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Contrary to the diminishing biodiversity of nature in the forest, the imagery that portrays the forest has diversified while our media has digitalized. In our era of social networking sites ways of communicating forest related topics has changed as blogs, image and video services have begun to compete for the same lebensraum with traditional media.
Our new ways of interacting - with the forest, have become inseparable from the means of communicating - about the forest. If we are to have more ecologically sustainable relationships with forests which sort of communication and imagery should be preferred? And what are the invader-species that ought to be weeded out from the media landscape?
At the Forest 2.0 Clip Kino we'll examine the new forest imagery, which is spread via Internet and produced by surprising variety of parties. The evening is topped off by a video-jury; which will present awards to the best in the world and worst ever forest activist videos. If you'd like to supply a video-candidate for the video-jury, please send an email to mikko.lipiainen@gmail.com
The event is organized by Center of Contemporary Art Pispala Hirvitalo www.hirvkatu10.net
Ptarmigan's Labyrinths and Rings series continues in August with Giles Bailey and Caleb Waldorf, presenting at Labyrinths and Rings on the 11th and both performing at Ptarmigan on the 12th.
Giles Bailey was born in York (UK) in 1981. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art, The Royal College of Art and is now enrolled in the Master of Fine Art programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
Working largely in performance his research is concerned with construction of text through collisions of sources. He explores the possibility of the script as a site for collaged material drawn from the various mediations of theatrical, literary or cinematic events. Through the re-articulation of a documentary image, close scrutiny of speculative moments in nascent cinema or positioning of biographical footnotes he proposes terms that address and problematise the roles of performer and audience.
He has recently produced issue 12 of Achim Lengerer’s discursive publishing platform Scriptings and contributed texts to the journalGnommero and Stealing one Thought out of the Other by Matthias Meyer. He was a member of the independent music and art collectives Nuts and Seeds and Circus Circus and from 2006 - 2008 was on the committee of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (UK).
Caleb Waldorf is an artist currently living in Los Angeles, California. Since 2008 he has served on the committee for The Public School, an open framework for pedagogy started in Los Angeles by Telic Arts Exchange. He is the Co-editor of an online journal for short-form writing and media work called Version. In 2007 he co-founded and is currently the Creative Director of the magazine Triple Canopy. Most recently, he has started a research collective called Third Rail. Caleb received his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 2007.
Gareth Hayes will again be DJing, delivering a set of psychedelic music while refreshments will be served.
Ptarmigan is pleased to present Giles Bailey and Caleb Waldorf in performative mode, one day after their Labyrinths and Rings talk. Bridging the gap will be Maniacs Dream.
Giles Bailey: Talker Catalogue
Talker Catalogue is an ongoing enquiry into reading mediations of performance events. Via image, text, quotation, fragment, footnote and anecdote this project aims to develop performances that explore such secondary sources as means of investigating the interference, translation and stability of history, character, narrative and resolution.
1. TOM/LUTZ - TWO SCENES IN 1983
Tom/Lutz simultaneously recounts and re-enacts the stories of two incidents in 1983: The shooting of a scene for a documentary and a death by choking on the cap from a bottle of eye drops. The protagonists are two prominent figures investigated in the Talker Catalogue project whose biographies become entangled and activated through a collage of historical sources.
Labyrinths and Rings with Ellen Friis(DK) and Henrik Vestergaard Friis(DK)
Ptarmigan presents the first of it's Labyrinths and Rings programme - an ongoing series where creative practitioners (artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, or anything else) present their work and engage in a discussion with the audience.
The artists presenting are Ellen Friis and Henrik Friis. There will also be local djs and themed food and drink (more details to come)
Ellen Friis (1973, Denmark) studied "interdisciplinary art in the public space" at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, exchanged 2002-2003 to to the Turku Arts academy, interdisciplinary art study, "Crossing Borders". Now living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Investigating topics of time, such as slow motion, backward motion and quantum mechanics in performances and videos shown at various festivals and events in Scandinavia, Poland and Germany. Coming up this fall 2010: Participation in ELLEN by Hotel Pro Forma, a site specific piece where all actors carry the name Ellen. Is now initiating a danish forum "Samtalekøkkenet" for discussions about art, practice and performativity - starting this fall in Copenhagen with 6 foreign and 6 danish artists.
Henrik Friis
Born 1971 in Aalborg, Denmark and holds an MA in Theatre Science from the University of Copenhagen and from the Free University in Berlin.
In Denmark he has worked with Kanonhallen, Erik Pold and in Norway with Balteatret and Verk Production. In 1999 moved he to Berlin, where he has lived and worked since, mainly with artists from Applied Theatre Science in Giessen: Otmar Wagner, Florian Feigl, Dariusz Kostyra, Nino Sandow, Jörn J. Burmester and the groups Elizalde Area Code and Keifer.
In 2001, he established his own label Zarathustras Onkel in order to do Relationel Theatre. Zarathustras Onkels performances We Come in Peace and Gerüstbauficken has toured quite a lot the last years. Furthermore he has edited an anthology, several articles, and worked as a curator.
