Galleri Huuto from Helsinki was the third guest Platform invited in spring 2004 on the theme Citymind.

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The members of the association were offered the possibility to participate in the exhibition on the theme Citymind, and 10 artists answered the invitation.

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Artists from Lahti were invited to do an exhibition on the theme Citymind.

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“Mixed Tape” is the result of a curatorial/artist residency I undertook in Vasa, Finland at Platform Gallery and Artist association. During this time I have spent extensive time doing research at both of the Finnish Av-Arkki and Swedish FilmForm video art distributors, visiting as many artist run and contemporary spaces as I could, and meeting with artists from around Finland and Sweden.

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At the start of the performance I will pull a pair of trousers out from a can of 9L white emulsion paint and put them on, pour the rest of the 9L paint in the middle of a wooden platform then I will stand “motionless” on the platform for the eight hours.

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Friction is an exhibition with works of Jasper Budel (NL) and Markus Lerviks (FI).
The works of Budel and Lerviks are manipulative and deceptive. They create an inner anxiety by blending contradictory feelings; fear and compassion, sadness and irony. The exhibition consists of installations and videos that maliciously confront the spectator and therefore have the exceptional quality to »get under skin». The exhibition materialises a »field of friction» transforming the space into a mental map or itinerary in which the works are reciprocal to each other as well as to the visitor.

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Platform was invited to participate in the StabilityMobility seminar in Rotterdam. Together with Leif Skoog from Gallery 54 in Gothenburg Ulrika Ferm held a workshop on Art in the Periphery.

The initial idea of curating a show about Finnish manliness ended with two solo shows called Passion.

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Seminar on artist run initiatives held in Vancouver, Canada.

Platform showed the video LOOP by silver, a virtual identity artist; exists since the year 1994. The area of it's interest is computer interactive art, virtual reality, Internet art, artificial intelligence and psychedelic aspects of artificial computer reality. Silver shows it's work at exhibitions of fine arts as well as computer art on the Internet since 1994.
LOOP
...showing an endless succession of young couples kissing alternatively each other, accompanied by sloppy advertisement music. The treatment of the theme obviously alludes to erotic films or to the happy end scenes in Hollywood movies. On the other hand, however, we may also read the message of Loop as an existential view of human destiny. And it is exactly this conglomerate of references that induces feelings of ambiguity, pathos and irony. (Katerina Pavlickova)

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Platform members showed selected video works at Academill in Vaasa.

Platform invited the visiting artist of Nelimarkka museum residency program Lasse-Marc Riek(D) and Tobias Schmitt(D) to present their sound work.

Platform invited Eualalia Domanowska(P). She held the lecture "Therapy of Shock" - about polish art in the past decade.

Platform invited Antonio Scarponi(I) and Barbara Galassi(I). They presented their project Valokalenteri, Solar Light - Social Behavior in Finland.

Platform invited visiting artist at Ateljé Stundars Sven Eggers(D) and Tamas T. Kaszas(H) and Krisztian Kristof(H), both visiting artists in the AiR- program in Nykarleby.