Amir Jan, Anna Knappe and Pekka Niskanen. Mobile Diaspora is a series of short videos in which asylum seekers talk about their lives on their own terms. The videos portray asylum seekers as active participants who talk about their lives in camps and the endless waiting while their asylum cases are processed, their hopes and […]
Østfold kunstsenter, Fredrikstad, Norway VIDEO INSTALLATION: HD video (duration: 17 minutes) Prints on aluminium Carpet Windows A camp is a place where mohajers live in a state of waiting. Mohajers are asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants in precarious situations and their camps are reception centers, detention centers, and temporary shelters. Camps are often located in […]
Anna Knappe, Amir Jan and Laura Böök HD video 2016 Duration: 21 min Mohajer (Camp-e-forsat) is video projection about the experiences and struggles of Afghans born and living in exile. The film was shot in an asylum seeker reception center in Forssa, a small industrial town in Finland, together with a group of Hazara asylum […]
Two ends of the waste line is one work in two parts: a video installation consisting of a video projection (East) and a crocheted carpet (West). The work is a discussion between two geographical locations, which are connected by textile waste, a byproduct of textile and fashion industries. East HD video 10:07 min East is […]
Photographic series Inkjet prints 43 x 65 cm When the land is occupied, every image of it becomes political. Any photograph in the wrong hands can be used for gathering information and for justifying oppression. These photographic prints are made from pictures taken in Palestine in March 2015. They are merged together, preserving all the […]
video installation The installation consists of an open tent with two videos, one playing outside the tent (Welcome to Finland, duration: 7:43 min) and one playing inside the tent (Immigrant Birds, duration 14:22 min). In autumn 2012 in Helsinki, two Afghan asylum seekers held hunger strike for 71 days. They camped in Kansalaistori during the […]
1280 × 720 HD video Collection of YouTube videos Duration: 14:11 min Love and Kisses is a montage of Youtube videos from different users, where dogs are licking people’s faces. Some of the videos are more innocent looking and some disturbingly sexual. All of them are performances for the camera and for other people. For dogs licking is characteristic behaviour related to dominance and […]
Anna Knappe, Meherun Akter, Maruf Adnan and the children of Laldiarchor Participatory art project and 1920×1080 HD video documentation Video duration 13:25 min Floating Peers social practise workshop in Porapara Space for Artists, Chittagong, Bangladesh Garbage Bird and the Laldiarchor Cleaning Day video is a documentation of participatory art project by Anna Knappe, Meherun Akter […]
Performance Together with Sepideh Rahaa Five performances at Narinkkatori, in front of Shopping center Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland Duration about 15 minutes “Different faces of us” is a performance By Finnish artist Anna Knappe and Iranian artist Sepideh Rahaa. The performance questions the origins of obstacles which occur to women within societies and how women’s freedom is bounded […]
Video Duration: 10:37 min Home Sweet Home Suvela is a video portrait of Terho and his home in Suvela, Espoo, where Terho had lived for 16 years before he was evicted from his home. Suvela is said to be the most troubled area in Espoo, with lots of immigrants and high unemployment rates. The city […]
HD Video Duration: 16:39 min Three ways to Escape video tells the story of three Afghan men who have applied asylum from Finland. Amir has received residence permit, Reza is waiting deportation in a detention center and Hadi is waiting for his asylum decision and info about his future in a refugee reception center. The three intertwined […]
Community Art project: Website and Media Installation Pekka Niskanen, Anna Knappe, Timo Piikkilä, Jaana Ristola, young refugees of Lammi refugee center and Härmälä family group home Youth as Refugees website was made together with young people from Afghanistan, the Congo and Somalia, who seek asylum from Finland. The site tells the story of the homelessness […]
The Photobooth Story features webcam self-portraits of two artists, Anna Knappe from Finland and Melissa Jean Clark from Canada. Worlds apart, the artists share a habit of documenting vulnerable moments through the lens of their Mac computers. Anna said: “I realized that even though I photograph everything, I don’t really do it for the sake […]
Installation real life size transparent plastic tape together with Niina Huovinen Shell Station consists of plastic casings of the objects of one work station. I know people who never leave their homes. They live in their own dirt and surround themselves with trash. Nothing around them has any value. This is their room.