Henrik will preent his latest work. Zarathustras Uncle's reconstruction of the danisch Culture Canon. www.zonkel.com for more info.
Olympia Splendit is a guitar-bass-guitar trio by Heta, Katri and Jonna.
They play blues influenced stonerhenge with some occasional shrieking.
Cleavage is a duo by Tuukka and Joonas. They play lofi beats adjusted
with comfy noise bulk.
http://www.myspace.com/cleavagecleavage
Join us for the opening of 'Fragment #6'. This is part of Kuebel's ongoing 'Somnambulia Stories' series.
Exhibition: 15.06. – 22.06. 2010 open Tuesday to Saturday 12.00-17.30
For Satakieli (translates to "nightingale" or "hundred tongues") installation Eronen imitated hundred different Finnish birds with his DIY electronic gear. He recorded these synthetic bird singings to hundred sides of fifty tapes. These tapes are played simultaneously in the installation.
Curated by Sari TM Kivinen.
Identity construction within popular culture, artistic practices and the everyday.
Description: This event will look at clips that highlight ways in which imitation occurs within popular culture, artistic practices and in everyday life. Posing the question of who is copying whom this presentation will contemplate ideas surrounding identity authorship as well as consider the various levels of parody evident in the selected clips shown. Consideration will be given to ways in which various cultures parody each other’s dominant strands of popular culture and how this can form parodist hybrids. For example artists such as the Motel Sisters from Australia will be considered for their imitation of the American heiress Paris Hilton, the work of the Motel Sisters readily available online as an example of manipulating (via parody) the so called original.
Kivinen is a performance artist from Sydney, Australia currently based in Helsinki whilst completing an MA in Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy. Her work explores elements of fiction, reality, imitation and performativity.
Opening night of the exhibition of work culminated from the previous week's events. This will include new drawings by Malcy Duff alongside some of his past work relating to the theme of "You're A Winner."
Team Usurper, from the workshop on Wednesday, will perform as well as Helsinki's own Reijo Pami.
Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff will jam in the studio space for the duration of this day. People are welcome to come and look at them, cheer and boo.
We've moved around some of the events this week so please check out the new plan -
Now, on Friday evening:
Usurper (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Dismantled instruments, broken objects, and junk-as-aesthetic sound interplay.
Kuupuu
Helsinki's own Jonna Karanka, a warmup show before her Greek tour!
and individual activities by Usurper members:
Malcy Duff: The Knuckleball
A routine, and a selection of readings from comix and images by Malcy Duff.
Ali Robertson
Ali will provide a motivational speech to the audience.
Music will start at 20:28 sharp! The usual sushi/refreshments will be available. Admission is free!
Comic Workshop (The Dog Walking Technique)
10 am - 12 pm
A character based comic book workshop hosted and designed by Malcy Duff. Participants will be invited to create characters through unique drawing techniques, and explore further possibilities in character development using a method invented by Malcy Duff.
Team Usurper workshop
2 pm - 7 pm
You are invited to join Usurper (Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff) in a workshop of dismantling instruments and improvising. Participants will play a show as part of the workshop on May 9th. Please bring an instrument you are willing to dismantle.
A weekly meeting group for photographers to present their work and discuss/critique, with exercises and other activities.
Facilitated by Norah Nelson and Vilma Pimenoff.
For more information, and to register, please visit the Helsinki Public School class page
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Kemialliset Ystävät is an experimental music group run by Jan Anderzen since 1995. The line-up and the work methods of Kemialliset Ystävät are in a constant state of flux. The group has been actively performing in Finland and abroad at festivals, art centres, galleries, cellars, planetariums. One of the most recent concerts took place at the Helsinki swimming stadium where the audience was floating in a pool while enjoying the music through underwater speakers. Kemialliset Ystävät and its branches have released dozens of recordings around the world. The group is internationally one of the most well known Finnish acts in their field.
LISTENING EVENT
Fonal Records will release the next Kemialliset Ystävät album titled "Ullakkopalo" in the summer of 2010. The album has been meticulously created during the last two years. It contains music that is extremely dense: the tracks consist of dozens of layers of sounds and instruments. "Ullakkopalo" requires listener’s full attention and preferably also good audio equipment and sufficient volume. Since such conditions can rarely be found at peoples homes and since recreating the music live is near impossible the idea of listening events was conceived. We want to revive and re-invent this way of spreading music. It is also a tribute and a recovery attempt to the death sentenced phenomenon, the album as an art form. In spite of this the project is not intended as mere nostalgia: the music itself is radical, fresh and has the smell of the zeitgeist.
TALKS
Before the album there will be a few lectures on interesting and educational topics. Presentations last approximately 20 minutes each. Writer, composer and sound artist Petri Kuljuntausta speaks on the topic of animal music, Lars Mattila who also plays on "Ullakkopalo" will tell about hidden architecture in its various manifestations. In addition there will be a surprise performer. The talks will be in Finnish.
Events are free, donations are welcomed.
Kemialliset Ystävät KY Myspace Fonal Teatteri ILMI Ö
A weekly meeting group for photographers to present their work and discuss/critique, with exercises and other activities.
