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Platform Live: Night of the arts – Roll don’t Ride

Published 12/08/2017 by Platform

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!

 

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Artist in residence: Sarah Nawotka

Published 07/08/2017 by Platform

Sarah Nawotka is an American artist whose practice focuses primarily on sound and improvisational collaboration with other artists working in sound, video, painting, and movement. Using vocal improvisations, field recordings, and effect processing, she conjures a spontaneous sentimentality that, at the same time, resists and disavows sentimentality’s concretizing and immortalizing tendencies. Salient features of her improvisations include asynchronous melodies echoing the multiplicity of voices within the self and the inconsistent nature of temporality. She uses loop-based soundscaping as an immediate form of capturing an organic moment, layering it to evolve into something indistinguishable and transforming it into a tangible, topographical substance, while immortalizing the original ephemera with the hope of eventual decay.

The work during her residency at Platform during June and July 2017 was primarily inspired by the embodiment of emotional reprocessing of trauma and how it allows the body to transgress spatiality and temporality. The symbolic language developed in this chapter of her practice is characterized by her techniques of affecting the voice and the space and exploring multi-loop based composition. The recordings from this period will be released in 2018 under the moniker, Dråsa. She participated in several performances and collaborations with Vaasa-based multidisciplinary artists.

Nawotkas activities during the residency

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Ether: Water

Published 28/06/2017 by Platform

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.”

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Protest songs across Kvarken

Published 31/05/2017 by Platform

TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Artists association MUU, Platform, Vita Kuben and Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten co-operate in arranging two screening- and networking events on both sides of Kvarken, in Vaasa, Finland and Umeå, Sweden.

The first of the events takes place on the 5th of June in Umeå, in Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten at 16.00, beginning with a videoscreening and artist talk which are part of the Performance Voyage 7 tour. Artists gather to discuss themes of performance and activism central to Performance Voyage 7, and regional artist Marika Räty from TAIKE presents the project LADAF, Live Art Development Agency Finland.

The tour continues the next day in Vaasa, Finland, where a screening and artist talk is arranged in Platform studio at 18.00 on the 6th of June.

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John Grzinich – Bothnia ice flows

Published 04/04/2017 by Platform

Much attention has been devoted to ‘the north‘ in recent years due to the impending issues surrounding the notion of ‘climate change’. While there is a good deal to be debated as far as the extent to which climate change will affect us there is also a need for observation, to understand just who “we” are and what are “we” confronting. In my case, the residency at Platform in Vaasa Finland was the second point in a series of observational outings concerning climate, geography and human culture, particularly in the sub-arctic civilized areas of northern Europe (the first was in Iceland in March/April 2016). In Vaasa, the focus became about ‘ice’ and the role ice plays in culture and industry on the Bay of Bothnia during its seasonal freeze every winter.

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Pekko Käppi, Tomutonttu, Soundi Mozard & The Bodybuilderz

Published 18/01/2017 by Platform

 

Pekko Käppi

Platform and Filmverkstaden collaborated in organizing an end of the year event at the old soapfactory in Palosaari. The night was full packed with great music, visuals and screenings by Filmverkstaden. The event was also a celebration for the old factory, as it will be demolished in the near future.

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Nina Svensson – How many hectares do you have?

Published 01/12/2016 by Platform

 

How many hectares do you have? A study in future forestry and ownership relations.

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What if people from Timrå were given three hectares of forest. They could plant, take care, thin and fell the trees to get timber for more art halls. Everyone would be able to build their own institution. Plans are already made to be ordered, no building permissions are needed and the timber will be free. How many 25 ²m art halls may be built of 3 hectares of forest and when can the first one be built? Will the people of Timrå grow Christmas Trees for faster profits and instead buy the wood needed for the project? Or will they make an effort and grow wholesome and safe pine for maximum return on investment, around the year 2095.

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Roland Farkas – Refugees welcome

Published 11/11/2016 by Platform

Roland Farkas’s project ‘Refugees Welcome’ realized at the Platform’s Artist in Residence program deals with the vicissitudes of refugees arriving to Europe. Their welcome differs in each country of the European Union – from barbed wires to arrests, from heartily welcome through indifference to hostility, from refugee camps to integration language courses. The project points out the anomalies of the system, explores the phenomena of migration and the utopian aspects of integration.

Roland Farkas (b. 1975, Slovakia) studied at the Intermedia Department of Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. He is interested in the effect of cultural specificities on human values in a broader sense. The primary subject of his work is the critical discussion of artistic, social and economic phenomena as well as the network of relationships between these phenomena and the processes of transformation, disappearance and entropy. He lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.

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