Sunday, October 13, 2013

In 20 years people will ask you: "Did you see VILKE exhibition in Kerava Art Museum in 2013?" Its the last day today, folks.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Media coverage (VILKE exhibition in Kerava Art Museum)

Nomadic Academy congratulates Gabi Schaffner

Nomadic Academy congratulates Gabi Schaffner whose radio play "Der Wahnsinn des Dokumentaristen" (2011) has won the 2nd prize of the Berliner Hörspielfestival 2014. "Madness of the documentarist" has been shown also a sound installation in Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland and it includes "19 minutes of madness and sounds featuring happy squirrels, young punks, tractors and sauna tunes". Here is a link to some excerps of the work.   Ms. Schaffner has been a performing artist in many Nomadic Academy events, including "the Impossible Day" in Harakka island 2012 and "Art´s Birthday" party 2013 (performance via Skype between Paris-Berlin).

Thursday, September 26, 2013

In Kino Kaiku, Malmitalo 18:00 - 16 mm films for children today!

Short 16mm films for children - welcome!

Pigs in a Polka
Thursday 26.9.2013 18:00

THE KIDS IN THE SHOE (dir. Dave Fleischer 1935, 7min)
kids_in_the_shoe_poster
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. "For wasting your bread, it's off to bed!" yells the old woman, who ties ropes to her rocking chair to accommodate all the kids at once! As soon as their mother's in bed, they launch a wild party, playing musical instruments and doing a swinging rendition of Smiley Burnette's classic "Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Round Here." 

PIGS IN A POLKA (dir. Fritz Freleng 1943, 7min)
Pigs in a Polka is a one-reel Technicolor animation in the Merrie Melodies series, produced by Leon Schlesinger and with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling. The film is a parody of two Walt Disney films: 1933 Three Little Pigs and 1940 Fantasia. The familiar story of the three little pigs is set in this film to Brahm´s "Hungarian Dances" No.5, No.7, No.6 and No.17. It was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award.

LE BALLON ROUGE (dir. Albert Lamorisse 1956, 34min)
The film follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon. It was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris. It won numerous awards, including an Oscar for the best original screenplay in 1956 and the Palme d´Or for short flms at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Lamorisse used his children as actors in the film. His son, Pascal Lamorisse, plays Pascal in the main role, and his daughter Sabine portrays a little girl.

WELCOME!

Opening today 27.9.2013 in Harakka, Kasematti IV, at 18:00 - WELCOME!







Video album filmed in Jurmo island 2009 - 2011.
An exhibition in Harakka island
26.9. - 29.9. 2013 Kasematti IV

Welcome to the opening on Thursday 26.9. 18:00 -

Open
Friday 27.9. 18:00 - 21:00
Saturday 28.9. 16:00 - 21:00, sauna 18:00 - 21:00
Sunday 29.9. 16:00 - 21:00

Inside the work there are many moods - 

it is a weather diary of the shifting phenomena in the nature, solitude and some social
relations. Inside the work there is one image which is the most beautiful
portrait of a dog that I have ever seen (exhibited in the island, where there
is sadly forbidden to come with a dog)

https://www.facebook.com/events/172883736237187/

TRACES OF THE WIND ON THE SAND

Parts

1. Wind´s traces on sand
2. Happy Easter
3. Spring, summer, autumn, winter
4. Windows through which seeing is difficult
5. Farewell to the dog
6. To the waves and clouds

"I spent 3 years in outer achipelago in Jurmo. I collected some images which
reminded me of the important things that I like."

Open from 2pm to 9pm. Duration of the work shown in a specially built "moving
image theatre" is 15 min.

The connection boat leaves by Cafe Ursula from the end of the pier (Kaivopuisto)
every half an hour. Lift the sign for the boat in the end of the pier. The boat
trip costs 4 euros and visiting the island and seeing the work is worth of it.
Tea and wine is served.

This is the last of the autumn events of nomadic academy in the island. 

Nomadic Academy thanks everyone when the season ends.

