of international politics Brian Klaas My own voice over Graphic design of the Police University entrance examination text book The supervisors of the project were Pilvi Takala and Antti Nylén. The work as well as the written part describing the process will be examined by Tytti Rantanen and Kari Yli-Annala. Representing one or both parts of the artwork can be negotiated. Links to the video and to the publication should not be shared publicly. Screening of the video or printing the publication should not be done without consulting the artist.