Tag: Performance

MOPE16, Moe Satt and Melanie Jame Wolf

Published 19/08/2016 by Platform

Moe Satt

(b. 1983) lives and works as an artist and curator in Yangon, Myanmar. He started creating art after graduating in Zoology in 2005. Moe Satt is part of a new generation of Myanmar artists to emerge after the year 2000, with a different approach to making, from conception to embodiment. He was invited to be the resident artist from several locations including Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia, 2008), Hooyong Performing Art Center (S-Korea, 2008), 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Japan, 2011), De Deelstaat Nijmegen, (Netherlands, 2013). He has actively participated in live arts festivals in Asia, and occasionally in the West. He has participated in serval major exhibition including the Busan Biennale (2012), CAFA biennale (Beijing, 2013), Concept Context Contestation: Collective-Driven Art In Southeast Asia (Bangkok, 2013), and The Journal of the Plague Year (S Korea, 2014). Moe Satt also work regularly as a curator and he founded Beyond Pressure, an international festival of performance art in Myanmar.

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MOPE16, International performance festival

Published 13/08/2016 by Platform

Mope16 is an international performance festival now organized for the fourth time by Platform rf., previously the festival has been held in 2002, 2005 and 2008. Originally named “Movement to performance” soon changed in to the short version of the title Mope. In the beginning the aim was simply to gather all so called performances from Vasa and elsewhere which were not directly related to “Art”, e.g. Wasa Tattoo shop did a hook-hanging performance with the tunes of Bon-Jovi in the background. Alongside with professional performance artists it made a new and strange combination! This uncanny mixture of different performances might be a reason that all three festivals have been successful in terms of audience and reception.

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In Between the Legs of Strangeness

Published 20/12/2014 by Platform

Platform Live 27.12.2014, 18.00
Mira-talo/huset/house, Kirkkopuistikko/Kyrkoesplanaden 34

Platform will host 5 artists from Stockholm’s Fylkingen, a long-standing venue and artists’s society focusing on experimental work in music, performance, video, film, dance, sound-text composition and intermedia. On Saturday 27th Marie Gavois, Hiroko Tsuchimoto, Sören Runolf, Irina Anufrieva and Per Åhlund will perform at Mira-house in Vaasa. The event starts at 18.00 and goes on as long as necessary. Join us and enjoy some first-class performances and sound pieces!

www.facebook.com/events/726141280827481

Free entrance!

Marie Gavois

Marie Gavois is a stage- and visual artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. She formulates her work in the fields and material of body, stage, dance, sculpture text and sound.

Staging action, with a visual language speaking in both big and small letters , the word as material became important as a starting point in her work in telling stories.

Marie is part of different artist collectives and initiatives where the artists organize and support independent productions and festivals, programming radical performance- and stage art as well as new music. To have a focus on the concrete local scene and space and an integrated dialogue with its surrounding is an important part of her way of getting on with the art.

Marie does collaborations as well, as a curator for performance art programs in collaboration with the artist Cecilia Germain, the two artists are organizing in Stockholm mainly. Gavois/Germain has written texts as a duo. Marie works with the composer Alexandra Nilsson in a project where the two artists research the voice as an instrument for abstraction, the voice as raw material, power construction and artistic tool together.

The third ongoing collaboration is with the filmmaker Michel Klöfkorn from Frankfurt in Germany, where Maries performative body is presented in moving image.

www.mariegavois.wordpress.com

Hiroko Tsuchimoto

Hiroko Tsuchimoto is a visual/performance artist, living in Sweden since 2008. She began her career at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and went on to study at Konstfack and Kungl.Konsthögskolan (Royal Institute of Arts) in Stockholm.

