CFL – Cheap Finnish Labour – consists of various formations of the active members of Platform, sometimes together with invited artists. CFL can be described as a frame for discussing and developing collaborative projects. CFL is open to external participation and automatically the interaction with the environment becomes part of the work, a kind of social sculpture that explores alternative strategies for producing and showing art.
- Trajector Art Fair 23-25 April 2010
- Hotel Bloom 23-25.4.2010 in Brussels CFL was going to offer couples in love a hotel night for free in exchange for the story of how they met. In the hotel room during the fair there would’ve only been a video – shown in the hotel tv – of one person at a time telling a [...]
- CFL, Tammisaari (Ekenäs) February 2010
- Land we have / Land vi ha Vasa 2010 | Exhibited in Elverket, Tammisaari (Ekenäs) The project is a site-specific initiative that explores notions about identity, and relationship to place and patriotism. The work is an audiovisual interpretation of an experiment where CFL members invited persons from different origins based in Ostrobothnia to sing the [...]
- Platform Parasite Art Event Friday 25.9.2009
- Istanbul – Vaasa 2009 The event was part of an ongoing collaborative art project that Cheap Finnish Labour (CFL) started as a social intervention in Istanbul and realised in parallel with the inauguration of the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Between the 8th and 15th September, fourteen artists and cultural workers who run the Platform Contemporary Art [...]
- Don’t complain – at the 52nd Venice Biennial
- Hüseyin Alptekin (Turkey) and Camila Rocha (Brazil) were artists in the Platform recidency during the spring 2007, when Alptekin was planning the work for his participation representing Turkey at the Venice biennial. Since Alptekins work deals with the issues of displacement, records unimportant facts and acts and through this brings attention to things that are out [...]
- Cheap Finnish Labour Exploring Alternative Economies
- XX1 Gallery, Warsaw 1.–15.2.2007 In every culture there are similarities. Is it possible to melt in, to become a temporary part of the different and the unfamiliar? Or is the only possibility to orientate in an unfamiliar environment to do what we would usually do? Or is it possible to to make alternative choices out [...]
