- Genealogy – Släktforskning – Sukututkimus
- RACA | Artist in residence November 2009 During the period of November 6th to 10th RACA performed as squirrels interacting with the region of Vaasa. The mission was set to investigate the narrative of the flying squirrels, in Finnish “liito-orava”. The animals are told to be living in the area of Vaasa but few people [...]
- Platform Parasite Art Event Friday 25.9.2009
- Istanbul – Vaasa 2009 The event was part of an ongoing collaborative art project that Cheap Finnish Labour (CFL) started as a social intervention in Istanbul and realised in parallel with the inauguration of the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Between the 8th and 15th September, fourteen artists and cultural workers who run the Platform Contemporary Art [...]
- Intimate Economies
- Sarah Browne | Artist in residence September-October 2009 On residency in Vaasa during September and October, Sarah Browne is researching the production of muscha (moonshine). She is also developing a new film work that deals with natural and bodily metaphors, particularly ideas of love, control and intoxication used to discuss moments of crisis and [...]
- Jussilandia 7.–20.8.2009
- Mattias Olofsson | Nordic residency July-August 2009 Artist statement During my stay at Platform’s residency in Vaasa, Finland, a newspaper debate had been going on about the name of a residential estate planned by the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. According to Aalto all the wooden semi-detached houses that form the area should originally [...]
- Artist’s talk 18.7.2009
- Mattias Olofsson and Jimmy Kuehnle Artist talk with Mattias Olofsson, based in Umeå (SE) and Jimmy Kuehnle based in St. Louis (US). Mattias Olofsson is the residency artist at Platform during July-August 2009. Jimmy Kuehnle is the residency artist at Ateljé Stundars during June-July 2009. Ateljé Stundars is part of the international Artist in [...]
- Performance Night 23.4.2009
- Agnes Nedregaard | Ritz, Vaasa MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING A performance displaying a visual scenario of costume, props and actions, asking how can we ever really understand one another, when our stories will always be so different? The work is part of a larger research project, Imploding, about how our personal backgrounds inform the way we [...]
- Performance Night 16.4.2009
- Gwendoline Robin | Platform Gwendoline Robin associates the object with the body in space to create ever more complex installations and performances in which object responds to space, movement to fire, light to the sound of the explosion, and in which the artist’s body can explore, perform and dance with the danger and the poetry [...]
- One Day Show
- Johan Lundh | Nordic residency April 2009 One Day Show is a project by Johan Lundh in collaboration with Dragos Alexandrescu, Eva Forsman, Joakim Hansson and Therese Sunngren. It is a project exploring contemporary art through a speculative study of artistic, curatorial and discursive production. During an all-day workshop, the participants have developed an [...]
- SPECTACLE 14.3.2009
- Toby Huddlestone | Plan 9 exchange Toby Huddlestone performed his new artwork SPECTACLE, a public intervention and documentation project. 100 volunteers were needed to ‘create’ a spectacle by coming together and participating – no acting skills were required. All participants received a print of the work as a thank you for taking part.
- Man the interior designer
- Mark Harris | Artist in Residence March 2009 | Plan 9 exchange On March 13th Mark Harris and Toby Huddlestone, both based in Bristol, presented their work in an artist’s talk at Platform. Mark Harris Currently my art revolves around two practices; installation and drawing both of which are different though intersect conceptually and dialectically. [...]
- “Tomma händer – Tomma händer – Empty hands”
- Jörgen Erkius | Nordic Residency December 2008 – February 2009 The film “Tomma händer” is based on a poem by the Finnish poet and playwright Josef Julius Wecksell (1838-1907), namely the second of three fragments. It represents an early vision on later modernistic litterature and was written during the time of his mental breakdown. [...]
