Platform Live: Artist talk Patrik Qvist + Sounds from Ostrobothnia 6.4.2013 @ 19.00

Platform invites you cordially for an evening with words, images and sounds.

Patrik Qvist

“Strategier för att förstå världen utifrån ett perspektiv av nära förestående kollaps.”
Platform’s artist in residence Patrik Qvist will start the evening with an artist talk and screening.
http://www.patrikqvist.com

After the artist talk Platform will present 3 local artists with an interest in sound.

Johan Sandås – Contact

An interactive performance with contact microphones, where the audience can participate.

http://johansandas.com/

Arvid van der Rijt – Finland in 4 movements

An optical sound performance with 3 filmprojectors and the barcodes of sausage and spirits.
Via Kabanossi and Koskenkorva to Kaaos and Kaamos.
http://archipelagogo.hotglue.me/sounds

Vesa-Matti Live

An improvised live set with drummachine, sampler and synth.
https://soundcloud.com/mesa-vatti

The artist talk will begin at 19:00
Let’s see what the night brings!

Platform Studio@Kasern 14
Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8 Vaasa

02.03 2013 @ 20.00

Platform / Kasern 14
Korsholmanpuistikko 6-8, Vaasa

Beate Linne, DE

Beate is a German based Performance Artist. She studied architecture at the University of Kassel, as well as German language and literature and fine Arts at the University of Hildesheim. She’s working as a freelance artist, teacher and since last year I’m co-organizer oft the International Performance Art Festival Blow.

Artistic Statement

I consider Performance as an opportunity to express myself by means of creating images and live actions with my body. I deal with basic issues of live, by exploring behaviour, testing limits and asking questions.The most important aspect is the encounter and the exchange between the people – and the possibility to initiate thinking processes and open the mind. In my performances I deal among other things with issues like deprivation, death, and confidence.The actions and materials often have a symbolic character. And usually I perform with great physical exertion, establishing a relation between my body, material and other people. I also like to involve the audience in the performance, so that they become an active part in it.
I don’t repeat my performances usually. But I work mostly over a longer period with the same materials. The choice of it for me is very important. I deal thoroughly with the material, so that I learn to know it very well and a kind of personal relationship arises. (Sometimes I collect material or I produce it by myself). This material has a kind of symbolic character and I use it as a basic element of the performance. With them and my body I try to create unusual or sometimes surreal images and situations.

Angela Washko, US

Angela Washko is an artist and community facilitator devoted to mobilizing people and creating actions, interventions, videos, and performances (often in video games). She is currently working on a project called “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness In World of Warcraft – earning her the Terminal Award and Grant, a Danish Arts Council Grant, an upcoming fellowship and residency at HIAP in Helsinki Finland, and a solo exhibition at Austin Peay State University. She has also recently curated the Conflux Festival 2012 at NYU. She has recently performed or participated in exhibitions at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, New York University, Spattered Columns (NYC), Microscope Gallery (NYC), NURTUREart (NYC), Momenta Art (NYC), and Gowanus Studio Space (NYC), among many others. Washko has participated in artist residency programs at Contemporary Artists Center (Troy, NY), The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia PA), Flux Factory (NYC), Gullkistan (Laugarvatn, Iceland), and HIAP (Helsinki, Finland). Features on Washko’s work have appeared in Rhizome, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Time Out NY, Digicult, ANIMAL NY, and Gothamist.

Artistic Statement

Mobilizing communities and using play, I am an artist and facilitator creating new forums for discussions of feminism where and when they do not exist. These forums are created through actions, interventions, videos, and performances- sometimes in video games. I am dedicated to researching and ultimately changing unhealthy, unrealistic, limited, and object-oriented projections of women throughout different forms of media by creating public works that challenge our implicit acceptance of everyday inequality.
My most recent project, “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness In World of Warcraft,” is a long-term research-based initiative I launched to create spaces for dialogue about feminism inside a video game with a community that is notoriously misogynistic and aggressive toward women. I am interested in the unusual political space that evolves within WoW. It takes quite a lot of effort to ever break into the social aspects of the game. One has to make a fairly serious commitment to the game (undergoing lengthy tutorials, quests, learning characters’ skills, finding equipment, fighting dragons/goblins etc.) to ever make it to the point where they are in a guild and regularly communicating with large groups of people. Because of that barrier between the committed and the dabblers, a unique social community is created in each realm of World of Warcraft that few know about, despite the game’s widespread popularity. The blatant discrimination, homophobia, and extreme sexism that persist are not a result of the developers’ aesthetics, but the community of avatar-hidden individuals that play it. I am creating videos from performances inside of World of Warcraft that investigate the relationship between female players and the intensely complex social communities within WOW. I am working on instituting a system in which players in my community are forced to take responsibility for their oppressive behavior, help to create an environment that encourages women gamers to participate, and present performances and videos to a non-MMO-informed public that is unaware that these communities exist.
In addition to making projects inside video games, I also create videos, performances and participatory installations. My works are all linked by a dedication to using play to address the contemporary power structures that women are faced with – whether they are within video game cultures, pop music, advertising, collectives, or the intense networking environment of the “Art World.” Ultimately I aim to subvert these power structures by infiltrating cultures in which they are evident, addressing them publically, bringing visibility to subtle (and not-so-subtle) discriminatory acts in contemporary culture, and ultimately mobilizing communities to actively change those structures through open discussion and collective action.

