Pixelache

I thought the earth remembered me

office@pixelache.ac — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0300

I thought the earth remembered me:

Elokuun viimeisenä viikonloppuna Taidekoulu Maan opiskelijat ja Pikseliähky järjestävät I thought the earth remembered me -taidetapahtuman pohtien muistia ja tallennustilaa. Taidekoulu Maa, Myymälä2 ja Suomenlinnan luolat täyttyvät taideopiskelijoiden ja vastavalmistuneiden videoteoksista, live-esityksistä, installaatioista ja äänitaiteesta. Maan naapurissa, HIAP järjestää taidejulkaisu-kirjaston avajaiset, jonka hiljaisuudessa voi rauhoittua ja lukea. Tapahtuman teoksissa pohditaan muun muassa isyyttä, uudelleensyntymän eri muotoja, yhteisön merkitystä, uskonnon, ruumiillisuuden ja sukupuolen välisiä suhteita sekä kysytään, voiko itsensä haudata suohon?

I thought the earth remembered me:

Näyttely Myymälä2:ssa: 25.8.–31.8.
Esityksiä Myymälä2:ssa: 28.8. 18:00–20:00

Näyttely & tapahtuma Taidekoulu Maassa: 29.8. 16-22 ja 30.8. 13-22

Myymälä2 taiteilijat:

Aleksi Häivälä (b. 2004) is an artist based in Helsinki, currently studying contemporary art at Taidekoulu Maa as well as pursuing a craftsman's qualification in metalwork. In Häivälä’s art, folk traditions and a connection to nature intersect with the handling of hard materials. Birds, in particular, serve as a recurring point of departure through which he processes his observations and emotions into artworks. Sculpture is Häivälä’s primary form of expression, which he practices by exploring primitive techniques to create something new from the old.

Ulriika Hyry is a multidisciplinary artist who explores vulnerability, such as the fundamental uncertainty of life and the social narratives and constructions created to protect it. In their art Hyry attempts to reach out to bridge the gap between the fragility of existence and illusions of omnipotence. Hyry uses their daily life with chronic illness as a material starting point for their work. Accumulated materials, such as worn-out bedsheets, phone recorded videos of cinematic moments, frustrating bureaucracy calls and letter sequences found in the Documents folder are taking shape as video installations, performance and poetry.

Luukas Pollari is a Helsinki-based artist focused on video, photography and sound. He playfully merges fantasy with uncanny realism through an experimental approach to storytelling and worldbuilding. His practice weaves between dreamlike liminal spaces and memories, blurring the line of amusement with amazement.

Suomenlinnan taiteilijat:

Aino Kuusisto is an artist who works with a scattered mind and lost senses, their work fools around with uncomfortable feelings and bodily traumas that set them free and haunts the eye. Kuusisto’s all over the place medias can be anything that crosses their road… such as photography, painting, textile, sculpting, body and movement.

Nettles (Nooa Paukkunen) works with various disciplines such as sound, textile, photography and installation. At Pixelache they’re going to present their upcoming debut album by performing it live. The album will be released this autumn.

osma is distortion and play.

They explore non-human forms of being, bodies of natural water and all the ways to arousal.

osma is small and also a flame

Vilma Tietäväinen is an artist currently working on installation, crafting, video and performance art. The starting point of her work is often documentary material, which she might stir up with absolute nonsense. But most of the time, real life is stranger than fiction. She is inspired by found objects, trash and particularly dumpster diving. She wants to investigate the ugly and embarrassing details with a warm gaze. Improvising, going on adventures and sharing secrets (bonus if it is with strangers) make her feel stoked and very much alive.

Saara Mehtonen and Emilia Värelä are a working pair whose shared interests this summer included:

1. Wandering around Helsinki in a ghost-like manner

2. Subtle signs of unrest in common cityscape

3. ⁠People watching

Krasimir Jovanovič Hyvärinen (b. 1995) operates in the realm between association, fleeting moments, nostalgia, memories and visions. As the ability to see clear narratives remains obscured, his expression in moving image is formed by the sum of fragments rising to the surface from deep within. This same approach is present in his painting and etching as well. The working method takes shape by allowing room for improvisation, mistakes, and the influence of chance.

Konsta Thil is a Helsinki based visual artist who’s practise is rooted in analogue photography and installation. Their works explore themes of erotica and destruction through the lense of emotional exhibitionism.

Elsi Wikman is an artist whose work seamlessly blends intuitive creation with deep self-reflection. Her pieces—paintings, jewelry, photographs, and installations—invite viewers into a world where pain transforms into beauty. At the heart of her practice lies humility and presence, reflecting what words often cannot convey.

Anna Hallikainen works across painting, photography, and moving image. With a soft and personal gaze, she brings contradictions into focus. Anna is deeply drawn to themes of friendship and connection, and interested in exploring what emerges from deep engagement with the same subject and staying with the meaning.

Sara Tammi drifts around text, photography, moving image and painting. Sara often works with personal material, gathering fragments of time while rearranging their connections. Sara’s gaze highlights contrasts, soft and grainy spaces through nonlinear and ambiguous narratives. Sara’s practice is driven by the movement of distant and close, dreams and memories, reflections and in between states — letting the meaning emerge in the encounters.

Runo Mustalintu (b. 2001) is a Helsinki-based artist and ecologist whose practice explores the intricate relationships between humans and their ecological environment. They work across diverse methods and practices, from visual arts to performance. Central to their practice is a deep respect for materials—an understanding that they are not owned but borrowed. This is particularly evident in their sculptural work, where materials are gathered, temporarily transformed, and ultimately returned to their original place, where the materials remain integrated within their environments. Their works invite us to reconsider our narratives about nature and to listen more closely to the stories unfolding beyond the human perspective.

Panu Räisänen is a Helsinki based music-maker and artist. His music moves through lands between experimental and pop sounds. Working mainly with a laptop and a phone, his sound practice weaves a mix of goblinoid midi instruments, digital environments and resonant human voice.

Aamu Hautala is a queer artist from Helsinki, Finland. Currently working on video, performance and tattooing. In their work they deal with memories, intimacy, consent, bodies, ways of resistance and taking action.

Joose Eronen is a helsinki based, multidisciplinary, artist focused mainly on intense sound and video.

Weera Alexandra is an artist originally from Helsinki, who spent her childhood in Nurmijärvi. She is currently studying at Taidekoulu Maa. Weera approaches her work with steady courage, often challenging dominant power structures and societal norms. Her art explores themes such as humanity, the fluidity of existence, spirituality, and the porous boundary between the self and the environment.

Working mainly with installation, text, and media art, Weera often combines different materials and modes of expression. Her work seeks to capture the fleeting and unnoticed – the quiet connections that bind us to each other and to the landscapes we inhabit.

VAPAA PÄÄSY

Tapahtumaa tukee Helsingin kaupunki ja Taiteen edistämiskeskus.

Lisätietoa tapahtuman aikatauluista ja taitelijoista löytyy osoitteesta pixelache.ac , myymala2.com ja taidekoulumaa.com

Julisteessa käytetty valokuva Pihla Törrönen, kuvitus Panu Räisänen ja juliste Emilia Värelä

Monuments Summer 2025

office@pixelache.ac — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0300

Programme: Monuments Summer 2025

Monuments is a programme of events curated by the Social Choreography Lab Helsinki for Pixelache Festival 2025. The programme invites audiences to reflect on the idea of monuments in public space in the city of Helsinki: not as static symbols of power or permanence, but as living, contested spaces where memory, identity, and imagination intersect. What does it mean to build, dismantle, or reimagine a monument today? The programme unfolds across various public monuments and urban sites throughout June, July, and August 2025.

Invited artists Antonia Atarah, Elias Berglund, Jonna Karanka and Vega Adsten explore these questions through guided walks, workshops and performances at selected monuments and public spaces across the city.

Some of the locations include: the Johan Ludvig Runeberg's Memorial in Esplanadi, Nyrkkeilijät / The Boxers statue in Paasivuoren puistikko next to Hakaniemi market square, the Taivaskallio WWII military site, Evakkoäiti muistomerkki / Evacuee Mother in Karjalatalo, as well as the protected heritage kiosk Käpylän Kiska in Meurman park. The artist-led programme is completed by Social Choreography Lab's yearly Summer Fest: a community day-celebration with mini-workshops, music, open grill, piñata, and art for the whole family. The Summer Fest takes place in July at Käpylä's Meurmanin puisto, in collaboration with the amazing crew from Käpylän Kiska.

Please note: Pre-registration is encouraged for performances by Elias Bergelund, Antonia Atarah and Vega Adsten. To register and secure your spot, please email: socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE

For detailed project descriptions, dates, and artist bios, please visit the Pixelache website.

PROGRAMME

BARD (Body As Receptive Divinity) – performance by Elias Berglund
12 July, Saturday, 17:00
Johan Ludvig Runeberg's Memorial, Esplanadi
Swedish / English / Finnish

Elias Berglund’s dance performance takes place at the monument of Runeberg, regarded as Finland’s national bard. Using the sensitive, social, and expressive dancing body as a departure point, the piece navigates through tensions caused by societal hierarchies and rigid bodily etiquette in Finnish culture. It asks us to consider: What if we valued the wisdom of the body as highly as the wisdom of the pen?

After the performance, we will have a picnic and discussion with the artist in the Esplanadi park. Some snacks and beverages will be provided.

Elias Berglund
Elias Berglund is a dancer and artist based in Helsinki. His practice explores the emotional, empowering, awkward, and wild experiences of inhabiting a body. He has worked with choreographers including Elina Pirinen, Kadence Neill, Carina Ahlskog, Maria Saivosalmi, and Alpo Aaltokoski, and is active in the platform rAws!. Elias holds space for cabaret, music videos, and musicals alongside his contemporary dance work. He loves jazz, wigs, shared dreaming, crochet, reality TV, and dancing really hard.

Pre-register by sending an e-mail to socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com

photo: Jacob Nordgren

Summer Fest
26 July, Saturday, 13:00–18:00
Meurman park / Käpylän Kiska

Join us to greet summer and support free grassroots spaces with the community of the Social Choreography Lab Helsinki.

The Summer Fest is free and open to everyone, people who have been part of the Lab in the past years, and all our friends, so don't hesitate to bring your friends, colleagues and families

There will be mini-workshops, music and food, finishing off with a piñata. There will also be an opportunity to grill throughout the day. We will bring some non-alcoholic drinks, finger-food and a few things for the grill to share (vegan and non-vegan), but you are also invited to grill your own food. Käpylän Kiska will sell their selection of drinks, snacks and ice-cream throughout the day.

The yearly Summer Fest is an occasion to meet other people interested in the Lab, celebrating the power of community and reclaiming public space through grassroots creativity. The festival takes place at Meurmanin Puisto in Käpylä, in collaboration with the amazing crew from Käpylän Kiska.

PROGRAM

13:00 Grill is warm

14:00 Workshop: Stick'n'poke tattoos with Emma Hovi (+18)

15:00 Workshop: Facemasks with artists Jordy Valderrama & Clara Petrozzi (all ages)

16:00 Workshop: Anti-racist workshop with Armando Pereira (teens and adults)

17:00 Workshop: Introduction to juggling with special international guest (all ages)

17:30 Breaking the piñata together! (all ages)

18:00 Celebration finishes, but everyone is invited to stay and enjoy the evening at Käpylän Kiska

Tervetuloa / Välkomna / Welcome

Radical Imagination Workshop by Antonia Atarah
Thursday 28.8 at 17:30-20:00
Start and finish at Meurman park / Käpylän Kiska
Swedish / English / Finnish

This workshop explores rewriting history and imagination as radical practice. Through a guided walk in Käpylä, participants will visit local monuments such as Taivaskallio and the Evacuee Mother sculpture, using these sites as inspiration to create new work.

A movement-based warm-up will start the session. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring water. The workshop is open to all—no previous experience required. Suitable for those interested in performing arts, visual arts, creative writing, or movement.

After the tour, we will have a picnic and discussion with the artist in Meurman park. Some snacks and beverages will be provided.

