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Year: 2005

The Cut 16.4.–15.5.2005

Published 29/04/2005 by Platform

TEA – Jon Biddulph, Peter Hatton, Lynn Pilling, Val Murray

 

 

The Cut is a recording of a boat journey on the Leeds and Liverpool canal in the U.K. The canal was once the main transport link between the towns during the early industrialisation period. This is a record of the urban and rural areas that the canal passes through, it is an investigation of its context. Video cameras were set up back to back on the boat pointing towards the bank recording all 35 miles of the 3-day journey.

It is presented in the Gallery on two screens; the audience sit where the boat had been. The synchronised videos of both banks of the canal are projected onto the two screens. The landscape, both urban and rural, passes slowly on the screens at the speed the boat travelled. The edited journey takes six hours. Whenever the video shows the underside of a bridge, a spoken commentary begins accompanying the viewer along the next section of the recorded journey. Welcome to the opening 15.04.05 at 19:00. Artist2Artist; the artists will present their work at 18:00.

TEA is a group of four artists who have worked together on projects since 1987. TEA’s work is process-based, site-related, interdisciplinary and contextual. Outcomes have been large scale sculptural installations, published books, video installations and audio installations. Recent work has been an investigation of place and the representation of its multiple identities.

 

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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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