This week Ptarmigan is supporting Pranuthi Muggalla and Evita Haapavaara's contribution to Ravintolapäivä.

Food Menu:  Vege Samosa, vege pakora, chicken satay stick with peanut sauce, gado-gado mixed vege salad with peanut sauce, fried noodle, coconut rice, indian sesame ...sweet, indian carrot halva, sandwich, finnish karelian pies. (Variable prices between 2-5 Euro).

Drinks Menu: Zinzino special espresso / cappuccino/ latte, kyani juice shots. (Variable prices).

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Pranuthi Muggalla and Evita Haapavaara are part of Ptarmigan's Our Cuisine=Our Stories project, check out www.ourcuisineourstories.blogspot.com for more information!

Cagevent: Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn’t by Helsinki-based poet Karri Kokko and American performance artists Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek draws inspiration from the creative process pioneered by John Cage to structure six 15 minute Events developed through aleatoric composition. Cagevent: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t continues an ongoing collaboration by these three artists initiated at Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy in May of last year, 2011.

Karri Kokko is a Finnish poet, living and working in Helsinki, Finland. He has published fourteen books, ranging from lyrical poetry to conceptual writing. His most famous book, Shadow Finlandia (2005), is a collage of found material, sentences lifted from personal blogs that deal with depression, anxiety, and addiction. Apart from writing, he also produces visual and digital poetry. In July 2009, he conducted an international Visual Poetry Workshop in Saari Residence, Finland, with poets Geof Huth and Christian Bök, among others. In April 2012 he curated, with British poet and curator Tony Trehy, an international show of visual poetry and textual art, called TextArt -- Poetry to be Looked At, for Tampere Art Museum, Finland.

Garibaldi and Zmolek have directed Thick Dance/Theatre, Giant Refreshed, Omulu Capoeira Sul, Omulu Performance Group, Callous Physical Theatre, Blister Youth Ensemble, and Barefoot Studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Southeast Idaho; creating collaborative works with internationally renowned masters of Capoeira, Flamenco, Kathak, Taiko, Congolese and Chinese dance as well as original, evening-length, intermedia performance works in collaboration with visual and performing artists from throughout the United States and Europe.  Their participation in Kontaining, is made possible, in part, by support from Idaho State University and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
 

perfhop is a group who meets once a month to experiment with all kinds of ideas/ actions/ gestures/ sounds/ words etc that might possibly look/ sound/ feel like what is termed as performance art. 

Please bring along at least one material or object, and if you have a short (5-10 minute) performance/ action/ idea that your would like to test out in a supportive environment please bring these along. 

This time we will begin with a group improvisation inside (or outside) the container. Followed by individual actions. Followed by discussion. 

We will meet at a shipping container in Lasipalatsin aukio. If you are lost please call 0458840309 to find us!

Welcome along.

A two-week takeover of a shipping container in Lasipalatsinaukio, Helsinki, from the 29th of May until the 10th of June 2012. Kontaining is produced by Ptarmigan ry in association with the Arts Council of Uusimaa. 

"Degradé - open rehearsal"- installation

A living room or artist studio taken to a public space: A cellist practising for competition. Repeating same music (Bach) over and over again. Once in a while having coffee break and checking her emails. An visual artist making paintings inspired by music cellist is playing. Making experiments with coloured light. Having coffee breaks and checking emails.

Guadalupe López-Íñiguez

Guadalupe López-Íñiguez has a double career as both a cello player and a researcher. Having studied cello performance with Rafael Ramos and Ángel Gª Jermann at the Madrid Royal Conservatoire of Music, López-Íñiguez is currently completing her PhD on the field of Cognitive Psychology of Music with Professor J. Ignacio Pozo.

Anna Rouhu

Anna Rouhu studied lighting design at the Theatre Academy of Finland (Teatterikorkeakoulu) completing her Masters Degree in May  2009. In Finland she has worked with well known directors such as Saana Lavaste, Atro Kahiluoto, Eero-Tapio Vuori and playwright-director Marjo Niemi in both established institutions as well as experimental projects. She has also worked several years with T.H.E Dance Company from Singapore designing lighting for company's major productions. Rouhu is currently working as freelance lighting designer.

An overland performance journey about walking, waiting, hitch-hiking and sauna. Kimbal is in the process of hitch-hiking a triangle to the edges of Europe and recording the stories of the people he meets along the way – on the road and in the Sauna. Vertically Down is part 3 of a journey that started in Athens in June 2011, which took Kimbal Diagonally Backwards to London, then from Amsterdam Diagonally Upwards to Nordkapp, Norway and now Vertically Down to Skopje, Macedonia.

