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BRIDGING ZIP-CODE 65

Published 11/07/2016 by Platform

When an artist works with other people in co-creation of a public outcome, what kind of challenges and possibilities does participatory methodologies and documentary photography offer? Is it possible to find a new context in the tension between the two modes of process and outcome, when photographic subjects also become participants and co-creators of artistic work? How does the creative process influence the photographic activity and vice versa? How can one use the social and practical situations that arise as a result of an engaging strategy, to invent art and to explore the social interaction behind an image?

How may one create a space for aesthetics decisions and an artistic point of view while decentralizing authorship? Who is allowed to make a visual representation in a public space? [1] How can one be usefully engaged with individuals or a community and document it in the work? What kind of subtle, silent and in-built behaviour patterns do photographers use? What do we know about all the decisions a photographer constantly makes and how does one move as a photographer?

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Sculptural Pavilion – Local A

Published 30/05/2016 by Platform

The expression of the enlarged sculptures stands in stark contrast to the hegemony of functional bodies of architecture. The giants of power, politicians and corporations, decide upon urban planning – hopefully in coincidence with the general public opinion. Sculptural Pavilion on the other hand is shaped by a benevolent child giant. It is a symbol of young people’s expression translated to a bigger scale. The video in Sculptural Pavilion is a visualisation of a ritual of transporting and placing the sculptures in the public realm, produced in separate workshops with the children.

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Platform Live: Wilkinson & Tuomi, Vesa-Matti Kivioja

Published 05/05/2016 by Platform

Vaasa with its two jazz clubs has a decent selection of music for the enthusiasts of the genre, although free jazz is unfortunately seldom heard in our town. Platform rf. is mending the lack by inviting one of Britain’s most remarkable saxophonists to Vaasa.

Percussionist — Janne Tuomi Photo: Maarit Kytöharju

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 different performances. On Saturday 14.5. Platform live is held in the café of the Ritz-theatre in Vaasa, on stage we will experience two different approaches to experimental music. During the Night we will hear an electronic solo gig from Vaasa’s own Vesa-Matti Kivioja and the British-Finn free jazz duo with saxophonist Alan Wilkinson and percussionist Janne Tuomi.

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Local A: Sculptural workshop in Ristikka

Published 20/02/2016 by Platform

As an early start to the upcoming Vastaan+Otto / Mot+Tagning festival, with its main events in May 2016, Local A. (Jenny Berntsson & Felice Hapetzeder, SE) are giving a workshop in Ristikka Youth House in Ristinummi, Vaasa. More info about Vastaan+Otto, the The 1st Triennial of Coummunity Arts, can be found here.

The workshop(s) are part of the Local A. project Sculptural Pavilion. More information about Local A. can be found on their web site.

UPDATE: The workshops in Ristikka spontaneously expanded into the Variska school in Ristinummi. Read more on the school blog!

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Janks Archive

Published 30/01/2016 by Platform

JANKS ARCHIVE (a project by NYC-based artists Ben Kinsley, Jessica Langley, and Jerstin Crosby) is an ongoing investigation and collection of insult humor from around the world. Since 2012 they have taken this project to cities such as Philadelphia, Mexico City, Berlin, Belfast, Riga, and Kaunas. In each place they visit, they talk to residents and learn about local versions of these types of insulting jokes. They record people telling their jokes, which are put into a worldwide video archive, as well as represented in art installations, publications, and screenings.

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”Metvikens sopfest“, Vaasa by Light 2015

Published 06/12/2015 by Platform

Project by Christoph Mügge, Platform residency november 2015

”Metvikens sopfest“ a blue, wooden construction seems to concurrently well out of three different garbage bins, and form a strong unity that also serves as pillars to support a tarpaulin.

The incorporated materials are a major part of the contemporary urban landscape and the various parts of mainly overlooked and decried parts of our everyday life are thoroughly arranged and intermingle in a transformative way that transcends both architectural and cultural hierarchies.

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Fading Smoke

Published 24/10/2015 by Platform

A performance event organised by Hiroko Tsuchimoto. Food & mingle afterwards!
Thursday, 29 October at 7-9 pm.
at Technobothnia, Bomullgränd 3 / Puuvillakuja 3, Vaasa
No admission fee
(Better life and better future)

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1+1 TALK WITH MARIA NORDBÄCK AND KRISTINA KRAMER

Published 05/10/2015 by Platform

Platform-Vaasa has a pleasure to invite you to the next 1+1 TALK with MARIA NORDBÄCK AND KRISTINA KRAMER, initiated by Sencer Vardarman, a residency artist of Platform.

Kristina Kramer and Maria Nordbäck will both meet for the first time and talk about their projects and approaches towards participatory practices in artistic production and exhibition making.

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1+1 talk with Britt Kootstra and Mary Cremin

Published 16/09/2015 by Platform

Platform-Vaasa has a pleasure to invite you to the next 1+1 TALK with Mary Cremin and Britt Kootstra, initiated by Sencer Vardarman, a residency artist of Platform.

The talk will take the format of a conversation between the artist and the curator as a means to explore each of their practices through the use of visuals and exploring the parallels and convergences of their areas of research. They will discuss works in progress teasing out the process of making in terms of exhibition making and the production of artworks. The talk will be informal and will encourage more of an open dialogue with the audience.

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Vaasa 20X0

Published 16/09/2015 by Platform

The VAASA 20X0 project culminated on September 3^rd 2015 with a public walk visiting eight art works specifically produced for Vaasa. The artworks along the way were presented to the public by the artists. The walk started with the first art work in the public library and the second stop was at the market square statue of freedom and the by the neighbouring Tourist info. From there the walk continued to a seaside spot in front of the Vaasa prison and the last stops were in the park next to the Kuntsi museum and at the silos in the Inner harbour. The walk ended with a film screening and discussion at the Platform studio.

The works have been conceived by artists visiting the Platform residency program during 2014 and 2015 under the working title VAASA 20X0, with the aim to create possible scenarios, visions of and for a Vaasa in the future. The chosen artists took part in a workshop together with artists involved in Platform and other local actors. In the workshop the artists’ practices and interests were discussed, as well as local issues and circumstances for projects. At a later stage the artists returned to Vaasa to have an individual residency and work on their projects that finally were presented on the walk on the 3rd of September.

For information on each project see below.

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