Since moving to Europe, she has worked with ethnography as a subject matter. In her art she shifts between grand narratives and every day stories, highlighting the cultural construction of personal identity. She tells stories about otherness and the will to belong, based on her experiences as an Asian immigrant. This position gives her a bird’s eye view on both the Swedish – and Japanese society. Through her works she makes gaps in our normality, for self-reflection and external observations. Recent works focus on subject matter such as borders, myths and cultural mapping – exploring Swedish & Japanese folklore, set in a present day context. She often includes a feminist perspective, problematizing traditional gender roles and Japanese politics. Her goal is to make art that is easy on both critical eyes, and the disinterested gaze – creating an aesthetic experience, with a deeper meaning underneath.

www.hirokotsuchimoto.info

Sören Runolf

Sören Runolf has been a member of free improvising group Lokomotiv Konkret (with Tommy Björk, Dror Feiler) for decades as well as Too Much Too Soon Orchestra, Smullotron and Cloudchamber. He has played regularly alongside Mats Lindström, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Johannes Bergmark and many others and is a member of Fire! Orchestra.

He is generally known for his innovative use of conventional instruments, such as the cello and the electric guitar but also uses synth, sampler, contact mics and analog & digital sound processors. He has made music for intermedia projects and dance, and has also been involved in innumerable Swedish and international improvised music constellations and experimental music groups.

Video clip of Lokomotiv Konkret:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCmAhDyk4nk

Irina Anufrieva

Irina Anufrieva is a dancer, choreographer and performance artist with background in classical ballet and Japanese butoh dance. Educated at SU-EN Butoh Company in Sweden and InZhest Theatre in Belarus. In her work Irina researches physical manifestations in nature and human body, the interaction of all living things with each other, as well as the interaction of the material and immaterial, physical and mental.

Video documentation of solo dance performance VOID presented at The First Forum of Dance and Physical Theatres PlaStforma-Minsk-2013, Belarus.
vimeo.com/88012494

Video documentation of dance performance Albus (2012) presented at Moderna museet, Sweden, 2012.
In collaboration with Joanna Bodzek (visual idea, costume and make up) and Per Åhlund (music: live electronics).
vimeo.com/45688034

Per Åhlund

Per Åhlund resides in Stockholm, Sweden where he’s involved in several experimental music-, improvisation- and sound art-projects. His live soundscapes blur the boundaries between noise and music, stillness and hysteria, darkness and light. He create compositions on the verge of dissolving and focuses on mood and texture rather than tonality and rhythm.

He performs live on a regular basis and has the last few years toured with acts like Amber Asylum, ?Alos, b°tong and Origami Galaktika amongst others. He has released several full length albums containing abstract, dark soundscapes with such projects as Diskrepant, Skare and Den Arkaiska Rösten. He has also made music for experimental film and dance.

Live he use contact microphones, gadgets, voice, loops and effects to form abstract sound environments created in the moment. At Mirahuset he will perform a piece together with Irina Anufrieva.

www.perahlund.se

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Performance Week 3rd—10th of August 2013

Published 26/07/2013 by Platform

Platform is proud to announce a week dedicated to performance!

The main performance events will take place on Wednesday the 7th of August in the Platform studio on Kasern 14 in Vaasa starting at 3 pm.

The events will be based on this years Platform theme “The End of World – Or Why the World Won’t End”. A theme that was selected shortly before the ending of the Maya calendar. Out of a western perspective, in today’s information society, news reach us from all over the world, about climatological threats and environmental disasters and also there is a growing awareness, about the earths limited resources – all factors that make the future seem more uncertain than ever; Is this the beginning of the end? On the other hand, the things that seem the furthest apart, perhaps even opposites, may actually lay close together. ‘The end’ and ‘the beginning’ could be seen simply as two points on the same line, or even in the same circle…

The week dedicated to performance will be a kick off for PRESERVED, a project by Swaantje Güntzel and Jan Philip Scheibe (D), Platform’s Artists in Residence during August and September 2013. The project PRESERVED reflects the topography of the relationship of the people of Vaasa with their environment and shows what collective knowledge; how to collect, cook and preserve local food has been passed from generation to generation.

Former Platform Artists in Residence Mari Kretz and Girilal Baars (SE) are performing and conducting Gracing Space, a live installation and performance that uses live feeds and field recordings of Very Low Frequency radio waves from the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere. The so-called VLFs are generated by cosmic and solar radiation and reflect the energy state of our local part of the universe; the outer bounds of Earth’s ecosystem.

