In How to Do Things with Artistic Research – Revisiting Animal Years Annette Arlander presents her method of revisiting by returning to a series of video works named after the Chinese calendar, created in the years 2002–2014 on Harakka Island in Helsinki.
As part of the Academy of Finland funded research project How to Do Things with Performance? in 2016–2020 Arlander revisited the sites of those works as well as theoretical concepts or concerns previously discussed in relation to them. Experimenting with the video essay as a form she wrote these texts for various contexts. Here they are compiled to demonstrate how not only landscapes change over time but thinking, too, transforms.
The publication has been peer-reviewed.