Platform

2007

  • Eine Kleine Disko 7.12.2007
  • EKD is a dynamic art project that welcomes performance, noise, video and intervention with related art forms to create flux in EKD context. The announcement “come together” is the setting that creates the EKD’s coming to be. EKD is a nomadic art project in the sense that it is not a permanent screening, disco or [...]
  • Message 22.9.–7.10.2007
  •   Artists: Igor Przybylski, Anita Pasikowska, Ryszard Lugowski and Jan Mioduszewski. Curated by Eulalia Domanowska. Igor Przybylski obsessively documented the public transport buses in Warsaw. Some of the results of this, and his contribution, were a video and a computer game. Anita Pasikowska and Jan Mioduszewski set their minds on communicating with the local inhabitants of [...]
  • Get over it 11.8.2007
  • Emma Houlihan & Sally Timmons Emma Houlihan and Sally Timmons were invited to realise a project during Night of the Arts in Vaasa. The two artists teamed up for one week in order to devise a project within the context of Platform’s international residency programme and, in particular, the notion of what it means to [...]
  • Soundscape & RGB-hypnosis 15.6.2007
  • Lasse Marc-Riek, Britt Kootstra & Arvid van der Rijt   Soundscape from Signal-Recordings of Bats by Lasse-Marc Riek (D) Field recordings: Since May 2003 location shouts and social sounds of bats were collected by means of stereo-microphones and ultrasound-detectors. Social sounds such as the communication between a mother bat and her child can be heard [...]
  • Don’t complain – at the 52nd Venice Biennial
  • Hüseyin Alptekin Hüseyin Alptekin (Turkey) and Camila Rocha (Brazil) were artists in the Platform residency during spring 2007, when Alptekin was planning the work for his participation representing Turkey at the Venice biennial. Since Alptekin’s work deals with issues of displacement, records unimportant facts and acts, and through this brings attention to things that are not [...]
  • “é tudo sobre o passado/it is all about the past” 6.5.-10.6.2007
  • Camila Rocha   A lot has happened to me in Vaasa, a lot about the past. I discovered that one part of my family in Brazil originally comes from Venice, at the very moment Hüseyin is sending four traditional wooden barns to Venice and I am getting one, the oldest one from the Laihia region, [...]
  • 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 [...]