Anna Lundh (USA/SWE) will perform her lecture performance Q&Q – 2022, a project that was initiated in March 2012 and during one year collected and shared questions about what the future will be like – 10 years from now. The online component of the project was developed for the New Museum First Look: New Art Online series, and has accumulated questions from people world wide. Q&Q – 2022 is a reconsideration of the project Telex: Q&A, organized in 1971 by New York based Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) as part of at the show Utopia & Visions: 1871–1981 at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. It involved the installation of telex machines in four cities; Stockholm, Tokyo, Ahmedabad and New York, and the public were invited to send questions about 1981 – ten years into the future – to the other sites. Lundh’s lecture performance concludes with a Q&Q (Question & Question session) together with Julie Martin, who is director of E.A.T. and also one of the initiators of the original 1971 project.

John G. Boehme (CA) makes direct and physical performance actions which interrogate the junctures between aggression, exploitation and competition, often inspired by sports. Channeling the historical connections between art and sports, manifest in society’s idealization of the body, his actions do not interrogate specific contests or competitions, but rather those subjects within sports that ‘jump the hurdle’ and ‘cross the line.’

Julischka Stengele’s (D) heart beats for artistic expression that require a physical presence – such as performance but also a good face-to-face conversation. She is curious about constructions of social space and like to design situations that enable personal encounters.

Ida Grimsgaard (NO) is interested in how the space can be read and perceived. Her work is an investigation; observations and reflection of what is already present in form of objects and relations.

Using one of the models she created to support the articulation of her thinking, Ingrid Cogne (SE/FR) will propose an improvised lecture performance by challenging the presence and the performativity of her speaking in the meeting with an audience. Cogne will sound record her proposal to collect data and later rework the contents in a written forma… to go against her tendency toward immateriality.

For detailed program updates and participation please register at:

info@platform.fi

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Girilal Baars (SE) is a composer, singer and musician based in Uppsala, Sweden. Girilal works with vocal, acoustic and electronic music and holds to the idea that all rapid air-pressure changes are music. His piece Litanies in Zero Kelvin for voice, theremin and electronics was chosen for the Nordic Music Days in Oslo in 2009. In 2010 he wrote and staged an opera for two voices based on Karin Boye’s novel Kallocain. Girilal is particularly interested in exploring sounds from the cosmos, as he has been obsessed with space from a tender age. www.girilal.com

John G. Boehme (CA) early art practice included painting, sculpture, performance video and digital technology, installation and photography. Boehme describes recent work as ‘trans-disciplinary’ often employing performance, video, audio and objects in a number pieces simultaneously, Boehme is not constrained to any particular creative mode and therefore utilizes integrated approaches to realize the work. John continues to have exhibitions, screenings and participate in Performance Art festivals across Canada, Australia, the Americas, United Kingdom, Europe and China. John is continuing faculty in the Visual Arts Department at Camosun College and adjunct faculty at University of Victoria.

Ingrid Cogne (F/SE) Artist-choreographer based in Stockholm, Cogne sees choreography as a way to create movement and suspension, circulation and time, positioning and displacement in relation to Economy, Knowledge, Work and Individuals. Obsessed by the ‘in between’ and what constitutes the dynamics of meeting, Cogne focuses on the process and the dramaturgy of existing or created situations. Labor, consistency and time are central. With soft provocation for movement in representations and structures, she is slowly, progressively shaking, shifting the perception(s) and the perspective(s). Her artistic proposals problematize the relationship and create a floating definition of the positions and status subject-object of both the artist and the spectator(s). Ingrid Cogne also works as dramaturge or performer for other artists. In October 2011, Cogne started a PhD in practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Cogne‘s project is titled ‘Displacement(s) as Method(s)’. Since November 2012, her research is being developed at the CEAC Lille 3 as well. ingridcogne.net

Ida Grimsgaard (NO) is based in Oslo and studied scenography at the Norwegian Theater Academy. Due to her background in the fine arts she has exhibited and performed her work at numerous festivals and venues around Europe. Blending scenography with fine art she is exploring the coincidences and searches for the unsure and unexpected. The body and its physicality is the starting point of her work.

