Year: 2017

Dear people please have a look on the residency program page. Our open call is live until the 10th of December.

Although imperceptible at first, the cultural differences appear in a subtle way in one’s mind creating an off-balance feeling. I discovered Finland in a gradual way, finding the differences in all the details, starting with food, the organization of the space and ending with people’s attitude, introverted, focused, firm. I perceived them as being warm.

The whole experience seemed shorter than I thought it would be and proved to be life-changing and inspiring even if I already was interested in the minimalist way of expression.

During the residence I focused on finding a connection between my artistic statement in general and the things that impressed me the most, a common ground.

Being the result of this one-month Platform residence in Vaasa, Finland, the audiovisual project solid grey seeks to find a direct, abstract translation of the specific minimalist and functional Finnish architecture of the blocks of flats into sound and visual forms. The relation between space and form which is as important as the volumetric shape, the basic building volume, the compact forms and city plans were sources of fascination and served as a foundation for this audiovisual reflection.’

minim | Diana Dulgheru is an artist whose main interest is to work with sounds reduced to their purest form. Through her projects she explores the relation between sound and visual form, focusing on the visualization of sound and the aesthetic possibilities of the digital errors.

The Platform Live-events have contained a vast array of experimental performative art during the past years, on later days the events have focused on performance-art and sound. On the Night of the arts Platform will be engaging and rethinking the public space by occupying a piece of Kirjastonkatu. Instead of cars riding down the street we will have people on 8 wheels rolling to the sweet tunes of disco.

DJ Mesa-Vatti is taking his freshly collected Disco vinyl’s out for a spin so interesting vibes are sure to ensue. Quad-skates and protective gear can be borrowed at the site. You can also bring your own rollerblades!

Ether: Water is the ninth event in an internationally collaborative art series with an emphasis on experimental sound performance.
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Performances from:

–Arvid van der Rijt–

–Dråsa (US)–

“Water is uncapturable, but also contained and commodified. At its stillest, it can be stagnant, reflective, serene. Yet, if you try to immortalize the peace, it is disturbed. The glass shifts to fluid and the tranquil clarity is transforms into murky, obscured depths of terror. As we create, we simultaneously destroy, disrupt, and displace. We sink in and drown. Our waterlogged bodies are carried by the currents and we assimilate into the tumultuous force.”