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Diverse Universe Festival 20.6.2012

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Wed 20.6.2012, 20.00 at Platform Studio
Kasern 14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8, Vasa, Finland

Artists

Non Grata (Estonia): Anonymous Boh, Devilgirl, Miss Korea, BJ Dealer, Ken Zero, Bloody Drunker, MR. Lee, Kapuki, Techno Animal
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.

lonestarexplosion.org/2012/03/20/non-grata-2/www.nongrata.ee

Anonymous Boh (Estonia)
Estonian Anonymous Boh has been active from 1992 on a frameless territory where an art object has seized to exist as a physical piece. The space has many dimensions upon which the activity has been built. Curating the performance group Non Grata actually means creating a certain kind of school which can be characterized by features as structured chaos, performances in arbitrary environments and interiors.
By obtaining its reputation as an alternative, Boh has swooped onto the global art landscape without looking back. Performances, art tours organized in tens of cities across Europe, Asia and America have turned the notoriously alternative Non Graters into a creative collective who are much better known elsewhere than in Estonia. Their experience is not a subject much talked about, although artistic activity transcending boundaries of art and countries is today’s artist’s most desirable self-realization.

Devilgirl (Estonia)
Devilgirl is Estonian performance, installation and new media artist, educated in alternative art institution Academia Non Grata in Estonia, Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki and Tallinn and Universität der Künste in Berlin. She is one of the main engines of International Non Grata Performance Group since 1998. As Devilgirl, this femme fatale has been seen on over continental underground scene worldwide, wild and anonymous. MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
tajetross.performance.ee

Ken Siebert (California, USA)
Ken Siebert in American performer, sound artist, also painter and sculptor. Graduated from San Fransisco Art Institute. Living and working in Sacramento, California.

Jung Hoon (KOR)
Jung Hoon Lee is South-Korean performer and dancer. Director of Theater Dumi. Performed all over Europe and Asia. Living and working in Seoul.

Myk Henry (Ireland/NY)
“Provocation when used intelligently can be a powerful means of jolting the spectator out of their normal comfort zone. Once this happens the mind is open to suggestion and people begin to think outside of the box.”
Born in Dublin Ireland; moved to New York 1984. Henry became a pioneer of the Williamsburg bohemian “immersionist” movement. His art investigates the audience’s sense of self awareness, engages them in a transformative process. His work is provocative, edgy and slams the viewer into the center of political issues, social conditioning and human taboos.

1 KA (France)
1 KA is  an experimental industrial tekno project from Toulouse, France, Terre Blanque Commune. Individualists of Terre Blanque, Zone Autonomie, are Situationists, Performators-Reformers. Instead of the word Artist, 1 KA uses terms as Cyber Poet or Psychedelic Activist. A community with no laws. No Rules. Psychological Consensus. Evolution Deep in the Brains. Form is to be destroyed!
Realisations since 1995 industrial many liveset/performances/installations. Actually the metal dance will storm your mind!
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/1KA

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Finnish Dream

 

A public art work on a balcony in Vaasa

A cloud of bubbles made out of wire grid is emerging out of a private balcony on the back of the apartment building on Koulukatu 62 in Vaasa.

German visual artist Susken Rosenthal is currently the artist in residence at Plaform in Vaasa. The work she has produced during her stay is called ‘Finnish Dream’.

The intstallation or cloud could be seen as the ideas, hopes and dreams that every individual person has about his or her life, normally invisible, anonymous, now pouring out of the balcony the cloud is opposed to the flat sliding windows of the facade.

The installation can be seen from 7th to 30th June.

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Platform Live 22.4.2012 — La-Bàs-> Concept of Performance

 

 

Là-bas->
Concept of Performance

Wen Yau (China)
Jószef R. Juhász (Slovakia)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (UK/Finland)

Three artists from the La-Bàs-> Concept of Performance biennale (in Helsinki, 25.–29.4.2012) visit Vaasa on Sunday, 22.4.2012. Welcome to Kuntsi, 14.00–17.00.

More info about the artists on the La-Bàs-> website: www.labas.fi

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I can hear your heart beat

15.–31.3.2012, Vaasa Railway Station

Thursday–Saturday, 1–4 pm.

Opening 15.3.2012, 2–8 pm.

In association to the IHME Contemporary art festival in Finland the interactive sound installation I can hear your heart beat by Mari Kretz, Platform’s current artist in residence, is shown in Vaasa.

