Non Grata – Force Majeure
More info: http://www.nongrata.ee/
Tomasz Szrama – Dress Rehearsal
Also DJs Ufo-Matti, Arvid & Ljudverket DJs.
Address: Kasern 14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8
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Kane Do
Kane Do (US/DE) is in Vaasa during June-July to carry out a project, which will be presented in a group exhibition arranged by Platform at Kuntsi in December 2011. This evening he will talk about his practice.“As his predominant means of artistic expression, the artist Kane Do employs industrially pre-fabricated materials. His works are created often by means of minimalist alterations to everyday objects or to already existing spatial ensembles. In a playful and subversive manner, he re-forms or de-forms the original condition of the objects or surroundings in question, so giving them a new significance. Thus his works oscillate between the aesthetics of the day-to-day world and social criticism with a humorous and ironic undertone…” Keumhwa Kim
Kane Do was born 1974 in Qui-Nhon, Vietnam. He received a BA from Reed Collage in Portland, Oregon, USA in 1996 and an MFA from UdK, Berlin in 2006. In 2000 he carried out independent research at CCA (Center for Contemporary Art) in Kitakyushu, Japan. He has exhibited in Japan, USA, France and Germany. Currently he’s based in Berlin.
More Info: http://www.kanedo.de/
Olof Olsson
“I’m a product of the emerging charter tourism industry of the 1960s: my Dutch mother and Swedish father met in Mallorca. When I was seven I wanted to be a rock star, when I was nine I wanted to be a journalist, when I was ten a radio disc jockey, and when I was a teenager I was confused. I went to university, and studied English, philosophy and translation theory. But that made me no less confused. Then I started to do documentary photography Initially enthusiastic, I soon started to doubt what truth the camera could deliver. Eventually I started to do art. Since 2007 my work has focused on performance. I use performance as a vehicle to ask questions: the eternal Why? (Like, why has there been twice as many heads of state wearing beards in England, than in the US?). I’m specifically interested in the contract between audience and performer, and the way we connect the character of a voice to an idea of a person or a god or a ghost.”
Olsson (DK/SE) will speak about words. Why he likes some and doesn’t like others. And how he as a child was very confused before he realized that a word can mean more than one thing. He might also play the ukulele and sing a song, but promises it won’t be for long.
More info: http://www.laloko.org/olsson
Lorenzo Casali & Micol Roubini
Green Gold is a Finnish expression that refers to forestry; to that treasure considered fundamental for the economic system of the country, constituted by lumber of firs, pines and birches. Finland is the most extensively forested country in Europe: forests cover approx. 86% of the land and the larger part of this, belonging to private owners and to the state, is exploited. Following rotation periods of about five years, new forests are planted or sown artificially, in other cases natural regeneration is induced. Very few portions of the original woods are still intact even if, at first sight, the apparent chaotic structure of the plantations and the prosperous vegetation may mislead the observer. More accurate surveys reveal traces of human intervention and manipulation of the natural element on different levels. The project focuses on this intricate relation between the leftovers of untouched nature and the modified environment taking over. The main devices used have been video, sound and photography. A related artist’s book will soon be released in limited edition with the support of SVK-AIR program of Novia Nykarleby.
Lorenzo Casali (born 1980) graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milano, in 2004, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Lisbon. Micol Roubini (born in 1982) graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, following studies at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. In 2008 she got a degree in audio technology at Irmus, Institute for Musical Research, Milan. In 2010 Casali and Roubini began working together during their residency at the Guesthouse in Cork, Ireland. They live and work between Rotterdam and Milano.
More info: http://lorenzocasali.wordpress.com/ http://casaliroubini.wordpress.com/
Comments closedThursday 21.1.2011 starting at 19.00 – at Kuntsi
Pernilla Ljungqvist
Pernilla Ljungkvist is a Swedish artist based in Gothenberg.
Sometimes she’s living someone else’s life, acts like them, think their thoughts and takes over their identity.
Sometimes she writes letters to them, plants herself in their subconsciousness and controls even their tiniest movements.
Sometimes she only watch them from a distance.
Sometimes she takes part at religious meetings and takes over the place of the leader, sometimes she watches reality TV and wishes that she never again would have to meet any living person.
She likes animals, and wonders sometime, if life without them is worth living.
She’s made performances in Europe, China, USA and Japan, and will finish her MA studies at Konsthögskolan Valand this year.
More info: Pernilla Ljungkvist
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John Court
At the start of the performance I will pull a pair of trousers out from a can of 9L white emulsion paint and put them on, pour the rest of the 9L paint in the middle of a wooden platform then I will stand “motionless” on the platform for the eight hours.
In this work, the eight hours focuses on the 8-hour working day, referencing both the work ethic and more mundane everyday chores. It was first performed in Rovaniemi hight street on 30.6.2004.
John Court
John Court graduated from two art schools in the UK; Camberwell school of Art and Design 1994 and Norwich school of Art and Design BA Honours Fine Art Sculpture 1997.
John has been using his body in his performance works since 1996. He began making eight-hour performances based around the eight-hour working day in 1999. His performances often involve additional materials, for example pencil shavings, rubbed pencil erasers, masking tape, paint, pencil leads etc.
Some examples of these eight-hour works include walking 230 meters in 8 hours on the world’s northernmost railway (Kirkenes, Norway), rolling on the high street for 8 hours, or standing up motionless in a limited space for 8 hours. John has performed over 150 hours of these eight-hour performances.
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Ralf Wallis | 1.4–24.4.2003
The exhibition of Ralf Wallis consisted of three images. The images had a monochrome character with a sense of shape. He combined wood-cut, painting together with the interactivity of the audience in the project space. In the darkened room the existence of both the abstract and the concrete light was reflected. During the opening Wallis did a performance; Black is black and the light we walk upon.
Wallis is dean for the cultural sector at the Swedish Polytechnic in Nykarleby (FIN).
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