Antonia Atarah

Antonia Atarah is a Ghanaian-Finnish actor with a Master’s in Acting from the Theatre Academy, with further studies in musical theatre and drama pedagogy. She has collaborated with artists including Sonya Lindfors, Elina Pirinen, Essi Rossi, and Sara Melleri. Antonia believes in collective practice and expanding the boundaries of performance.

Pre-register by sending an e-mail to socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com

photo: Emma Reijonen

Live Soundtrack Performance by Jonna Karanka (Kuupuu)
15 August, Friday, 21:00
Meurman park / Käpylän Kiska

Kuupuu presents a new live score around the theme of Monuments in Helsinki, pairing archival film footage with lullaby drones and textured soundscapes. This atmospheric performance combines moving image, voice, text, and electronic music, inviting audiences to reimagine the stories embedded in place.

Archival video material by courtesy of Montaasi: https://montaasi-ry.fi/en/

Jonna Karanka

Jonna Karanka is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist and musician renowned for her experimental soundscapes and tactile visual art. Working under the moniker Kuupuu, she crafts lo-fi, dreamlike music that blends improvisation, loops and electroacoustic textures. At the moment she’s working on a hypnotic “Draamakuu” duo debut album with Draama-Helmi and playing with her mini-rock trio Olimpia Splendid whenever possible.

photo: Lauri Kurki

Nyrkkeilijät (The Boxers) – Workshop/performance by Vega Adsten
16 August, Saturday, 14:00 – 16:00 (join at any time / leave when you need)
Paasivuoren puistikko, Siltasaari/Hakaniemi
Swedish / English

Vega Adsten’s participatory performance/workshop takes place at The Boxers statue in Paasivuoren puistikko, off the Hakaniemi square. This site has been intentionally chosen for its depiction of a violent encounter between two male-coded bodies, an image that resonates deeply in a world increasingly marked by tension, polarization, and aggression.

Over the course of two hours, participants are invited to come and go freely, engaging in dialogue and collaborative creation with Vega and fellow visitors. The workshop opens space for conversations around violence, its many forms, its roots, and how we might imagine alternative ways of being. What might it mean to redefine history, to challenge dominant narratives, or to reframe violence through collective reimagination?

The event culminates in a site-specific performance around the statue, where Vega responds directly to the day's process and the charged symbolism of the monument. Blending performance, conversation, and public intervention, Nyrkkeilijät is a living exploration of how we confront the past in order to transform the present.

After the performance, we will have a picnic and discussion with the artist. Some snacks and beverages will be provided.

Vega Adsten

Vega Adsten is a Swedish actress, trans activist, and performance artist based in Helsinki, currently studying acting at Uniarts Helsinki. Her work navigates creative accessibility, intersectionality, and collaborative storytelling across forms and languages. She has worked in Stockholm’s independent theatre scene and is deeply engaged in social change through art.

Pre-register by sending an e-mail to socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com

photo: Jacob Nordgren

Organizers
This programme is organized by Pixelache Festival (Piknik Frequency Ry)

All events are free of charge.

Pixelache (Piknik Frequency Ry) is a cultural association of artists, cultural producers, thinkers, and activists based in Helsinki and connected to an international network. Since 2002, Pixelache has fostered emerging cultural practices at the intersection of art, technology, and society.

For more information, visit the Pixelache website or contact:
socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com

Dunya: Persona

office@pixelache.ac — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:30:00 +0200

Warmly welcome to Persona, the first event from Dunya, which will take place at Alimus on Friday November 22nd.

Persona reflects on the ways marginalized individuals and communities often craft personas as protective masks to navigate hostile environments, societal expectations and discrimination. Simultaneously, can moments of self-expression and masks unveiling challenge dominant narratives and become radical acts of defiance and empowerment?

Highlighting the interplay between adopting and unveiling personas, the event celebrates the creativity and strength of marginalized communities as they navigate and resist different systems of oppression. The evening will feature music, audiovisual and performing arts program with the participation of young emerging artists from Finland and abroad, such as Kofu, Kaksin, George Rallis, Out of Sync, Maria Metsalu, and Oldyungmayn.

Persona is curated by Ahmed Barakat and Phan Nguyen, produced by Pixelache Helsinki (Piknik Frequency Ry).

Pixelache Helsinki is funded by Helsinki City - department of Culture and Arts Promotion Centre Finland (TAIKE).

“T͙͛h̶͡e̒ P̢ͨe̺͒͟r͆s̞̱̱ö͈n̴̤͉a,̸̘̰ a̷̠̐ m̲̓a̜s͙͛͢k w͑͘o͌vẽ͓ͨn̍ f͚̺̊rom tͤ͑h̔r̘̭̫e͓̒a̖̽ds̗̉ͥ o̲̙ͣf̣̭ f͑͗͞aľ̰̌s̭͐e̥͘ho͈o̧̙͞d â̡ͬṅ͟dͅ f͙̿ͅea͉ͩ̈r͔ͨ,͑ͭ́ cͮ̓o̲̊̕n̩c̃̇͢eͪa͆ls t͊he f͕͂͊raï͔l͑̅ͧẗ́̑͑y̯̔ of t̍͞h͝_ͮe͢ sǫ͉̔ù͑l̈ͮ b̴ͪen̊e͂ͭ̔a̭t̃̂h̒.̫̗̾ Ẅ̸͔o͍̿͑rn͑ t̨͊o͟ gͭ͑uȁ̹͑ȑ̩̃d á̼̗g̸͈a͕ͨ͘i̻͛ͅnͪ̂s͓̯̋t͌ t͐̏h̓͌e͚̩̞ g͔ͩa̤̋̃ẕ̹e͈͆ of t͖͊͝ḧ̸ͥeͯͫ wo̢ͯr̦l̒ͯd,̀ i͓t̃̽͜ š͔͈hie͙l͖ͤdṡ̲ͯ n͖̆ͭot͍ͩ͠ õ̬̳nl͑̐̃y̲̔ f̲ͥ́r̭̃̑om͜ o̱t͉h̙͕er̡ş̘,͍̺ bư͖̊t̴̘ͮ fr͆_͟o̭̅m̄̑̄ t̖̄͜he u͜n̡b̜ȅ͎ar̟̃a͍ͯb̵ͮ̕l̡̺̊e͓ re̹fl̢̈̽e̩ction cͬà̧st í̏n̴ͧ͑ t̨ͤ͋h͔ͫe̍ͫ̈ w̅_ͣā͕t̀e̠͑r̘s of tr̯̖͐u͙͛t̠h͜.͟

T̘̓o͊ l͇̹͗if̛̰͚t̴ͥ t̢̂ͥh̯͚ḯ̿s͊ ma͘s̯̿͜k͉̎ i̼͐s̈ n̘o͖̩ mere̙͐ ủ̜̂n̸veil̴ͬi͑n͑g̮̲̑;͙ ìt͚ i̶͗s̋ a r̍ę͆ck̷̟o̠̪ṉ̶̳iͥn͆͡͝g̕ w͉i̢̙t͑h th̛͝_e̠̊͞ se͔̾lf͇ͥ̊—a̔ͮ cͦo̊ͦnf̥r͌̍o̮ͥ̃nt͛ͧͥa̿̅͜t̶̐̊io̳ͤ̉n̸͆ wi͙tͪh t̫͈͐hͦͮe͛ v͠i̟s̓a̛̍g̰̊͋e_ l̙̟̗o͟n̛ͥ̄g̺͛͌ ẖ̺id̡̲̠d̰_͍e͆n̥̏͘,ͥ w̻̱he͉͈̋re̡ l͉̜̾i͛eͮs̫̲͗ d̮i̅şs͓̥̄oͩl̺̏ͯve͔̎ a̹nd tͩ̐hȅ͔̄ tr̲͇͘u̬͛eͬ f͒a͒c̈ȅ͇ e͟me̳͂r͈͝g͈ͫes̀̑ f͟r͚̀͞om s͉ͪh̤ͮ́àd̀ͥo̸͕w͑.”

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 & 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞
Friday 22. November | 16.30—22.30
Alimus | Pengerkatu 11, 00530 Helsinki, Finland

𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥. 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲)
5€
(limited PWYC tickets available at the door)

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧!

Limbo

office@pixelache.ac — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0200

Limbo is a programme of events curated by the Social Choreography Lab Helsinki, which will be showcased in Energia Saali at The Museum of Technology over the weekend of November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The three-day program, situated at the intersection of live music, cinema, and performance, features artist-led workshops, performances, and screenings where live soundscapes merge with silent classic films.

Musicians like Islaja, Latvusto, Vesa-Matti, Kuupuu, and Julle Gröhn, along with performance artists such as Mikko Niemistö and Marika Peura, will explore the concept of Limbo—a space of uncertainty and transition. This liminal zone, suspended in the present, invites us to embrace the unknown, where the blurring of boundaries between sound, image, and narrative opens up new possibilities. Limbo encourages audiences to navigate this transitional space, allowing unforeseen connections and new realities to emerge.

*** PROGRAM ***

📍Energia Saali, The Museum of Technology
(Viikintie 1 B, 00560 Helsinki)

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏.𝟏𝟏
17.00 Open doors
17.30 Opening and welcome speech
18.00 Film concert. Nosferatu (1922, English subtitles, 1h 35min), live soundtrack performance by Kuupuu
20.00 Live set The IO. Presentation of the IO Visual Device and Live Set by Julle Gröhn

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐.𝟏𝟏
13.00 Performance workshop, led by Mikko Niemistö (In English, Registration required)*
18.00 Film concert. A Trip to Mars (1918, English subtitles,1h 20min), live soundtrack performance by Vesa-Matti
20.00 Film concert. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, English subtitles, 1h 15min), live soundtrack performance by Miika Kantola

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟑.𝟏𝟏
13.00 Performance workshop, led by: Marika Peura (In English, Registration required)*
17.00 Film concert. L' Inferno - Dante's Inferno (1911, English subtitles, 1h 7min), live soundtrack performance by Islaja

*No previous experience or skills are required. As space is limited, please register as soon as possible via email to socialchoreography.helsinki@gmail.com.

Admission to all events is free.

This programme of events is organized by Pixelache Festival in collaboration with The Museum of Technology.

Pixelache is a cultural association of artists, cultural producers, thinkers, and activists, based in Helsinki and connected to an international network. Since 2002, it has been involved in creating emerging cultural activities.

*** ARTISTS ***

Mikko Niemistö

Mikko Niemistö is a choreographer from Helsinki, Finland with a background in various styles of movement and contemporary performance practices. He has showed his work during the recent years both in Finland and internationally e.g. at Zodiak - Center for New Dance (FI), Moving in November festival (FI), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (FI), Inkonst (SE) and ImPulsTanz festival (AT).

In his workshop, Mikko will introduce a set of exercises that aim to explore liminal states and in-betweenness of the body. In his works, Mikko has explored questions related to the shadow zones of everyday reality, like dreaming, psychedelia and the supernatural. At Pixelache festival, we will dive into durational practices that aim to open up new windows in experiencing and moving, through repetition, soundscapes and imagination.

More info: https://www.mikkoniemisto.com

Marika Peura

Marika Peura is a choreographer and dancer based in Helsinki. She works interdisciplinarily in the fields of dance and contemporary performance art, working particularly from the emotionality, poetics, and politics that emerge from the experiential nature of the body in its socio-political context. Her previous work, solo piece Amalgam Melee, 2024, sets off from the artist’s inner contradictions in relation to cultural heritage, Brownness, Whiteness, hierarchies of power and violence in the context of Finnish society.

In the workshop, we will delve into the questions, practices and exercises central to Peura's previous stage works. We will work with the question of intimacy, experientiality and emotionality of the moving body through movement based somatic work accompanied with rhythmic music. We will explore these practices by directing the attention to the use and play with the gaze. Merging the roles of 'doer' and observer, indulging in a gaze that looks back.

More info: www.marikapeura.com

Kuupuu

Kuupuu is a solo-project by Finnish musician and visual artist Jonna Karanka. Her work blends improvisation,
lo-fi aesthetics and electro-acoustic elements to create hypnotic, dreamlike soundscapes. Active in the underground
and experimental music scenes for over two decades, her work has garnered recognition both in Finland and internationally.
At the Limbo event she’ll create a layered phantasmal texture of sounds to accompany the journey with Nosferatu.
Gothic horror will blend with Kuupuu’s unique sonic palette of light and darkness.