Scheibe & Güntzel (D) consists of the Hamburg based artists Jan Philip Scheibe and Swaantje Güntzel. In addition to their individual artistic work they realize artistic projects as an artist couple. Both artists deal with man’s perception of nature – Jan Philip Scheibe analyzes the facets of a romantic idealization of nature while Swaantje Güntzel questions our ethical value-system. Before studying fine arts Swaantje Güntzel graduated with a Masters Degree in Anthropology. She participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany as well as abroad. The main subject of her work is the dissection of the alienated interrelation of man and nature. She works across a range of different disciplines such as performance, object, installation, photography and video. Jan Philip Scheibe studied Art & Design. His artistic work is characterized by installations and performances in the public urban space as well as in the open landscape and the work often involve light. http://www.swaantje-guentzel.de/, http://www.jan-philip-scheibe.de/

Mari Kretz (SE) is based in Stockholm working in the fields of acoustic and visual art. In her work, she has focused on scientific studies of acoustical phenomena in the atmosphere, low frequency radio waves traveling around Earth and in the depths of space, as well as electric signals generated by internal organs and the nervous system of the human body. Working with researchers and engineers, ranging from astronomy to medicine, she has visualised the barely perceptible worlds around us. www.marikretz.se

Anna Lundh (SE) is an artist, based in Stockholm and New York. She studied at Konstfack and at the Cooper Union School of Art. In recent years she has participated in renowned residency programs. During 2012–2013 she is an artistic research resident at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Lundh has exhibited at venues in Sweden such as Bonniers Konsthall, Haninge Konsthall and Kalmar Konstmuseum, and internationally in Bergen, Norway, The Hague, The Netherlands, Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as in New York at Apexart, Exit Art, The Kitchen and New Museum, to name a few. She has also published text pieces in various publications. Lundh is also the initiator and organizer of Visions of the Now, an international festival and congress on the subjects of art and technology. www.annalundh.com

Julischka Stengele (D) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her body of work includes photography, happening, performance, installation and video. She lives in Vienna and Berlin. Her main interest is devoted to artistic forms of expression that require a physical presence – to one or another extent. The human being in its social context serves as a base for the work in general. Main topics include interpersonal relationships, cultural role models and body politics, sexuality, identity and divergence/ subculture. Stengele’s work has been exhibited / presented at numerous internationally renowned festivals in Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. www.julischka.eu

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Platform Live presents: Beate Linne(DE) – Angela Washko(US)

Published 26/02/2013 by Platform

02.03 2013 @ 20.00

Platform / Kasern 14
Korsholmanpuistikko 6-8, Vaasa

Beate Linne, DE

Beate is a German based Performance Artist. She studied architecture at the University of Kassel, as well as German language and literature and fine Arts at the University of Hildesheim. She’s working as a freelance artist, teacher and since last year I’m co-organizer oft the International Performance Art Festival Blow.

Artistic Statement

I consider Performance as an opportunity to express myself by means of creating images and live actions with my body. I deal with basic issues of live, by exploring behaviour, testing limits and asking questions.The most important aspect is the encounter and the exchange between the people – and the possibility to initiate thinking processes and open the mind. In my performances I deal among other things with issues like deprivation, death, and confidence.The actions and materials often have a symbolic character. And usually I perform with great physical exertion, establishing a relation between my body, material and other people. I also like to involve the audience in the performance, so that they become an active part in it.
I don’t repeat my performances usually. But I work mostly over a longer period with the same materials. The choice of it for me is very important. I deal thoroughly with the material, so that I learn to know it very well and a kind of personal relationship arises. (Sometimes I collect material or I produce it by myself). This material has a kind of symbolic character and I use it as a basic element of the performance. With them and my body I try to create unusual or sometimes surreal images and situations.

Angela Washko, US

Angela Washko is an artist and community facilitator devoted to mobilizing people and creating actions, interventions, videos, and performances (often in video games). She is currently working on a project called “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness In World of Warcraft – earning her the Terminal Award and Grant, a Danish Arts Council Grant, an upcoming fellowship and residency at HIAP in Helsinki Finland, and a solo exhibition at Austin Peay State University. She has also recently curated the Conflux Festival 2012 at NYU. She has recently performed or participated in exhibitions at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, New York University, Spattered Columns (NYC), Microscope Gallery (NYC), NURTUREart (NYC), Momenta Art (NYC), and Gowanus Studio Space (NYC), among many others. Washko has participated in artist residency programs at Contemporary Artists Center (Troy, NY), The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia PA), Flux Factory (NYC), Gullkistan (Laugarvatn, Iceland), and HIAP (Helsinki, Finland). Features on Washko’s work have appeared in Rhizome, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Time Out NY, Digicult, ANIMAL NY, and Gothamist.

