The Shore Revisited

Abstract

This video article is based on a recorded return, in 2018, to the site of a performance for camera repeated weekly on Harakka Island in Helsinki during the year of the goat (2003–2004) as well as for a day and night during Easter that year. The video installations made fourteen years earlier are inserted in miniature format within the recent recording, complemented by journal entries from the day and night. The voice-over text discusses concerns relevant at the time of recording the performances and displaying the installations for the first time, such as the question what is repeated, what stays the same. It uses these works to exemplify one possible understanding of Karen Barad’s notion agential cut.