visual artist and cinematographer
Film was part of Flo Kasearu show Endangered species.
Video Waking the Birds was produced as part of the research for The First to Leave, a theatrical performance co-authored with
a group of artists from Latvia and Estonia: Valters Sīlis, Kārlis Krūmiņš, Joanna Kalm, Epp Kubu, Karolin Poska, Toms Auniņš, Austra Hauks.
Waking the Birds is a documentation of a series of public interventions Norman directed in Latvia.
In the video, she and Epp Kubu sing a Livonian traditional song “Waking the Birds”
in the villages that were historically inhabited by Livonians. The local people’s reactions to the song reveal the history
and the results of cultural marginalization of Livonians whose language is nearly extinct by today.
Ahja Care home project
YOUTH STREET 2
Video installation by Iina Ukkonen (FIN), Epp Kubu (EST) and Kylm Lumi (EST)
We spent four days in February 2012 with the elderly in periphery South-Estonia little village called Ahja.
Our aim was to get to know them and to be a part of their daily lives.
During the process we decided to choose music from their youth.
The idea was to play it for them to evoke pleasant memories.
The choice of songs was based on their stories.
Ahja Hooldekodu was founded in 1980. At the present day it is located in Ahja, at Nooruse street (noorus = “youth“ in Estonian).
There are 15 residents aged 59–93 living in the care home. Their physical and mental condition
varies.
Ahja Elderly Home was founded in 1980. At the present day it is located in Ahja, at Nooruse street (noorus= “youth” in Estonian).
There are 15 residents aged 59- 93 living at the care home. Their physical and mental condition varies.
We spent four days with the elderly. Our aim was to get to know them and to be a part of their daily lives.
During the process we decided to choose music from their youth. The idea was to play it for them to evoke pleasant memories.
The choice of songs was base on their stories.