Mikki Noroila (they/them) works between moving image and the performing arts. Their recent artistic practice has focused on the politics of memory and marginalized histories from the perspective of family histories.
BFA degree work at the Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts‘ BFA Exhibition 2022.
6min, HD-video, stereo
Šulauvunnasta ta erošta is an episode from a video work-in-progress, in which I examine the historical and contemporary effect of the discourse of Karelianist-Orientalism on the Viena Karelian village of Rimpi from the perspective of the body and family histories. Rimpi is one of the three Viena Karelian villages located within the borders of the Finnish state.
The founder of the village, Rimmin Ul’l’aška, who was my great-great-great-great-great grandfather, was the live model for the role of Väinämöinen in the second version of Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Aino-triptych (1891). The painting is probably the best-known visual reference point of Karelianist art.
In the work I focus on the descendants of Ul’l’aška's Vasili's Outi's, and my grandfather’s photo archive.