More info: https://jonnakaranka.com/

Julle Gröhn

Helsinki based electronic and multimedia artist, Julle Gröhn weaves a unique composition of electronic beats and peculiar harmonies. Armed with analog synthesizers, this artist transforms electronic pulses into interesting sound progressions.

For limbo 2024 Julle Gröhn will introduce “THE IO”. The device is a product created by a startup called Nite Labs LTD. The IO is a minimalist designed gadget that translate sound and MIDI signals intro visuals and graphics creating an immerse experience for the audience. The device is created for artists and by artists to democratize the immersion in music performances.
This time Julle Gröhn will perform an ambient soundscape session showcasing the functionality and interaction of the IO.

Vesa-Matti

Vesa-Matti Kivioja is an electronic musician from Vaasa, Finland. With over twenty years of experience in tweaking knobs and programming music on computers, samplers, and synthesizers, this sound artist has explored a wide variety of environments. His work has taken him to forests, clubs, basements, cafés, warehouses, and galleries.

For his performance, Vesa-Matti will craft a new soundtrack for the classic silent film *A Trip to Mars (1920)*, using an array of synthesizers and effect units. His music will delve into the concept of Limbo. The soundscape may move from the rhythmic pulses of modern techno to the more meditative, organic ambient textures, possibly incorporating the eerie quiet of deep space. His intricate layering of effects and samples will reflect the vastness and mystery of Mars, capturing the surreal and unknown.

Miika Kantola

Miika Kantola, also known as “Latvusto,” is an electronic music producer and performer based in Helsinki, Finland. Drawing from his background in Contemporary History, where he explored the concept of “past futures” in his master’s thesis, Kantola views the film as a subconscious reflection of post-World War I Germany. His aim is to immerse the audience in the historical uncertainties captured in the film.

During the Pixelache Limbo 2024 live performance, he reimagines the soundtrack for the iconic German expressionist film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1922). Using improvisational techniques with electronic instruments, Kantola seeks to evoke a subconscious response to the film, weaving contemporary themes into the dialogue of the past.

Islaja

With her haunting vocals and shamanic melodies, Finnish composer and musician Islaja takes her audience on a journey to other worlds. Since the experimental, psychedelic folk music of her early albums, she has long embraced "warped and left-field" electronics. Yet another side of her creative musical universe was revealed with her latest release, modern classical ambient album Angel Tape (other power 2023). Islaja lived and worked in Berlin for over ten years. She moved back to Helsinki in 2022.

For the Limbo performance, Islaja will present a soundtrack for Francesco Bertolini’s L’inferno (1911). This hauntingly beautiful film will receive a sonic treatment that is similarly dark, grainy and analogue in nature.

More info: https://islaja.com/

Island Apocalypse Tours: #2 Naissaar - #3 Vartiosaari

office@pixelache.ac — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0300

Pixelache Festival has happened in many interesting and unique locations, but for some reason for many of us the island locations – Suomenlinna, Vartiosaari, Naissaar (Estonia) – have been the most memorable.

During 2024, long-term Pixelache members Antti Ahonen & Andrew Gryf Paterson in collaboration with Jenna Jauhiainen take us back to these islands by organising guided tours and happenings for a small group of participants. These events are part of the ongoing memory work and archiving processes related to Pixelache's 20+ years of history, and are open to both carriers of memories of past festivals and the willing creators of new memories.

The Island Apocalypse Tours of 2024 engage with the concept of Solastalgia, a term coined by Glenn Albrecht which refers to the distress and melancholy of losing one's own environment and habitat, especially in the context of climate crisis and biodiversity collapse. In addition to delving into memories of past Pixelache Festivals, these Island Tours will be an opportunity to discuss not only the changing ecological ecosystems of our environments, but also the social and technical environments that have related to our cultural work in self-organized, emerging and grassroots organisations. The last Island Tour to Tarvo will compile documentations and finalise the series.

Island Apocalypse Tours: #2 Naissaar (EE) - #3 Vartiosaari package tour

OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS (max 8 persons). SIGN UP BEFORE 5th August!

On Thursday 22nd August, we will gather an expedition group to second island that we return to.. Naissaar off the coast of Tallinn, Estonia, that featured in Pixelache dual-city Festival 2013: 'Facing North - Facing South'. It is the most adventurous stage of the tours, as it involves a ferry journey to Tallinn, and then relies on the Estonian tourist day-trip boats that travel to the island in summer season. What remains from Camp Pixelache 2013 will be investigated.

We will travel to Tallinn on Thursday 22nd August, stay overnight in Tallinn, and arrange a 2 day/1 night visit to Naissaar from 23-24th August. We will return on Saturday night to Helsinki. Further details below.

From Monday 26th August, we will travel to East Helsinki's island of Vartiosaari, site of Camp Pixelache 2014, On Monday 26th we will focus on the Pixelache Camp model of cultural events from 2010-2014, invite you to sauna, host a grill party.

Inquiries and reservations (only before 5th August), please email: andrew@pixelache.ac, cc jenna@pixelache.ac

** THU 22.8. **

Travel: Helsinki Länsiterminaali T2 -> Tallinn A-Terminal

15:15-17:30 (Eckerö Line, M/s Finlandia, 22€/person)

1 night in Tallinn area (accomodation to be confirmed, ?€)

** FRI 23.8. **

Travel: Pirita Tallinn Sadam -> Naissaare Sadam

10:00-10:30 (Monica.ee, 20€/person)

1 night accomodation on Naissaare (4-person rooms via Monica.ee, 20€/person)

** SAT 24.8. 18.00 **

Travel: Naissaare Sadam -> Pirita Tallinn Sadam

18:00-18.30 (Monica.ee, 20€/person)

Travel: Tallinn A-Terminal -> Helsinki Katajanokka

22:15-00:30 (VikingLine XPRS, 23,50€)

Tour costs Helsinki-Tallinn-Naissaare-Tallinn-Helsinki:

22+20+20+20+23,50 = 105,50€ + Tallinn accomodation cost + local transport costs.

Acknowledgements: This particular 'tour' event is hosted by HIAP, but is organised by Andrew Paterson in cooperation with Jenna Jauhiainen & Antti Ahonen, as part of Pixelache Helsinki's 2024 programme, supported by TAIKE & Helsinki City. Image credit: Photo by Mari Keski-Korsu, Graphic elements by Tuomo Tammenpää and Karolina Konieczna, composition by Andrew Gryf Paterson.

Island Apocalypse Tours 2024

#1 Suomenlinna (23.–24.3.)

#2 Naissaar (2-day trip via Tallinn, 22.–25.8.)

#3 Vartiosaari (26.8.)

#4 Tarvo (7.-8.9.)

Past memory work and archive processing events:

Photo-tagging Amok events (19.9.2013, 17.10.2013, 1.11.2013, 12.2.2014): https://pixelache.ac/events/photo-tagging-amok-february-2014

Koelse & Pixelache 15 Years (21.9.-1.10.2017): https://festival2017.pixelache.ac/events/koelse-and-pixelache-15-years

Looking backwards >|< looking forwards (6.11.2020): https://pixelache.ac/events/looking-backwards-looking-forwards

Gathering of Elders: The Kiasma years 2003-2010 (11.12.2020): https://pixelache.ac/events/gathering-of-elders-the-kiasma-years-2003-2010

Gathering of Elders: 2002 edition (28.05.2022): https://pixelache.ac/events/gathering-of-elders-2002-edition

Pixelache: How Do We Keep Going? (01-06.2022): https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures/

Looking Backwards >|< Looking Forwards: 20 Years of Pixelache Party (04.12.2022): https://pixelache.ac/events/looking-backwards-looking-forwards-20-years-of-pixelache-party

Island Apocalypse Tours: #1 Suomenlinna report

Andrew Paterson — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:07:00 +0300

This blog post is a memory brief of the Suomenlinna event we had in March – scroll down to the end to read more about upcoming Island Apocalypse Tours!

Island Apocalypse Tours: #1 Suomenlinna report by Jenna Jauhiainen, photos by Antti Ahonen

On Saturday 23rd of March, the first island we returned to was Suomenlinna. Starting right after a day of HIAP Open Studios (see link below for details), we had dinner together, held a memory work session, saw a spontaneous art exhibit, had a sleepover, ate breakfast together – and finally, did a walk around the island the next day during which we visited some important locations from Pixelache’s past.

The following is a photo report of the Suomenlinna tour, with some memories attached to it. Brace yourself also for a recording of the entire walk we had on Sunday the 24th around the island, in the freezing cold weather.

Suomenlinna became an important location of Pixelache Festival from 2004 when international guests started using the hostel when visiting the festival, in 2005 using Galleria Augusta as a venue, and particularly 2011 when the Festival was solely the venue for the whole festival 'Hacking Suomenlinna'.

Andrew Gryf Paterson introducing the Island Apocalypse Tours to the participants in HIAP, Suomenlinna.

Memory work session

Jenna Jauhiainen facilitated some tuning into memories and remembering.

Participants tuning into memory work.

Andrew reading Glenn Albrecht's book Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (2019).

After tuning into doing some memory work through a type of a guided meditation facilitated by Jenna and getting familiar with the term solastalgia as read from Glenn Albrecht’s book Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (2019), we discussed the topics that came up for a couple of hours.

One thing that we discussed for quite a length of time was how different the optimism of the first years of this Millennium were. Participants said they miss that sense of optimism, of looking into the future and thinking that it would bear good things, progress, social justice, and so on. As the climate catastrophe becomes apparent in all its effects both local and global, particularly for the fragile island ecosystems, we cannot be this optimistic anymore.

Somebody said, I have a fear of missing out on the past. The idea behind this was that, there is a sense of FOMO about things that one does not even know they missed out on in the past. Perhaps some great moments were had during the Pixelache festival in Suomenlinna, too, that we don’t even know we missed out on and would love to have participated. Maybe some formative experiences of our youths lingered past us without us even knowing they took place.

Continuing in this vein, somebody posed the question of Was Suomenlinna ever real? This grew into a discussion about the realness of memories. Are any memories real? In what sense? Going back to the FOMO, we started to wonder can you miss out on all times – missing out the past, missing out the present, missing out the future? In the dark late March night on a quiet little island in the Baltic Sea, we wondered do we always miss out, even when we are there?

The atmosphere was contemplative, even somewhat heavy-hearted. We had a toast after Antti processed his thoughts and feelings about the looming end of more than 20 years of life with Pixelache – Antti has decided to move on. What’s left is archiving. We end the discussion by pondering for a while about how we could leave things be without at least attempting to archive them.

A participant hosted a spontaneous art exhibition.

WALK

The morning after, a walk around the island was had by the participants who stayed over for the night. We made a walk which started on the rocky coast line near to HIAP building where Viapori-era carvings were made, then to Taidekoulu MAA building, a random location according to a generator app (called RANDONAUTICA), then Paarlastihuone, Pajasaali, Officers Club, Suomenlinna Hostel, and finally ending at the former Café Chapman. Somewhere along the way we stopped by a submarine to dream about KOELSE having performed there.

Listen to the entire walk as recorded by Andrew from here: https://soundcloud.com/pixelache/island-apocalypse-tours-2024-suomenlinna-guided-walk

The morning was foggy.

The sea had ice.

Behind Taidekoulu Maa, we found an old execution spot.

RANDONAUTICA sometimes took us to weird places.

If only KOELSE had performed in the submarine.

The Officer Club had changed its interior, but the archival images remain.

Acknowledgements: This particular 'tour' event was hosted by HIAP, but is organised by Jenna Jauhiainen, in cooperation with Antti Ahonen & Andrew Gryf Paterson, as part of Pixelache Helsinki's 2024 programme, supported by TAIKE & Helsinki City.

Join us for the next tour!

