Artspace and residency
KATHARINE MEEDING
PRESENTATION & AW
Tuesday 29th Nov.
19.00
Platform rf. Kyrkoesplanaden 20 D
Katharine Meeding is a South African painter who spent the last 2 months in residence at Platform.
”Finding Magic during Marraskuu
I am grateful that my residency coincided with the change of seasons. During this time I was reminded that nature (like us) is in a constant state of flux. I slowed down a lot, walked around and frequently revisited the same spots. I realised these scenes are never the same.
Nature chipped away at itself. The trees shed the golden colours and yet brilliant shards of autumnal colours clung on and caught my eye.
The bare bones of the trees etched the sky with sketchy lines, it felt like magical moments that blew past could stick to it at any moment.
A darker month makes for brighter dreams, and the magical creatures of Finland started visiting my room. I use white glitter a lot in my work. When the first snow started falling it felt like I was walking around in scenes from my imagination.
I was inspired to paint some of these creatures, and they are slowly gathering together in the window display of Platform.
I will be returning to warm, sunny South Africa soon.
Please join me for an after-work wine and tell me if you found any magic in this month of ‘marras’.”
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Platform Art Space -Kyrkoesplanaden 20 D
Friday 9.12.2022 at 21.00
Saturday 10.12.2022 at 14.00 and 19.00
Video and photo installation and parallel performance.
Obscure sorrows is a work about living and being together with different natural places.
The video work and the photographs in the gallery space include moments of togetherness with, among others, the ice of the Pikkuvaara pond, the rowan tree in Kuusiluoto, the holm oak in Pahalakso and the field in Pikkujoki.
In these ritualistic encounters, the artists listened to the Mala Mountains, experienced the whistle of a white-tailed deer, danced on the pebbles of the shore of Lake Kilpisjärvi and were sometimes stopped by a snowstorm or gusts of wind.
In these moments they wondered when the mink would walk the same paths with them again, when the old fir trees and their inhabitants would disappear from the forest near their grandmother’s house, and when the bottom of Lake Kangasjärvi would no longer be visible when diving.
Through the performances, the video work expands into space through bodily and visual activities that create a shared experience with the audience.
The working group of the work consists of dance artists Riina Kalmi and Soile Voima, sound designer Kristian Ekholm and scenographer Anttoni Halonen.
Duration of the performance about 1h. Duration of the independent video work approx. 25 min.
Tickets: 15€ / 10€
Free entry for Platform members
https://pohjanmaantanssi.fi/kauppa/
This is a collaboration between Platform and Pohjanmaan tanssi aluekeskus
Platform is part of Regnbågshelgen 26.11 @Malakta
See you there!
One thing for another, that’s what Böd proposes to the guests coming to Platform during the Night of the Arts, where a shop will be arranged for the audience to take home the items they like.
Based on the action of Trueque*, Böd initiates an exchange with its visitors by inviting them to touch and move around the space as if they were in a department store. (alternative: as if they were in a one person owned business).
By doing so, the visitors can take home -for free- any of the displayed objects: Tye dyed clothes from the clothes concept shop and from the cabinet of curiosities that arranges a series of curious and not-so curious objects, and enjoy a fantastic drink in the Tiny Bar.
For leaving the space with something between the hands,or in the pockets, or inside the body, visitors are asked to pass by the Welcome Center (alternative:Kassa, Cashier) and swap in exchange for the consumption, a drawing, a note or a conversation.
The space and its islands of products invite consumers to consume without money, to look at the everyday in a different way and to imagine together what the future could be for Vaasa’s empty (alternative: available) commercial units. (alternative: in times the way we consume is pivoting to digital)
Furthermore, Böd is a third hand shop, meaning that all displayed articles are primarily used, discharged, found, or acquired from second hand shops, inviting to re-examine the relation towards consumption and material things.
*Trueque is the Spanish for swap, a direct exchange of goods and services, without the intervention of money, and exchanging one thing for another.
Huge thanks to the artists in residence Constanza Carvajal, Stephanie Quirola and Alan Rios for your creative ideas and energy and for realizing the project Böd!
Credits:
Constanza Carvajal
Alan Rios
Stephanie Quirola
Platform team
Frank Buchta
Jonny Smeds
Comments closedThe selection for Platform Residencies 2023 ” The relevance of Artworks an Art Work” has been made.
The selected artists have been contacted.
We want to thank all artists who applied and hope to see your applications again for next Open Call!
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Comments closed[pilɷŋg] is a collection of minizines with an Ostrobothnian connection. In Ostrobothnian, “pilung” means pollywog, which is the tiny offspring of frogs – just like the minizines . The first edition is a collection of five minizines created by five different artists. The collection is a pilot project with a focus on creative playfulness and creating a space where Ostrobothnian creators can test the genre.
Editor – Sara Östman
Other artists:
Roosa Ruotsalainen
Petra Zajácz-Dvorák
Frida Hinders
Nils Qvis
Sara Östman
Pilung is an independent project. The release was arranged in collaboration with Platform.
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