DISNEY REALM
Severi Aaltonen
2024
Interactive installation
Disney Realm connects fantasy and reality with an interaction between media and contextualized electronic components. The work is composed of data from archives such as Wikipedia, Youtube, Code39. By triggering the installation, old TVs play classic Disney cartoons, loved childhood memories that made us and many generations a happy youth.
Simultaneously a receipt printer prints out data of incidents in The Walt Disney World. The theme park of dreams and joy appears as a scenery to obscure and morbid real life tragedies. The installation underlines undesired and forgotten Disney narratives to celebrate its 101 years journey. What is the relationship that we have for cartoons and violence; what are today’s moral expectations in entertainment?
Artists
Severi Aaltonen
Severi Aaltonen was born in 1992 in Finland. He is a contemporary artist, photographer and an enthusiastic explorer of second hand markets, dumpsters and empty houses. He works and lives in The Netherlands. His focus is to be an urban storyteller, narrating discreet regular people dimmed by power and fame. He ponders upon the influence of corporations in daily life, which motivates his artistic choices. His studio time is spent on harvesting archives and databases. Most of his works are composed of industrial material and mass production; his favourite canvas is a 244 x 122 cm chipwood board and a childhood era composite TV.
