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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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Citymind Helsinki

Published 02/05/2004 by Platform


17.4–9.5.2004

Galleri Huuto from Helsinki was the third guest Platform invited in spring 2004 on the theme Citymind. Galleri Huuto was founded in November 2002 from a strong urge to create a new independent and non-commercial exhibition space. Huuto was founded by 24 young artists as a one-year project, but continued after this and has today considered one of the most interesting exhibition spaces in Helsinki. The founding members of Huuto had in common an interest to gather different kinds of artists without forcing any artistic manifest. For the Huuto-members it was natural to offer the all members the possibility to participate in the Platform exhibition. They chose to use a democratic and multi purposed technique – the dia-positive. All artists handle dia_positives in different situations in their work. Everybody has them. Some of the artists had concentrated on the Citymind theme and prepared their pictures especially for the exhibition, but there was also pictures from private archives or found pictures. In the exhibition space they built an installation of several projectors and over 400 pictures that was projected on different surfaces that simultaneously divided the room.   The installation can be seen as mirroring a cityscape where the visitor move between the sounds and pictures that are constantly changing. The sounds was mixed with the clicking of the projector and together with the pictures formed a kind of “citymind”.

At the opening night the Helsinki based Pink Twins played at the market square in Vaasa.

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