Artistic Statement

Mobilizing communities and using play, I am an artist and facilitator creating new forums for discussions of feminism where and when they do not exist. These forums are created through actions, interventions, videos, and performances- sometimes in video games. I am dedicated to researching and ultimately changing unhealthy, unrealistic, limited, and object-oriented projections of women throughout different forms of media by creating public works that challenge our implicit acceptance of everyday inequality.
My most recent project, “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness In World of Warcraft,” is a long-term research-based initiative I launched to create spaces for dialogue about feminism inside a video game with a community that is notoriously misogynistic and aggressive toward women. I am interested in the unusual political space that evolves within WoW. It takes quite a lot of effort to ever break into the social aspects of the game. One has to make a fairly serious commitment to the game (undergoing lengthy tutorials, quests, learning characters’ skills, finding equipment, fighting dragons/goblins etc.) to ever make it to the point where they are in a guild and regularly communicating with large groups of people. Because of that barrier between the committed and the dabblers, a unique social community is created in each realm of World of Warcraft that few know about, despite the game’s widespread popularity. The blatant discrimination, homophobia, and extreme sexism that persist are not a result of the developers’ aesthetics, but the community of avatar-hidden individuals that play it. I am creating videos from performances inside of World of Warcraft that investigate the relationship between female players and the intensely complex social communities within WOW. I am working on instituting a system in which players in my community are forced to take responsibility for their oppressive behavior, help to create an environment that encourages women gamers to participate, and present performances and videos to a non-MMO-informed public that is unaware that these communities exist.
In addition to making projects inside video games, I also create videos, performances and participatory installations. My works are all linked by a dedication to using play to address the contemporary power structures that women are faced with – whether they are within video game cultures, pop music, advertising, collectives, or the intense networking environment of the “Art World.” Ultimately I aim to subvert these power structures by infiltrating cultures in which they are evident, addressing them publically, bringing visibility to subtle (and not-so-subtle) discriminatory acts in contemporary culture, and ultimately mobilizing communities to actively change those structures through open discussion and collective action.

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NON GRATA – EXTRAVAGANZA

Published 16/02/2013 by Platform

OPENING 22.2 @ 19.00

Wild Nature, Act of God & Utopian Landscapes! Naturaleza Salvaje!

23-24-2 2013
opening hours: Saturday-Sunday 12 to 18

Platform Studio
Kasern14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8, Vasa
Kasarmi 14, Korsholmanpuistikko 6-8, Vaasa

NON GRATA – “ART OF THE INVISIBLES”

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical – it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the groupmembers. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t work.

http://www.nongrata.ee/
http://www.platform.fi/

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NON GRATA- exhibition Force Majeure

Published 24/01/2013 by Platform

exhibition Force Majeure

Wild video performances, radical actions and stage interventions! The world famous performance group is back in town!

The exhibition is part of Novia scenkonstfestival Momentum.

Have a visit at Platform in Vaasa.

Open hours:
Saturday 12.00-24.00
Sunday: 12.00-18.00

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Diverse Universe Festival 20.6.2012

Published 17/06/2012 by Platform

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Homepage:
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Wed 20.6.2012, 20.00 at Platform Studio
Kasern 14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8, Vasa, Finland

Artists

Non Grata (Estonia): Anonymous Boh, Devilgirl, Miss Korea, BJ Dealer, Ken Zero, Bloody Drunker, MR. Lee, Kapuki, Techno Animal
Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical – it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the groupmembers. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t work.

lonestarexplosion.org/2012/03/20/non-grata-2/www.nongrata.ee

Anonymous Boh (Estonia)
Estonian Anonymous Boh has been active from 1992 on a frameless territory where an art object has seized to exist as a physical piece. The space has many dimensions upon which the activity has been built. Curating the performance group Non Grata actually means creating a certain kind of school which can be characterized by features as structured chaos, performances in arbitrary environments and interiors.
By obtaining its reputation as an alternative, Boh has swooped onto the global art landscape without looking back. Performances, art tours organized in tens of cities across Europe, Asia and America have turned the notoriously alternative Non Graters into a creative collective who are much better known elsewhere than in Estonia. Their experience is not a subject much talked about, although artistic activity transcending boundaries of art and countries is today’s artist’s most desirable self-realization.

