CTRL-ALT DSTR ERS IMPRV FRCE RPT.
Artists:
Lauri Ainala / Dave Berg / HYPERREAALIYAH (Jenna Jauhiainen) / Aliina Kauranne / Ninni Korkalo / Anni Puolakka & Ellie Hunter
Curated by:
Ville Laaksonen
Full-HD / 2.0 Stereo / 100 % Finnish Video Art / Duration: 49 min 47 sec
Project description:
CTRL–ALT DSTR ERS IMPRV FRCE RPT. is a curated collection of contemporary Finnish video art that unfolds as a narrative film — part documentary, part poetic sequence. The screening explores life under digital acceleration: a world where daily existence is rebooted in a loop of control, destruction, and reconstruction.
Through distinct artistic voices, the program examines hyperreality — the mediated condition where digital and physical realities blur into one another. Within this tension, the artists navigate themes of anxiety, repetition, and resistance: what it means to live in systems that continually erase and reprogram our perceptions.
The title, formed from the logic of computer commands, echoes a cycle of endless rebooting — a metaphor for human adaptation under technological pressure. The works oscillate between dystopia and resilience, chaos and renewal, reflecting both the exhaustion and absurdity of digital survival.
Theme:
Life has a new narrative. We open our eyes and wake up every day to a dream - only to face the controlled and alternated hyperreality. During the day we might get scared and start avoiding the dystopic image that the social media and virtualization is force-feeding our numbed eyes. We could maybe eat fish instead of red meat?
Destruction is imminent. In the ruins of an erased world we are living on the wasteland. Outskirts of the society is a No Man’s Land where we don’t need bureaucracy or permits to build our lives again - or to improve it by building a sauna. Only thing we do need is to get comfortable enough to force our selves to sleep and wake up the next day to repeat the same all over again.
Control - Alternate - Destroy - Erase - Improve - Force - Repeat
This screening is a narrative and documentary movie kind of collection of Finnish video art curated by Ville Laaksonen (Art Incubator & QiPO). The Screening consists of the intro and entro by the curator and works by Ninni Korkalo (00:28 - 10:12) Aliina Kauranne (10:13 - 12:13) HYPERREAALIYAH (Jenna Jauhiainen) (12:14 - 18:39) Anni Puolakka (with Ellie Hunter) (18:40 - 32:00), Dave Berg (32:01 - 39:20) and Lauri Ainala (39:21 - 48:43).
