Here comes the third installment of SHuSH by Amal Laala, artist in residence during may and june

The first two were crazy death pop in Melbourne's abandoned spaces. After being kicked out by a torch wielding psycho who claimed to be the owner but ended up being arrested and being shut down by police, we have decided to move north, way north to Vaasa, Finland!

So the Finnish sun has finally come out to play and so have we!

LIVEMUSIC

Hei // ambient drone with baritone guitar & electronics

Mattias Häggqvist // psychedelic blues

DJ's

Rasmus Hedlund // electronic dub

Tuomo Väänänen // minimal dub-techno

Ufo-Matti // experimental music

Captain Hank // dj&vj set

Art

Jonathan Lindholm, Concrete Flowers, live installation

Street-art jam in livingroom-carpark on random objects

Live feed from projects happening in Australia/Morocco

Visuals and animations from Australia

Paintings from Mikael Linder

Sima, Bin Buffet and a Carpark living room.

What more could you ask for?

Platform live presents artist talks by Platform artist in residence Amal Laala (Morocco) and Stundars artist in residence Sophie Dvořák (Austria), and Amal Laala's performance "The next man who walks through that door I will marry".

Amal Laala is a socially engaged, site-specific artist, whose work is often temporary and fleeting, revolving around current social issues, experimentation and play. "My current work in progress is “Father, Father, Father” were I am investigating how stories can be told and interpreted, ranging from spiritual, political to personal. During my residency at Platform I will continue developing these central themes of storytelling, family and interpretation. Investigating my Finnish grandparents and their past I am to research elements of their lives using the little information I know."

Sophie Dvořák's work practice revolves around questioning media imagery, such as press photography and visual representations of information or knowledge, used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly. She mainly uses drawing as medium, working in a serial, sometimes even archival way. Often recurring elements are visual devices like charts, diagrams, maps and lists, and elements like lines, boxes, arrows. Her reduced drawings and graphics, sometimes accompanied by text fragments, construct a new “reality-layer”. She interrupts the function and flood of information, in order to deal with different ways of seeing events or things, with perspectives and projections, with assumed knowledge or lack of it in the viewer, sending him on a search for the information that the image pretends to transmit.

And there's also some musical entertainment.

Welcome! Free entrance!

Saturday 22.5. is also a Museum Night at Kuntsi, so the bar (and terrace, weather permitting) is open until midnight. See www.kuntsi.fi for more info about the Museum Night.

CFL was about to do a site-specific project – Cheap Finnish Love – but Eyjafallajökull had a say ...

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Platform, in collaboration with Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, starts a new series of live art happenings called Platform Live. On the program for this first edition are performances by Tari Ito (Japan) and Irma Optimisti (Finland).

Tokyo-based Tari Ito is one of the most important female performance artists in Japan and East Asia. Her performances deal with feminism and female sexuality, seen through the historical ways of representing womanhood. Ito has performed all over the world, and she has also organised an international network of female performance artists.

Like Ito, Vaasa-born Irma Optimisti is a leading female performance artist, especially in Europe. This time, her performance will have a sculptural dimension. The process will be presented as it is.

Free entrance. Welcome!

Wednesday April 21st at 7pm – Performance artists Tari Ito (Japan) and Irma Optimisti (FI)

Image – Irma Optimisti at mope08. (Photo Joakim Hansson)

Artist Talk at Ritz 5.2.2009 at 8pm.

When making films Jenny performs repetitive actions for the camera, documenting herself carrying out apparently futile yet defiant physical feats. These actions can seem like a romantic response to, or an urge to escape from the space in which they are performed. The works are process based, using the limitations of the equipment or her own physical endurance as a basis and frame in which to be created. The repetitively performed action is often absurd or pointless.

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The project is a site-specific initiative that explores notions about identity, relationship to place and patriotism. The work is an audiovisual interpretation of an experiment where some CFL-members invited persons from different origin that are based in Ostrobothnia to sing the regional Swedish anthem together.

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wolf’s rain, for she had gold in her eyes, as nails up my dick, if they’ve killed him for what he did, I too have to, walk the same way, don’t try to find me, I looked for my boy, I spoke to him as a brother (whom I have pardoned), anyway I’m a lie, wanting somebody to like me, somebody to experience me, desire me, see me, I’m just an idiot who pretended to be in control, of all the worlds I had to see I got stuck in this one & it’s fine, empty be my friend, calm over my ever running feet, what if time goes and that’s it, will you fuck me if I sing a little, will you chase me if I die a little (robin’s belt was undone and her bra was around her neck) don’t try to find me, test the limits of your true devotion we’ve had enough, anyway I’m a lie, a notion of lie, on speed and dark, messy & well produced, sexy but disgusting

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