PERFORMANCE VOYAGE- Tromsø Kunstforening, November 12, 2011, 6 pm/ Norway
ARTISTS‘ ASSOCIATION MUU / PERFORMANSSI 2011 Festival presents:
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE
at Tromsø Kunstforening
November 12, 2011, 6 pm
Local organizers in Tromsø are Tromsø Kunstforening and RadArt.
Tromsø Kunstforening, Muségata 2, Tromsø, +47 77 65 58 27, post@tromsokunstforening.no,
www.tromsokunstforening.no
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE – A SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL VIDEO PERFORMANCES
presented by Markus Renvall / Artists‘ Association MUU, Helsinki, Finland.
ARTISTS AND WORKS
Heini Aho: Black Hole, 2:32 (Finland)
Jan Hakon Erichsen: Seek and Destroy, 4:21 (Norway)
ARTISTS‘ ASSOCIATION MUU / PERFORMANSSI 2011 Festival presents:
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE
at Tromsø Kunstforening
November 12, 2011, 6 pm
Local organizers in Tromsø are Tromsø Kunstforening and RadArt.
Tromsø Kunstforening, Muségata 2, Tromsø, +47 77 65 58 27, post@tromsokunstforening.no,
www.tromsokunstforening.no
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE – A SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL VIDEO PERFORMANCES
presented by Markus Renvall / Artists‘ Association MUU, Helsinki, Finland.
ARTISTS AND WORKS
Heini Aho: Black Hole, 2:32 (Finland)
Jan Hakon Erichsen: Seek and Destroy, 4:21 (Norway)
La Favorita colectivo: Planideros / Mourners, 3:56 (Mexico)
Heidi Kilpeläinen / HK119: The Great Non Figurative ‚K‘, 5:13 (Finland)
Heidi Kilpeläinen / HK119: Tropikalia, 3:43 (Finland)
Nina Kurtela: Transformance, 9:42 (Croatia/Germany)
Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub: The Pink Situation, 3:00 (Germany)
Anna Lidberg: Damn it, Anna. Were we not children just recently?, 4:20 (Sweden)
Pia Lindman: Red Explosion, Pink Fire and Black, 1:03 (Finland)
Anneli Nygren: Farewell, Jeff Koons, 3:05 (Finland)
Oblivia: The Entertainment Island Trilogy (trailer), 10:14 (Finland)
Paul Wiersbinski: King Nothing, 6:44 (Germany)
During the „PERFORMANSSI 2011 Festival“ week in Turku in May 2011, the videos were spread out all over, into some surprising and exceptional places, such as a café, a hair dresser’s, a restaurant and a convenience store.
Performance Voyage has been run, beside Turku, around Europe during 2011 – in Hamburg, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, and now at it’s final stop in Tromsø. Part of the videos selected by the jury have been displayed in the festival’s partnership-cities.
Members of the video jury were Markus Renvall, Jari Kallio and Timo Soppela. The jury chose 20 performance videos for Turku, and out of these Tromsø Kunstforening has chosen 12 videos to be shown in the programme.
ABOUT TROMSØ KUNSTFORENING
Tromsø Kunstforening is a member-based art society established in 1924 that is today one of the most important galleries for contemporary art in Northern Norway. The exhibition programme includes internationally recognised artists, as well as exhibitions and projects with a special focus on the region. It also covers new experimental art.
The public is encouraged to get involved in reflection and discussion on contemporary art, through seminars, artist talks and other events. The society is financed with funding from the municipality of Tromsø and the County of Tromsø in Norway.
ABOUT PERFORMANSSI 2011 FESTIVAL
The PERFORMANSSI 2011 Festival in Turku aimed to expand the coverage, accessibility and the audience and enhance the national and international networking of the artists. In the centre of the project there was a discovery of some new, creative, pioneering paths of performing and receiving arts, which connect the performance arts, urban environment and the local people. In the centre point of the execution was to work decisively through performing high quality contemporary art for promoting a culturally diverse and accommodating city.