I can hear your heart beat is an interactive sound installation which registers, visualizes and makes the inaudible audible. Two chairs are placed facing each other, next to each chair is a loudspeaker. Two participants sit on the chairs facing each other. Electrodes are placed on the participant’s chests. Their heartbeats are transmitted through the loudspeakers. After a while, both hearts are synchronized, then they return to their own rhythm. An intimate meeting takes place.

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The site for The IHME Contemporary art festival’s production, Christian Boltanskis’ The Heart Archive and the recordings in Vaasa is Vaasa City Library. You can participate during the opening hours of the library.

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Platform Live 28.1.2012

Girilal Baars Artist Talk
+ Guided Tour to the “To Have/To Own” Exhibition
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, 19.00–22.00

Platform’s current artist-in-residence Girilal Baars will present his work.
He will also perform “Two Timing”, a piece inspired by and based on James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”. “Two Timing” is a piece for voice and electronics and during this performance Girilal will be accompanied by Panu Sivonen on oboe and Arvid van der Rijt on electronics.

After the performance there’s a guided tour to the “To Have/To Own” exhibition by curator Ulrika Ferm.
Also some DJing in the Cafe Simo.

Welcome!

More info:
www.girilal.com
www.platform.fi/2011/to-haveto-own/

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Talk to us!

Girilal Baars is a composer and singer and musician primarily working with experimental contemporary music and very old vocal folk music (www.girilal.com). Born in Russia, of Dutch and Indian parents, he has lived in Uppsala, Sweden for many, many years. Possibly as a result of being multilingual (English, Russian and Swedish) he is very interested in languages and particularly in how languages relate to each other.

During his residency with Platform in Vaasa, he is hoping to create a sound-installation based around the points of contact between Finnish and Finnish-Swedish. Anyone who has anecdotes, ideas, friends, words, relatives or sounds that relate to both of these spoken languages — addressing the similarities, rather than the differences — is very much encouraged to contact him through email (guru@girilal.com) or by phone (+358-41-5604077).

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Platform Live 18.12.2011

Welcome to Platform Live, 18.12.2011, 15.00 at the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art.
On the program is an artist talk by Dutch artists Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis.

Also, before & after the artist talk, there are guided tours of the To have/To own exhibition:
14.00 Tuomo Väänänen, in Finnish
16.00 Ulrika Ferm (curator of the exhibition), in Swedish

Your Home is in our Hands © Wouter Osterholt & Elke Uitentuis

The Dutch artist duo Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis will present several of their former projects and tell about their more recent experiences at Occupy Amsterdam, where they had set up a tent in order to contribute to a global political movement. During seven weeks a collective of artists, writers and theorists has been formed around the tent of Artists in Occupy Amsterdam, creating a public program on spot and starting several collective productions.

See also: www.osterholtuitentuis.nl

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To have/To own

A group show organised by Platform.
Kuntsi museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland, 4.12.2011–31.1.2012.
Welcome!

Dragos Alexandrescu (FI/RO) & Sarah Browne (IE)
Maria Nordbäck (FI) & Brynhild Bye (NO)
Stefan Constantinescu (SE/RO)
Kane Do (DE/US)
Audun Eriksen (NO)
Maria Ångerman (FI) & Miha Erman (SI)
FinnFemFel (FI) & Simo Brotherus (SE/FI)
Rasmus Hedlund (FI) & Maria Lundström (FI) & Eija Leinonen (FI) & Tuomo Väänänen (FI)
Esther Pilkington (GB/AT)
Jimmy Pulli (FI) & Christian Rupp (AT)
Anri Sala (DE/AL)
Helga Steppan (SE)
Andrew Taggart & Chloe Lewis (NO/CA)

Curator: Ulrika Ferm (DE/FI)

The exhibition To have/To own at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa is a part of a larger program organized by Platform in celebration of their first ten years of activities. Earlier this year Platform organized an international symposium and launched the catalogue, Don’t look back. With this program, Platform seeks to highlight the importance of their past and present activities to the artists who have participated, as well as the local community and the cultural life of Vaasa.

The theme for the year 2011 To have/To own is a reaction to the on-going events where art as well as other aspects of society, have gone through huge social, cultural, economic and ecological changes. The selection of the theme is based on the hope that different artists’ and individuals’ reactions toward and understanding of the terms “to have” and “to own” would raise questions and generate discussion on cultural heritage, nomadic patterns, communication, independence, and sustainability.

