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Year: 2005

Andreas Hagenbach

The guest artist in Tammisaari at the time presented his work.

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A Simple Proposition

The dance company 7273, Frederic Lombard & Jennifer Bonn

 

The dance company 7273, together with artists Frederic Lombard and Jennifer Bonn gave an artist talk during their stay in the Vaasa area to film a video-dance project based on one of the company’s recent pieces: A Simple Proposition.

The company 7273 is made up of Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon, two French choreographers based in Switzerland, best known for their piece La Vision du Lapin.

Frederic Lombard is a young film director who has worked with choreographers such as Estelle Heritier and Serge Ricci. Jennifer Bonn is a young sound designer who works with sound installations as well as film soundtracks.

 

 

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Trialogi 11.12.–23.12.2005

Heini Aho, Tanja Koistila, Jaana Kokko and Matti Vainio

Trialogi is an exhibition performed in three exhibition spaces. Apart from Platform, is has been showed at Muu in Helsinki and Titanik in Turku. The shape of the exhibition has changed from place to place.

The concept of the exhibition is based on the thought of sharing art and the making of art using different methods. In the earlier exhibitions the works have been based on collective sharing, for instance through having the same sketch book being used by all the members, or through a self-portrait series of 16 pictures, where 12 of them are copies of the originals.

In the exhibition at Platform, the gallery was used as the artists’ common studio. The work process relied on, and could be taken part in, by both the artists and the audience. The artists worked together 4 + 4 days, and the opening was held in the middle of this process.

Ready and half-made works – paintings, collages, sculptures and videos – and the limits of the working process were mixed.

 

 

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Borders 26.11.2005

– a one-minute film festival

 

 

Border Dialogues – the Barents Art Triennal is an international art project that aims to mediate and explore questions, responses, experiences and feelings related to the conceptions of borders. The project is organised in different steps with activities such as exhibitions, community projects, texts, workshops and events held in different locations from mid-2005 to mid-2006. The border dialogues project is managed by Pikene på Broen (Kirkenes), Verkligheten (Umeå) and University of Lapland (Rovaniemi).

The One-Minute Film festival contains films gathered from around the world – all based on the theme of borders. The 56 participating film-makers have interpreted the theme from different angles and the films deal with various questions, including language, geographical borders and personal ones, among others.

The films make up a loop of 56 minutes and will be screened continuously between 6–10 p.m. on Saturday 26th November at Platform. On the same day they will be shown at Gallery Verkligheten in Umeå, and at Generator in Dundee, Scotland.

 

 

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Between 5.10.-20.10.2005

Dragos Alexandrescu

 

Through a collaboration with gallery Vector in Iasi, Romania, Dragos Alexandrescu stayed at Platform’s residency during September and October 2005. He participated in MOPE 05 and realized an individual project, ‘Between’. A photo studio was set up in the gallery and through a flyer he invited people to come and have their photograph taken. As a closing-up of the project, the people could come and get a copy of their photos. The idea of the project was to establish a link between the audience and Platform, between the audience and the process itself of making art.

 

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Stars Europe – Save Europe II 10.8.–28.8.2005

Freie Klasse München

Images from the exhibition

Since the national uprisings in France and Holland against the political elites, the European Union has not only strayed into troubled waters but has also faced an identity crisis and subsequently has been pulled into a vacuum of visions. The propagated “pause for thought”, as well as the strategy of “keeping still until the next summit”, has been supported by influential politicians. However: What has to happen during this break, or: How do we wait? The Freie Klasse Munich shows prospects out of lacking prospects, shows how to keep one’s cool in times of waiting and how to kill time in a European way.

