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QWERTY Salvation

Published 05/12/2017 by Platform

QWERTY, the artist group from Denmark, is coming to Vaasa, Finland in December to save souls.

Opening Thursday 14.12.2017  18:00-21:00 at Kirkkopuistikko 20 / Kyrkoesplanaden 20, Vaasa.
Open Friday-Saturday 15.12. – 16.12. 11:00-18:00

Both our guests, and our own soul need salvation.

It is soon Christmas, and in the spirit of love, we invite everyone to come and be a part of our investigation, into the depths of our soul.

People hurt and seek meaning of life, with art QWERTY is looking for an escape.

The Virgin Mary/Art mother, with her children, invite guests into her veil. Here you are offered a pill symbolizing the baby Jesus and art.
Elvis, ‘the King’ is alive, and he will greet you with healing and personal drawings, if you can find him in a mirror.
The woman in yellow, will give you intimate erotic stories, while looking at the passing of life outdoors.
The man dressed in white, will invite you to enter his white space, and meet yourself.

The art piece is relational, and created together with the public, as a live performance.

As ‘therapists’ in New York 2016, and also as ‘undertakers’, discussing death at Art Fair Suomi 2017 and Sluice_ Art Fair 2015, QWERTY members experience that difficult topics are meaningful to investigate when the core is art.

QWERTY is looking forward to check out the problems people from Vaasa, Finland are dealing with, and SALVE with art.

 

QWERTY is an initiative run by 7 visual artist from Denmark who have worked together for 10 years.. The mix of members has occurred mainly, by a common interest in pursuing new knowledge and practices.

QWERTY members in Vaasa: Camilla Gaugler, Anders Qvist Nielsen, John Krogh and Indigo Richards.

Represented with ideas and soul: Jens Andersen, Mikkel Larris and Morten Tilltz.

 

Homepage: http://tifinger.dk/

Instagram: Qwerty_artdk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tifinger.dk/

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Solid Grey / minim (Diana Dulgheru, RO)

Published 16/09/2017 by Platform

The result of a one month Platform residency in Vaasa, Finland, the audiovisual project Solid Grey focuses on finding a direct, abstract translation of the specific Finnish architecture of the blocks of flats into sound and visual forms. The relation between space and form which is as important as the volumetric shape, the basic building volume, the compact forms and plans were sources of fascination and served as a foundation for this audiovisual reflection.

Audiovisual performance in the former teater Casa, Kasarmintori, Artellikuja 4, 65100, Vaasa.
September 16 at 19:00

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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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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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