The exhibition is based on amateur footage captured by Ülo Keedus during a trip to Amsterdam in the mid-1970s. The selected scenes become a shared space with the viewers, with street choreography and micro-scenes emerging from the moving images. Its conceptual axis and the title that sets its direction is the introductory remark to the second act of Samuel Beckett’s famous play, which can be alluded to on stage by convention but not shown directly. Now it is a future disconnected from the past and the present—a timeform rushing toward the audience, ceaselessly affirming its own becoming.
The work is framed by composer Kitty Xiao’s *tendons of transformation* (2023), a composition that incorporates improvisational elements, tactile electronics, and classical instruments as a live performance. At the exhibition, a recorded version of this piece creates a soundscape that glides asynchronously over a moving image. Kitty Xiao adds: “Electronic sounds and video interest me because of their ability to convey movement, timbre, and textural information that can not only be perceived in different ways but also interpreted in very different ways.”
The exhibition concludes with the third part of Beckett’s thematic mini-trilogy, *Unnamable* (2026), whose recurring themes include fragmented subjectivity, the endless hum of the self and the non-self, and the fluidity of definitions.
Thank Yous: Eesti Kultuurkapital, EKL, ARS Kunstilinnak, EKA, Kitty Xiao, Sulev Keedus, Albert Kerstna, Karel Koplimets, Indrek Köster, Riin Maide, Reigo Nahksepp, Sten Saarits, Taavi Suisalu, Johannes Säre, Tiina Vahter, Tarvo Hanno Varres, Sergo Vares jpt.
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Taavi Talve (1970) is an artist who lives and works in Tallinn. His work focuses on the moving image as a medium for creating space and presence. Through the reworking of analog material, he explores the connections between past events and the present, as well as between the documented and the imagined.
Ülo Keedus (1929–1991) — Estonian amateur cinematographer and director. Instructor at the Tallinn Amateur Film Club (1975–91). Author of the 34-part handbook for amateur filmmakers, *Kodukino ABC*, published in the magazine *Tehnika ja Tootmine* from 1988 to 1991.
Kitty Xiao (1989) is an Australian composer and sound artist living in New York. Her work is inspired by the social landscape and its influence on the body through movement, language, and production. Her compositions explore performance, electronic media and synthesis, ranging from solo, small to large ensemble acoustic and electroacoustic works, and collaborations with performers, choreographers, writers, and filmmakers. In her music she investigates timbral gesture, corporeality, and reimaginings of space, often exploring relations between artificial and human structures. In 2026, Xiao was awarded the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize, given to emerging young talents.