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2screwsLoose

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:29:20 +0000

2screwsLoose connect and disconnect.

In a performance that will travel to Helsinki on Tuesday 26th June two individuals will explore connections and disconnections with the use of sound, fabric and the materiality of bodies (in counter to virtual bodily connections).

screwsLoose first connected in Sydney 2008. In early 2012 they renamed themselves 2screwsLoose. Check out: http://2screwsloose.tumblr.com/

More details to be announced.

P o P _ X

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:02:52 +0000

The core of our project is performative, and its endeavour (more than a word, but properly the uninterrupted representation of the fall into temptation) aims at feeling the limit of legitimacy of the meaning of things. The doggedness with which the rituality is staged (in its linguistic, aesthetic, social, cultural, psychological, geological and gestural forms), the emphasis in motion between the ridiculous and the grotesque, ending in abstraction, underlines the rupture of the rituality itself as a base of meaning that is usually assigned to things. So human beings are represented as a circus of demential masks, because they are exposed to the absurd claim that there was a deeper justification for their being, beyond belief. The research is never done with iconoclasm, but exudes a real involvement in this tragedy. The core of the performance is the masquerade of depth.

Plucié & Des Andes

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:38:25 +0000

Plucié/Des Andes are film artist Marek Pluciennik and sound artist James Andean. Together they have developed a unique audiovisual performance practice, drawing on the diverse background each has in their respective fields, seamlessly blending film, sound art, and performance art.
Marek Pluciennik emphasises the tactile qualities of film, not just as a vessel for content, but as a material medium, by treating and transforming the film during the act of projection, most commonly by melting and burning the film as it is projected on the screen, as well as through the digital capture and transformation of both materials and process. The visual results are thus a combination of the film content, and the beautiful, strangely transfixing display of colour and texture as the film bubbles, melts, and dissolves. The results capture the transitory, ephemeral nature of experience, art, and performance, as images, scenes, narratives, and people melt away on the screen. Pluciennik's live treatment of the film extends into the digital – as these physical metamorphoses are recaptured, digitally treated and transformed, and projected anew – and also into the realm of performance art, as his methods are played out in front of, within, and around the audience, sometimes requiring the participation of audience members, and often extending into broader metaphors of performance action.
James Andean creates live soundscapes to accompany and dialogue with the projected visuals. These soundscapes are often centred on live, site-specific sound, using the sound artefacts of the venue, the space, the audience, or the film projection as primary sound materials, to be further developed and extended live in the spontaneity of performance, creating a soundworld which once again stresses the fleeting impermanence of the experience of live art. Once again, these live, physical elements are captured, digitally extended and transformed, and projected as fantastic constructs moving out from their foundation in the here-and-now and out into broader realms of sound.
These two layers – the sonic and the visual – combine and react, to create a unique, beautiful experience of shifting images, scenes, colours and textures, from both screen and loudspeakers.

unKontained Translations

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:32:58 +0000

unKontained Translations casts pedestrians as participants whilst the stage is set with previously made Translation is Dialogue (TID) artworks and TID artworks made on location in Helsinki to be part of the performance in an interactive way. In this Kontainer version, TID artworks will be used like props and costumes. Over the course of 24hours, the unKontained Translation's performances will show unforeseeable movements made by the public which will propel and create spontaneous translations unique to the location and audience. Involvement of all TID artists is encouraged and new forms of collaborations are welcome.

Arlene Tucker is a Taiwanese American artist born on December 3, 1980 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Tucker received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art & Design in Georgia, USA in May 2002. Her focus in film and painting led her to the Czech Republic where she worked on film productions and art. While in Prague she started writing for and collaborating with Umělec, a Czech art magazine. Tucker later moved to New York City and began creating interactive products at the children’s toy company Scribble Mats.

In June 2011 Tucker received a Masters degree in Semiotics at Tartu University in Estonia including one semester at Aalto University School of Art and Design in the New Media and Game Design and Production department in Helsinki, Finland. Currently she is living in Helsinki working as a kindergarten teacher focusing on art techniques for 4-5 year olds and art therapy for the elderly. Living in Northern Europe where Tucker’s senses are constantly making meaning from an orchestra of foreign sounds and contextualizing new signs is a continuation of her dream to travel, discover and build for people.

Arlene H. Tucker
arlenehtucker@yahoo.com

Degradé - open rehearsal

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:05:33 +0000

"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.

www.facebook.com/bachdegrade

Leri, Oggi Doman

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:31 +0000

Jari Heinonen is a visual artist from Vantaa. He is finishing his Master's degree at the University of Tampere and he has art studies from the University of Art and Design Helsinki and from the University of Helsinki. He has held several private exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions abroad and in Finland.

