THE GUNSI VOG BLOG

Abstraction in video

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:35:00 +0000

Working in the spirit of Stan Brakhage.

Spring in Berlin 2

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Animation with a kaleidoskope

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:07:00 +0000

A collaborative work with Markus Åström. With the help of a kaleidoskope and live streaming the audience manually produced their own animations. The Nekro Döner was presented at BUNKER Fest: SAUNA-FILM-DANCE-ROCK-VIDEO-PERFORMANCE-DJ-SCHWIMM-POLKA that took place 24th of January in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The happening was organized and curated by Maria Duncker as a part of her residency at the Kulturbunker,and included about 50 visual artists and musicians from Finland, Germany and elsewhere.

Eastern

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:31:00 +0000

Friendly faces

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:19:00 +0000

Spring in Berlin 1

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Transaciones in Sibundoy, Putumayo, Colombia

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:55:00 +0000

Another summer is here. It's a long time since summer was here, and now it's here again. There you see. In between there's a year, but now I'm looking forward... will keep posting videos and photos again.

I just came home from Colombia, where I worked with the project Transaciones with my friend and college Juan Recaman. It was fantastic, which is an understatement. I want to go back as soon as possible.

On our Transaciones blog we will be posting videos and photos from Sibundoy vallery in Putumayo, Colombia. We also invite people to participate in the project. Primarily the locals, but anyone is welcome as long as it relates to the theme of "translation, transaction and transmission" - read more on the blog...

Summer is here

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:01:00 +0000

Life is good. I found a new home - and a studio...

The necessity of form

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:09:00 +0000

I thought I would start a series of artistic interventions in public space - from sculptures to.. whatever I can find. To continue the Prague theme I'll start with this monument to the writer Franz Kafka being carried by a golem like figure. The sculpture was created by a Czech artist Jaroslav Rona.

A coffee in Prague

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:16:00 +0000

The main railway station in Prague - upstairs.

The Cubist lamppost

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:39:00 +0000

I almost forgot: the symbol of Czeck kubism - the famous Cubist lamppost on Jungmannovo náměstí, designed by Emil Králíček.

I love cubism

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:52:00 +0000

All architects in the world, please join and make more cubist buildings! And the rest of you: if you go to Prague, don't forget to visit The House of the Black Madonna. It's a cubist building and a museum of cubism in Prague in the Czech republic. You can buy a cubist map and go hunting for cubist buildings and dream about a beautiful cubist world. Or buy some cubist ceramics - I bought a bowl for my cubist sugar cubes.

Wooden impressions

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:45:00 +0000

I left Kokkola behind me yesterday...

Journal of Mundane Video: S-market, Kokkola

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:34:00 +0000

Things found in an office

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:51:00 +0000

The city of Kokkola

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:20:00 +0000

Right now I've landed in a town called Kokkola (Karleby) in northern Finland. Actually, I'm stranded here - for a longer time than I thought - but that's another story: Two transport boxes containing the photos that should be in my exhibition that opens tomorrow are not to be found. Today I learned that they are still in Sweden. They shouldn't. Anyway, I have to wait until next week for my works, but that's really fine, I like it here. Luckily I brought some of my works with me so I have something to show tomorrow at the opening.

Kokkola was founded 1620 and is one of the older towns in Finland. The architecture I find interesting. Big areas with old wooden residential houses are preserved, and you can see buildings representing various styles. From a book produced by the local museum I learn that during the 1800th century it was common to use revival styles (generally in Finland). New Gothic was thought to be suitable for churches, New Renaissance suited banks, New Baroque theatres and the neoclassical style museums. From the beginning of 1900 came Jugend and the Romantic Nationalism with ideals based on Carelian wooden houses and castles in Europe (!), and then Finnish Functionalism.

Tonight there is a concert with Kauko Röyhkä in a pub nearbye... I think I should go!

Save the bakeries in Helsinki

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:22:00 +0000

A while ago a foreign woman told me she wouldn't be able to live in Helsinki because there are no bakeries there. She said every block should have a bakery, and I agree.

The sad truth is that it's hard for small bakeries to survive in Finland. A lot of bakeries have closed, and it indeed looks like everyone have to buy the same kind of bread from the same few big supermarket chains. But there are still some bakeries left, as this image proves. This bakery on Runeberginkatu in the centre has functioned in the same spot for about 100 years and they still make bread with the old methods, the shop keeper told me.

Save the bakeries, support diversity!

On the ferry

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:29:00 +0000

Ferries like this one has always been important for me. The ferries between Finland and Sweden were important work providers for the people from the archipelago where I was born. My first boyfriend worked on a ferry, and I was travelling with him, back and forth, back and forth...;) (That ferry later became Estonia that sank in the Baltic Sea 1994, a very tragic accident that claimed many lives).
Anyway, these photos below are from a ferry between Denmark and Germany.

...and this torso turned...

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:00:00 +0000

One more image from Malmö: The Turning Torso, which I envy so much. As I mentioned before, in Finland the torsos do not turn, at least not for the moment being.

A gig at Galleri Krets

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:48:00 +0000

Malmö has a good reputation when it comes to contemporary art, and a lot of things seem to be going on. I saw a video/animation piece by Mikael Eriksson at Malmö Art Museum that I really liked. It was made for a moving and rotating video projector - I have never seen anything like that before!
Last sunday I was at a concert at Galleri Krets in Malmö - embarrassing enough I don't know the name of the group... but I'm sure I'll find out. The exhibition on display was by a group of artists from Glasgow: "Incredible Permanent Gains: a celebration of spam".

Malmö

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:55:00 +0000

A volvo car, an art museum in a castle, a student house...

Opening at Galleri 21

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:08:00 +0000

Yesterday was the opening of my exhibition in Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden. I enjoyed it very much and a lot of people where on the move because the beautiful weather. On the image below is Göran Green, a curator and gallerist working in the field of contemporary Scandinavian art. On the last image you can see Signe, one of the visitors...

Seaview

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:50:00 +0000

The Berlinale ended a couple of weeks ago and I never got around to blog about it because of my situation with poor internet access... My friends Paul Rowley and Nicky Gogan where in Berlin for the premier of their first documentary Seaview. It a beautiful documentary about asylum seekers living in Mosney, a former holiday camp near Dublin. More information and reviews can be found at http://stillfilmsnews.blogspot.com/ and www.stillfilms.org

Venus.Not

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:00 +0000

My new digital photo & video animation projekt "VENUS.NOT" is opening next Sunday on Mars 9, 2008, 12 - 16 pm. Welcome!

Galleri 21
Rådmansgatan 5
S-211 46 Malmö
Sweden

"This project was initiated with an urge to "repair" the missing limbs in a sculpture of a female torso. By stretching and nudging the digital images, I got a new sculpture, one where the limbs never end (I imagine them to continue outside the digital print). I applied a similar technique on other photographs from images of private and public interiors. This resulted in a series of strange and futuristic spaces. The images are both extended and compressed, flattened and twisted. Traces of the digital manipulation are clearly visible, and I have left "clues" that lead back to the original images - a book shelf, a computer, or a human figure. In the "Avatar" series Classical Greek and Roman sculptures are reincarnated in new bodies. The video animation "Arkipelag" shows fragments from floating torsos resembling isles in the sea." Gun Holmström

Videoblast

noreply@blogger.com (Gun H) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:56:00 +0000

Pikselache arranges The Videoblast! evenings presenting Finnish VJ culture. The video performance will take place every last Wednesday of the month at m-bar. The programme is coordinated by VJ Finland with occasional contributions from Pixelache University. The images are from the event on January 30.