Artspace and residency
Thank you to everyone who took their time to apply for the 2018/19 residency program. Out of 140 applications 5 artists are going to join our program.
We look forward to work and spend time with:
Meredith Degyansky (USA)
Paloma Sanchez-Palencia (Brazil)
Lena Skrabs (Germany)
Johan Lundin (Sweden)
Roberto Santaguida (Canada)
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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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„Migration always means a change, a change of place, the change of the known surrounding into something new and unknown.So when I come to a new environment and walk in it, move in it, don ́t I walk with every step into the unknown? Don’t I enter it and make it in a certain way to mine? Conquer it. With every step in this unknown place I migrate to a new location. Don ́t I make it just with my presence somehow to mine? Don’t I leave in every location a trace and every place one in me? And if I walked an entire site, went through every road, didn’t I make it to my place?“
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Dear artists of the universe, it’s now possible to apply for a Platform residency. The deadline is 6th of February 2015. Read more here.
Comments closedinteractive project by Patrik Qvist
with Tuomo Väänänen, Janika Herlevi, Michel Ruths, Dragos Alexandrescu and Clara Diesen
climate change scenario texts by Dougald Hine
produced by Platform
Climate Change Concern Studio is an interactive art project. The installation is set up like an old- fashioned portrait studio with a landscape backdrop and a couple of lamps for illumination. The participant is asked to consider five different statements about climate change and pick one that he/ she can relate to. Depending on which one is chosen, the participant gets to pick a cardboard sign which reflects this statement. The participant is then photographed against the backdrop and two copies of the image are printed- one for the participant to keep, and one to pin up on the studio wall. The average time needed for the whole process is about five minutes.
Climate Change Concern Studio was first shown in February 2014 at the independent art fair Supermarket in Stockholm. There were more than 500 participating visitors during the three days of the fair, resulting in some 300 portraits on the wall. The participatory element of the installation proved to be an efficient and successful way to engage the audience in a dialogue about a serious topic, while retaining a sense of enjoyment in the process.
For more info, see www.patrikqvist.com.
Comments closedThe opening of a Wormhole, provoked the appearance of a transport ‘shortcut’ in space-time.
This phenomenon allowed the train to travel between the two cities for only few seconds.
crew:
Marcus Lerviks – Technical assistance, Vaasa
Harri Niskanen – Location coordinator, Vaasa
Jimmy Pulli – Camera and technical assistance, Vaasa
Joakim Vesterlund – Location manager and technical assistance, Umeå
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Platform, Vaasa, Finland
Mira House, Vaasa, Finland
Kulturförening Kretsen, Umeå, Sweden
In cooperation with; Norrporten, Umeå, Sweden
© HR-Stamenov
2014
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On March 12, a strange phenomenon will connect two cities located on the two opposite sides of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea: Vaasa in Finland and Umeå in Sweden.
A transport corridor, provoked by the opening of a Wormhole, also known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, which is a hypothetical topological feature of space-time, will create a ‘shortcut’ between the two cities. The phenomenon will allow a Train to appear inside a building in Vaasa, then 3 minutes later in Umeå, then back in Vaasa after 3 min. and after 3 min. again in Umeå…
The observers of the phenomenon will receive a clear evidence for the existence of the Wormhole, and the practical equations from the Theory of General Relativity will be evaluated as possible solutions for transport.
HR-Stamenov, the current artist in residence of Platform, presents this light spectacle.
The immediate attention, which the media installation provokes, leaves the passers-by uncertain of what they have just seen, for the train literally ‘appears’ inside the buildings. The project is an illustration of the scientific theories of time travels and space distortions.
Date: 12.03.2014
Time: Vaasa 19.00–22.00, Umeå 18.00–21.00
Address: Miratalo / Mirahuset, Kirkkopuistikko 34 / Kyrkoesplanaden 34, Vaasa
Address: Storgatan 38, Umeå
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The project is realized with the kind collaboration of:
PLATFORM, Vaasa www.platform.fi
MIRA House, Vaasa www.mirahouse.fi
Kulturförening Kretsen, Umeå kretsen.org
Norrporten, Umeå www.norrporten.se
Platform’s current artist in residence Daniel Ladnar will present and launch his project “Upcoming” at the Terranova Kvarken Nature Centre on Sunday, the 17th of November, at 4 pm. All welcome!
“Upcoming” invites people to send a message to the future. They can send whatever they like, as long as it fits into an envelope. All letters are put into time capsules which will be sunk in the Kvarken archipelago in the summer of 2014. And because every year the land rises by almost 1cm there, they might re-appear sometime in the future. Or they might never be found.
“Upcoming” engages with the land rise in the Kvarken archipelago and with the constant changes that the planet is going through. It asks people to consider their relation to the future: What things, thoughts and memories would the people of Vaasa like to preserve for the future? Are there any messages they would like to leave for future generations? What are their hopes, their fears, their secrets, their ambitions? Letters (maximum size: A6) will remain unopened.
There will be a letter box installed permanently until next summer at Terranova Kvarken Nature Centre (Museokatu 3, Vasa) for people to leave their messages. If you would also like to participate in the project by installing a letter box somewhere, you are welcome to do so.
Participation is also possible for people from other places. They can send letters to the following address: Upcoming c/o Platform, Kasern 14, Västra Kaserntorget 8–10, FIN-65100 Vasa.
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DJ’s & LIVE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC:
Tuomo Väänänen
Arvid van der Rijt
Captain Heroin
Welcome to participate ALL!
14.–28.10.2012 at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa.
Participation is free from the entrance fee to the museum.
The Audio Linguistic Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary project that deals with the investigation of the harmonic content in the two local languages Finish and Swedish.
The laboratory itself consists of a setup for video recording and a string-based instrument that instantaneously translates any sound to musical harmonics. The citizens of Vaasa are invited to come by to collaborate on creating abstract audio-video-portraits of the finish and the swedish language.
ALL is a project by the German sound- and media artist Florian Tuercke who is currently artist in residence at Platform.
In his artistic work, Tuercke investigates the musical and compositional structure of public space. Amongst others, his projects took place in Mexico City (2012), the European Capital of Culture Turku (2011) and 26 US-American Cities (2008/9).
More information on: www.urban-audio.org
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