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Pay per view 20.2.–20.3.2005

Published 20/02/2005 by Platform

Jani Leinonen

 

Pay-per-View is an installation that was Jani Leinonen’s final work from the Art Academy in Helsinki and that has been on display in several places, for instance in Plus Ultra Gallery in New York in 2002.

The installation consists of paintings that have been framed by a special frame with in-built slot machinery and a liquid-crystal frame glass. In a normal state the glass is opaque, enabling the visitor to see the painting. The paintings are each made of artists selected by Platform and Jani Leinonen; the artists include Fritz Jakobsson, Juha Tammenpää and Sami Lukkarinen, to name a few.
The artists’ names are carved on a copper plate within the frame. When the viewer sets a coin in the slot at the side of the frame, the glass turns transparent revealing the hidden painting for fifteen seconds. The different paintings have different prices determined by the artist’s position in the art field.

In the beginning of one show, fifteen seconds of Gerhard Richter cost 2 euros, while street artist Kalevi Tulla cost only 20 cents. Once viewers start using the works, the prices start following the laws of supply and demand: The more often the price is paid, the higher it gets and vice versa.

Jani Leinonen

 

 

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8-hour standing 20.11.2004

Published 03/11/2004 by Platform

John Court

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.

In this work, the eight hours focuses on the 8-hour working day, referencing both the work ethic and more mundane everyday chores. It was first performed in Rovaniemi hight street on 30.6.2004.

John Court

John Court graduated from two art schools in the UK; Camberwell school of Art and Design 1994 and Norwich school of Art and Design BA Honours Fine Art Sculpture 1997.

John has been using his body in his performance works since 1996. He began making eight-hour performances based around the eight-hour working day in 1999. His performances often involve additional materials, for example pencil shavings, rubbed pencil erasers, masking tape, paint, pencil leads etc.

Some examples of these eight-hour works include walking 230 meters in 8 hours on the world’s northernmost railway (Kirkenes, Norway), rolling on the high street for 8 hours, or standing up motionless in a limited space for 8 hours. John has performed over 150 hours of these eight-hour performances.

 

 

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Mixed Tape 1.10.-31.10.2004

Published 03/10/2004 by Platform

Ryan Stec

“Mixed Tape” is the result of a curatorial/artist residency I undertook in Vaasa, Finland at Platform Gallery and Artist Association. During this time I 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.

The performance/exhibition that resulted was a unique video art presentation where, as a curator and technician, I played a mediating role in the viewers’ experience, and fused a contemporary VJ performance (during the opening) with a traditional screening for the exhibition period. This project was a continuation of my interest in the concept of plurality of perspectives and viewing experiences, and challenges the notion of a work of art being finite and complete. Instead Mixed Tape presented the idea that works of art are evolving and changing contstantly. This presentation also pushed the boundaries of a curators role by beyond simply recontextualizing the video works and fusing them with each other to create a exhibition which was quite different from the sum of its individual works.

Ryan Stec

Ryan Stec is a Canadian artist based in Ottawa and was the first artist-in-residence at Platform in September 2004.

 

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Waldlust 22.8.2004

Published 29/08/2004 by Platform

Lasse-Marc Riek & Tobias Schmitt

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

 

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Loop 5.8.2004

Published 05/08/2004 by Platform

silver

Platform showed the video LOOP by silver, a virtual identity artist, existing since the year 1994. The area of its interest is computer interactive art, virtual reality, internet art, artificial intelligence and psychedelic aspects of artificial computer reality. Silver shows its work at exhibitions of fine arts as well as computer art on the Internet.

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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Waldlust

Published 04/08/2004 by Platform

Lasse-Marc Riek & Tobias Schmitt | 22.8.2004

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

 

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Loop

Published 04/08/2004 by Platform

silver | 5.8.2004

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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Stability Mobility, Rotterdam 30.6.-2.7.2004

Published 30/06/2004 by Platform

Rotterdam

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.

 

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Therapy of shock 11.5.2004

Published 29/05/2004 by Platform

Eulalia Domanowska

Platform invited Eulalia Domanowska (P). She held the lecture “Therapy of Shock” – about Polish art in the past decade.

 

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Therapy of shock

Published 11/05/2004 by Platform

Eulalia Domanowska | 11.5.2004

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

 

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