The next tour of the Island Apocalypse Tours is Naissaar (Estonia) + Vartiosaari. We will spend a minimum of two nights in Estonia, do at least a day trip to Naissaar, plus a chill-out in Vartiosaari and some memory work on Camps to do there afterwards. The tour takes place from 22nd of August to 26th of August. You can choose to join both Naissaar and Vartiosaari, or just one of the two. We will negotiate with the participants about what we should do during the tours, what would feel relevant right now – especially in regards to the Estonia part of the trip.

Thus, please be in contact with us and secure your place as soon as possible.

We plan to be able to cover some of the expenses for the trips for the participants, and thus we are seeking up to 8 participants!

How to book your place and find out more info? Contact andrew@pixelache.ac and/or jenna@pixelache.ac.

Island Apocalypse Tours 2024

#1 Suomenlinna (23.–24.3.)

#2 Naissaar (2-day trip via Tallinn, 22.–25.8.)

#3 Vartiosaari (25-26.8.)

#4 Tarvo (Saturday 7.-8.9.)

Island Apocalypse Tours: #1 Suomenlinna

office@pixelache.ac — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0200

Island Apocalypse Tours: #1 Suomenlinna

On Saturday 23rd of March, the first island we return to is Suomenlinna. Starting right after a day of HIAP Open Studios (see link below for details), we are organising a sleepover at HIAP for up to 12 participants. We will serve dinner at 8PM and continue from there with facilitated talks and memory work in the spaces that hosted Pixelache Festival for example in 2005 and 2011.

In the morning of Sunday the 24th, we will cook and eat breakfast together before heading out for a walk and talk around the island. We will for example visit the Hostel Suomenlinna that accomodated many of the international guests of Pixelache Festival from 2003 to 2011.

If you cannot join us for the sleepover, you are welcome to participate only on the walk and talk on Sunday that will begin from Gallery Augusta of HIAP at 10AM.

To sign up, please email jenna@pixelache.ac

NOTE: We will cover the ferry trip back and forth to Suomenlinna for those who need it.

Tour #1 FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/215112864997422

Information about HIAP Open Studios Winter 2024: https://www.hiap.fi/event/hiap-open-studios-winter-2024/

Acknowledgements: This particular 'tour' event is hosted by HIAP, but is organised by Jenna Jauhiainen, in cooperation with Antti Ahonen & Andrew Gryf Paterson, as part of Pixelache Helsinki's 2024 programme, supported by TAIKE & Helsinki City. Image credit: Photo by Antti Ahonen, Graphic by Tuomo Tammenpää, composition by Jenna Jauhiainen.

Island Apocalypse Tours 2024

#1 Suomenlinna (23.–24.3.)

#2 Naissaar (2-day trip via Tallinn, 22-25.8.)

#3 Vartiosaari (late August dates TBA)

#4 Tarvo (1-day trip in September, date TBA)

Past memory work and archive processing events:

Photo-tagging Amok events (19.9.2013, 17.10.2013, 1.11.2013, 12.2.2014): https://pixelache.ac/events/photo-tagging-amok-february-2014

Koelse & Pixelache 15 Years (21.9.-1.10.2017): https://festival2017.pixelache.ac/events/koelse-and-pixelache-15-years

Looking backwards >|< looking forwards (6.11.2020): https://pixelache.ac/events/looking-backwards-looking-forwards

Gathering of Elders: The Kiasma years 2003-2010 (11.12.2020): https://pixelache.ac/events/gathering-of-elders-the-kiasma-years-2003-2010

Gathering of Elders: 2002 edition (28.05.2022): https://pixelache.ac/events/gathering-of-elders-2002-edition

Pixelache: How Do We Keep Going? (01-06.2022): https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures/

Looking Backwards >|< Looking Forwards: 20 Years of Pixelache Party (04.12.2022): https://pixelache.ac/events/looking-backwards-looking-forwards-20-years-of-pixelache-party

PIXELISH

office@pixelache.ac — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0200

Pixelish is a standalone workshop that looks at the creation of a constructed language for the Pixelache community

The workshop will function to create the beginning of a speculative auxiliary language for the community, not for the purposes of practical application but as a means to reflect upon the ways in which language is used, both internally and globally. The workshop is also open to the broader public but it is primarily a tool for the association's linguistic self-reflection. The outcome, if any, of this workshop is not predetermined and will occur through the collective consensus of the participants.

The aim of the workshop and final outcome is a dialectal catharsis explored through the sharing of language and the creation of a common tongue. The intent is to explore the relationships between different language speakers within the community. Rather than regarding language as primarily a tool for communication, we will regard language as a mode of cognition, a way of seeing the world that will hopefully be shared in order to impact each other to engender agency and strengthen empathy. By creating a speculative mutually intelligible tongue for Pixleache we offer new and unique insight into the community outside of the usual parameters available through the existing language hierarchies present in the community.

The operational languages chosen within cultural organizations are naturally informed by broader global trends, many opt to use the dominant language forms of their contexts (i.e. National/official state languages), however more frequently where the context shifts towards an international focus or includes partners with international backgrounds, cultural organizations make use of globally dominant forms. International English is regularly treated as an auxiliary language, however, it and most other globally dominant languages have attained these positions as a result of a colonial past. In any case, the choice of languages we use, whether a conscious decision or not, inarguably affects communication and consequentially is worth thinking about.

Linguistic relativity, often misattributed as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, is a group of theories that propose the structure of any given language affects the cognition, perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs of its speakers. If this is true then what is the potential impact of a language with an attached history of colonialism and supremacy? Is this history within the DNA of a language, within its linguistic structure and if so what does it impart upon our consciousness? How does it inform the relationships that we have with each other, beyond just our cultural background but the very words that fall out of our mouths?

The workshop will make use of language construction as an experimental methodology, with resources employed from Mark Rosenfelder’s Language Construction Kit informed by some of the insights collected in Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy (Various authors) as well as other materials from Steve Maher's own library of Con-language texts.

The outcome will be determined by the activity of the participants, it might simply be a glossary of terms, an original written piece in the created language, or a recording of the language's numerical system. The main body of the work is the relationship that is explored within the workshop itself, any artistic artifact which might come about as a result of the workshop is the communal property of the workshop's stakeholders and theirs to do with as they see fit.

Free registrations for the Workshop here

FORUM PIXELACHE x LUMBUNG RADIO

Mathilde Palenius — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:03:00 +0300

Forum Pixelache x lumbung Radio
The state we are in; Sustainability through collective actions
Kaksipäiväinen foorumi täynnä keskusteluja, työpajoja, esityksiä ja live-radiota

2.- 3. syyskuu 2023
MUU Helsinki nykytaidekeskus (Kaapelitehdas) ja lumbung Radio

Pixelache järjestää yhteistyössä lumbung Radion kanssa viikonlopputapahtuman samanaikaisesti MUU Helsinki nykytaidekeskuksessa sekä radioaalloilla.

Foorumina järjestettävä tapahtuma kerää ihmisiä keskustelemaan ajankohtaisista kriiseistä, joita yhteiskuntamme kohtaa esimerkiksi äärioikeiston nousu Euroopassa, ilmastohätätila, ekstraktivismi, laajeneva prekaarisuus ja hyvinvointisektorin leikkaukset.

Foorumi pohtii, kuinka nykyiset ekologiset ja poliittiset kriisit kietoutuvat elämäämme.

Koko tapahtuma on ilmainen. Luvassa on paneelikeskusteluja, tee-se-itse radiotyöpajaa, musiikkia ja äänitaidetta hybridimuodon kautta; MUU Helsingin Nykytaiteen keskuksen ohjelma lähetetään suorana lumbung Radio -alustalla

Tapahtuma on englanninkielinen.

Info

Station of Commons
Station of Commons (lumbung Radio), mail .. at .. stationofcommons.org
Grégoire Rousseau
Eddie Choo Wen Yi
Alain Ryckelynck

Pixelache Helsinki
Irina Mutt
Phan Nguyen
Mathilde Palenius, mathilde .. at .. pixelache.ac

Viestintä
Saša Nemec, sasa .. at .. pixelache.ac

Taloushallinnon
Raisa Veikkola

Rahoitus ja kumppaneita

MUU Helsinki nykytaidekeskus
Taiteen edistämiskeskus
Institut Français - Finlande
Reset! Network, co-funded by the European Union

TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre
City of Helsinki - Culture and Leisure Division

Lumbung radio and Station of Commons: Collaborators of the Forum 2.-3. September 2023

Mathilde Palenius — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:02:23 +0300

Pixelache is excited to work in collaboration with lumbung Radio and Station of Commons on the Forum The state we are in; Sustainability through collective actions, happening on 2.-3. September 2023 at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre and broadcasted live.

Who is Station of Commons ?

Initiated in 2020, Station of Commons is a research platform on digital commoning practices. SoC, Station of Commons in short, stands for the reappropriation of technology within the public space, how an art collective can develop their practices and still find distance from Facebook, Instagram, Youtube… SoC operates Open Source audio stream, develops and builds Open Source infrastructure and elaborates discourses on practical and theoretical issues related to radical technology. SoC is always excited to work with all form of collectives, from grass root dj groups to art institution at international level.

Who is lumbung Radio ?

Lumbung Radio is an inter-local online community radio originating from Documenta fifteen. It is an open online broadcast that comprises of an inter-local network of distinct radios and audio practices. It operates in no specific time zones, and streams multiple languages, music, and art. Each participating radio station depends on its own means of production, way of thinking, learning, and sharing. lumbung Radio operates as a decentralized network of nodes that uses internet without its hegemonic agency. The intention is producing an audiophonic common space built on the multiplication of the existing practices of its contributors.

Station of Commons and lumbung Radio involvement as collaborators of the Forum:

The work, or artistic contribution, operates a three sequential levels within the collaboration. These three levels develops as follow. First, the collaboration happens online with international guests in a gallery based in Helsinki. The essential work is to bring lumbung participants together with the local Helsinki scene and Pixelache invitees. The event happens in Helsinki in discussion with lumbung participants and other collectives, mutual acknowledgement of shared work is important in a collective effort. The various discussions will be broadcasted online.
And for this purpose, the second level was an opportunity to test and implement Jamulus. Jamulus is an online Open Source server that allows multiple users to talk with high audio quality.
Last point, that is not trivial, is the chance to hear from, and share with other collectives on their radio and audio practices; this moment when personal approaches and professional interests converge to make new friends.

See you at MUU and on live broadcast on Station of Commons platform on 2.-3. September 2023 !

PIKSELIÄHKY FESTIVAALI 2023: GLITCHZ

Sasa Nemec — Wed, 17 May 2023 12:50:00 +0300

Pixelache - festivaali toivottaa teidät lämpimästi tervetulleiksi tapahtuman 19. editioon. Festivaali järjestetään tänä vuonna Puristamolla - Kaapelitehtaalla, Pannuhallissa - Tanssin Talossa, Helsingissä 8.6.–17.6.2023.

Festivaaleilla tutkitaan häiriön ideaa potentiaalisena vastarinnan metodina alistavia sosiaalisia rakenteita vastaan. Kuinka me voimme muuttaa koodia? Festivaaleilla tarkastellaan kysymystä taiteellisen toiminnan ja työkalujen kautta; avoimen lähdekoodin läpi luoden, kopioiden, liittäen, jakaen, levittäen, uudelleenmiksaten ja samplaten.

Järjestelmässä, joka normalisoi epäoikeudenmukaisuutta häiriö voi olla hetkellinen normaalitilan keskeytys. Häiriötekijä purkaa normeja kieltäytyen suorittamasta sille annettua funktiota tai määritelmää. Ongelma ja häiriö elävät halusta uudelleen omata ja horjuttaa koodistoa. Festivaali on tilanne, jossa kokeillaan uusia teknologioita kyetäksemme kontaminoimaan, mutatoimaan, tai välittämään moninaisia kieliä ja elämäntilanteita.

Julkinen ohjelmisto sisältää audiovisuaalisia performansseja, työpajoja, sekä taidenäyttelyn jossa on osallisena sekä paikallisia, että kansainvälisiä taiteilijoita, tutkijoita ja aktivisteja.

Kaikkiin tapahtumiin on vapaa pääsy.