Monday, September 16, 2013

VILKE IN KERAVA ART MUSEUM 18.9 - 13.10.2013



Welcome to see, hear and feel VILKE electronic art Collection in Kerava Art 
Museum between the time 18.9. – 13.10.2013!


Opening on Tuesday 17.9, 6pm - WELCOME!

VILKE

18 artists or artist groups, 18 works from the expanding history of Finnish electronic art + 5 new 50-channel monitor works from the artists in FixC Cooperative (shown one by one during the exhibition)

Maria Duncker, Juha van Ingen, Sami van Ingen & Petri Kuljuntausta, Philip von Knorring, Laura Könönen, mfx, Pekka Nevalainen, Erkka Nissinen, Marjatta Oja, Seppo Renvall, Jarkko Räsänen, Pekka Sassi, Alli Savolainen, Mika Taanila, Jimi Tenor, Marko Vuokola, Kari Yli-Annala, Denise Ziegler

...

Kerava Art Museum is located in Kultasepänkatu 2, Yli-Kerava - just 600 m from train Station, across the bridge and then right... 


Opening hours:
Tue, Thu, Fri 11-18
Wed 12-19
Sa, Su 11-17
Monday closed

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VILKE COLLECTION (short intro)

The VILKE Collection of Finnish electronic art founded by FixC Cooperative comes into being on a celebratory year. In 2013 it has been 50 years since the exhibition Exposition of Music – Electronic Television (11.3 – 20.3.1963) by the “Pope” of video art Nam June Paik.

The objective of the VILKE Collection is to bring together works that were central in their time, works in which the idea, structure or action is essentially linked to the applied technology. Consumer electronics and high technology used by industry together with obsolete technology buried in the sands of time are wired into our lives and memories in ways that electronic artworks utilise, vary and bring to life from a new perspective. The VILKE Collection reinstates many of these works of art that have fallen outside museum collections and the official canon of Finnish art history.

One of the first video installations in the history of Finnish electronic art is Philip van Knorring’s Bevakat (“watched” or “under surveillance” in Swedish) from 1977, a statement about public camera surveillance, indicating how artists were interested in considering the social and political effects of new technology. The beginning of the 1980s saw the bloom of a new mode of making which was characterised by the use of different kinds of small-scale industrial communication devices. In the 1990s the new generation was interested in the phenomenological aspects of time and space and social situations. Many of VILKE artists worked also in the collective of Helsinki Film Workshop, founded in 1989. The artists share the same ethos as the alternative musicians working at the same time. Jimi Tenor shot in 1995 an experimental documentary on 16 mm film about the artists of record company Sähkö (“electricity”), a company founded by Tommi Grönlund. The tone of the film is similar to an ethnological film: attentive and respectful of the work being done.

Both the pioneering strategies of the early internet culture and the newer "post-internet" mentality are presented in the collection. Juha van Ingen’s Web Safe Colourscape (1999–2000) is one of the few Finnish works that uses an internet browser as a central piece of the work. In Vantaa (2007), Erkka Nissinen creates a particular and unique post-internet aesthetics of his own. Demoscene group MFX’s work Cannapaceus (2008) is a rich computer animation that is processed in real-time. 

If the abstract epic lyricism of Cannapaceus nearly propels the viewer to another planet, Laura Könönen’s The Only One and All (2011) transports the onlooker far into the history of our home planet. Könönen’s work is comprised of a record player and a rotating record made of granite, the principal stone type of Finnish bedrock, which is traced with a diamond needle. The voice of the stone is dusty and discontinuous, speaking from experience far older than the technology that is used to play the sound for us to hear.

The inclusion of electronic and media art into the praxis of making art has created new challenges to preserving art. An internationally adapted strategy is to “update” works to a new technological standard at specific intervals, for instance every ten years. However, many works are media specific, made with a specific device of a specific period. Digitalising an analogical video, for example, can change the nature of the work radically. The works in the VILKE Collection are not only preserved in accordance to digital standards, the intention is to exhibit them in their original presentation form whenever possible.

