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Trajector Art Fair 23-25 April 2010

Published 23/04/2010 by Platform

Hotel Bloom 23-25.4.2010 in Brussels

CFL was going to offer couples in love a hotel night for free in exchange for the story of how they met. In the hotel room during the fair there would’ve only been a video – shown in the hotel tv – of one person at a time telling a story of how he or she met her beloved. An intimate

However, this happened during a time that in European history will be known as the week in 2010 when the air space was completely empty due to a certain ash cloud that erupted from the Icelandic vulcano with the – at least for French people – unpronounceable name.


 

 

 

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CFL, Tammisaari (Ekenäs) February 2010

Published 01/02/2010 by Platform

Land we have / Land vi ha

Vasa 2010 | Exhibited in Elverket, Tammisaari (Ekenäs)

The project is a site-specific initiative that explores notions about identity, and relationship to place and patriotism. The work is an audiovisual interpretation of an experiment where CFL members invited persons from different origins based in Ostrobothnia to sing the regional Swedish national anthem together.

To sing in a choir is about accepting that the presentation of the expression of the group has a greater impact for the cultural experience than the individual influence. Through the conventions that choir-singing assume as an artistic expression, CFL wants to make visible universal patterns of how human beings express cultural belonging and raise questions and interpretations relating to fellowship, alienation, identity, time and place.

The project was part of a regional project where different collectives were invited to work on the concept of Ostrobothnia. Exhibited in Elverket, Tammisaari (Ekenäs) in February 2010.

CFL: Albert Braun, Dragos Alexandrescu, Ulrika Ferm, Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik, Jimmy Pulli, Tuomo Väänänen, Maria Ångerman
Guests: Mikael Heikius (FIN), Edmond Nushi (KOS), Ilias Missyris (G), Oyeyiola Francis Bamidele (GH), Roberto Urrutia (PE), Ronan O’Hara (IRE), Hanne Larsen (NO), Carolin Koss (DE), Courtney Hodgkin (AUS), Jenny Baines (UK)

 

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Platform Parasite Art Event Friday 25.9.2009

Published 25/09/2009 by Platform

Istanbul – Vaasa 2009

The event was part of an ongoing collaborative art project that Cheap Finnish Labour (CFL) started as a social intervention in Istanbul and realised in parallel with the inauguration of the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Between the 8th and 15th September, fourteen artists and cultural workers who run the Platform Contemporary Art Space in Vaasa, attended and explored the centre of Istanbul and the venue of the Istanbul Biennale. Inspired by Bertol Brecht’s verfremdungseffekt, distancing as an artistic and staging effect, the CFL group explored distancing as a source for art practice in Istanbul. By generating situated and relational interventions between artists, cultural workers, arts, public space and audience, CFL generated interpretation spaces for dialogue on the contemporary human condition. CFL highlighted the outcomes from the intervention by stressing Parasitism; an activity where the parasite stays alive by creating a symbiotic relation to the host.

Now, back in Vaasa, CFL invites you to a continued dialogue by framing a Platform Parasite Art Event where the documentation of CFL’s Istanbul experience is presented as a replica and postproduction of the Istanbul atmosphere. The Platform Parasite Art Event is composed as a concentrated social zone including Istanbul staging, guides, exteriors, interiors, noise, music, flavours and movements.

CFL Dragos Alexandrescu, Albert Braun, Ulrika Ferm, Joakim Hansson, Rasmus Hedlund, Marcus Lerviks, Eija Leinonen, Maria Lundström, Maria Nordbäck, Peter Rosvik, Tuomo Väänänen, Maria Ångerman, Hans Österblad.
Guest Guillaume Aubry (FRA)
Curator Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik

 

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Don’t complain – at the 52nd Venice Biennial

Published 14/02/2007 by Platform

Hüseyin Alptekin (Turkey) and Camila Rocha (Brazil) were artists in the Platform recidency during the spring 2007, when Alptekin was planning the work for his participation representing Turkey at the Venice biennial. Since Alptekins work deals with the issues of displacement, records unimportant facts and acts and through this brings attention to things that are out of attention Cheap Finnish Labour offered to help realizing the work.

The actual physical work contained deconstructing 5 log-barns in Finland. The Barn Research group found 5 unused barns in Laihea. One of the barns was reconstructed in Platform for Camila Rochas exhibition ‘Its all about the past’. Then the rest of the barns, along with paint, constructing material and traditional finnish furniture, chairs and tables were shipped to Venice. There the barns where rebuild in a slightly different shape so that it formed 5 different spaces. In the text “The titel of Hüseyin Alptekin’s installation for Turkey’s participation in the Biennial is ‘Don’t complain’. Vasif Kortun, the curator of the work, writes ” …Alptekin’s large-scale installation of five wood cabins is the result of a revisitation of a mental-setting the artist experienced in Tblisi, Georgia. This comes out of a particular type of public dining where restaurants are strictly divided into separate cabins clustered around an open courtyard.”

The group – at the most Cheap Finnish Labour consisted of 12 persons working at the exhibitions site – were all wearing the CFL T-shirts.

 

 

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Cheap Finnish Labour Exploring Alternative Economies

Published 14/02/2007 by Platform

XX1 Gallery, Warsaw 1.–15.2.2007

In every culture there are similarities. Is it possible to melt in, to become a temporary part of the different and the unfamiliar? Or is the only possibility to orientate in an unfamiliar environment to do what we would usually do? Or is it possible to to make alternative choices out of this position, to make a difference? What actually happens when you try to melt in, to be part of the other, the unfamiliar? Is it not then that you can alter perspectives and in this way notice and make visible that which is everyday and extraordinary existing right in the core but not seen? Or is it the other way around, we end up at the margins, or even worse, in a void between spaces that is neither familiar nor unfamiliar, or even both? Can one create a turning point in this void and become a hero in someone’s world?

 

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