As you enter the exhibition, you step into a partly public courtyard.There is a playground, guarded by attentive eyes. You climb up onto soft sand and feel an inquisitively warm gaze upon you, as though your skin were beneath a magnifying glass on a bright summer’s day.
Slowly, self-voyeurism seeps into the game. Who knows what they see? Or how they see? How do you see? Who are you watching? Are you watching yourself? Is it even you? The skin begins to hurt. It burns. But there’s something pleasurable in that too, isn’t there?
Your attention drifts to windows surrounding the playground. You hope to find someone like you there, someone whose manner and movement might hold you at the window for minutes, hours or days.
Take your time: offer yourself to the anonymous someone. Lie down, spin around and, why not, gift the space a somersault. The work is being documented for the artist’s archive.
The rad rats artistic collective (Anumai Raska, Kärt Koppel, Kristiina Tinnu Tang, Laura Sinimäe, Piret Parrest and Liisbeth Horn (temporarily away)) came together in August 2023 through the project “Stalker Dance” as part of the SAAL Biennial’s fibre programme. In 2024, their collaborative performance “Rat’s Rumba” premiered at the Kanuti Gildi SAAL. The installation “no-fomo”, currently on view at the Tartu Art House, is the final part of their trilogy reflecting on surveillance society.
“no-fomo” public program
Triin Kauber / August 8, 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Anna Ovtšinnikova / August 15, 2:00 p.m.
Hendrik Kaljujärv / August 30, 3:00 p.m.
The exhibition is being supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Puumarket and Wise.
