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Current and upcoming exhibitions at MUU Galleria and MUU Studio and information about Art Vehicles journey, that is postponed to 2021.
Lets’ Talk About Performance evening is held on [removed] at MUU Gallery. The evenings guest is Josef Ka. The event will be also online.
Open Call Launches Year of Animation at Oodi. Ääreen – Documentary in Animation is an art project that combines documentary with immersive animation. A presentation of the project will be held in Maijansali Auditorium in Oodi on Thursday 8 October. The event will be also online.
Current exhibitions: MUU Galleria and MUU Studio
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Lilli Haapala & Juri Jalasmäki: Searching for utopia: Dreamers
Video work Dreamers documents a journey into the history of the utopian community of Amurinmaa, Russia. At its core lies an entirely different world, one of symbols, of the unconscious and instinct. It is an attempt to trace an invisible network. Where will it lead, and how far it is possible to see?
The exhibition in supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation/Varsinais-Suomi Regional Fund, TOP-Säätiö, Oskar Öflund Foundation, Turku Art Society, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Zarya AiR.
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Monika Czyżyk &
Torsten Zenas Burns: MONSTERSWEET
Over the years Czyżyk & Burns have expanded the idea creating unique single channel and looped videos about an ongoing migrating residency program called Monstersweet. Within this fictional studio program they have collaborated with chimeric residents in several countries including Mexico, Cuba, United States, Greece, Italy and Germany filming and photographing ambiguous travelogues, passionate interspecies love and communication rituals enacted by a diverse group of Humanimals.
The exhibition is supported by VISEK.
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Image: Monika Czyżyk & Torsten Zenas Burns
Upcoming exhibitions: MUU Galleria and MUU Studio
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Unski Immonen: Dark Clouds
Opening ceremony on Friday, 16 October 2020, at 17:00–19:00. Welcome!
Immonen investigates events in different eras and the anxiety and shame caused by them. The works in the exhibition can be understood as an attempt to seize upon the fact that we live in a world where images are everywhere and thereby lending a ghostly sense to our existence. What is reality for us is in fact a process mediated by images.
The exhibition is supported by The Arts Promotion Centre Finland/The Arts Council of North Savo.
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Taija Goldblatt: Hidden
Opening ceremony on Friday, 16 October 2020, at 17:00–19:00. Welcome!
Hidden is a video work about non-places and fringe areas, about seeing and being seen.
In her works Goldblatt seeks to see the underside of things, fractures and grey areas that often remain beyond our field of vision.
The exhibition is supported by Alfred Kordelin foundation and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland/The Arts Council of Pirkanmaa.
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Art Vehicles tour postponed to 2021
Image: Artist couple Aloes will perform at A Vehicles tour next year.
Photographer: Martin E. Koch
Art Vehicles tour postponed
to 2021
An online seminar will be held instead in November 2020
Art Vehicles tours are experiential journeys on an art bus that takes participants to art destinations in the Arctic North and to events in the northern regions of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Southwest Russia. The Art Vehicles project is produced by cultural association Kulttuuribingo and Artists’ Association MUU in collaboration with Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Because of the Covid-19 situation, the tour from Oulu in Finland to the Luleå Art Biennial in Sweden, planned for November 2020, has been postponed to next year.
Instead of the tour, the producers will organise an online seminar with the Luleå Art Biennial. Held on 27 November 2020, the seminar will be attended by the artists selected for the tour, who will talk about themselves and their work. The seminar will also cover plans for the future extension of the Art Vehicles project. Various art organisations will be invited to attend. Registration for the online seminar will open in October. There is a limited number of places.
Participants in the online seminar and the 2021 Art Vehicles tour are Staalplaat Soundsystem (Netherlands), Maxim Iliukhin and Boris Lesnoy (Russia), Mari Kretz (Sweden), ALOES (Netherlands), Tessa Astre (Liminka, Finland), Minka Heino (Vihti, Finland), Simo Rouhiainen (Espoo, Finland), Alena Tereshko (Russia), Arttu Nieminen (Rovaniemi, Finland) and Kirsimaria Törönen (Mikkeli, Finland).
The Art Vehicles project is produced by cultural association Kulttuuribingo and Artists’ Association MUU in collaboration with Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Other partners are Finnish Institute in Stockholm, Magneetti ry (Finland), Northern Norwegian Art Centre NNKS (Norway), Art North (Sweden), Friday Milk (Russia), Piteå Performing Arts Biennial (Sweden) and Luleå Art Biennial (Sweden).
The project has been generously supported by Nordic Culture Fund and Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
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More info:
Leevi Lehtinen, regional artist, light art,
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
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+358 295 330 862
Lets’ Talk About Performance!
LET’S TALK ABOUT PERFORMANCE!