"Leri, Oggi Doman" means roughly "Series of pictures" translated into English.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The works are connected to an exhibition about Italy which I am working on. The works try to express all kinds of feelings and thoughts which I experienced whilst in Italy. At the same time they also try to express the continuity of the life and its perishableness.

Vrouw Maria

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:24:32 +0000

The Vrouw Maria was a merchant ship which sank 241 years ago in the outer archipelago of the municipality of Nagu, Finland. Amongst the ship's cargo - which also included coffee beans, sugar, fabric and dyes - were an estimated twenty one artworks, belonging to Catherine the Great. To commemorate the 241st anniversary of the sinking of the Vrouw Maria, Hannah Harkes will recreate these twenty one artworks during her 24 hour takeover of the shipping container, using only the titles of the works as starting points. The space will function as an open studio and gallery from 9am to 9am, inviting the public to influence the content of the recreated works and to view their progression. Willing passersby may also play the muse, and model for studies of the various characters and scenes present in the works. Costume and props will be provided. Coffee will be served throughout the 24 hour period, in fearful reverence of the coffee beans that clogged the ship's pump and brought about its demise on that fateful day in 1771 - and to aid in the continued, restless art making.

Hannah Harkes, b.1989, graduated in 2011 with a BA Hons in Fine Art Printmaking from Gray's School of Art, Scotland. Awarded the Polymer Culture Factory AIR Fellowship, she spent 6 months living in Tallinn, Estonia, where she exhibited new work at the Polymer Kultuuritehas Festival and at Global Container XIX. Whilst in Tallinn, she also collaborated with Hardcore Metaphor on a theatrical breakfast event and had her first solo show, A Series of Drawings Relating to the Restoration Process, at Tiib Gallery. She returned to Britain to exhibit in London for the launch of The Catlin Guide 2012, in which she was selected as one of 40 'promising new UK graduates'. Also selected for RSA New Contemporaries 2012, she created new work daily onsite at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, functioning as a performative/interactive element of her drawing based installation, Fragments of an Arbitrary Dictionary of the Practical English Language. Her work is included in New Prints Summer/2012, showing from the 24th of May 2012 at the International Print Centre New York.

reSwing

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:36:26 +0000

There are roads that are passed many times and then forgotten, feelings once experienced are forever gone. Like a pendulum once started by a huge force, people come to earth and immerse themselves in pure feelings. They do it as fully as they can reaching out to all the sky-scraping highs and bottomless lows. ReSwing will bring back feelings that were once experienced but then forgotten: the crazy amazement and thrill caused by simple and pure.

Bios:
Reha Discioglu
is working with experimental sound, interaction and motion picture. Reha is originally from Turkey and is now graduating from Sound in New Media program in School of Arts, Design and Architecture with a thesis on Interactive Playgrounds.

Veronica Bluguermann
is an Industrial Designer with experience in developing products and services. Verónica is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina and recently she graduated from Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Leyla Nasibova
working with concept, interactive, visual and performance art and design. Originally from Azerbaijan, currently living in Helsinki, studying New Media in School of Arts, Design and Architecture and working as an interaction designer.

Otzir Godot-drum poet

Tue, 29 May 2012 21:31:29 +0000

Drum-poet Otzir Godot (FI, b. 1968) is classically trained drummer & percussionist specialised in improvising. He has been involved in solo projects and working with modern dance artists, video artists and in different rock -, free - and avant-garde music groups. Godot’s lyrical-orchestration drumwork is a far reaching project to the problematics of esthetics sublim: to the semantics and visions beyond the words. The aim of his solo projects is to expand the different expressing possibilities of drum set and percussion music. His instruments are not basic classical or latin / african percussion. More than that he uses varies of ethnic percussion possibilities, extended drum set and concert marimba. Godot’s two solo albums are Kas Kas (2009) and Drum poems (2011 Epatto Records). Nowadays besides of solo works Godot works in new MA-A TRIO with reed specialist, multi-instumentalist Jone Takamäki and violin shaman Tuomas Rounakari. MA-A TRIO’s modern primal music consist of improvisation in thematic structures. Archaic elements meet to modern and melt in essence of time, space and silence. The band is now processing their first album.