Devilgirl (Estonia)
Devilgirl is Estonian performance, installation and new media artist, educated in alternative art institution Academia Non Grata in Estonia, Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki and Tallinn and Universität der Künste in Berlin. She is one of the main engines of International Non Grata Performance Group since 1998. As Devilgirl, this femme fatale has been seen on over continental underground scene worldwide, wild and anonymous. MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
tajetross.performance.ee

Ken Siebert (California, USA)
Ken Siebert in American performer, sound artist, also painter and sculptor. Graduated from San Fransisco Art Institute. Living and working in Sacramento, California.

Jung Hoon (KOR)
Jung Hoon Lee is South-Korean performer and dancer. Director of Theater Dumi. Performed all over Europe and Asia. Living and working in Seoul.

Myk Henry (Ireland/NY)
“Provocation when used intelligently can be a powerful means of jolting the spectator out of their normal comfort zone. Once this happens the mind is open to suggestion and people begin to think outside of the box.”
Born in Dublin Ireland; moved to New York 1984. Henry became a pioneer of the Williamsburg bohemian “immersionist” movement. His art investigates the audience’s sense of self awareness, engages them in a transformative process. His work is provocative, edgy and slams the viewer into the center of political issues, social conditioning and human taboos.

1 KA (France)
1 KA is an experimental industrial tekno project from Toulouse, France, Terre Blanque Commune. Individualists of Terre Blanque, Zone Autonomie, are Situationists, Performators-Reformers. Instead of the word Artist, 1 KA uses terms as Cyber Poet or Psychedelic Activist. A community with no laws. No Rules. Psychological Consensus. Evolution Deep in the Brains. Form is to be destroyed!
Realisations since 1995 industrial many liveset/performances/installations. Actually the metal dance will storm your mind!
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/1KA

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Platform Live 22.4.2012 — La-Bàs-> Concept of Performance

Published 18/04/2012 by Platform

Là-bas->
Concept of Performance

Wen Yau (China)
Jószef R. Juhász (Slovakia)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (UK/Finland)

Three artists from the La-Bàs-> Concept of Performance biennale (in Helsinki, 25.–29.4.2012) visit Vaasa on Sunday, 22.4.2012. Welcome to Kuntsi, 14.00–17.00.

More info about the artists on the La-Bàs-> website: www.labas.fi

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Platform Live 2.9.2011

Published 14/08/2011 by Platform

SQUID project is an online, ever-expanding archive of texts, written by professionals from the cultural field from all over the world. It is also a framework for offline activities such as public readings, artists’ presentations and discussions. SQUID was started in 2005 and is run by the artists Katja Aglert [SE], Martijn van Berkum [NL], Janna Holmstedt [SE].

During the event, the text archive will be on display and you are welcome to sit down and read texts, browse the website, print your favourites and listen to sound files.

The invited guests for the evening are visual artist Anna Lundh and composer/sound artist Johan Landgren. They will both individually conduct live performances that are thematically and conceptually connected to their text contributions, which will be released the same day.

Johan Landgren will perform one of his experimental voice acts, which he describes with the words: The voice is false. False like a bad copy, a hybrid, an impostor. Lend me your ear and I will tell you why. And show you how.

Anna Lundh’s starting point is her investigation into composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s unfinished opera project ‘Sagan om den stora Datamaskinen’ and, specifically, one of the remaining documents (dating 1967) – a list of concrete sounds to be used in the opera. Through Lundh’s performance she problematizes the relationships between concepts such as time, history, ‘the now’, technology, sound and text.

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