Platform

2012

  • PLATFORM LIVE FRI 23.11.2012, 20.00 ->
  • by KLAS ERIKSSON feat. LOCALS DJ’s & LIVE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC: Tuomo Väänänen Arvid van der Rijt Captain Heroin PLATFORM STUDIO KASERN 14, KORSHOLMSESPL. 6–8, VASA
  • pikku pikku liten
  • A sound installation by Girilal Baars Tritonia Academic Library Yliopistonranta 7, Vaasa Opening: Thursday 8.11. (17–19) Open on Friday 9.11. (9–17) and Saturday 10.11. (11–15)  Part of LittFest 2012 festival Straddling the fence between Swedish and Finnish i Ostrabothnia, the installation attempts a rapprochement between the languages. Pikku pikku liten is an audible exploration of [...]
  • Audio Linguistic Laboratory
  •   Welcome to participate ALL! 14.–28.10.2012 at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa. Participation is free from the entrance fee to the museum. The Audio Linguistic Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary project that deals with the investigation of the harmonic content in the two local languages Finish and Swedish. The laboratory itself consists of a setup [...]
  • An object of desire already lost – Part 1
  •   ‘An object of desire already lost’ is an ongoing work presenting objects within an immersive environment that suggests questioning, possibility and radical otherness during a time of profound cultural uncertainty. Through continuing research a collection of textual, audio and visual objects that relate to mythologies of club culture have been generated. These objects take [...]
  • Open Air Movies
  • Open Air Movies outside Platform’s studio at Kasern 14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6–8, Vasa Saturday 28.8.2012 at 21.30 Come and enjoy some good indie movies! Bring something to sit on, and some mosquito repellent too. In case of bad weather, the event is indoors. Welcome! ——— Gyz La Rivière: 12 a film about the Fret Click Juvenile [...]
  • Diverse Universe Festival 20.6.2012
  • FB www.facebook.com/diverseuniverse Homepage: performants.tumblr.com/ diversefestival.tumblr.com/ ——— 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 [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • 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
  • 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, [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • 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 [...]