The collections of private collectors, institutions, museums, organisations and foundations form an important part of cultural memory, and the public display of collected works makes it possible for a larger audience to get to experience them. The works in VILKE Collection remain in the artists’ possession, but they can deposited with museums for an appointed period of time. With the creation of the VILKE Collection, FixC Cooperative is turning a new page in preserving and exhibiting Finnish electronic art's history.

The exhibition includes also five brand new 50-channel monitor works (which will be shown during the exhibition one by one in 50-monitor structure build for this purpose) by FixC artists Maria Duncker, Juha van Ingen, Seppo Renvall, Jarkko Räsänen and Kari Yli-Annala

WELCOME!

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Suomalainen taiteilijaosuuskunta mukana maailman suurimmalla
mediataidefestivaalilla

Suomalainen taiteilijaosuuskunta FixC on mukana ITAF2013 projektillaan
Linzissä järjestettävän Ars Electronica -festivaalin ohjelmassa ainoana suomalaisena osallistujana.

Ars Electronican vuoden 2013 teemana on Total Recall The Evolution of Memory.

FixCin International Teletext Art Festival ITAF2013-projekti on Saksan, Itävallan ja Sveitsin televisioissa esitettävä kansainvälinen teksti-TV-taidetapahtuma, joka esittelee teoksia kaikkiaan kahdeksasta maasta, Suomesta on mukana Jarkko Räsänen, Juha van Ingen ja Seppo Renvall. Kolmisenkymmentä vuotta sitten toimintansa aloittanut Ars Electronica on kansainvälisesti arvostetuin ja suurin mediataiteen festivaali, joka oli myös Linzin kulttuuripääkaupunkivuoden merkittävin yksittäinen tapahtuma. Festivaalin lisäksi Ars Electronican ympärille on vuosien mittaan rakentunut myös museo, mediataiteen keskus ja tutkimuslaboratorio.

Lisätietoa ITAF2013 festivaalista ja siihen osallistuvista taiteilijoista:

itaf2013 (at) teletextart.com
www.teletextart.com

FixC osuuskunta: www.fixc.fi

Ars Electronican sivut
http://www.aec.at/totalrecall/de/om

Thursday, August 15, 2013

LUMIKKILUONNOS MUUSAJUHLILLA



LUMIKKILUONNOS Oulussa

LUMIKKILUONNOS Oulun Muusajuhlilla 16.8.2013



KLO 20 LUMIKKILUONNOS
Tähtitornin Kahvilan Kellari. Linnansaari 1, Oulu
Eija Hirvosen, Tuomo Kangasmaan ja Kari Yli-Annalan live art -teatteriesitys on ensimmäinen osa taiteellisten tapahtumien sarjaa, jossa taideteos muuttuu asteittain joksikin muuksi. 


Ensimmäinen osa on liikkuvaa kuvaa hyödyntävä ja liikkuvaa kuvaa sekä elävää puhetta yhdistävä performanssi, jossa hyödynnämme niin Grimmin veljesten ylöskirjaamaa kansansatua, Robert Walserin siitä tekemää kertomusta sekä João César Monteiron edellämainittuihin perustuvaa elokuvaa Branca de Neve (2000).
Käytämme välineinämme 16mm-filmiä, videomonitoria, pukuja, valoja, puheita ja Tähtitornin kahvilan kellarin linnamaisia puitteita. 

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

ITAF2013 - International Teletext Art Festival 15.8.-15.9.2013

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke

ITAF - International Teletext Art Festival ARD Textissä (Saksan  
valtiollinen TV), ORF teletextissä (Itävallan valtiollinen TV), Swiss  
Textissä (Sveitsi)

ITAF on suomalaisen FixC -taiteilijaosuuskunnan ja ARD Textin, ORF  
teletextin ja Swiss Textin yhteistyönä toteuttama taidehanke, jossa 16  
taiteilijan Teksti-TV -formaatissa toteuttamat teokset  ovat kuukauden  
ajan esillä ARD Teksti-TV -sivuilla Saksassa, Itävallassa, Sveitsissä  
ja lisäksi näyttelyssä ARD Haupstadtstudion näyttelytilassa  
Berliinissä. Toista kertaa järjestettävän ITAF-festivaaliin tutustui  
viime vuonna ARD Textin sivuilla yli  540 000 katsojaa ja tänä vuonna  
järjestettävä festivaali on on Teksti-TV:n 30-vuotisen historian  
suurin taidehanke.