ContainingFilmVideoMiniFete in cooperation with FixC and NOVA Northern Video Art Network

Wed, 30 May 2012 08:46:00 +0000

Plethora of moving image to illuminate the Sunday from morning to white night. In collaboration with Fix-C cooperative and NOVA Northern Video Art Network .NOVA is a new web-based platform for artists working with video-, media art and experimental cinema to show and promote their works and to post current info of their screenings and exhibitions.Helsinki-based FixC is an independent artists co-operative, which was launched in April 2007 to generate, distribute and promote video art, media art and experimental cinema and to produce curated touring exhibitions, arrange screenings and special venues with artists talks.

Acousmatica IV: Acousmatica Kontained

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:49:11 +0000

An afternoon of acousmatic music, in the intimate setting of the Kontainer, including works both local and international, both fresh and classic...

Kontainer (Re)Sounding

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:56:33 +0000

Sound and music performances by Carmelo Nesci, Alejandro Olarte, Solmund Nystabakk, Saara Rautio, James Andean, Sound&Motion, and others.

Soft electronics: Workshop/ Demonstration

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:06:58 +0000

Soft electronics: Workshop/ Demonstration

Saturday 2.6. at 10-13
Kontaining, Lasipalatsin aukio

On Saturday-morning its time to get acquinted with the world of electronics in a "soft" way! The workshop is open for everyone and will demonstrate different ways of using electronics in clothes, knitting and more... On spot you can also try out and experiment yourself!

No previous experience required, a healthy dose of curiosity will do.
Come see and try out how far soft electronics can bend!

With: Laura Uusitalo, Christine Langinauer + Helsinki Hacklab

Carlos Llavata

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:35:35 +0000

An oniric communicative and anti-boring performance that wishes to highlight one of the main conceptual paranoia nowadays: the rabbit world and its possibilities in our XXI century, its imaginary world endangered and its potential in this XXI century: magic, sex, cartoons, rabbit’s foot key ring, or just the basic ingredient in Valencia’s paella.

I am greatly busy with these thoughts that I forward with methods I am familiar with: performance art, audiovisual format, ceramic sculpture or photography. I openly expose it so as to get a broader feedback of ideas to develop further this research, this idea concerning such a great matter. Is the pornographic genre (playboy) invading all the conceptual aspect of the rabbit’s world* and therefore, would this be the reason that leads to its extinction, leaving all other values aside, such as magic, hunting, cartoons, rabbit’s foot key ring and everything that entails?

All my efforts resulted in these projects intend to deduce, envision and if possible neutralize that pornographic advance and preserve that conceptual multivision of the so wonderful “rabbit’s world” to which we have so much to recognize, and investigate the interrelationship among its various potential aspects.

* In Spanish, rabbit is “pussy” in slang.

Marek Pluciennik perfinstalance

Mon, 28 May 2012 21:10:51 +0000

Sound of Mäkelänkatu

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:10 +0000

”Sound of Mäkelänkatu” is a work about moving objects in the city space.

Hermanni Saarinen is a visual artist working with sculpture and installation. He has studied at Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2006-2011) where he completed both a BFA and MFA. Modelling, multiplying, cropping and compressing are characteristics of his work.

kontaining performance

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:16:11 +0000

10am-2pm

Sari TM Kivinen will present herself in Kontaining

2pm-3pm

Tentative surprises next to Kontaining

3pm-6pm

Johnny Amore will present himself at Kontaining

perfhop - kontaining

Tue, 08 May 2012 08:48:55 +0000

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.

Cagevent: Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn’t

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:13:04 +0000

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.

Baaba Jakah: Service At The Kontainer (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Say No Evil)

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:57:05 +0000

The concept is built around the idea concerning everyday’s human condition. In the face of globalisation, the world is constantly bombaded by information – characterised by conflict, technology, marketing, etc and I’m using my art as a tool to help me investigate and analyse issues of perception and how globalisation affect people as they’re always influenced or forced to view the world in a particular manner.

Through interaction, I’m constantly searching for means to realise areas to trigger memories of loss or hope, of consistence or change, of nervousness of a city, of sharing, of a place. Memories embeded into social realms to connect to people and offer them an opportunity to yet reconnect to others and view the world around them in different ways.
At the same time, I’m trying to encourage the viewers to question the prevailing norms that define today’s world in which peoples’ lives and expectations are ever marooned by desires and the complexities of political or social illusions - resulting into fear of ownself, of others, of the unknown. Fear of history, of the future.

Image credit: 'dressing trees'-(new civilization) - body installation-red fabric, red string, trees- Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Ars11