Both hitch-hiking and sauna are intimate and temporary experiences that lead people to become surprisingly honest and Kimbal will share some stories (anonymously) about this journey as a work-in-progress performance lecture in Helsinki.

If you would like to take a sauna with Kimbal in Helsinki between the 24^th April and 2^nd May, or if you live elsewhere on the journey from Norway to Macedonia, and would like him to come to visit you, please get in touch.

Previous sections of the journey have been shown at BasementArtsProject, Leeds, UK, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden and PAiN Performance, Luleå, Sweden.

http://diagonallyupwards.tumblr.com/

Kimbal Quist Bumstead (UK/NL) is a visual artist who works site responsively in and between performance installation, drawing and painting. Kimbal uses other people and their bodies as his working material, exploring fragmented relationships and [miss]communication within communities and amongst individuals. Recently he has become interested in using lo-fi technology as a means of generating and tracing journeys and relationships in urban and rural environments. Kimbal spends much of his time living nomadically - using his travels, and the encounters that he has with people he meets as a means of generating material for his performances.

Recent shows include “Touch Village” A Foundation Liverpool, “This is Our House” BasementArtsProject Leeds, Busan International Performance Art Festival South Korea. OPEN International Performance Art Festival, OPEN Gallery Beijing,“Transit Station” Royal Academy of Art Copenhagen, ACT ART London, NeighbourHOOD  ]Performance Space[ London, “Communi(cati)on of Crisis” Live Art Research Institute Athens, “Two Men in A Room”  The Old Ambulance Depot Edinburgh and “Supermarket” Kulturhuset Stockholm. Recent collaborations include working with the artist Richard Taylor and choreographer Charlotte Spencer

Kimbal studied Fine Art and Art History at The University of Leeds and the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow, Poland. He has an MA in Performance and Theatre from Queen Mary University of London. He lives and works between London and Amsterdam.

perfhop is a group who meets once a month to experiment with all kinds of ideas/ actions/ gestures/ sounds/ words etc that might possibly look/ sound/ feel like what is termed as performance art. 

Please bring along at least one material or object, and if you have a short (5-10 minute) performance/ action/ idea that your would like to test out in a supportive environment please bring these along. Please also bring along ideas for group performance exercises you would like to try out, or just come along for the ride (please note that perfhop is participatory). 

This time we will meet in the lobby of the Theatre Academy at 18:30. If you are late please call 0458840309 to find us!

Welcome along.

13.10.12 Exploring Kallio klo 15

Image credit: Assia Kaab

artHOP is a socially engaged hopping betweens places. Our 2012 programme of artHOP consists of a series of 6 tours around Helsinki sites. The tours have been mapped out by Christine Langinauer (XL Art Space) and Sari Kivinen (Ptarmigan).

Welcome to this years first artHOP! We will begin our season of 6 hopping tours at XL Art Space where we will experience an exhibition by Eric Mutel (a side-event of the Aave festival). We will then join our tour guide on a journey through the railway tunnel to selected sites considered as potentially interesting for cultural activities before embarking on a short train trip together to Malmi. Where we have the option to visit the Aave festival at Malmitalo. www.aavefestival.org

artHOP is a leisurely (yet active) Saturday afternoon hopping group.

Welcome along! 

artHOP's 2012 dates

14.04.12 Meet at XL Art Space klo 15

21.04.12 Meet at Kulosaari metro station klo 15

09.06.12 Meet at Kamppi (exact location tbc) klo 15

04.08.12 Exploring Lauttasaari klo 15

01.09.12 Exploring Punavuori klo 15

13.10.12 Exploring Kallio klo 15

Through March to May 2012 the project Our Cuisine=Our Stories will take place in East Helsinki. 

What is it? 

A small club meeting 8 times and bringing together females living in East Helsinki (from various cultural backgrounds and a variety of ages) to cook, share recipes and stories related to food-making and experiences living in Helsinki. The aim is to share cultural diversity in a positive way in the local community.

The final outcomes will be open to participants friends and family to share the experiences.

When?

Tuesday 10.04

Monday 16.04, 23.04, 30.04, 07.05, 14.05, 21.05, 28.05

Time: 5-8pm.  3 hour sessions with a home made meal included.

Facilitators

Amal Laala & Sari Kivinen

“Sari is an artist and cultural producer whose projects explore a relationship between storytelling, performance and identity. Amal is a socially engaged artist who works with various groups and communities to instigate and engage in discussion, experimentation and play. Both are working with the artist association Ptarmigan ry, which is a mobile curatorial project based platform.”

