THE CALLING
Video Installation, Germany/Estonia, 2023 – Color, Stereo
The video installation "The Calling" intertwines calls, songs, charms, and spells that were used for farm animals with footage of young women living with rescued farm animals.
“In the olden days, when they were teaching
oxen to plow the land, the plowman would
cut a flock of his hair and make three circles
with it around the ox’s head, saying:
You shall be as I am.
Then the ox was as wise as the man.”
(Text taken from Eesti Loitsud by Mare Koiva)
This work was created in the context of the Artist in Residence programme „The Art of Being Good“ at Tallinn Art Hall 2023, supported by the Goethe-Institute Estland and the Estonian Folklore Archives Tartu.
Screening
Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, 2023