Artspace and residency
Come Saturday morning with your kids for a fun drawing workshop in English, Swedish and Finnish with South African artist Herman de Klerk. Herman is building an imaginary world called Muscle City. You can participate in creating it !We will have free coffee and treats while videos of body builders play in the background. Let’s create fun stories and draw.
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At Supermarket Art Fair.
Platform sponsored Juliana Irene Smith of ALMA MARFA to go to Supermarket and present the Platform Zine – PERIPHERY.
Zarah Holmberg came as a board member to network.
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March 27th from 7 – 10pm
Roberto Santaguida – artist in residence
Works from workshop participants, past and present.
A work-in-progress installation.
Thursday – March 21st
7 – 10pm
Zarah Holmberg’s famous CLAY + BEER is back @ Platform!
Get your hands dirty while you have a drink or a coffee at CLAY + BEER. Low key way of getting to know the way of the clay.
If you missed out on the previous events, don’t worry! You are very welcome along to play!
And as always it’s totally fine to just stop by to have a drink and chill too if that’s more your thing.
Hope to see you there!
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Come make COLLAGES with Platform on February 21st from 6 – 10pm at the Platform Space Unisex in Vaasa. They will be part of our first zine PERIPHERY out in April. Bring stickers, magazines and fun stuff. We will have beer, chips, scissors, glue, paper and so much more !! Ah yeah ! #glitterrules #humxninrainbows
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Roberto Santaguida is Platform’s latest artist in residency, staying in Vaasa from January to March. Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto’s films and videos have been shown at more than 300 international festivals. He has also taken part in residencies in numerous countries, including Iran, Romania, Germany, Norway, and Australia. He is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.
While in Vaasa, Roberto is planning a collaborative film installation with people facing mental health and cognitive challenges.
In the artist talk he tells about his past and present projects.
Free entrance.
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04.12.-23.12
Rebecca Simons: Letters from the Past
an exhibition at Platform/Filmverkstaden project and event space, Kirkkopuistikko 20, Vaasa
Opening night 08.12.2018 at 18:30. Welcome!
The exhibition is open: 4-23 Dec / Mon-Fri 13.00-18.00 & Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00
In 1946 a woman writes to her newfound love: “Now it seems just a dream that you were ever here, but what a dream it was! These have been the most wonderful days I have ever experienced.” Sixty years later her granddaughter receives a reply from the same man: “When you see who is writing, I hope it doesn’t disgust you so much that you refuse to read on. I get no peace of mind if you can’t forgive me….”
Life is not always as black and white as the Hollywood idea. As reality seeps in, so do the nuances of grey, clouding our clear distinctions between good and evil, right and wrong. In Letters from the Past we meet a gentleman, a funny grandfather, vulnerable children, broken hearts, forgotten feelings, menacing but also hopeful letters and thoughts. The protagonist is both someone’s ideal man and another’s offender. Clashing realities dating through half a century are braided together in an installation and linear-narrative film.
Letters from the Past is a multimedia project by Rebecca Simons. Since 2016 she has been collecting and recording a part of family history that we usually choose to leave untold. With this project she wants to encourage others to speak out, yet not stop at the act of pointing a finger but to open the conversation and break circles in order to avoid history repeating itself.
CREDITS:
Concept & curation: Rebecca Simons
Video & photography: Rebecca Simons / Henrik Selin
and the family’s home videos.
Production advice: Jukka Rajala-Granstubb / Elin Grönblom/ Melissa Prins
Video editing: Rebecca Simons / Bo Forsander
Music & sound design: Viljam Nybacka
Graphic design: Nick Kailola
Text editing: Rodney Bolt
Color correction:Bo Forsander
Voice of Tete: Anna Högström
Voice of Henko: Axel Hanses
Exhibition production: Andréas Bergdahl
Educational program: Rebecca Simons / Cecilia Flygars, Klaara
Much gratitude and love to my brave family for daring to share our story!
The project is made possible by Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Arts Promotion Centre (Taike) and Platform. The educational project is developed in collaboration with the youth organization Klaara.
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Amal Laala Returns
Thursday 15 November at 7pm
A video work
Some talking
An activity
Amal Laala was a resident artist at Platform in 2010. Amal is visiting Finland from her current home of Australia and we thought it would be nice to catch up on her activities the past 8 years.
Amal Laala is a socially engaged, site-specific artist, whose work is often temporary and fleeting, revolving around current social issues, experimentation and play.
In 2010 she said, “My current work in progress is “Father, Father, Father”, where I am investigating how stories can be told and interpreted, ranging from spiritual, political to personal. During my residency at Platform I will continue developing these central themes of storytelling, family and interpretation. Investigating my Finnish grandparents and their past, I am to research elements of their lives using the little information I have.”
What is she up to now? Come and find out. It will be worth it, we promise.
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Part One and Part Two
There is no difference between the two parts except the works shown.
Selected by Juliana Irene Smith
Platform Project Space, Kirkkopuistikko 20, Vaasa, Finland
Thursday 1 November 2018 @ 7 – 9pm
Thursday 6 December 2018 @ 7 – 9pm
Bridget Baker, Basim Magdy, Dana Levy, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Ed Young, Anetta Mona Chisa + Lucia Tkacova, Liza Grobler, Bashar Alhroub, Nico Athene, Abri de Swardt, Nisrine Boukhari, Antonia Brown, Samah Hijawi, Francois Knoetze, Daria Tchapanova, and Purity Zinhle Mkhize
‘Buffer zones have various purposes, political or otherwise. They can be set up to prevent violence, protect the environment, protect residential and commercial zones from industrial accidents or natural disasters.’ (Platform Statement.)
Buffer Zones is the theme for the 2018 – 2019 Platform residency and project space. In all honesty, I feel like I am constantly buffering my zones.
Where do you find your buffer? And what if it is gone, taken away? What is left?
The artists that were asked to participate, I have had the opportunity to meet in person or work with. I like them, I like their work, and I can tell you more about them, or where they live; a personal anecdote perhaps. The works are not curated in the sense of a perfect rhythmic or narrative flow from one to the other. Each work has an individual strength, power, yet the crash and clash of bodies, situations, animals, ritual, technology, environment and everything, it becomes quiet, disturbing and romantic all in one.
Perhaps the answer is in the space between us, or in the work and in how we utilize and negotiate our personal buffers, which leads us to the state we want to be (out of the buffer zone and safe)… just a thought.
The new space is supported by Svenska Kulturfonden, Svensk Österbottniska Samfundet, Kulturösterbotten and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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