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Get over it 11.8.2007

Published 11/08/2007 by Platform

Emma Houlihan & Sally Timmons

Emma Houlihan and Sally Timmons were invited to realise a project during Night of the Arts in Vaasa. The two artists teamed up for one week in order to devise a project within the context of Platform’s international residency programme and, in particular, the notion of what it means to participate in a night of culture.

When the city’s cultural institutions opened their doors, Platform’s access was concealed by a wall. As planned, during Night of the Arts, the screening of Platform’s activities in Venice 2007 were screened in the gallery but the wall had to be climbed over to access the gallery.

Emma Houlihan (IE) has participated in exhibitions and art events internationally and also works as a curator/art organizer. Sally Timmons (IE) is an artist and curator based in Dublin. At the time, Houlihan had been artist in residence at Platform since June and Timmons had recently started hers.

Joakim Hansson, Rasmus Hedlund and Maria Lundström presented a short film based on video and stop motion/ time lapse done during a period of two weeks. The video depicts a specific action – the work of CFL at the Venice Biennale 2007 – and the enviroment it took place in. CFL did the building of the Turkish pavillion at the Arsenale, the installation “Don’t Complain” by Hüseyin Alptekin. The material used for the installation was once four barns in the Ostrobothnian countryside.

Joakim Hansson (SWE/FIN), Rasmus Hedlund (FIN) and Maria Lundström (FIN) are studying at the Arts department at the Swedish Polytechnic in Nykarleby.

 

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Lawnmover meeting 11.8.2005

Published 11/08/2005 by Platform

A collaboration between Willem Koch, Freie Klasse and Platform

 

 

Images from the exhibition

A collaboration between Willem Koch, Freie Klasse and Platform.
Choreography by Wilhelm Koch.
Thursday 11.8.2005 at 19:00, outside of Platform.

A symbolic gesture against ‘the spirit of allotment gardening’ and a gathering of landscape architectonical and -nursing motorising phenomena.

Equipment: the participants will bring their own motorised tools, any kind available from handheld ones to tractors.

For every lawnmover meeting an individual parcour is set up. During previous meetings simple choreographies were performed in the green areas that were allotted for the specific purpose.

There are no winners nor loosers, only participants.

See also the tv-broadcasting of ‘Quer’
Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2000

 

 

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Loop 5.8.2004

Published 05/08/2004 by Platform

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Platform showed the video LOOP by silver, a virtual identity artist, existing since the year 1994. The area of its interest is computer interactive art, virtual reality, internet art, artificial intelligence and psychedelic aspects of artificial computer reality. Silver shows its work at exhibitions of fine arts as well as computer art on the Internet.

LOOP
…showing an endless succession of young couples kissing alternatively each other, accompanied by sloppy advertisement music. The treatment of the theme obviously alludes to erotic films or to the happy end scenes in Hollywood movies. On the other hand, however, we may also read the message of Loop as an existential view of human destiny. And it is exactly this conglomerate of references that induces feelings of ambiguity, pathos and irony. (Katerina Pavlickova)

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Loop

Published 04/08/2004 by Platform

silver | 5.8.2004

Platform showed the video LOOP by silver, a virtual identity artist; exists since the year 1994. The area of it’s interest is computer interactive art, virtual reality, Internet art, artificial intelligence and psychedelic aspects of artificial computer reality. Silver shows it’s work at exhibitions of fine arts as well as computer art on the Internet since 1994.
LOOP
…showing an endless succession of young couples kissing alternatively each other, accompanied by sloppy advertisement music. The treatment of the theme obviously alludes to erotic films or to the happy end scenes in Hollywood movies. On the other hand, however, we may also read the message of Loop as an existential view of human destiny. And it is exactly this conglomerate of references that induces feelings of ambiguity, pathos and irony. (Katerina Pavlickova)

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