One part of the exhibition consists of the projects carried out by Platform artists-in-residence during 2011. From circa 270 responses to an open call on the theme of To have/To own, six artists were chosen to spend time in Vaasa. The artists had differing approaches to the theme.  All of these projects will be presented in the exhibition. The other works in the show are based on collaborations. Active members of Platform have decided to form internal collaborations or invited other artists to either collaborate with them or participate in the show. The curatorial starting point for this part of the exhibition was to make the Platform members invest their artistic capital in a joint project – where collaboration is encouraged.

The original goal of Platform was not to function as a forum for showing members’ work, but to serve as a facilitator for other artists. However, over time, Platform members have gradually become more artistically involved in Platform’s activities. For example, Platform created the artist group Cheap Finnish Labour, which initially provided the workforce necessary to realize other artists’ projects, but eventually, Cheap Finnish Labour went on to develop their own projects. Where Platform has been very much about being in Vaasa and engaging with community in Vaasa, Cheap Finnish Labor has sent artists from Vaasa out into the larger world, Istanbul, Venice, and Warsaw.

Fanzine – konstpedagogisk material för lärare.

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Platform Live: Autumn Darkness 18.11.2011

Autumn Darkness
Friday 18.11.2011 19.00 at Doo-Bop Club (Kauppapuistikko 12) 

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Nice experimental music to lighten up the dark autumnal atmosphere…
Live sets:
Hei (www.myspace.com/heiei)
Ig Noir (www.myspace.com/ignoirmusic)
Rasmus Hedlund/Tuomo Väänänen (www.facebook.com/Ljudverket

+ DJ Arvid van der Rijt

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TO HAVE / TO OWN

During 2011 Platform has chosen to work with the theme To have / To own; both because it fits well as a theme for a late 10th (11th!) anniversary, and as a reaction to the current cultural situation where art as well as other cultural fields have gone through big social, cultural, economic and ecologic changes. The selection of the theme is based on the assumption that different artists’ and individuals’ reactions on, and understandings of, “to have” and “to own” arouses questions and generates discussion on cultural heritage, nomadic patterns, communication, independence and sustainability.

Symposium “TO HAVE / TO OWN”, 23rd–25th September 2011, Vaasa City Hall, Chamber Music Room, Vaasa, Finland.

The symposium allows for discussion and collaboration on issues related to three given topics; activism and democracy in contemporary art, artist identity and localness in a global context, and dealing with different forms of collectives and the engagement of the community.

Friday September 23rd
15-15.30 Ulrika Ferm (FIN/DE), artist, curator, Berlin; Introduction
15.30-16.15 Rolf Büchi (CH/GB), writer, London; Activating Democracy.
www.iri-europe.org/en/publications/guidebooks
www.activatingdemocracy.com
16.15-17 Jaana Kokko(FIN), artist, Helsinki, Thoughts on anarchism
www.jaanakokko.com
30 min. break
17.30-18.15 Shelly Silver (USA), artist, New York; Response – Responsibility.
www.shellysilver.com
18.15-19 Per Huttner (SE), artist; Can art change the world?
www.perhuttner.com
19-20 attending opening City Art Hall, Vaasa
20- “Vaasa in Luck”- closing ceremony at the Platform studio
http://luck.random-people.net
Saturday September 24th
11-11.45 Mika Hannula (FIN/DE), writer and curator, Berlin; Modernity Retired – Outline of a Project.
11.45-12.30 Esther Pilkington (GB), artist and curator, Wales; Collaborations – The Things We Do Together.
http://geheimagentur.net
http://random-people.net
90 mins for lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Nina Czegledy (HU), artist, curator and writer; Paradigm Shifts in Contemporary Media Art  Practice.
www.ninaczegledy.net
14.45-15.30 Kennedy Browne (IE), collaborative practice of Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne, Ireland; How Capital Moves.
www.kennedybrowne.com
coffee 30 mins
16.00-16.45 Helga Steppan (SE), artist; “Lost and Found” site-specific project.
www.helgasteppan.com
Sunday September 25th
11-11.45 Stine Hebert (DK), acting director, BAC, Visby; Institutionalization of the Self-Organised.
11.45-12.30 Maureen Connor (USA), artist, New York; How to be an Artist in Residence for the US Government – a project of the Institute for Wishful Thinking.
www.theiwt.com
30 min break
13-13.45 Sophie Hope, practitioner, London; Censorship, compromise and cancellation? The culture of commissioning socially engaged art in the UK.
www.welcomebb.org.uk
13.45-14.30 Minna Heikinaho (FIN), artist, Helsinki. Experiences in the urban space – the incompleteness of community art. www.saasanoa.com

 

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