Elina Brotherus

2017, 90 x 120cm
After Francesca Woodman, About Being My Model, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

2017, 60 x 80 cm
After Larry Miller, 220 Yard Balloon Dash, 1970
All runners have as many inflated balloons as possible tied to their bodies. Once the balloons are in place, they run a normal 220 yard race.

2017, 60 x 80 cm
After Larry Miller, 220 Yard Balloon Dash, 1970
All runners have as many inflated balloons as possible tied to their bodies. Once the balloons are in place, they run a normal 220 yard race.

2017, 2 x 70 x 52 cm
After John Baldessari, Binary Series, 1974
Instead of an ongoing linear mode, a simple binary system is employed. On/off, yes/no, etc.
(Photographed at Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki, in the set design by Salla Salin and Heikki Paasonen.)

2016, 70x104cm
After Takehisa Kosugi, Manodharma with Mr Y, 1964
Watch over every part of Mr. Y’s body about 10 cm apart when he brushes his teeth. If it is dark, a flashlight may be used. If it is bright, a magnifying glass may be used.

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After Tuomas Timonen, Is it possible to sit so low? 2017

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After Tuomas Timonen, Is it possible to sit so low? 2017

2017, 80x106 cm
After Merce Cunningham: “Take an object or a person if you want, and transport that object elsewhere, you will see it differently: it’s not the object that changed, it’s the situation.” (From David Vaughan : Merce Cunningham, un demi-siècle de danse, Éditions Plume, 1997)

2017, 50 × 37 cm
After Henning Christiansen, Das grüne Ohr, 1983

2016, 80x100cm
After Tuomas Timonen, I am are here in a different way than a toothbrush and a phone charger
From the series 113 Aforisms, 2015

2017, 1 out of 11, 30 x 40 cm
After Tuomas Timonen, Description of an image, 2015

2017, 11 photographs, 30 x 40 cm each
After Tuomas Timonen, Description of an image, 2015

2017, 70 x 88 cm
After Tuomas Timonen, Description of an image, 2015

2017, 80 x 56 cm
After Mieko Shiomi, Falling Event, 1963
Let something fall from a high place.

2017, 80 x 56 cm
After George Brecht, Drip Music, 1959

2017, 2 x 70 x 93 cm
After Vera Nevanlinna, Find Five Errors, 2017

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After Arthur Köpcke, from Reading-Work-Pieces, Piece No 10, 1966

2017, 90 x 120 cm
After George Maciunas, 12 compositions for piano – for Nam June Paik, Composition no.5: Place a dog or a cat (or both) inside a piano and play Chopin, 1962, and after Flux-Harpsichord Konzert, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, organised by René Block, Sept. 3, 1976

2017, 70 x 91 cm
After Milan Knízák, Performance File 40, Lying Ceremony, December 12, 1968
Everybody lies on a floor with a kerchief on his eyes. For a long time.

2017, 2 x 60 x 75 cm
After Tuomas Timonen,
I am >
I am <
2015

2017, 60 x 80 cm
After Asta Gröting, Ich male einfach was ich sehe, 1985.

2016, 2 x 70 x 87 cm

After Tuomas Timonen, I’m nothing but a screen that you can project your images of joy upon. / I’m nothing but a screen that you can project your images of sorrow upon, 2016

2017, 9 x 30 x 40 cm each (edition of 3) and individual photos 60 x 80 cm each (edition of 3)
After Benjamin Patterson, Paper Piece, 1960
Improvise with paper

2017, 90 x 67 cm
After Tuomas Timonen, You are in the sky unlike / a bird in the sky, 2015

2017, 40 x 53 cm
After Tristan Tzara, Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love, 1920
To make a dadaist poem / Take a newspaper. / Take a pair of scissors. / Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem. / Cut out the article. / Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag. / Shake it gently. / Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag. / Copy conscientiously. / The poem will be like you.

video still

2017, 60 x 80 cm each
After George Brecht, Three Lamp Events, 1961
on. off.
lamp
off. on.

2017, 80 x 60 cm
After John Cage, Lean on elbow. Whistle three times. From 45’ for a Speaker, 1954

2016, 70 x 104 cm
After Yoko Ono, Lighting Piece, 1955
Light a match and watch it till it goes out.

2017, sequence of four images, 60 x 40 cm each
After Giuseppe Chiari,  Look intensely at somebody's hand, 1970s

2017, 2 x 70x52 cm photographs + HD video on screen
After Tuomas Timonen, Love Poem Machine, 2015
Start with the first card from the first pile, move on to any card from the second pile, and similarly to the third and fourth pile. Then return to the first pile and continue to pick random cards from each pile. Like this you can perform an endless love poem always when needed!

2017, still image from the video
After Tuomas Timonen, Love Poem Machine, 2015

2017, 9 x 30 x 43 cm (edition of 3) and individual photos 60 x 86 cm (edition of 3)
After Bengt af Klintberg, Orange Event Number 16 (for Åke Hodell), 1963-1966
Regard two or three oranges for a long time.

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After Mieko Shiomi, Passing Music for a Tree, 1964
Pass by a tree or let some object pass by a tree, but each time differently.

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After Mieko Shiomi, Passing Music for a Tree, 1964
Pass by a tree or let some object pass by a tree, but each time differently.

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After Mieko Shiomi, Passing Music for a Tree, 1964
Pass by a tree or let some object pass by a tree, but each time differently.

2017, 90 x 120 cm
After Elina Brotherus, Performance is canceled due to illness, 2017.

2017, 40 x 60 cm
After Tuomas Timonen, Prepare coffee (with percolator or espresso pot) and use a metronome (recommendation 208 bpm).
From Pieces for Liimatainen, 2010

2017, 70 x 95 cm
After Ben Vautier, Regardez-moi Çela suffit, 1962

2017, 60 x 80 cm
After George Brecht, Three Dances, 1960
Hand-Shaking
Salting
Not-Two

2017, 60 x 80 cm
After George Brecht, Three Dances, 1960
Hand-Shaking
Salting
Not-Two

2017, 60 x 80 cm
After George Brecht, Three Dances, 1960
Hand-Shaking
Salting
Not-Two

2017
After Arthur Köpcke, People ask: why? I answer: why not.
From Reading-Work-Piece No 56, 1966

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After George Brecht, Thursday, 1960

2016, 70 x 88 cm
After Mieko Shiomi, Wind Music, Fluxversion I, 1963
Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them.

2017, 70 x 93 cm
After George Brecht, the yellow ball
from Cloud Scissors: music, dance, stories, games, puzzles, jokes, defections, solutions, problems, biography, questions, poems, answers, gifts to Robert Filliou from George Brecht