Man In the Forest
Video, 2012
1. Name: I would like to stay anonymous
2. Facts:
Age - 23
Married / single
Weight - ~70 kg
Foot size - 43
Body type - slender
Zodiac sign - Gemini
Profession - researcher
Animals - none
Children - none
Piercing / tattoo - none
Criminal record – none
Favourite landscape – anything but more or less untouched by humans (forest, swamp, sea, etc.)
3. My favourite Latvian proverb: Time is not money!
4. My favourite object: Water pump
5. My favourite form of refusal: No
6. Do I like long walks? NO Man gets tired by walking (of course, it depends with whom and where you walk)
7. Have you killed any animal with your own hands? How? What animal? YES No details ...
8. During what film or theatrical performance have you fallen asleep? I napped a bit during the opera “Tosca”
9. Do you ever smash dishes or break furniture? Why? NO Why would you smash or break if it is possible not to?
10. Are you able to do several things at once? What things? YES Drive a car, smoke and talk
11. My most interesting yesterday’s event: I couldn’t finish my double salad portion
12.My most manly event: Planting an oak tree
13.My most womanly feature: Cooking meat ball soup in five minutes
14.My phobias: Panic reaction to public transport
15.I would like to became: wiser with each passing day
Please, attach a photo.
Downshifting? Last year I started to experience downshifting as a burden and it was not enjoyable any more. Then I had the luck to move to Taiwan for ten months – to see colours and experience a radical change of environment and relationships with people. I periodically need to re-examine where I live, who I talk to, what I eat, breathe, and wear and how natural or necessary it is.
Artist's Bio:
Elīna Eihmane has studied film directing at Baltic Media School and the Latvian Academy of Culture. She has been a participant of Andrejs Grants’ (2Annas) photo studio. Elīna Eihmane’ s photography could be characterized by “soapbox camera aesthetics”, the documentation of everyday events, playfulness, deliberate naïveté. Eihmane’s works have been shown in the solo shows ”Siltā āda” (together with Laila Halilova) (2007, LCCA cafeteria), ”Kristians” (2005, gallery Ag7), group exhibitions SURVIVAL KIT 2, SURVIVAL KIT1, „Is the Medium a Message?” (LCCA, 2008), and others. Eihmane has directed several short films: ”Gutenmorgen and the third eye”, ”Gutenmorgen and the time machine”, „Jellycake” etc.