Festivaalin ohjelma ja enemmän tietoa saatavilla
festival.pixelache.ac

Instagram @pixelache_helsinki
Facebook @pixelache
Twitter @pixelache

Festival Facebook Event

GLITCHZ PRESSIKUVIIN

OSALLISTUJAT

Aya, Edith Hammar, Egle Oddo, Daniel Malpica x Pedro Macloughlin, Madeleine Andersson, Daniel Moreno, Nadiye, Jon Irigoyen & Emma Hovi, T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society, Ritni Rávdnji Ráste Pieski, Onur Tayranoglu, Saint Santi, Paola Jalili, Sven Simulacrum, Honeymoon & JoJo & Monia, DJ folk flore, Anna Maria Häkkinen x Erno Aaltonen x Saara Töyrylä, Linda Lazarov x Aala Nyman, Laua rip x Jani Lamminmäki, MYÖS.

Lisätietoa: festival.pixelache.ac

AIKA JA PAIKKA

8.–17. kesäkuuta (Suljettu 11. kesäkuuta) | Puristamo - Kaapelitehdas 12.30–17.30 Näyttely

10. kesäkuuta | Puristamo - Kaapelitehdas 18.00–2.00 Performanssit

17. kesäkuuta | Pannuhalli - Tanssin Talo 18.00–23.00 Performanssit

17. kesäkuuta | Puristamo - Kaapelitehdas 23.00–2.00 Performanssit

TYÖRYHMÄ

Taiteelliset johtajat:
Irina Mutt, irina at pixelache.ac
Soko Hwang, soko at pixelache.ac

Tuotantoassistentti:
Phan Nguyen, phan at pixelache.ac

Tekniikkavastaava:
Nooa Kekoni

Ääniteknikko:
Pedro Mac Loughlin

Valoteknikko:
Mikko Kaukonen

Viestintävastaava:
Saša Nemec, sasa at pixelache.ac

Graafinen suunnittelu:
Soko Hwang, soko at pixelache.ac

Web-kehittäjä:
John W. Fail

Hallintovastaava:
Raisa Veikkola, raisa at pixelache.ac

Dokumentaatio:
Antti Ahonen, antti at pixelache.ac

Kääntäjä:
Veera Kuusisto

TUKIJAT
Taiteen edistämiskeskus
Helsingin kaupungin kulttuurin ja vapaa-ajan toimiala

Pixelachen residenssiwikimedistit 2022: podcastit, joissa Wikimedia ja ruohonjuuritason kulttuuriorganisaatiot löytävät toisensa ja tutustuvat toisiinsa pitkän ajan jälkeen

Andrew Gryf Paterson — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:48:00 +0300

Pixelache Helsinki, 06.3.2023: LEHDISTÖTIEDOTE

Andrew Gryf Paterson, andrew@pixelache.ac

Download PDF: Suomeksi, Englannin kieli & Saamenkieli versiot, 21.4.2023.

Pixelache Helsinki on julkaissut kolme uutta podcast-keskustelua, joissa yhdistyvät kokeellinen podcast-tuottaminen, vuorovaikutustutkimus ja residenssit, joissa pohdiskellaan Wikimedia-käytäntöjä ja nykyaikaisten kulttuuriorganisaatioiden leikkauspistettä.

Pixelache Helsinki on festivaali, joka järjestetään vuosittain ja joka toinen vuosi. Se on myös poikkitieteellisen taiteen, muotoilun, tutkimuksen ja aktivismin foorumi. Aiemmin festivaali tunnettiin suomeksi myös nimellä Pikseliähky-festivaali ja yhdeksän vuoden ajan myös alaotsikolla Festival of Electronic Arts and Subcultures. Festivaalin järjestäjänä ja tuottajana on toiminut aatteellinen kulttuuriyhdistys Piknik Frequency ry, joka perustettiin tammikuussa 2003 vajaa vuosi ensimmäisen Pikseliähky-festivaalin jälkeen. Vuonna 2012 Piknik Frequency sai taiteen valtionpalkinnon. Pikseliähky on Suomen pitkäaikaisin mediataiteen ja muotoilun festivaali ja vakiintuneimpia Pohjoismaissa.

Vuoden 2005 alussa Pikseliähky-festivaalin johtajat Juha Huuskonen ja Petri Lievonen kutsuivat Wikimedia-säätiön edustajan Florence Devouardin Suomeen. Devouard on ollut jo 1990-luvun alussa edelläkävijä internetissä ja ranskankielisen Wikipedian kantava voima sen alkuvuosina. Hän tuli Pariisista kertomaan suomalaisille sähköisten taiteiden ja alakulttuurien harjoittajille, tuottajille, IT-harrastajille, yrittäjille ja mediasuunnittelun opiskelijoille uudesta WikiWiki-tavasta tuottaa avointa tietoa. Tämä oli vasta toinen kerta, kun Devouard esitteli Wikimediaa julkisesti, ja se on kenties myös ensimmäinen kerta, kun Wikipediaa esiteltiin julkisesti Suomessa. Ne olivat toiveikkaita aikoja osallistuville alustoille! Sen kunniaksi Pikseliähky-festivaalista luotiin sivu suomenkieliseen Wikipediaan vuonna 2005. Sivu ei ole siitä kehittynyt, ja artikkelissa aika on pysähtynyt vuoteen 2005. Mutta mitä kaikkea on sen jälkeen tapahtunut? Miten suhtaudumme toisiimme Wikimedia- tai Wikidata-kollegoina kaikkien näiden vuosien jälkeen?

Näitä yhteyksiä luodaan uudelleen Wikimedia-säätiön kehittämän, pitkäjänteisen wikimedistien residenssiohjelman kautta. Tammikuussa 2022 käynnistettiin projektin keskusteluvaihe, joka päättyy maaliskuussa 2023 kolmen podcastin julkaisemiseen. Näistä yksi on pidempi neliosainen podcast (A, B, C ja D) ja kaksi muuta ovat haastattelupohjaisia keskusteluja, joissa tarkastellaan eri puolia ja näkökulmia siihen, millaista on olla residenssiwikimedisti tai aloitteleva kulttuuriorganisaatio, joka toimii yhteistyössä Wikimedia-yhteisöjen kanssa.

Seuraavassa neliosaisessa podcast-kokoelmassa Pixelache Festivalin pitkäaikainen jäsen Andrew Gryf Paterson keskustelee Florence Devouardin kanssa, joka on residenssiwikimedistinä Maailman henkisen omaisuuden järjestö WIPOssa ja on toiminut Wikimedia-säätiön johtokunnan puheenjohtajana. Hän on myös ollut mukana monissa yhteistyöprojekteissa Afrikassa. Hän kertoo kokemuksistaan Pixelachen kutsuvieraana vuonna 2005 sekä silloisesta ja nykyisestä Wikimedia-työstään. Podcasteissä esitellään sitä, miten luovat organisaatiot voisivat kehittää toimintaansa Wikipediassa.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_florence-devouard-andrew-gryf-paterson_part-A.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_florence-devouard-andrew-gryf-paterson_part-B.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_florence-devouard-andrew-gryf-paterson_part-C.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_florence-devouard-andrew-gryf-paterson_part-D.ogg

Seuraavassa jaksossa esiintyvät Wikimedia Community Irelandin jäsen Rebecca O’Neill ja Wikimedia Community Maltan Toni Sant, joka on myös kuraattori, akateemikko ja podcastaaja. He juttelevat Santin kokemuksista luovien käytäntöjen dokumentoinnissa Wikimedia-projekteissa. Keskustelu käsittelee nykytaiteen dokumentoinnin käytäntöjä, jotta voidaan varmistaa, että ne ovat yhteensopivia Wikidatan kaltaisten alustojen kanssa.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_rebecca-oneill_toni-sant.ogg

Seuraavassa podcastissa Nikki Zeuner (Wiki Move -podcast) ja Z. Blace (Zagrebin nykytaiteen museon residenssiwikimedisti) keskustelevat nykykulttuurista, kansalaisyhteiskunnan organisaatioista, voittoa tavoittelemattomista infrastruktuureista ja Wikimedia 2030 -strategiaan liittyvistä resursseista ja innovaatiosta. Sarja tarkastelee maailmanlaajuisessa verkottuneessa mediassa toimimisen haasteita ja mahdollisuuksia Wikimedian ekosysteemissä julkaisemisen ja osallistumisen kannalta.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_nikki-zeuner_z-blace.ogg

Lyhyemmin sanottuna tämä prosessi heijastelee Pixelache Helsinki -festivaalin ja Wikimedian pitkää rinnakkaista historiaa. Ensimmäisen vuosikymmenen aikana Pixelache Helsinki Festival edisti poikkitieteellisenä foorumina avointa kulttuuria samalla kun Wikimedian omia menetelmiä kehitettiin. Ajoittain nämä lähestymistavat ovat olleet päällekkäisiä, ajoittain kulkeneet käsi kädessä, ja sittemmin erkaantuneet toisistaan. Haluamme tuoda projektin esille Wikimedian ja Creative Commonsin vuosipäivinä.

Vuoden 2022 aikana Pixelache Helsinki on työstänyt arkistointiprosessiaan ja pohdintojaan. Tämä projekti päivittää ja tämä hanke päivittää suomalaisen ja alueellisen jäsenistömme taitoja ja tietämystä. Sen lisäksi se toimii kansainvälisenä esimerkkinä samankaltaisille verkottuville kulttuurijärjestöille.

Nämä marraskuun 2022 ja tammikuun 2023 välissä nauhoitetut podcastit julkaistaan avoimilla lisensseillä. Niissä esiintyvät Florence Devouard, Toni Sant, Rebecca O’Neill, Nikki Zeuner, Z. Blace ja Andrew Gryf Paterson.

Nämä residenssit ovat jatkoa Z. Blacen ja Rebecca O'Neillin alustavalle keskustelulle avoimista arkistointikäytännöistä osana Pixelache Helsinki -festivaalia #Burn____ kesäkuussa 2021, ja ne alkoivat CTM/Transmediale-festivaalien #OpenMICwithPixelache-etkoilla helmikuussa 2022.

Prosessi rahoitettiin avustuksella Wikimedia-säätiön rapid grant -ohjelmasta ja Pixelache Helsingin tuella. Wikimedistien residenssiprosessi kuuluu Pixelachen kulttuuriohjelmaan, jossa tarkastellaan yhdistyksen 20-vuotista toimintaa.

Pixelachen toimintaa ovat vuosittain avustaneet Taiteen edistämiskeskus TAIKE ja Helsingin kaupunki.

Tekijät:

Projektin aloitteentekijä: Z. Blace

Ääni-identiteetin suunnittelu: Sumugan Sivanesan

Äänen jälkituotanto: Miia Laine

Suomen- ja saamenkieliset käännökset: Yupik

Projekti ja visuaalinen suunnittelu: Z. Blace

Päätuottaja: Andrew Gryf Paterson

Taloudellinen ja hallinnollinen tuki: Mathilde Palenius ja Raisa Veikkola

Open Call: Pixelache is looking for an intern !

Mathilde Palenius — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:38:28 +0200

Assistant producer for Pixelache 2023 artistic programme in Helsinki
mid-April - mid-September 2023 (6 months), part-time

Pixelache association is looking for an intern to take part in a 6-month work try-out (through TE-palvelut) as assistant producer.
You will be working side-by-side with the artistic directors of the 2023 Pixelache festival, the team of the European Lab forum Helsinki, our financial administrator and Pixelache members.

Your work will include various tasks in relation to the production of the Pixelache Festival 2023 (June) and the European Lab forum Helsinki (September). For instance, you will assist the exchanges with the artists, the technical ride of the events, hosting of the public, the association’s communication, etc.
Among the tasks, some will be necessary to fulfill while others will depend on your experience and your interests in working with us.

We are looking for someone interested in associational work, pluridisciplinary artistic practices, with a flexible schedule (especially in June and early September during our events).

As a multicultural team, we work mainly in English.
This call is open to any nationality, social or cultural backgrounds and practices within the cultural field.

Please send your CV and tell us why you are motivated to join us by email to hallitus@pixelache.ac

Deadline to apply: 27. March 2023

Picture credits: Antti Ahonen, Pixelache Festival 2021.