Facilitated by Norah Nelson and Vilma Pimenoff.
For more information, and to register, please visit the Helsinki Public School class page
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“Let’s not throw away anything”.
The participants of this workshop will make sculptures with seasonable vegetables, pulses and other edible things.
Afterwards we will dismantle the sculptures and cook them into a delicious dinner.
Facilitated by Salla Kuuluvainen.
Please register through the Helsinki Public School class page
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Our 2nd drawing event!
New people, please just come and participate even if you were not in the first class! Please sign up through Helsinki Public School's class page -- click on "olen kiinnostunut/i'm interested".
The first drawing night proved a success so we are organizing the next one right away. This one starts a bit earlier, so that kids and people who cannot stay overnight can also participate. Again, you may come as you please: drop in and out, or stay the whole time... We have ideas of dancing in the dark with flashlights and drawing at the same time, drawing to music... and you can introduce yours! And everyone, bring materials to draw on/with (pens, pencils, cardboard, papers, whatever), music, pillows and bedding to take naps if you wish.
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Ilia Belorukov (b. 1987) is a saxophonist based in St.Petersburg. He works both in solo and group settings playing anything between free jazz, noise and free improvisation. Despite his age Ilia has made his mark within the Russian experimental music scene. He is very active both in studio and on stage: during the last couple of years he has released roughly twenty CDs and he plays dozens of gigs every year. Ilia visited Finland last summer playing in Turku, Tampere and Helsinki.
Topias Tiheäsalo (b. 1978) is a guitarist focused on improvised music. During the past decade he has played in various settings within the Finnish free music scene. He is mostly known for his solo playing, which was featured on his CD Eyes of a Dead Lamb (Tyyfus 2007).
A weekly meeting group for photographers to present their work and discuss/critique, with exercises and other activities.
Facilitated by Norah Nelson and Vilma Pimenoff.
For more information, and to register, please visit the Helsinki Public School class page
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Model Court
Model Court is an ongoing curatorial/research project involving the artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees. It uses the structure and technologies of the courtroom to interrogate the signifying and controlling role architecture plays in contemporary art and society.
This opening will present the results of their research during their residency at Ptarmigan. The exhibition (opening through 22 April) will explore the intersection of the courtroom and the cinema, the use of technology in jurisprudence and specifically the extraordinary case of the François Bazaramba trial.
Anthea Caddy and Felicity Mangan
Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist based in Berlin, Germany. She has developed her practice through frequent collaborations with dancers, visual artists as well as musicians, utilising digital composition techniques to explore field recordings and sampling from found sound archives. Through the deployment of custom-built amplification, Felicity presents her work in live performance and sound publications, to explore the physical sound qualities of field recording via hand-made speakers and contact speakers made from re-cycled and found objects.
Anthea Caddy (Melbourne, Australia) is a media artist and cellist. Her practice centres on the relationship between recording, spatialisation, and the instrument. Exploring the cello’s textural, spatial and dynamic capabilities, she draws reference points from electro-acoustic music and sound art. Working with digital composition, environmental field recording, and acoustic performance she consolidates the conceptual and practical aspects of these approaches by applying techniques and concepts indigenous to digital spatialisation to her performances and recordings. She has performed previously at Ptarmigan with Thembi Soddell.
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In conjunction with the Model Court residency at Ptarmigan, the Model Court artists (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees) will be presenting a Clip Kino night exploring the intersection of the courtroom and the cinema.
Clip Kino events are self-organised screening events of short video clips & documentaries found online. They bring 'private' viewing activity from one's own computer, into public space for screening, appreciation and debate.
Model Court is an ongoing curatorial/research project that was designed by the artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Lawrence Abu Hamdan and which also involves Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees. It uses the structure and technologies of the courtroom to interrogate the signifying and controlling role architecture plays in contemporary art and society.
In the frame of its residency at Ptarmigan, the “Model Court” group proposes a workshop that will deal with the courtroom as a contested space where legal “truths” are produced and disseminated via specific protocols and technologies.
Material from the “Model Court” archive* will be discussed and will guide the participants through a series of practical exercises that will explore the spatial-technological intricacies of the courtroom, the performative qualities of the trial and its relations to the cinematic, the notion of evidence and the status of images in court. The material generated in this workshop will become integral part of the exhibition that will open in Ptarmigan on the 8th of April.
Presented through the Helsinki Public School. To attend, please say "I'm interested!" via the Helsinki Public School class proposal page.
*The model court archive comprises of texts by Cornelia Vissman, Pyel Haldar, Mladen Dolar, Costas Douszinas and many clips from courtroom dramas and documentaries, documents from trials and material generated from meetings with lawyers, filmmakers, architects, typists etc.
Come to Ptarmigan and sell your things at our first flea market! Because space is limited, it will be available as a first-come, first-serve basis. There is no fee for selling things! We hope you will find unusual and interesting items to buy, as we expect our community has unusual and interesting items to sell. Come by, hang out, have some coffee or tea and shop.
Table space is limited, so get their early or maybe bring a blanket for the floor.
