The Committee
Pilvi Takala
Carlos/Ishikawa, London
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- Title
- The Committee
- Gallery
- Carlos/Ishikawa, London
- Year
- 2014
- Duration
- 15 min 43 s
- Format & Technical
Single channel, HD Video, Colour, Sound
5 + 2 AP
- Camera
- Edit
- Sound edit
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- Supported by
- Special Thanks
In “The Committee”, children explain how they decided to spend the £7,000.00 prize money, that Pilvi Takala won at the 2013 Emdash Award 2013, and discuss the process of decision making and the values guiding their decisions.
Pilvi Takala was the winner of the 2013 Emdash Award, aimed towards production of a new art work for Frieze Art Fair London 2013. The artist invited a group of children aged 8 to 12 who were regulars at a youth centre in Bow, London to spend her award. They were free to spend the money any way they wanted, as well as to choose how they would formulate decisions as a group. In The Committee, the children explain how they decided to spend the £7,000.00 prize money and discuss the process of decision making and the values guiding their decisions.
Stills
Pilvi Takala
- Artist
1981, Helsinki
Pilvi Takala obtained her MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2009-2010. Recent solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Künstlerhaus Bremen; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Turku Art Museum; Kunsthalle Lissabon and Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions and screenings at The International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Kunstverein Munich; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; New Museum, New York; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunsthalle Basel; De Hallen Haarlem; Wiels, Brussels; 4th Moscow Biennial; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 4th Bucharest Biennial; 5th Berlin Biennial; 9th Istanbul Biennial and Kunsthalle Helsinki. She won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the EMDASH Award, Frieze Foundation in 2013.
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Carlos/Ishikawa
- Address
- Unit 4, 88 Mile End Road, E1 4UN, London, United Kingdom
- Phone
- + 44 (0) 20 7001 1744
- Website
- www.carlosishikawa.com
Carlos/Ishikawa is a contemporary art gallery focusing on international artists with wideranging, multidisciplinary and experimental practices. Artists currently represented work with performance, sound, internet, dance, film, installation and text, as well as painting and sculpture. Founded in 2011, the gallery has offered the first solo show in London to many artists including Oscar Murillo, Henry Taylor and Korakrit Arunanondchai. Represented artists have exhibited in institutions such as MoMA, MoMA PS1, Venice Biennale, UCCA, Palais de Tokyo, New Museum, Chisenhale Gallery, ICA, Lyon Biennial amongst many others. Carlos/Ishikawa represents Marie Angeletti, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Steve Bishop, Ed Fornieles, Lloyd Corporation, Stuart Middleton, Oscar Murillo, Richard Sides and Pilvi Takala.