We currently still have a few places available for participation. If you (or someone you know) are female, living in East Helsinki, enjoy cooking and are interested to meet new people from diverse backgrounds please contact us! 

Contact Amal Laala 0417407360 amal@ptarmigan.fi or Sari Kivinen 0458840309 sari@ptarmigan.fi

perfhop is a group who meets once a month to experiment with all kinds of ideas/ actions/ gestures/ sounds/ words etc that might possibly look/ sound/ feel like what is termed as performance art. 

Please bring along at least one material or object, and if you have a short (5-10 minute) performance/ action/ idea that your would like to test out in a supportive environment please bring these along. Please also bring along ideas for group performance exercises you would like to try out, or just come along for the ride (please note that perfhop is participatory). 

This time we will meet in the lobby of the Theatre Academy at 18:30. If you are late please call 0458840309 to find us!

Welcome along.

perfhop is a group who meets once a month to experiment with all kinds of ideas/ actions/ gestures/ sounds/ words etc that might possibly look/ sound/ feel like what is termed as performance art.

Please bring along at least one material or object, and if you have a short (5-10 minute) performance/ action/ idea that your would like to test out in a supportive environment please bring these along. Please also bring along ideas for group performance exercises you would like to try out, or just come along for the ride (please note that perfhop is participatory). 

This time we will meet in the tori of TeaK, and go upstairs together at klo 18:10

Welcome to perfhop!

perfhop is a group who meets once a month to experiment with all kinds of ideas/ actions/ gestures/ sounds/ words etc that might possibly look/ sound/ feel like what is termed as performance art.

If you have a short (5-10 minute) performance/ action/ idea that your would like to test out in a supportive environment please bring these along. Please also bring along ideas for group performance exercises you would like to try out, or just come along for the ride (please note that perfhop is participatory).

This time we will meet in the tori of TeaK, and go upstairs together at klo 18:10

Welcome to perfhop!

Luciana Ohira and Sergio Bonilha (Brazil) 

"transimmanence" is an art project by Luciana Ohira & Sergio Bonilha. In their words "It is a new project we are working on as a way of think about this largely announced "shift on Earth" we are (maybe) about to experience in/from 2012. Three artworks named with titles suggesting transcendent issues but offering three mainly immanent experiences is what we propose in a Spinozian way of mixing feeling and thinking. Does it sounds too abstract? Don't worry! We are going to bring with us one of the artworks, "ascesis", plus pictures from it's construction process."

Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds

‘The language and narrative of peripheries, forgotten and forbidden areas have been a recurring motif in my work. Much of my source material in my installations originates in these desolate landscapes, banal roadside views, crumbing structures, hidden remnants and peculiar locations. I am in constant pursuit of the unexpected, the sinister, the eerie, the surprising, the beautiful and the perpetual deception of our lived environment.’

The exhibition Imagining Other Worlds invites the viewer into a dark enchanted world of obstacles, shaky ground, grainy images, blurry lines, rusty textures, elusive sounds and all the poetics of dirt and grime.

Jane Hughes is an Irish born artist, who works mainly with video and installation. She is currently finishing her MA in Environmental Art at Aalto University. She attained her BA in fine art from National College of Art & Design in Dublin in 2006. Since then she has been based in Berlin and involved in various artist run projects and collaborations. Since 2008 she has been a member of WerkStadt e.V, where she regularly organizes events and curates shows. Her work is currently on show in Berlin as a part of the group show New Horizons and the Contemporary Romantic in Kunstraum T27 until the 15th of February. A catalogue also accompanies the show. Hughes has exhibited widely internationally including Iceland, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Russia and the Netherlands in various project spaces, festivals, local and state galleries. 

For more info visit: www.janehughes.ie.

*We also officially launch the Space is the Place zine, which documents a collaborative project between Ptarmigan, XL Art Space and Kuvataideakademia* 

How ta tawk & dans rite is a site specific participatory performance incorporating dance, live music and digital art. Joey Chua Poh Yi, Rhys Turner, Anna Rouhu, and Guadalupe López will explore interchangeable professional roles and cultural norms in a performance which questions both the rites of passage into a given culture and the correctness of doing things right. Thematically How ta tawk & dans rite will link narrative vignettes of searching for love whilst taking a comic look at experiences encountered in foreign cultures.

This performance is supported by the National Arts Council Singapore. 