Large-scale paintings conjure up a European summit gazed upon by steadfast Europeans spooning up their star-garnished broth (Johannis Cafe Munich, Bar zum lustigen Boxer Marseille)! In a video work the once incredibly harmonic game of the political class, which became known under the title “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”, has been revived and updated for a wider audience, whereby it’s not always just money that serves as a detergent. Nevertheless, efficient cleaning requires even more efficient drying: “Starmix” (European advanced technology) makes it possible. Is it pure coincidence that the Freie Klasse’s pictures related to this topic remind of Duerer’s “Praying Hands”, or is it praying in the end which remains our last chance? The Freie Klasse intends to give an answer to these and to other questions in the “Save Europe II” exhibition.

The title “Save Europe II” refers to an exhibition in the past which took place under the same title in the artists’ interim gallery in Munich in 1994. At that time, still under totally different conditions, they brought forward to the audience European-specific aspects. The from now on significantly changed mood makes the Freie Klasse react: Needless to say that rescue comes from Bavaria – as well as many other things lately!

Since the foundation of the Freie Klasse in 1997 the main focus has been set on artistic projects which break out of the art context and deal with everyday life, turning it into the material and into the place of their manifestations and objectivations. In their experiments the intended harmonisation of art and life is only an apparent one. By putting emphasis on the term “as if”, the results remain artificial counter-worlds, otherwise they hardly would be a topic in an artistic context. The exhibition in a gallery a priori focuses on art. For this reason the Freie Klasse doesn’t want to do without large scale paintings. They set the tone and outline the topic. Objects, video works and photographs complete the show and provide small additional aspects.

“Save Europe II” in Vasa is a sorrowful and ambitious exhibition which makes clear that in Europe there is a correlation, a consensus, a conjunction, a coalition, a complication, a conflict between art, pub and crisis. Forsooth!

FREIE KLASSE was founded in 1987 as an artistic critique towards the academic education and consists of Wolfgang Groh, Hermann Hiller, Ralf Homann, Wilhelm Koch and Gottfried Weber. FREIE KLASSE is an artist group that in a special way maintains collective and team-oriented productions, without the influence of the individual artists’ own works. It reflects on collective projects that appeared by the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st, but also on popcultural influences within the visual arts.

Freie Klasse München


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Lawnmover meeting 11.8.2005

A collaboration between Willem Koch, Freie Klasse and Platform

 

 

Images from the exhibition

A collaboration between Willem Koch, Freie Klasse and Platform.
Choreography by Wilhelm Koch.
Thursday 11.8.2005 at 19:00, outside of Platform.

A symbolic gesture against ‘the spirit of allotment gardening’ and a gathering of landscape architectonical and -nursing motorising phenomena.

Equipment: the participants will bring their own motorised tools, any kind available from handheld ones to tractors.

For every lawnmover meeting an individual parcour is set up. During previous meetings simple choreographies were performed in the green areas that were allotted for the specific purpose.

There are no winners nor loosers, only participants.

See also the tv-broadcasting of ‘Quer’
Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2000

 

 

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Platform>ance 11.6.2005

A perfomance event where both Finnish and Japanese artists participated, dealing with themes of intimacy and femininity. The artists were Leena Kela, Tanja Koistila, Jaana Pirskanen, Tiina Tietäväinen, Tari Ito, Fumiko Takahashi, Nonko Ono and Yoko Yamamoto.

The event is a collaboration with Là-Bas, an initative based in Helsinki. It has worked as a platform for performance and other experimental art since 2000. Là-bas evenings are regularly held at the Cable factory in Helsinki, but do events also in Berlin, Turku and Vaasa.

 

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The Island 20.5.–5.6.2005

Johanna Torkkola

Johanna Torkkola was an artist-in-residence at Neon, a tv-programme produced by the FST, where she was given the possiblity to do a production with a professional tv-team.

 

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Stockholm Art Fair 6.4.-10.4.2005

VAASA SPORT E-93 BUFFALO

A 3D animation and presentation of the hockey players in Vaasa junior ice hockey team. A DVD by Kristian Simolin (FIN) was produced in co-operation with Platform and Vaasa Sport.

 

DUNE

A container of sand from Namibia to the beach of Sandön in Vaasa, Finland. A project by Matti Braun (D) in co-operation with Platform.

 

 

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