Ghost Ride, left video channel
Installation view from Taidehalli TR1, Tampere, Finland.
Ghost Ride (2010)
2 channel video installation
dv 16:9
Ghost Riding involves walking or dancing alongside a car while a vehicle is still moving.
-Wikipedia
In Ghost Ride I examine how people represent themselves in the ghost riding community and how these representations have spread from subcultural to global level in the Internet.
Young U.S. soldiers have taken ghost riding to Iraq. Mobile phone camera footage of ghost riding soldiers gives a new perspective to our way of seeing the connection between war and our everyday life.
Ghost Ride is a two channel installation. Second channel consists of text comments found from video sharing communities. Screening version also available.
Ghost ride has been presented in Taidehalli TR1 and Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland.
Youth instinctively understands the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. This is the reason for the great alienation between generations.
-Marshall McLuhan