ITAF2013 on myös mukana Ars Electronica festivaaleilla. Ars  
Electronica on Linzissä Itävallassa vuosittain järjestettävä yksi  
maailman merkittävimmistä mediataidefestivaaleista.

Tänä vuonna kansainvälinen raati (Paul B. Davis, Rosa Menkman ja Voin  
de Voin) jakaa International Teletext Art Prize palkinnon, jonka saa  
yksi osallistuvista taiteilijoista. Lisäksi annetaan yleisölle  
mahdollisuus äänestää omaa suosikkiaan.

Vaikka Teksti -TV:n retroestetiikka näkyy nykyään voimakkaasti  
visuaalisessa kulttuurissamme mm. animaatioelokuvissa, webbi-sivuilla,  
graffitissa ja graafisessa suunnittelussa, niin Teksti-TV:llä  
itsellään on vielä paljon annettavaa taiteellisen ilmaisun foorumina.  
Teosten toteuttaminen oli osallistuville taiteilijoille  
mielenkiintoinen haaste, koska Teksti-TV-formaatti vaatii tekijältään  
erityisen editorin käyttöä, eikä esimerkiksi piirustusten, valokuvien  
ja videoiden siirto sellaisenaan onnistu Teksti-TV:seen.  
Taiteilijoiden ponnistelut palkittiin ja lopputuloksena saatiin hieno  
kokonaisuus useita eri tyylilajeja edustavia varta vasten tähän  
formaattiin tehtyjä uusia taideteoksia.

Osallistuvat taiteilijat: LIA, Manuel Knapp, UBERMORGEN, Daniel Egg,  
Marc Lee, Raquel Meyers, Kathrin Günter, Max Capacity, Dragan  
Espenschied, Jarkko Räsänen, Goto80, Seppo Renvall , Dan Farrimond,  
Juha van Ingen, Cordula Ditz ja John Lawrence

Lisätietoja ja lehdistökuvia:
Juha van Ingen ITAF / FixC
itaf2013 (at) teletextart (dot) com
Puhelin: 040 5932694

FixC osuuskunta
Alppikatu 17 LH2
FI-00530 Helsinki
www.fixc.fi

Sunday, July 28, 2013


Saturday, July 20, 2013

NOMADIC ACADEMY OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTS presents


30.7.2013

the 1st “from noon to midnight” EVENT

dZIGA vERTOV gROUP &
tHE pOLITICAL fILM
cOLLECTIVES

SCREENING OF DVG FILMS & PRESENTATIONS BY

SEZGIN BOYNIK
PETRA BAUER
EETU VIREN

FoOd, dRiNkS and SaUnA

a free educational event organised by Nomadic Academy

The connection boat to Harakka island goes from Ullanlinna Pier near Cafe Ursula in Kaivopuisto every half an hour or in every 20 minutes. 

Return ticket costs 4 euros (in cash).
no dogs are allowed in Harakka.




W E L C O M E !

Nomadic Academy is starting a new series of educational events under the title FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT. 

The 1st event happens on 30. 07. 2013 under the title "Dziga Vertov Group and the Political Film Collectives". Event will start at 12:00 clock and will last until late night. Event is free of charge. There will be screenings of 4 - 5 Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard and Pierre Gorin) films made between 1967-1970 with English subtitles. 

Apart from these discussions there will be also short presentations each lasting 20 minute related to the issue:

Eetu Viren will talk about communistic perception in Dziga Vertov films in relation to transformed conceptualisation of spatiality and temporality after the October Revolution.

Following Louis Althusser's theses on overdetermination by contradictions, Sezgin Boynik will talk about influence of Marxist theories to Dziga Vertov Group's film-form; particularly he will focus on the epistemological concept of break as condition for political film making.