Image credit: Heini Ruuskanen

How ta tawk & dans rite is a site specific participatory performance incorporating dance, live music and digital art. Joey Chua Poh Yi, Rhys Turner, Anna Rouhu, and Guadalupe López will explore interchangeable professional roles and cultural norms in a performance which questions both the rites of passage into a given culture and the correctness of doing things right. Thematically How ta tawk & dans rite will link narrative vignettes of searching for love whilst taking a comic look at experiences encountered in foreign cultures.

How ta tawk & dans rite is a site specific participatory performance incorporating dance, live music and digital art. Joey Chua Poh Yi, Rhys Turner, Anna Rouhu, and Guadalupe López will explore interchangeable professional roles and cultural norms in a performance which questions both the rites of passage into a given culture and the correctness of doing things right. Thematically How ta tawk & dans rite will link narrative vignettes of searching for love whilst taking a comic look at experiences encountered in foreign cultures.

How ta tawk & dans rite is a site specific participatory performance incorporating dance and digital art. Joey Chua Poh Yi, Rhys Turner, Anna Rouhu, and Guadalupe López will explore interchangeable professional roles and cultural norms in a performance which questions both the rites of passage into a given culture and the correctness of doing things right. Thematically How ta tawk & dans rite will link narrative vignettes of searching for love whilst taking a comic look at experiences encountered in foreign cultures.

How ta tawk & dans rite is a site specific participatory performance incorporating dance, live music and digital art. Joey Chua Poh Yi, Rhys Turner, Anna Rouhu, and Guadalupe López will explore interchangeable professional roles and cultural norms in a performance which questions both the rites of passage into a given culture and the correctness of doing things right. Thematically How ta tawk & dans rite will link narrative vignettes of searching for love whilst taking a comic look at experiences encountered in foreign cultures.

This performance is supported by the National Arts Council Singapore. 

Image credit:  Heini Ruuskanen

| resonance | is based on practices that enable heightened states of sensory perception. The workshop shares methods for reverberating mindfully with other artists during duet and ensemble improvisation. We will focus on listening, sensing, and acting from sound, movement, and memory impulses. We will explore expansions and contractions of energy and sound in our bodies and in the space. We will trace the pathways that movement material takes between outside and inside: input - filtering - output - sending. Rather than reacting to other artists, we will cultivate a stance that allows us to observe, consider, and respond with as much of our selves as possible.

The group will explore questions like: How do we transmit messages that perpetuate in different forms through the space instead of dying out? How do we translate or morph messages into different media like writing, drawing, or assessing? How can we use vibration, reflection, sounding, panning, resounding, writing, and remembering to create a resonating body? 

William Bilwa Costa is a sound and visual artist/electronic musician/improviser. He has worked with movement artist Emily Sweeney as perpetual movement sound since 2006. He currently works internationally, generating research/ lab/ performance projects, actively cultivating opportunities for artists to work together on new interdisciplinary explorations. His most recent album | resonance | was released on earSnake records in 2011. Bilwa has been artist-in-residence at STEIM (Amsterdam), Gallery Titanik (Turku, Finland), PRISMA Forum (Oaxaca/Mexico City), Community Education Center, NEXUS/foundation for today’s art, and the Mascher Space Cooperative (Philadelphia). He has performed in Berlin at VeneKlasen/Werner Gallery in Spencer Sweeney’s exhibition Teatr Laboratorium; in Turku, Finland at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art; in Melbourne at The Substation; in Vienna at FLUTEN, a performance series in a defunct 19th-century water tower, and Raum 35. In Philadelphia he has played as part of Ensemble N_JP at the International House and presented his own work at Sought Foundation, <fidget> space, Mascher Space Cooperative, and Temple Gallery. He has been a guest lecturer at Turku University of Applied Sciences and Marlboro College. Collaboration with other musicians, dancers, and designers and use of improvisation are central to his practice. His collaborators include: Gene Coleman, Audrey Chen, Werner Moebius, Mariella Greil, Christian Schroeder, Michael McDermott, John J.H. Phillips, Maria Nurmela, J. Milo Taylor, Marina Peterson, Helena Espvall, Kimmo Modig, Martin Lanz Landazuri, Topias Tiheäsalo, Daniela Lehman, Klaus Janek, and Antje Velsinger. Bilwa works in both the performing and visual arts contexts. His electronic music and sound art often involve the abstraction of source material such as dancers’ breath and body sounds, acoustic musicians, and audio frequency feedback—sonic relics through which he pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested insensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documents those acts of decipherment. He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory environment rich in ambient, rhythmic, and spatial sound.

http://perpetualmvmtsnd.org/