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE TOUR 2011
23.5. Helsinki, Finland, MUU gallery
25.5. Riga, Latvia, 2ANNAS International Short Film Festival
27.5.-29.5. Turku, Finland, PERFORMANSSI 2011 Festival
18.6. Hamburg, Germany, FRISE Künstlerhaus, Altonale Festival
30.9. Tallinn, Estonia, Kumu kunstimuuseum
12.11. Tromsø, Norway, Tromsø Kunstforening
PERFORMANSSI 2011 was produced by Finnish Artists‘ Association MUU, based in Helsinki. PERFORMANSSI 2011 was a part of the official Turku Capital of Culture 2011 programme.
PERFORMANSSI 2011 FESTIVAL WAS SUPPORTED BY
Kansan Sivistysrahasto
Konstsamfundet
Kulturkontakt Nord
the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland
the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland
the Arts Council of Finland
the Turku 2011 Foundation.
MORE INFORMATION
http://www.performanssi2011.com
http://www.turku2011.fi
http://www.muu.fi
muugalleria@muu.fi
Timo Soppela, director@muu.fi, +358-9-625 972
FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Performanssi-2011-International-Performance-Art-Festival-27-2952011/204902256197071
http://www.facebook.com/pages/MUU-galleria-Helsinki-Finland/204644579563
ARTISTS AND WORKS
HEINI AHO: BLACK HOLE.
Year: 2010 // Duration: 2:32 min // Colour // Silent
A room with a black hole on the wall. A person throws black clothes and objects. Clothes and objects seem to disappear into the black hole for a moment, but they fall on the floor by gravity. Slowly they form an image of landscape or a still life.
Heino Aho is an Artist born in 1973 in Turku, Finland. www.heiniaho.com
JAN HAKON ERICHSEN: SEEK AND DESTROY.
Year: 2011 // Duration: 4:21 min // Colour // Sound
A leather armchair is shot with a bow and arrow, hung from the ceiling and then slaughtered like a wild animal. We can only see the hunters hands and feet, while he executes his actions with disturbing, cold determination.
Jan Hakon Erichsen is an Artist born 1978 in Oslo. www.janhakon.com
LA FAVORITA COLECTIVO: PLAÑIDEROS / MOURNERS.
Year: 2011 // Duration: 3:56 min // Colour // Sound
Plañideros is a performance made during exhibition DOLORES. DOLORES, emerges as an exploration of nostalgia through a series of works that cover many disciplines. Photography, performance, installation and sound design, make up this exhibition which raises the possibility of generating in the viewer a reflection of their own tears.
A Plañideros was a woman who was paid to go to mourn at the funeral of a person.
The characters in the performance play the role of mourners of the present, through which we cry (more than the loss of a loved one) the loss of different values, personal fears, the world situation, the lack of order for the ideas, emotions, desires. The mourners used to carry a glass to store their tears. In video characters instead, use tissues to forma a kleenex landscape of tears on the floor. None of the assistants knew in advance of the performance, until they entered the exhibition.
La Favorita colectivo is an artist group from Mexico, formed by Zazil Barba, Alvaro Ugarte and Alberto L. Corcuera.
HEIDI KILPELÄINEN (HK 119): THE GREAT NON FIGURATIVE ‚K‘.
Year: 2007 // Duration: 5:13 min // Colour // Sound
HEIDI KILPELÄINEN HK119: TROPIKALIA.
Year: 2009 // Duration: 3:43 min // Colour // Sound
„The Great Non Figurative ‚K‘ (Just Before The Apocalypse)“ is a documentation of a live performance at The Café Gallery Projects 2007. „Extend Your Neck“ was an exhibition about performance art curated by Giuseppe Mistretta and Clare Shallcross. Length of the original performance was 15 min. The title inspires a nonsensical ‚K‘ pop scene with references to the movements of Dadaism and Bauhaus. Works by Kilpeläinen draw on fascination with Constructivism, trashy pop star fame, cult sci-fi, technology, genetic engineering and the use of music, image and performance as a means of communication. She produces performances and video works primarily through a hand-crafted, DIY process.
Heidi Kilpeläinen lives and work in London. She has collaborated in partnership with Goshka Macuga, and in 2005 was chosen by Bjork as being her favourite artist of the year. In addition to making visual art, she is signed to One Little Indian Records (under name HK 119), the label on which she released 2 albums. Heidi Kilpeläinen is currently working on a 3rd album to be released in 2011. hk119.co.uk
NINA KURTELA: TRANSFORMANCE.