Petra Bauer will present publication “Working Together: Notes on British Film Collectives in the 1970s” which she co-edited with Dan Kidner, that deals with the issues of collective film making as oppositional strategy of avant-garde political cinema.

Kari-Yli Annala will chair the event and talk about the importance of Dziga Vertov Group in political avant-garde film history.

Also during the event, which will last about ten hours, foods and refreshments will be served. Guests are also encouraged to bring their own foods and drinks. 

Friday, June 7, 2013


LUMIKKILUONNOS

Paikka: Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki
9.6.2013 klo 17.00

Lumikkiluonnos on ensimmäinen osa taiteellisten tapahtumien sarjaa, jossa taideteos muuttuu asteittain joksikin muuksi.

Ensimmäinen osa on liikkuvaa kuvaa hyödyntävä ja liikkuvaa kuvaa sekä elävää puhetta yhdistävä performanssi, jossa hyödynnämme niin Grimmin veljesten ylöskirjaamaa kansansatua, Robert Walserin siitä tekemää kertomusta sekä João César Monteiron edellämainittuihin perustuvaa elokuvaa Branca de Neve (2000).

Toivotamme sinut lämpimästi tervetulleeksi seuraamaan esitystä, jonka järjestää Kokeellisten taiteiden nomadinen akatemia yhdessä Eija Hirvosen, Minna ja Tuomo Kangasmaan, Roope Aholan sekä Kari Yli-Annalan muodostaman Besides Beauty -taiteilijaryhmän kanssa (näyttely auki ennen esitystä ja mahdollisesti sen jälkeenkin!)

Esitys on tekijänoikeussyistä kutsupohjainen, joten joudumme pyytämään sinua lähettämään tekstiviestin LUMIKKILUONNOS (jos et ole jo saanut kutsua muuta kautta) puhelinnumeroon 0504318898, niin lähetämme sinulle kutsun.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Hey all,

Welcome to the opening of two group exhibitions in Helsinki, both with also simple works made in Nomadic Academy, using the recycled (partly ready made) materials and method of instant installation.

"PEITEALA" ("COVERAGE")

Basically a rugsack filled with sound...

in the exhibition MATERIA 

in Harakka island, boat goes from the pier by Cafe Ursula in Kaivopuisto appr. every half an hour -- the info is unfortunately only in finnish and swedish at the moment.

Welcome! Opening today at 17-20!

and

"WALSFLOWER"

made of cardboard, plastic "tongue", little bit extended painting, text and a small radio

in

BESIDES BEAUTY

in Oksasenkatu 11

Opening tomorrow at 19-22!

Welcome!

...

In my work "Coverage" I created a light-hearted presentation of the "travelling sound" meeting different bodies during its journey. The sound and matter coexist, but in different categories, so it all comes back to that how we define them in whatever scale or framing. Sound is basically energy, but needs some material involvement. Even in space, which is almost a vacuum, there is some resonance in magnetoacoustic waves. In phenomenological aesthetics (B.Baas) the concept of "pure resonance", a word borrowed from the physics, can mean a kind of "arch-sonority", an incorporation of the sound which shows way for experiencing or imagining that which goes beyond the sense. Basically, you need bodies for the sound.

The spoken text in “Walsflower (Walser + flow)” was originally published in “Aufträge” (1913) by Robert Walser. My work combines the spoken version with a cardboard-sketch that looks like a badly-made cardboard-version of the human-eating flower from Roger Corman´s famous B-movie Little Shop of Horrors (1960) or it´s remake (1986). The text describes a fantasy about a curtain raiser (a short play or scene before the actual play starts), combining carnal imagery and the idea of the heterosexual romance produced in the dream factories (a stage spectacle, if you want... from Wagner to Hollywood to Fellini to Debord). You can find the text here... My voice reading the text has been altered to change it unrecognizable. It has become a sound that grasps a new body or has a fake, manufactured origin in the organless body of an artwork.

Kind regards,

Kari

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"You are a teacher?""Part-time." - Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

BESIDES BEAUTY

BESIDES BEAUTY

Tervetuloa avajaisiin: 31.5.2013 klo 19-22!

