Platform 20 Years
An anniversary festival with live music, arts, workshops and performance.
More info coming soon.
STAY TUNED!
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Platform is very excited to announce a collaboration with
Museum of Impossible Forms
https://www.museumofimpossibleforms.org/
Vishnu Vardhani Rajan
Shubhangi Singh
Surabhi Nadig
Zahrah Ehsan
Samra Šabanović
will take part in a residency at platform during November and December. Have a look at our instagram for more
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The New Normal
Window exhibition series featuring:
Jon Gredmark & INFO
Aeon Lux & Viljami Nissi
Nabb Teeri
Anneli Holmström & Janette Ayachi
Britt Al-Busultan & Adriana Vila
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Temperature
You are very welcome to join us at Platform Unisex-space to hear Läure D Selys (CH) talk about her residency project.
Audio-visual readings from the following writings:
Everyone welcome! Come cool down with us after the heat of the day 
Free snacks & drink
Free snacks & drink
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Vuoden ensimmäinen kulttuurisoppa.
Moikkaa residenssitaiteilijaa ja nauti kuppi kuumaa keittoa, tervetuloa!
Vuoden ensimmäinen kulttuurisoppa.
Moikkaa residenssitaiteilijaa ja nauti kuppi kuumaa keittoa, tervetuloa!
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Årets första kultursoppa.
Träffa vår gästkonstnär och njut av en kopp varm soppa, välkommen!
Årets första kultursoppa.
Träffa vår gästkonstnär och njut av en kopp varm soppa, välkommen!
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First culturalsoup of 2020.
Chat with the resident artist and have a bowl of hot soup, welcome!
First culturalsoup of 2020.
Chat with the resident artist and have a bowl of hot soup, welcome!
Platform is grateful for the support by Svenska Kulturfonden, Vasa Stad, Suomen kulttuurirahasto and Konstsamfundet.
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Peripheral futures,
Platform X Vaasa City Planners X KTH
The international architecture students of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have proposed possible futures for the soon to be vacated Wärtsilä factory area. The Vasa based artist initiative Platform, together with the Vaasa city planning department, are exhibiting the student’s ideas and miniatures at Rewell Center. A goal of the exhibition is to incite dialogue around the future use of the vacated factory lot in the city centre.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in Europe.
MOTHER FUCKER.
She is not your mother – I am your mother.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
The project ‘Mother Fucker: She is not your mother – I am your mother,’ is a 128 page art book by Juliana Irene Smith with an edition of 50 signed copies. It consists of watercolors and photo collages dedicated to her daughter.
She invited the emerging talented artist Ansa, an art student in Jakobstad, Miranda Moss a gifted artist friend from South Africa, Ilmari Walker the tattoo artist and activist and Panu Sivonen of the Vaasa orchestra and DJ extraordinaire to help create the Christmas spirit and the launch of her book at PLATFORM.
In 2014, Juliana Irene Smith founded ALMA MARTHA an artist host initiative in Cape Town with the motto – She is not your mother. It was meant to say – break the rules, no one will tell you what to do. Now she is a mother of a one year old girl, Frances Bird. She is her mother.
Her background is complicated. At 15, Juliana Irene Smith found out that her mother was raped and that her stepfather was a bad man. Since those early days, she turned to art and paper as a way out. At a young age she remembers looking to Frida Kahlo and how she turned the pain from the bus accident into stories with creatures at her bedside. Juliana’s artistic work has been about the effect of inter-generational trauma and post trauma. It has been about coping with it and how to create narratives for viewers that allow them in and at the same time while facing her own fears and vulnerability. She uses humor and sarcasm as a medicine of relief for both herself as well as those who come in contact with the work.
Now as a new mother her awareness towards her behavior and narrative with the young daughter are more alert than ever. How will her history affect her child?
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