Year: 2010 // Duration: 9:42 min // Colour // Silent
The concept of Transformance is primarily based on relation between body, an execution of performance, within a context of architectural transformation that will take shape in form of experimental film like as an autonomous work for itself.
Nina Kurtela is an artist born in 1981 in Zagreb, currently working and living on relation between Berlin and Zagreb and thinking and creating in relation between visual arts, video, performance and contemporary dance and choreography. www.ninakurtela.com
LEYLA RODRIGUEZ & CRISTIAN STRAUB: THE PINK SITUATION.
Year: 2010 // Duration: 3:00 // Colour // Sound
„Isle of Lox“ is a video series Project created by Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub. The second Tribe of Lox gathers to Celebrate a special Ritual: to blend in “The pink situation.”
Leyla Rodriguez, born 1975 in Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina. 1984 emigration to Germany. 1997-2004 Studies at the HAW University Of Applied Sciences Design Department Fashion (Diploma).
Cristian Straub born 1977 in Bucharest, Romania. 1987 emigration to Germany. 2000-2007 Film Studies (Diploma) At Hamburg Arts School in the class of R. Neumann and W. Wenders.
ANNA LIDBERG: DAMN IT, ANNA. WERE WE NOT CHILDREN JUST RECENTLY?
Year: 2009 // Duration: 4:20 // Colour // Sound
In the video „Damn it Anna. Weren’t we children just recently?“ the siblings are trying to get back to the state they could be in when they were children. In their nostalgic strive they outright fail. In the encounter between the two films the question if there was ever such a moment at all is raised. Isn’t the first film staged as well, and the situation an arranged one? Synopsis: In the video „Damn it Anna. Weren’t we children just recently?“ the siblings are trying to get back to the state they could be in when they were children. In their nostalgic strive they outright fail. In the encounter between the two films the question if there was ever such a moment at all is raised. Isn’t the first film staged as well, and the situation an arranged one?
Anna Lidberg, born 1984 in Skoghall, Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm.
PIA LINDMAN: RED EXPLOSION, PINK FIRE AND BLACK.
Year: 2010 // Duration: 1:06 // Colour // Sound
ANNELI NYGREN: FAREWELL, JEFF KOONS.
Year: 2000 // Duration: 3:05 // Colour // Sound
Anneli Nygren lives and works in Turku. She has made videos and films since the beginning of 1980’s. Her works include fiction films, documentaries, animation films and music videos. She also makes drawings, photographs, music and works as a freelance journalist.
OBLIVIA: THE ENTERTAINMENT ISLAND TRILOGY (TRAILER).
Year: 2010 // Duration: 10:14 // Colour // Sound
Entertainment Island is a project on popular culture and entertainment by the performance company Oblivia. Oblivia drills through the vast world of entertainment and popular culture, from the shiny surface to the murky and private regions underneath. The trilogy explores entertainment and popular culture moving from the entertainment industry through local and to private entertainment.
Entertainment Island1 is an energetic take on the structures of the entertainment industry (premiered in 2008 at Kiasma Theatre). An array of gestures, movements and sounds emanating from the entertainment industry are presented in this energetic performance unveiling the mechanisms of popular culture.
“We spent weeks doing funny walks and telling bad jokes while pulling out false limbs and making funny faces. The pretend stuttering was the final straw. We were stuck and not the least funny. We had to face what we knew from the start: we are not entertainers. We do not deal in entertainment. We deal in structures. We changed track. We proceeded jumping up and down shouting Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! We had finally arrived at the core of popular culture.”
PAUL WIERSBINSKI: KING NOTHING.
Year: 2008 // Duration: 6:44 min // Colour // Sound
In the near future contemporary art has become a matter of supply and demand. The cabaret of a sadistic curator, greedy collectors and mindless audience is making its way through a blockbuster exhibition of the latest art star. The illusion of endless profit has become reality and the more
real it becomes, the more we believe in everything we are told.
Paul Wiersbinski is born 1983 in Halle, Germany. He studied video art with Mark Leckey and Douglas Gordon at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (Main). His work has been screened in international exhibitions (ZKM Karlsruhe, Mediations Biennale Poznan, Alma Enterprises London) and received several awards, such as the videoartprize of the filmboard Bremen and a project grand of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany. He has recently held lectures and presentations in Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Germany.