Wild Nature, Act of God & Utopian Landscapes! Naturaleza Salvaje!

23-24-2 2013
opening hours: Saturday-Sunday 12 to 18

Platform Studio
Kasern14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8, Vasa
Kasarmi 14, Korsholmanpuistikko 6-8, Vaasa

NON GRATA – “ART OF THE INVISIBLES”

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical – it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the groupmembers. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t work.

http://www.nongrata.ee/

http://www.platform.fi/

Cleaning Women / Visuals by Ich bin ein Fernseher
Ljudverket / Visuals by Vixen
Dj Arvid

Saturday 2.2.2013, 19.00–23.00
Ritz, Kirkkopuistikko 22

www.facebook.com/events/136480426511126/

Tickets for sale at www.studioticket.fi (10 €, 13 € at the door)

They come from Planet Clinus! Cleaning Women, space travellers making all kinds of otherworldly sounds with self-built instruments (made from household items), will visit Vaasa for the first time. During their 15+ years of existence, these cross-dressing zombies have put out 3 albums, played hundreds of shows all over our planet, and gained fame and respect as live soundtrackers to silent movies. In the grand Ritz their audiovisual fireworks will look and sound fantastic!

www.cleaningwomen.com

Warm body massage with various audio frequencies will be provided by Ljudverket, a live ambient & techno project / record label by Rasmus Hedlund and Tuomo Väänänen, two Vaasa-based sound artists and music producers. Visuals by Vixen.

www.soundcloud.com/ljudverket

And in the lobby bar, DJ Arvid, starting from 19.00.

Wild video performances, radical actions and stage interventions! The world famous performance group is back in town!

The exhibition is part of Novia scenkonstfestival Momentum.

Have a visit at Platform in Vaasa.

Open hours:
Saturday 12.00-24.00
Sunday: 12.00-18.00

NON GRATA – “ART OF THE INVISIBLES”

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical – it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the groupmembers. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t work.

WELCOME!

PLATFORM STUDIO
KASERN 14,
KORSHOLMSESPL. 6–8, VASA

by KLAS ERIKSSON feat. LOCALS

DJ’s & LIVE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC:

Tuomo Väänänen
Arvid van der Rijt
Captain Heroin

A sound installation by Girilal Baars
Tritonia Academic Library
Yliopistonranta 7, Vaasa

Welcome to participate ALL!

14.–28.10.2012 at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa.
Participation is free from the entrance fee to the museum.

The Audio Linguistic Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary project that deals with the investigation of the harmonic content in the two local languages Finish and Swedish.

The laboratory itself consists of a setup for video recording and a string-based instrument that instantaneously translates any sound to musical harmonics. The citizens of Vaasa are invited to come by to collaborate on creating abstract audio-video-portraits of the finish and the swedish language.

ALL is a project by the German sound- and media artist Florian Tuercke who is currently artist in residence at Platform.

In his artistic work, Tuercke investigates the musical and compositional structure of public space. Amongst others, his projects took place in Mexico City (2012), the European Capital of Culture Turku (2011) and 26 US-American Cities (2008/9).

More information on: www.urban-audio.org

‘An object of desire already lost’ is an ongoing work presenting objects within an immersive environment that suggests questioning, possibility and radical otherness during a time of profound cultural uncertainty. Through continuing research a collection of textual, audio and visual objects that relate to mythologies of club culture have been generated. These objects take the form of an installed work evoking a repository of strange knowledge (engaging aesthetically with archival practices and museum display).

The various objects (texts, transcriptions of conversations, photographic images, printed matter, techno music and ephemera) aim to question the ownership of culture, history, ideology and action as well as the limitations of culture as a means of individual, social and political transformation. Utilizing the language of recorded cultural histories the objects are rendered both recognizable and strange, raising issues of memory, imagination, desire, possibility and the function of cities in relation to human bodies.

An object of desire already lost – Part 1 will be installed in the project space at Platform Kasern. Visual artist and techno producer Rasmus Hedlund will install audio as part of the event and an artist’s book produced by Emma Haugh during the residency will be shown alongside other new works.

About the artist

Emma Haugh is an Irish artist based in Dublin. Her background comprises Forum Theatre facilitation, club promotion, Dj-ing, photography and an ongoing involvement in the collaborative realization of queer/ alternate cultural spaces. Emma’s visual art practice finds points of departure that both resist and utilize knowledge and skills garnered from these activities.

Starting points for active research are often built out of spoken language and the language of the body. Conversation and improvised exchange have become important processes for developing ideas, often documented through audio and textual transcription that moves back and forth.

Subjectivity/objectivity, the imagination as a relational space, the physical/psychological boundaries that manifest in relation to architecture and the social/cultural hierarchies of our cities are ongoing themes.

Emma has taken part in several residencies in Ireland and has co-organized an international residential project ‘engage 2012’ in Bucharest, Romania earlier this year. She recently produced a commissioned work with Commonplace projects in Dublin, curated by Sally Timmons, the work ‘Berghain’ will travel to Berlin for exhibition in early 2013. Emma has shown her work in several solo and group exhibitions in Dublin. This will be her first solo exhibition abroad.