Appropriating motion and space
Guest: Josef Ka
Host: Kikka Rytkönen
Monday, 12 October 2020,
from 18:00 to 20:00
MUU Gallery
Lönnrotinkatu 33, Helsinki
This October the Talk About Performance event features a discussion with performance artist Josef Ka and host Kikka Rytkönen. The discussion is in English.
Limited seating, register now!
MUU Gallery will admit a maximum of 20 visitors a safe distance apart. Advance registration HERE
The discussion will be streamed on MUU Gallery’s Facebook page.
Josef Ka is an internationally acclaimed Russian performance artist based in Helsinki who has been performing for over ten years. How did her career start? How did dance become an aspect of her work? How does her work explore the connections between sexuality and politics? What is the status of space and the spectator in her art? How do chaos and intelligence manifest themselves in her performances?
Spontaneous, instinctive, intuitive – these are words that are commonly used to describe the art of Josef Ka. The language and intensity of gestures in her performances arise from a deep and continuing relationship with a wide range of dance forms and traditions, from classical ballet to butoh and flamenco. Her performances feature everything from traditional Russian folk singing and contemporary experimental dance to Chaplinesque comedy. Ka’s work is characterised by a direct contact with life in the moment, personal reflections as foundation for the performances, and a special relation to space. “I am equally passionate about performing on the streets of some unfamiliar city, in status-conscious contemporary art venues – or in the forest all alone. Each of my works starts from a largely intuitive, highly personal place within me, and is based on my real life and the questions I [removed]#8221;
Josef Ka graduated from the filmmaking programme at the St Petersburg University of Culture and Arts. He has also taken performance classes run by Maria Abramovic in conjunction with The Artist Is Present exhibition in Moscow.
The host of the Lets’ Talk About Performance discussions, artist Kikka Rytkönen grew up in the 1970s as a hippy and a political activist. She has been a visual artist since the mid-1980s. She creates her environmental, light and video artworks mostly from recycled and household plastic. The elements in her performances include music, rhythm, gender and personal political history to explore themes and contexts that involve current issues.
Performance talks organised by MUU are designed to promote discussion about contemporary performance art, its forms and approaches, its artists and works, and how they relate to the tradition of performance art and other artforms, to ethical and social themes and current issues.
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Image: Josef Ka, International Silence
Leipzig art residency, 2017
Ääreen – Documentary in Animation
image: Design I/O (Emily Gobeille &
Theo Watson): Elements (2015)
Open Call Launches Year of Animation at Oodi
Ääreen – Documentary in Animation is an art project that combines documentary with immersive animation. It will be conducted at Oodi Central Library in Helsinki. It will encourage artists who are interested in documentary animation and establish new public venues for art. Producing works of art that bring together realities and stories and break technological boundaries, the Ääreen project will offer viewers an opportunity to experience and touch art. The works created in the project will be presented in Oodi one year from now.
The project starts on 5 October with an open call to attend a workshop at Oodi in January 2021. The workshop will develop ideas for interactive documentary animation and support their implementation. Documentary animation offers a chance to challenge the boundaries of storytelling. It combines stirring topics with narrative methods on the level of technology, visuality and content.
Ääreen presentation in October
A presentation of the project will be held in Maijansali Auditorium in Oodi on Thursday 8 October at 18:00–20:00. Artists Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson (US) from Design I/O will talk about their art and works. Their VR art projects have been presented in public spaces such as libraries. Lecturer, DFA (University of Lapland), new media artist Tomi Knuutila will talk about immersive art. All talks will be given remotely. More information about the workshop, future exhibitions and the application process will be available on site from regional artist Annika Dahlsten from Arts Promotion Centre Finland and special librarian Sanna Huttunen from Oodi.
The presentation is free of charge and open to all, and it will be streamed on
Facebook. The languages are Finnish and English.
Registration for the event in Oodi HERE.
Facebook event HERE.
Live streaming in Facebook HERE.
Ääreen project 2021
A workshop will be held in January 2021 at Oodi, conducted by media artist Marko Tandefelt (FIN) and animation director and virtual animation expert Uri Kranot (DK). Other lecturers include Jaakko Kemppainen, regional artist specialising in game art, and Hanna Haaslahti, media artist.
In October 2021, animations will take over the presentation facilities in Oodi. The Kuutio venue will host results from the idea workshop, while works by animation students at Aalto University and curated animation performances will be featured on other surfaces in the library. Open workshops will invite visitors to participate, and Kino Regina will host lectures and film screenings.
In cooperation with
Ääreen – Documentary in Animation is part of the Arts Promotion Centre’s development programme for artistic expertise and mediation that seeks to make visible new ways of applying artistic expertise. The project will be produced in collaboration with Oodi Central Library, Turku Animated Film Festival, Finnish Animation Guild, Artists’ Association MUU, Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK), Aalto University, National Audiovisual Institute KAVI, and Danish ANIDOX forum. It is coordinated by regional artist Annika Dahlsten from Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
More info:
Regional artist Annika Dahlsten,
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Special librarian Sanna Huttunen,
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