Clips

Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead are gung-ho followers of Twitter. That is, they follow all Tweets within a radius of ten kilometers from the Kumu. They have printed out and pasted together a selection of Tweets collected over a period of 18 days.More ...

A globe usually presents a map of countries, continents and seas. But there’s something different about the globes you’ll find in the Gateways exhibit. New York-based artist Ingo Günther explains that the globes he’s brought along for the exhibition are all about networking and access to global networks.More ...

“Real Snail Mail” is the first e-mail service that uses live snails as transmitters of e-mail messages. We came across artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith when they were already setting up a comfortable track for the snails.More ...

Christina Kubisch lets us experience electromagnetic Tallinn. Wearing a specially made headset and holding a city map, you will hear the city as never before.More ...

Walking through Kadrioru Park, Enrique Tomás – of Escoitar.org – shows us what awaits participants in his sound tour: “White Walk”. Equipped with headphones and an audio guide complete with GPS, we take an acoustic journey.More ...

Sitting amongst coffee-drinking guests on the 24th floor of the Radisson Hotel is Clara Boj, peering through a telescope. But it’s not the blue sea that interests her, nor the distant harbor and the ferries that disappear over the horizon, on their way to Helsinki.More ...

In all, there will be 49 balloons – one by one the silvery encasements will be filled a mix of helium and air.More ...

These canvasses on the wall depict abstract images. But behind these images are figurative paintings from Kumu museum collection – just look through the device that hangs from the ceiling.More ...

Tanja Ostojić tells us about her experiences “looking for a husband who had an EU passport,” how the wedding was, why they ended up divorcing, and how she documented her odyssey for the Gateways exhibit.More ...

Polish artist Katarzyna Krakowiak becomes a “human antenna” on the roof of the Kumu Museum. During an hour-long performance in Tallinn, she sets about “transmitting silence.”More ...

Generate a personal code, print it, cut it out, press it onto a white t-shirt, and put it on! Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Gapševičius explains his “business model” to us.More ...

Latvian artists Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Martins Ratniks – RIXC for short – planted a bean in the center of the Kumu. Will the bean climb to the heavens, as RIXC dearly wish?More ...

Stick your personal ID card into the machine, press “start” and watch “Memopol” by Timo Toots. Everything the Internet can spit out about one’s private sphere is projected on a giant, curved screen: address, friends, employer.More ...

In large white letters on the Kumu roof reads the command: “Click here.” We meet Achim Mohné and Uta Kopp standing on their Google Map of Tallinn and environs. They tell us why they have painted a message on the rooftop.More ...

Kirsten Geisler has brought Maya Brush with her to Tallinn. Maya is a virtual beauty queen – with a Facebook profile, photo shoots and her own DNA, which is projected on an exhibition wall at the Kumu museum. But Maya Brush unfortunately would not give us an interview.More ...

Anyone who’s familiar with Tallinn skyline will do a double take upon seeing two gigantic towers that seem to have sprung up overnight. Petko Dourmana has projected them into the landscape and tells us why.More ...