Mari Keski-Korsu | Finlândia

http://www.elephantpaths.net

Elephant Paths explores a geographical and social space by mapping paths with GPS-device (Global Positioning System). It reveals a point of view connected to a space, telling a short story of a moment via video triptychs and texts. It links these places together with mapping traces and social relations. Altogether it creates a spatial map that can be experienced via GPS –devices and the Internet. On the site, www.elephantpaths.net, all the material collected can be viewed.
Elephant Paths –projects goal is to reveal cultural similarities and differences. The project ideology believes that ignorance is the road to fear and war. When we know about people living close or even far from us, we can be open minded and anti-racists. There is a common humanity everywhere, only the habits, the believes, the religions etc. change. The project wants to reveal this common humanity.

Mari Keski-Korsu (mkk) is a person, whose interest lays in human communication, coincidences, creating spaces and befallings. After working as a photographer for some years, she started working with net art and streaming happenings. This lead her also to the art of VJ’aying. Her works has been shown around Finland, but also internationally in Norway, Sweden, Latvia, United Kingdom and Spain. In Finland, she works with organisations like Katastro.fi, Muu Ry, Kide.org and Amfibio.
She gratuated from Medialab in University of Arts and Design Helsinki in autumn 2003 (Master of Arts) and from Polytech of Western Lapland in spring 2000 (visual artist). She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.