Timanttimaha (Diamond Belly, 2018)

Video 11:15, HD 16:9, single channel

Staged as a conversation with an artificial intelligence chatbot, Timanttimaha (Diamond Belly) explores love and companionship between a human artist, the bot and mosquitoes. The human offers her body as a nourishing 'baguette' to the diamond-bellied mosquitoes, envisioning their bio-chemistry in complementary with her own haematic cycle.

Written with artificial intelligence chatbot Mitsuku
Co-performed with Dusty
Sound / score by Miša Skalskis
Camera work in collaboration by Merja Kokkonen
Supported by Kone Foundation

Originally commissioned by Melanie Bühler for a screening accompanying the exhibition Mozart's Ghost at Göteborgs Konsthall in April 2018. The video has also been shown at Gallery Augusta, Helsinki (curated by Adwait Singh). Sorbus, Helsinki; Rhinoceropolis, Denver, CO (curated by Coleman Mummery) and WORM Rotterdam (curated by Bergur Thomas Anderson). Description of the work written with A. Singh.