Make Friends, Not Art

Irina Mutt — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Between the 1st and the 15th of February, a few members of Collective Intelligence group visited Saint Laurent des Arbres, to spend some days at Echangeur 22 residence. The team from Helsinki included Alan Bulfin, Veera Kuusisto, Martin Dalhström Heuser, Irina Mutt, and Carita Savolainen. Echangeur22 is an art residence located in Saint Laurent des Arbres, a picturesque romanesque village located in the fringes of Occitania and French Provence. An hour drive from Montpellier and its airport.

Some days went visiting the surroundings: Avignon and La Chartreuse-Cnes Villenueve, a monastery of the XIV century conserved with touristic purposes, where an art exhibition organized by Echangeur22, took place a few months before. In Nimes, besides the mandatory visit to Maison Carré, the group stopped by some artists' studios, like Etant Donné, with the artist Pierrette Gaudiat, where they manage different projects and print artist books. The group went on a brief visit to Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nimes, sneaking in some studios and classrooms. In Tresques, a nearby village, the group visited Roseline and Anais Pelaquier, mother and daughter both artists, sharing home and studios.

The powerful fragility of visiting those artists and studios, was the perfect gesture closing the visiting tours. Some afternoons were spent using the residence equipment, the studio lights for filming and photography, and the printing workshop, where the unlikely achievement of performing a cadavre exquis in the surrealist way, was tried out. Also many moments were invested in talking about art projects, planning future exhibition for Collective Intelligence group, and sharing tips and experiences about how to survive the art world.

A note

So far, those events, process and ways of working together, were the expected ones, the kind of milestones any artist would be able to achieve in a two weeks residence. But there were other things that despite not belonging to the category of production, were important as part of the process. Make friends, not art. This is one of the statements that resonated during the last Documenta fifteen, curated by the collective ruangrupa, where all kinds of collectives participated, invited and distributed ways of doing art. Or ways of doing things; from protesting to enabling discussions or direct actions for bringing and sharing diverse life situations and positions. Things that have to do with life urgencies and desires, but that somehow, due to the strategies and tools used, become artistic.

Some kind of similar energy was slowly emerging there, at Saint Laurent des Árbres. A possible way of living and sharing spaces and resources. Investing time in very important things, like cooking, catching spots of sun to smoke a cigarette with a ray of sunlight in the face. Or walking around the vineyards and seeing the sunset. There was time as well for making jokes about the miseries of the male gaze, the nepotism of the art world and its structural power imbalance. Sometimes for discussing nationalism or how silence is a form of violence. Or sharing food recipes, oversharing and in general, encountering each other, getting a little bit closer.

Mingling and talking with local artists, drinking wine and caipirinhas. Getting to know Juliette and Emile, the two interns at Échangeur and sharing meals, cigarettes and conversations with them. Tofu, the cat with a bad skin allergy, the random visitors and friends who visited the residence, Marie Cécile as generous host and agitator. The Mistral wind, hardcore and merciless, blowing strong during many days.

All the elements, human and non human, became part of a process that had to do with art, but mainly with the capacity of embracing the uncertainty of the ride. Could this be a way of doing that has to do with collective intelligence? Just letting things happen, without a destination, only different directions to take each time, depending on the circumstances and resources. Staying together in the confusion. Staying with, as Donna Haraway proposes. And yes, we also joked about how Donna Haraway is name-dropped and quoted all the time in art projects, even if the project has nothing to do with her theories.

CONTACTS 20 Years of Pixelache

office@pixelache.ac — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0200

CONTACTS 20 Years of Pixelache
Saturday 3. December 2022
Symposium 10:00-17:30
Kiasma Teatteri (Theatre)
Helsinki
Free entrance

CONTACTS is a transnational symposium that weaves sociocultural issues that are facing our contemporary times. The symposium opens a public sphere for critical dialogue on communal survival and cohabitation, and will unfold a series of presentations, film screenings & an open-mic closing session.

Contacts are fundamental life forms such as gathering, confronting, and sharing. Transversal solidarity, interdependence and mutual support are potential tactics to reveal and confront silenced structural oppressions such as racism, classism, nationalism, authoritarianism, and patriarchy.

Pixelache organizes this symposium as a way to celebrate and reflect on 20 years of existence as a cultural association. Over this period of time Pixelache has been emerging from digital subcultures to engaging participatory platforms, from DIY to Doing-It-Together, activating and creating through its increasingly postnational community and network of artists, designers, cultural producers, thinkers, and activists.

Participants

Juha Huuskonen, Z. Blace, Minna Henriksson, The Otolith Group, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Pierre Michelon, Alice Mutoni (Ubuntu Film Club), Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Paula Pin, Quimera Rosa, Marc Dusseiller, Eeva Berglund, Kisito Assangni

Symposium Program

10:00 Doors open

10:10 Welcoming Words

10:15 Introduction/moderation by Andrew Gryf Paterson

10:20 Z. Blace
noGLAMore - TALK (RECORDED)

10:50 Juha Huuskonen
A Rather Nostalgic Slideshow: Some Reflections on the Intermingling of What and How in the Early Electronic Art Scene - TALK

11:20 Introduction/moderation by Soko Hwang

11:25 Minna Henriksson
Dangerous and Endangered Archives - TALK

12:00–12:50 Lunch break

12:50 The Otolith Group
Nucleus of the Great Union - SCREENING

13:25 Giovanna Esposito Yussif
On Non-Dominant Praxes and Epistemologies in Resistance - TALK

13:55 Pierre Michelon
Tepantar(Horizon) - SCREENING

14:30 Introduction/moderation by Irina Mutt

14:35 Alice Mutoni(Ubuntu Film Club) & Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
The Night Thief, We Don’t Celebrate Christmas - SCREENING & TALK

15:15 Paula Pin
Biotranslab Entanglements through Trans Hack Feminist Practice - TALK

15:45 Quimera Rosa
Transplant - SCREENING

16:15 Introduction/moderation by Andrew Gryf Paterson

16:20 Marc Dusseiller
Oh GOSH! Reflecting on Hackteria’s Collaborative Practices in a Global Do-It-With-Others Context - TALK

16:50 Eeva Berglund
Activist Art and Changing Academic Responsibilities - TALK

17:20 Open Mic

17:40 End of symposium

10:00–18:00 Kisito Assangni
Another Story - VIDEO & ESSAY INSTALLATION (In Kiasma Teatteri foyer)

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Pixelache Team

Curators Soko Hwang, Irina Mutt, Andrew Gryf Paterson
Producer Arlene Tucker
Communication Manager   Mathilde Palenius
Graphic design   Soko Hwang
Financial Administrator   Raisa Veikkola

Host Pixelache Helsinki
Co-operation Kiasma Teatteri (Theatre)
Support Arts Promotion Centre Taike, City of Helsinki, Wikimedia Foundation (rapid fund), Pro-Helvetia

#Pixelache2022 #pixelache20 #20YearsOfPixelache
#ContactsPixelache
#LookingForwardsLookingBackwards

Biographies

Juha Huuskonen is one of the initiators of Pixelache and was the Programme Director between 2002-2011. Since 2014 he has been the Director of HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (www.hiap.fi). He has also worked as an independent artist, curator, organiser and software designer (archive at www.juhuu.nu).

Z. Blace (b. 1976 Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia) works as artivist and Wikimedian committed to open, participatory and sustainable technology and media, but also queer situated knowledge and alike efforts, that can help inform, inspire and emancipate under-represented. Z. has focus and interest in research and deployment as creative and critical practitioner in arts, culture, activism often focused on infrastructure, organizational and communication/ collaboration methods, forms and formats. Z. was the co-founder of Multimedia Institute/MaMa in Zagreb and first Wikimedia-in-Residence in Croatia. https://monoskop.org/Z._Blace

Minna Henriksson is a visual artist working with a disparate range of tools including text, drawing, painting and linocut. Henriksson’s work relates to leftist, anti-racist and feminist struggles, and aim at highlighting positions of power and oppression. The works are based on research and often draw from real historical events. Formal solutions and considerations of representation are an important part of the artwork. In 2017 Henriksson was awarded with the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award of artistic work committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism. http://minnahenriksson.com/

Giovanna Esposito Yussif engages with curatorial praxis and research. Her background is in art history, museology, and critical theory. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, and epistemologies in resistance. In 2019 she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective. She is currently artistic director of Museum of Impossible Forms -MIF, co-artistic director of Drifts Festival, curator for M_itä biennale 2023, and co-curator for Helsinki Biennale 2023 with MIF.

Ubuntu Film Club is a collective based in Helsinki and formed by Alice Mutoni, Rewina Teklai, and Fiona Musanga. With the motto ''Expanding narratives, with a twist of fun, one film at a time'' Ubuntu film club has been organizing screenings, panel discussions and workshops in cinema theaters, museums and film festivals. Aiming for a more community driven city for everyone, Ubuntu Film Club generates a necessary and important context for BIPOC, migrant and African diaspora youngsters as well. https://www.instagram.com/ubuntufilmclub/

Paula Pin is a researcher and activist which has a strong inclination towards research and experimentation processes with collective and free technologies. Taking the practice of noise as a disturbance into the social construction of gender, she co-creates with Maria Mitsopolu the transfeminist group Transnoise in 2012. In the last years she has been developing an interest in DIY-DIWO technologies, hacking and hardware electronics. She is co-founder of Pechblenda, a trans-hack-feminist electronics laboratory. Her active participation in the lab Pechblenda and Transnoise, opened the opportunity to collaborate with the biohacking network of Hackteria. She has also been designing and fabricating devices for a Mobile Lab Biotranslab, that are used for autonomous gynecology practices and investigation.

Quimera Rosa [Pink Chimera] is a lab that researches and experiments on body, technology and identities. Our aim is to develop practices able to produce non-natural cyborg identities from a transdisciplinary perspective. Our work is based on the deconstruction of sex and gender identities as well as in the interaction body/machine/environment. Our performances present hybrid beings, chimeras, where the production of the subjectivity is the result of a prosthetic incorporation. Particularly interested in the articulation between art, science and technology and their functions in the production of subjectivities, our work is currently focused on the creation of transdisciplinary projects and performances, the elaboration of electronic devices that work with body practices, and bio-hacking experiments. Most of our work is done in a collaborative manner and always free of patents and proprietary codes. It has been presented in streets, contemporary art centers, bars, galleries, universities, concert halls, colleges, discos, museums, squats, festivals and national scenes.

Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr is a nomadic researcher and workshopologist. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research and co-founder of SGMK , Bitwäscherei and the Hackteria network . He loves making DIWO laboratories for creative biological experimentation and works in an integral way, combining science, art and education. He has worked as guest faculty lecturer and mentor at various schools, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore (IN), UCSB (USA) and in Switzerland, FHNW, HEAD, HSLU, ETHZ. He lives and works in Zürich, Yogyakarta and Taipei. He also loves coconuts. www.hackteria.org/wiki/Dusjagr

Eeva Berglund teaches and writes on issues to do with society and the environment, particularly on grassroots urbanism, environmental social movements and transformations in notions of expertise, whilst occasionally participating in and persistently trying to better understand activism. She has a doctorate in social anthropology and an MSc in urban planning, both from the UK. She is currently Adjunct professor of environmental policy, Department of Design at Aalto University, and university researcher at the University of Oulu in Cultural Anthropology, both part-time. www.aalto.fi/fi/ihmiset/eeva-berglund

Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator and consultant who studied museology at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Currently living between UK, France and Togo, his research interests gravitate towards the cultural impact of globalisation, psychogeography and critical education. He investigates the modes of cultural production that combine theory and practice. His discursive projects have been shown internationally, including the Venice Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow, Malmö Konsthall Sweden, Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles, Es Baluard Museum of Art Palma, and National Centre for Contemporary Arts Moscow among others. Assangni is a contributing editor at Arshake and serves as advisor to apexart New York.

Pixelache Helsinki contributes to CreaTures at the Cooler Planet exhibition

office@pixelache.ac — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0300

The CreaTures (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) research project investigates the role of existing – yet often hidden – creative practices in moving the world towards eco-social sustainability. The EU H2020 project responds to the current environmental and social challenges and the urgent need to find new ways of living together on the planet to restore and preserve our ecosystems.