Näyttely avoinna: 1.-9.6.2013
Galleria Oksasenkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki
ti-la 12-18, su 12-17
www.oksasenkatu11.fi

Roope Ahola, Eija Hirvonen, Minna Kangasmaa, Tuomo Kangasmaa, Kari
Yli-Annala

Besides Beauty -näyttely käsittelee sitä miten tavanomainen muuntuu, siirtyy ja
synnyttää uusia yhteyksiä mielessämme, vaikka asiat ja materiaalit säilyisivät
muuten samoina. Ehkä aika tai kokemus ajasta on se mikä muuttaa asian toiseksi,
toden fiktioksi, luonnollisen luonnottomaksi tai totuttaa alun perin
luonnottomana koettuun. Missä muutos oikeastaan tapahtuu? Ehkä se on paikka,
sijainti, toinen ihminen tai ääni. Yhtenä lähtökohtana, innoittajana, Besides
Beauty -näyttelylle ovat olleet sveitsiläisen kirjailijan Robert Walserin
kirjoitukset. Näyttelyssä on esillä valokuvia, videoita, installaatioita ja
performansseja.

Wieniläisten taiteilijoiden Flat1 –gallerian käynnistämä Entry_Exit
näyttelysarja on esillä Helsingissä Oksasenkatu 11 galleriassa 24.5. –
9.6.2013. Helsingin näyttely jatkaa näyttelysarjaa, jonka ideana on järjestää
eri taiteilijaryhmittymien kanssa yhteistyössä kansainvälistä näyttelyvaihtoa.
Näyttelyitä on ollut Itävallassa, Ranskassa ja Sveitsissä. Entry_Exit on jatkoa
viime vuonna Wienissä toteutetulle viiden suomalaisen kuvataiteilijan
ryhmänäyttelylle. Oksasenkatu 11 taiteilijakollektiivin kanssa järjestettävässä
Entry_Exit -näyttelyssä on esillä kaksi kokonaisuutta: Itävaltalaisten
taiteilijoiden näyttely Me olemme kriisi oli esillä 23.-26.5.2013 ja
suomalaisten taiteilijoiden Besides Beauty 1.-9.6.2013.

....

BESIDES BEAUTY

Welcome to the opening: 31.5.2013 klo 19-22
Exhibition open: 1.-9.6.2013
Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki
tu-sa 12-18, su 12-17
www.oksasenkatu11.fi

Roope Ahola, Eija Hirvonen, Minna Kangasmaa, Tuomo Kangasmaa
and Kari Yli-Annala

Besides Beauty is a series of exhibitions by five Finnish visual artists.
Exhibitions include photographs, videos, installations and performances. The
first Besides Beauty exhibition was presented in Vienna in 2012.
The starting point for our collaboration has been the words by Swiss
writer Robert Walser (1878-1956). Our exhibition Besides Beauty discusses the
new and the wonderful between things. What do we think of when we see something
exceptional or how ordinary turns strange as we look at or concentrate on it
long enough? How ordinary can be a subject of transformation and transmission
and also to engender new connections even a subject and materials remain same?
Potentially, time or the experience of time transforms the thing into the other
thing, the fact into the fiction, the natural into the unnatural, or we get used
into what we thought unnatural. What kind of thing functions as a variable? What
is the act that transforms the thing to be transformed? Maybe, a place, a
location, a human being or a sound? These are the things we are thinking about.

The exhibition series Entry_Exit originated by the Viennese artist-run gallery
Flat1 will continue in Helsinki at the gallery Oksasenkatu 11 24.5.-9.6.2013.
Entry_Exit is a continuation to the group show of five Finnish artists in Flat1
that took place in 2012. The exhibition in Helsinki is a part of a series of
exhibitions that have been organized in collaboration with different artist
groups in Austria, France and Switzerland. The Entry_Exit exhibition is
collaboration with the artist collective Oksasenkatu 11, and it comprises of
two distinct shows: We are the crisis 23.-26.5.2013 by Viennese artists of Flat1
- artist collective and Besides Beauty 1.-9.6.2013 by 5 Finnish artists.