Takala’s rich performative visual art practice takes place mostly
at moments where she blends into environments that seemingly have
little to do with an artistic reality. In the spaces and places of
offices, class rooms, amusement parks and public streets, her form
of disguise and infiltration reveals the direct operation of many
of the systems she finds herself in.
From communities of poker players in Thailand and a marketing
office in Finland, to a shopping mall in The Netherlands and a
boarding school in the US, the project of infiltration is often
employed to offer practical stages of public research. This
research mostly comes to us in the form of documentation, rather
than us witnessing the direct movements. It alludes to a form of
extreme observation of how these things actually work and what they
tell us of our own position in a larger framework of communities
and life.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