CreaTures is a collaboration between Aalto University as a coordinator with 3 other universities (Utrecht University, the University of Sussex, RMIT University) and 7 cultural institutions and art-design collectives (Zemos98, Superflux, Kersnikova, Hellon, Furtherfield, Sniffer, OKFI).

Learn more about CreaTures here, or through our Pixelache website

The Cooler Planet exhibition features 7 experimental productions from the CreaTures Laboratory – a collection of art and design projects following the common goal of supporting positive eco-social change.

Image: Maker Contribution to Dodo ry's Megapolis 2026: Energetic Cities', as part of Pixelache's outreach & education programme 'Pixelversity, Helsinki, 15.10.2011 (image credit: Antti Ahonen).

Pixelache: How Do We Keep Going? Transformations In Practice

Pixelache Helsinki is a Finland-based creative association on emerging creative practices with almost 20 years of activity in 2022. Starting as a Festival of Electronic Arts & Subcultures, throughout the past decade the association has been running a trans-disciplinary platform for emerging art, design, research, technology and activism that involved a dynamic local community, and an annual festival experimenting with a rotating directorial model. The rich association's history and activities in the field of transformational creative practice are the core focus of the association's process, by engaging with organisational meta-data, and Pixelache's production office in Suvilahti as a tangible memory device. We set out the hope of answering: How do we keep going? The Cooler Planet exhibition presents two audiozines resulting from an experimental archival and ethnographic work that sought to gather perspectives from active Pixelache members reflecting upon how the organisation has transformed between 2013-2019 via objects and narratives. Within the space are several of the objects referenced in the audiozines.

Welcome!

Pixelache's contribution to the CreaTures Project

You can find out more about the project and the created audiozines through the links below.

https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures
https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures/pages/how-do-we-keep-going
https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures/pages/audiozine-burn-out-and-hijack
https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures/pages/audiozine-community-of-practices
https://pixelache.ac/projects/creatures/pages/report-on-process

Info

Production Team: Andrew Gryf Paterson, Irina Mutt, Simugan Sivanesan,
Antti Ahonen
Workshop planning & facilitation: Irina Mutt, Sumugan Sivanesan, Andrew
Gryf Paterson
Audio recording: Sumugan Sivanesan.
Audio edit and post-production: Sumugan Sivanesan, Irina Mutt, Andrew
Gryf Paterson
Background organisational research & metadata: Andrew Gryf Paterson,
Irina Mutt
Photographs: Antti Ahonen, Andrew Gryf Paterson
Project lead/initiator and report: Andrew Gryf Paterson
Support team/financial admin: Mathilde Palenius
Technical support/web admin: John Fail
Communications: Saša Nemec

Voices of the Audiozines: Antti Ahonen, Anastasia Artemeva, Agnieszka Pokrywka, Steve Maher, Irina Mutt, Saša Nemec, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan.

Pixelache Helsinki and its overarching association Piknik Frequency ry is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Helsinki City - Culture and Leisure Division.

The Pixelache Helsinki for CreaTures project is a part of the Pixelache Helsinki 2022 yearly programme. This project was commissioned as a 6-month medium-length experimental production in the laboratory programme of CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures creatures-eu.org

The CreaTures project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870759.

About CreaTures
CREATIVE. FUTURES. CREATURES.

Creative practices have already shown transformational potential in the area of social cohesion and environmental citizenship, but they are often fragmented, poorly resourced, and badly understood. The CreaTures project (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) demonstrates the power of existing – yet often hidden – creative practices to move the world towards eco-social sustainability. The key rationale for the project is that transformations towards more sustainable ways of life are urgently required.

Through experimental co-creation, observation, and evaluation of diverse transformational creative practices, followed by a direct engagement of various stakeholders (including policymakers, researchers, artists, designers, and members of the public), the CreaTures project aims to generate insights that would allow creative practitioners to focus their efforts more effectively and policy-makers to see the merit of employing these techniques.

Pixelache Helsinki at the CreaTures Festival

office@pixelache.ac — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0300

Pixelache Helsinki contributes to CreaTures Festival at Real Fábrica de Artillería, Sevilla, Spain, 29.06-2.7.2022, following a 6 month process in the context of CreaTures Laboratory research activity. See more info below.

Pixelache Helsinki is a Finland-based creative association on emerging creative practices with almost 20 years of activity in 2022. Throughout the last decade, starting as a Festival of Electronic Arts & Subcultures, the association has been running a trans-disciplinary platform for emerging art, design, research, technology and activism that involved a dynamic local community and an annual festival experimenting with a rotating directorial model. The association’s rich history and activities in the field of transformational creative practice are the core focus of Pixelache's experimental production (ExP) within the context of the CreaTures research project. We set out in the hope of answering: How do we keep going?

We sought to explore how the association has developed and sustained its festival organisational practice. By engaging with organisational meta-data, the production office as a tangible memory device, and the production of two audiozines, we gathered perspectives from active members reflecting upon how the organisation has changed via objects and narratives. Due to the persons who attended the Audiozine (gathering materials) workshop, the temporal focus of the process proved to be between Festivals 2013-2019. While the festivals explored Do-it-with-others cultural network practices & open curatorial models, de-centralisation, and engaging local urban activism issues in Helsinki, long-term production staff left, many new association members joined. From 2015 onward, each festival took energy, but also made space for new actions, slowly adjusting the profile towards post-media and performative events.

Listen to the Audiozines Decentralization, burn-out & hijack and 'Community of practices', look at visual documentation of process, or read a detailed report of process via http://www.pixelache.ac/projects/creatures

ITEM 1: Audiozine: Decentralization, burn-out and hijack
This audiozine pastes together conversation around ET grilling, open camp model, festival activity in 2013-2015, decentralization within the association, changing production teams, burn out, and the semi-serious 'positive hijacking' taking Pixelache forwards. Featured objects in the office include liquid smoke, a fabric scheduling device, a megaphone, and a hacked exercise bike.

ITEM 2: Audiozine: Communities of practice
This audiozine pastes together conversation around organisational labour, friendships and motivation, changing disciplines within Pixelache with the recent years, festival 2019, safer space ambitions, things left behind, and a need to collectively imagine future desires. Featured objects include our internal 'pixel' currency for association work, a 3D printer, a bed-side artwork and safe space guidelines.

ITEM 3: Collection of photographs
These photographs show the process of engagement in making the audiozines in Spring 2022. We speculated that Pixelache production office in Suvilahti Cultural complex, Helsinki, was a interface device itself, container for objects with various usages at different times. It has hardly been used during the pandemic times. We hoped to trigger memories through the objects related with Pixelache office, allowing for a more playful approach to the idea of archive, with objects as traces surrounded by different stories and subjective ways to recall the past. We can reflect and question if there is any objectivity in archives, data or statistics.

Production credits:

Voices: Antti Ahonen, Anastasia Artemeva, Agnieszka Pokrywka, Steve Maher, Irina Mutt, Saša Nemec, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan.

Production Team: Andrew Gryf Paterson, Irina Mutt, Simugan Sivanesan, Antti Ahonen

Workshop planning & facilitation: Irina Mutt, Sumugan Sivanesan, Andrew Gryf Paterson

Audio recording: Sumugan Sivanesan.

Audio edit and post-production: Sumugan Sivanesan, Irina Mutt, Andrew Gryf Paterson

Background organisiation research & metadata: Andrew Gryf Paterson, Irina Mutt

Photographs: Antti Ahonen, Andrew Gryf Paterson

Project lead/initiator and report: Andrew Gryf Paterson

Support team/financial admin: Mathilde Palenius

Tehnical support/web admin: John Fail

Funding & support:

This project was commissioned as a 6 month medium-length experimental production in the laboratory programme of CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures: http://creatures-eu.org

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 87075.

Contact: andrew [-at-] pixelache.ac, irina.mutt [-at-] pixelache.ac, sumugan [-at-] pixelache.ac

Another Story: an interview with curator Kisito Assangni

Egle Oddo — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 20:22:00 +0300

* In the picture: Mohammed Laouli, Les Sculptures n'étaient pas blanches, 2020, courtesy the artist.

ANOTHER STORY: AN INTERVIEW WITH KISITO ASSANGNI

In 2019 I started to think about the Pixelache 20th Anniversary approaching in 2022. During the years we had several survays and reviews of our activities made by Pixelache members. I thought it would be interesting to take the chance of the anniversary and invite a person who is not familiar with the organisation to delve into Pixelache online archive and write an article. I have been observing the work of curator Kisito Assangni since 2018, and I invited him to research our arcvhive and formulate his findings. His article is in process and it will be made available in October 2022. This interview anticipates in brief our dialogue.

Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator and consultant who studied museology at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Currently living between UK, France and Togo, his research interests gravitate towards the cultural impact of globalisation, psychogeography and critical education. His discursive projects have been shown internationally, including the Venice Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow, Malmö Konsthall Sweden, Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles, Es Baluard Museum of Art Palma, National Centre for Contemporary Arts Moscow among others. Assangni is a contributing editor at ArtDependence Magazine and Arshake.

Curatorial statement: My curatorial approach is mainly to collaborate with artists who ask crucial questions through works that expand the possibilities of what the new media can do and stand for. I'm unceasingly interested in video art, experimental sound and performance by contemporary international artists who examine the world we live in, the language of image today, a humanity in transformation, and the limits of our sociopolitical systems. Today the mechanisms and the geography of contemporary art are global. Therefore, searching for a right sustainable way to support to the universality of art, lends a hand to dismantle the asymmetrical power relations that structure the art world.

Egle Oddo: What elements in contemporary art awake your curiosity, interest and sensitivity, making you responsive?

Kisito Assangni: Any project that articulates new debates and critical junctures in the field of contemporary art as well as artists who develop a body of work that combines powerful sociological explorations and great formal freedom make me responsive. Exhibitions emerge from the conjunction of numerous narrative, social, ethical, political, economic and technical circumstances and conditions. Consequently, finding new rewarding ways for audiences to connect with art can contribute to spread the meaning and value of art throughout society by using convergence, change, challenge, and innovation.

Moataz Nasr, The Mountain, the Egyptian pavilion at Venice Biennale, 2017, courtesy the artist.

EO: You work with media art a lot, what are the recent turns you observe and is there anything in the latest media art productions and presentations that you find exciting?

KA: The term "new media" was defined in 2001 by Lev Manovich in his The Language of New Media as a cultural artifact typically made and presented on the computer and characterized by five principles: 1) numerical representation of content, 2) modular structure of data and algorithms, 3) automation of processes, 4) variability of the object's existence, and 5) transcoding of cultural data and practices which are digitized and transferred to the computer, which, in turn, modifies the operations of society and concepts in media theory. In an age of wildly accelerated globalisation and from the conviction that art must proceed as an engine of reflection and social transformation, media art is playing an undeniably central role. The idea of media art has changed quite fast and indeed significantly in the past few years with the rise of festivals dedicated to this form of arts on almost all seven continents. For example, transmediale in Berlin, Electrofringe in Australia, CYFEST in USA and Lithuania, Fakugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in South Africa, Japan Media Arts Festival and so on. I really appreciate the recent major solo exhibition "Jet Black Futures" of the British artist Keith Piper at The New Art Gallery Walsall. This ongoing project explores issues of race, speculative futurism and technology in an age of anxiety. The piece In Search of Four Horses is particularly an ambitious and epic four-screen video installation based around an exploration of the myth, metaphor and symbolism of the Biblical story of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

EO: What limitations you see in media art, either technical or conceptual?

KA: Media art - including digital art, computer art, interactive art, CGI art or video art - still has to be more theoretically and conceptually developed. Media art works require a certain space, a budget and scheme to be realized. One difficulty with new media is that there is not so much flexibility in installing each particular work; it involves a lot of technical elements. Nevertheless, the limitations of a medium can also be its artistic freedom.

Tabita Rezaire, Deep Down Tidal, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2017, courtesy Goodman gallery.

EO: Can you tell us about the first time that you have curated a show, any type of show, and what was your motivation then?

