
Ptarmigan (both Helsinki and Tallinn) will have be exhibiting at Supermarket 2012 in Stockholm this coming weekend (17-19 February).
If you're attending, you'll find out booth on the 5th floor in the centre. In addition to the regularly scheduled performances and talks at Supermarket, Ptarmigan will be hosting some mini-events in our booth:
Friday:
Ola Ståhl - 'Black Box' : 16:00

BLACK BOX is a textual re-staging of pager messages intercepted in the US between 3am and 8.46am on September 11, 2001 and released publicly in 2009 by WikiLeaks. The text was first commissioned by Stockholm publishing press Valeveil in 2011 and has since been used as the basis for a series of performances using overhead projectors, tape recorders and live voice.
www.olastahl.com / www.ineditmode.com
Saturday:
Sari TM Kivinen - 'Textual Opera/rations' : 13:00
Textual Opera/rations is a writing performance that takes place at a given site in order to generate manuscript material. Sari TM Kivinen in an artist working with text, theory, performance and video. Kivinen has previously performed Textual Opera/rations in Helsinki 2010 as a way of writing through multiple performance roles. Adapted to the location of the Ptarmigan booth in Supermarket Art Fair Textual Opera/rations will become a mediated document that reflects the given site as interpreted by Kivinen
Sunday:
Instant panel : 16:00
Instant panel is an open-form seminar and discussion dealing with issues relating to artist-run projects. The panel will hopefully assemble throughout the weekend and will address two topics: experimental pedagogy in the arts, and alternative funding strategies. The panel will be loose and open to anyone to contribute their ideas.
Supermarket is open: Fri 11am-10pm, Sat 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-6pm.
Kulturhuset is located in the city centre of Stockholm. 3rd and 5th floors.

Ptarmigan seeks applicants for our residency programme, funded by the Nordic Culture Point Mobility and Residency Programme. Three two-month residencies are available:
Thanks to everyone who came down from Helsinki for our opening event in Tallinn! We're really thrilled to have such a beautiful space and to start building a bridge across the Gulf. Additionally thanks to everyone who came to the Invisible Forces premiere and after-event. It's great to see everyone back together and we love being in Oksasenkatu 11. And finally, hooray for artHOP and Svamp, two ongoing projects that we hope will bring some new collaborations together.
In other news, we now have an ongoing project proposal form on this site which we ask you to use to submit any ideas you have for events, workshops, residencies, or other projects at Ptarmigan (in either city). We will keep this form up forever, and hopefully we made it robust enough to cover everything you might wish to propose. We are looking for three residencies in 2011 from Nordic or Baltic artists or other creative minds (sorry, Finland is ineligible), which will complete our KK Nord residency project. If you have an idea (or know someone who would be good), then please apply!
Welcome back to Ptarmigan. Though we no longer have our Nilsiänkatu home, we are excited to be organising events in various locations, and we will be continuing our focus on workshops, participatory projects, and residencies. We are most excited to be partnering with Oksasenkatu 11 in Töölö. We will be organising events in their space as well as others, beginning with the after-event for the premiere of Invisible Forces by Juliacks, on Saturday 9 April.
We will also be introducing some new projects to Ptarmigan, such as ArtHOP, and bringing back some of the recurring events we organised in 2011, such as Labyrinths and Rings and Svamp (which we will be organising in partnership with Äänen Lumo).
The second Ptarmigan will be opening in Tallinn at the end of April. Please check out our Estonian satellite website for information on
As always, you can find out about Ptarmigan events here, through our Facebook group, our Twitter account, or our Google Calendar. Thanks again to everybody who has supported us through attending events, creating projects, and being part of our community. We are glad to be back.