Residency artists and researchers Media and video art Jaakko Pesonen Media Artist, Architect I am a media artist with a background in architecture. My works display an interest in both finding new ways of combining moving picture with space as well as in the nonlinear structures of storytelling, which allow viewers to have new and surprising experiences. My works are temporal sculptures that can be approached at any given moment and with no limit to the time spent in their presence – their stories are different each time you look and serendipity coats them with new layers, their very own lives, in a sense. At the Saari Residence, I will be working on the Pet/Prisoner/Pensioner video installation. The subject of the work centres on the discursive similarities between Internet discussions concerning pets, prisoners and pensioners. The installation focuses on old age, which is approached through interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age (1970). Pet/Prisoner/Pensioner is an interactive and spatial video installation in which two actresses Kristiina Elstelä and Riitta Elstelä face the viewer, each other and themselves. I am also beginning work on two new concepts. One discusses the Hindi word akela, the four significances of which can be translated as meaning ”alone”. The subject of the second work is the concept of paradise in our time. Read about Jaakko’s project in the Saari Residence from here.