KA: My first curatorial show " Elavanyo - Everything is going to be alright" dates back to 2006 at Kiaca Gallery in Columbus (USA) in collaboration with The Ohio State University of Art - Department of History of Art. It was a small exhibition of contemporary African art encompassing painting, drawing, and collage. It has been a noteworthy experience and I learned that an exhibition is more than the sum of its parts; it is the curator's "oeuvre", which illustrates a particular curatorial argument or perspective. I was undoubtedly motivated given that two seminal events inspired me to think about making exhibitions that are interdisciplinary. The first event was the international group exhibition "GNS: Global Navigation Systems" curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Palais de Tokyo in 2003. In terms of critical frameworks, this show blew my mind. The second event was the spectacular exhibition of Lemaître collection at Maison Rouge Foundation in Paris. This collection is composed essentially of recent video art by contemporary international artists who question the language of image today versus fictional cinema, documentary video and television.

EO: Did your motivations for curating artworks, shows, reviews, changed along time passing, and what is the path you see if you look backwards?

KA: My motivations did not change at any point since my curatorial approach is still empirical, reflective, and interventional. A good curator provides continually information, connections, and even contrasts to understand what makes art relevant today, and not only reflects meaning but contribute to debates and new understadings. Furthermore, I'm always interested in learning to illuminate the extra-verbal dimensions of curatorial work and the sociology of affordances. Looking backwards, I've tried on my small scale to respond to the contemporary society as it changes, contribute to art-historical discourse with new thoughts and ideas, participate in the dismantling of prejudice, the discovery of individual and common opportunities previously unnoticed.

EO: You have been invited to look into the archive of 20 years activity of Pixelache organisation. What is your relation with archives in general and with digital archives in particular?

KA: Traditionally, archives are contemporary records created by individuals and organisations as they go about their business and therefore provide a direct window on past events. There are many varieties of archives, and they are for life and for living. I regularly identify appropriate archives for my research. Moreover, I'm fascinated by the record keepers who ensure the long-term physical survival and intellectual integrity of the archive as custodians of society's memory. In 1994, Jacques Derrida delivered his "Archive Fever" lecture at the Freud Museum, and its subsequent publication. Within dialogues around this work it is frequently cited as the catalyst for a turn to the archive within the humanities. Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology - fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Digitization obviously enables the researcher to view materials without visiting the archives in person. The internet is absolutely changing the archive. New digital archives can generate, crowdsource, and share specific and previously unrecorded experiences in an official way. I think new digital databases have greater reach and impact than traditional archives. Online projects are being used to tell new stories, make information and perspectives accessible, connect and create communities, and to process old histories in new ways.

Monica de Miranda, Beauty, 2018, courtesy the artist.

EO: Can you give us a tiny teaser of what you found out so far researching Pixelache archive?

KA: I've found that Pixelache acts as a spatial unification agent between human behavior, environment, music, new media, architecture, technology and communication, associated to diversity of living systems. Additionally, the Pixelache festival's uniqueness is ethical interconnection doing well for the community, finding solutions in main topics of contemporary problems related to economy building circumstances that evolve society and economy sustainability.

EO: What is the next project you are involved in?

KA: I'm currently co-writing a socio-ethical project about insurgent invisibility in contemporary art. Actually, the project strives to create a transversal relationship between international artists from various territories and minorities by including semiotics of the refusal of identity against all forms of domination and destruction.

TIME is Love Screening - 11th edition, Ex-New Contemporary Art Centre, Sulbiate (Italy), 2018, courtesy Ex-New.

Gathering of Elders: 2002 Edition

office@pixelache.ac — Sat, 28 May 2022 16:00:00 +0300

The first Pixelache festival took place during the last week of May in 2002. This Saturday we will reminisce, walk and talk through the various locations of the first festival. The purpose of this wandering is to bring together both the people who partook in the 2002 festival and everyone interested in the near history of electronic art and subcultures.

We will meet at 16.00 in Cafe Java in Lasipalatsi. The upstairs of the cafe used to be a place called Aula, that was the center point of the first Pixelache. At that time, the space was not a café, but a communal space of the Aula cooperative. The Aula cooperative also contributed to the content of the first festival, as they linked together people doing similar things.

Twenty years ago, during the first Pixelache, you could come to the Aula and bring your own computer. Presentations and demos took place, as did discussions and eating together. In the spirit of the time, a DVD Studio Pro workshop led by Jarryd Lowder took place, and AnalogueClinic, led by Tuomas Toivonen, was organised around vintage synthesizers and drum machines. AnalogueClinic ended with jamming together, after which Pink Twins performed using the Framestein software.

Starting from Lasipalatsi, we will walk to Eerikinkatu 27 where the Sauna Bar used to be located. The Sauna Bar was the location for a satellite club called Dotcoma.

From Eerikinkatu, the journey continues towards another bygone nightclub called Mocambo, located at Ratakatu 9. Over the years, Ratakatu 9 has seen several nightclubs come and go, and currently this space in an office building designed by Alvar Aalto is under renovation. With a special permit, we get to see the space from the inside to reminisce what happened there during the first Pixelache. "Certainly there was VJ sets and at least Tuomas Toivonen and O Samuli A performed," recalls festival veteran Antti Ahonen.

From Ratakatu 9, we will walk together, as we would in the early 2000s in Punavuori, to the Merimies Pub at Merimiehenkatu 27 or, weather permitting, to the park at Engelinaukio 5. The latter because, for years, that address has haunted the first festival as the address of the Aula, even though it is not.

In planning this wandering event, we have reminisced about the first Pixelache 20 years ago.

Memories have been supported by Pixelache’s archives, as well as Juha Huuskonen's website at http://www.juhuu.nu/pixelache/2002/pikseli.html

Information about the first festival on Pixelache’s site: https://pixelache.ac/archive/2002

Welcome!

An anthology of ongoing CreaTures ExPs

office@pixelache.ac — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:00:00 +0300

Through a series of open calls, CreaTures has commissioned five new Experimental Productions. The aim of these calls was to enable smaller organisations and/or individuals to participate in the co-creative activities of the research project, by contributing site-specific, small scale projects. This seminar is an opportunity for the creative practitioners that have recently joined the CreaTures family to present their practice and ongoing work.

Participation is open to everyone but registration is required. To join, please fill in your details in the registration form and we will email you the link a day ahead of the seminar.

The seminar will be recorded for archiving and research purposes; by joining the session you consent to the recording. Please read the Participation Information Sheet and Privacy Notice. CreaTures project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870759. The content presented represents the views of the authors, and the European Commission has no liability in respect of the content.

MORE ABOUT THE PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS

Pixelache – Andrew Gryf Paterson

Pixelache Helsinki is a Finland-based creative association on emerging creative practices with almost 20 years of activity, engaging issues in electronic arts and subcultures, eco-social and technological transformation, with a dynamic community that has produced an annual festival with various formats. This presentation will share our attempts this Spring to consider Pixelache Helsinki’s parallel organisational transformations, engaging with that which remains in our office, using memory recall and narratives towards an audio fanzine.

Yarmouth Springs Eternal project – Genevieve Rudd

Yarmouth Springs Eternal is a community arts, walking and nature project, instigated and led by community artist Genevieve Rudd. The project celebrates and connects with everyday or overlooked aspects of the natural world, whilst recognising the inequality of access to natural spaces, and challenging definitions of ‘nature’

Visual trace to establish relation – View from the Window and DOMIE: Martyna Miller
Project View from the Window is a participatory process involving neighbors whose windows overlook DOMIE. DOMIE is a ruin, for four years becoming an engaged cultural center. The building looks like a small home in between tall, older tenements around. When photographed from above, due to the unusual shape of the roof, it visually resembles the first photograph ever taken by Nicephore Niepce in Le Gras (France). By playing with this visual connotation, I invite neighbors to evolve the feeling of something dear and beautiful, connected to memories and storytelling, and by this – slowly search for a sense of belonging and caretaking.

The Fallen Clouds – Josefina Buschmann, Daniela Camino
Josefina Buschmann and Daniela Camino will present the ongoing creative process of THE FALLEN CLOUDS, a speculative research-based project that delves into the socio-environmental impacts of digital infrastructures in Chile to break the great myth of cloud computing. The narrative follows a digital cloud searching for its body and origin extended among submarine cables in La Serena, data centers in Santiago, and minerals in the Atacama salt flat. On the journey it becomes entangled with human and more-than-human beings; socio-environmental conflicts; past, present, and future myths.

Open Urban Forest – Michal Mitro

Michal Mitro of ssesi.space will present the practical and conceptual background of the layered artistic research taking place in and about nature-reclaimed community garden in Brno, Czech Republic. Stacks, more-than-human actants, hyperobjects, as well as bees, retired gardeners and bonfires are all on the menu.

Performative Habitats: film and book launch

office@pixelache.ac — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0300

film screening + talk

Performative Habitats by Egle Oddo

videogallery
film screening from 11 am to 4.30 pm
free admission subject to availability

opening hours

A complex project in which biology, botany and natural sciences meet the multiple languages of the artistic disciplines, curated by Lori Adragna and realised thanks to the support of the project Italian Council of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
The book, which takes its title from the project, analyses the themes dear to the artist and sees the contribution of a number of philosophers, scientists and art historians, some of whom will be speaking at MAXXI to present the book online and on-site.

The video – in French – offers an insight into the artist’s long-term research, focusing principally on the ongoing collaborations between Egle Oddo and various institutions and partners in Tunisia where the project is continuing to develop.

introduced by
Irene de Vico Fallani Head of MAXXI Public Program

speakers
Michela Becchis art critic
Leonardo Caffo philosopher
Giorgio de Finis anthropologist
Maria Giovanna Musso Professor of Sociology of Change, Art and Creativity
Santa Nastro art critic and journalist
Claudia Stivali architect
Egle Oddo artist

moderation
Lori Adragna curator

Performative Habitats has envisaged the collaboration of the following partners: GMK Gallery, Myymälä2 Gallery, Mänttä Festival, Pixelache Helsinki, STEBICEF Department and Humanities Department of the University of Palermo, CBBC – Biotechnology Centre of Borj Cedria, and MAXXI, Rome. In the specific venues the project availed itself of the collaboration of the following curators: Lea Vene at the GMK Gallery, Zagreb; Basak Senova at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna; Eva Comuzzi and Orietta Masin at the Take Care of Yourself Review, Cervignano del Friuli; Anna Ruth at the Mänttä Festival in Finland.

The project is supported by: the Italian Council (8th edition, 2020), a project of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture; Frame Contemporary Art Finland; the Arts Promotion Centre Finland; the Finnish Cultural Foundation; the Italian Cultural Institute in Helsinki; the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis.

Collective Intelligence goes Echangeur

office@pixelache.ac — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0200

Collective Intelligence goes Echangeur in 2022-2023

Collective Intelligence is a series of deep dive sessions up to one month long; encounters where artists, thinkers and activists work on parallel and shared projects, influencing each other in a convivial frame. The focus in on presence and time, experimental process and curiosity. The activity does not come across as curated content or framework, and its outcomes are not set in advance. As a possibility, participants exchange practices and visions, they feel the context and create a common context. If this naturally leads-to and produces individual or collective outcomes it is welcome, but it is not compulsory. Bluntly put: production of artworks or exhibitions is not our aim, but if it happens it is sustained. Initiated by Egle Oddo in 2016, the project took inspiration from Pixelache rhizomatic and cluster-like chaotic projects. Here you can read about the beginning and past activity with Collective Intelligence in 2017, in 2018, in 2019, and in 2020. Past article on Voima Magazine.

This time the dialogue starts thanks to France-based artist Carita Savolainen who has been interested in interacting with Collective Intelligence group and with Myymälä2. She has set an exchange with a group of artists living and working in France: Carita Savolainen, Marie-Cécile Conilh de Beyssac, Nina Schipoff, Alain Léonési, Gilles Bingisser. The participants of Collective Intelligence group: Alan Bulfin, Marjatta Oja, Irina Mutt, Antti Ahonen, Saša Nemec, Martin Dahlström-Heuser, Veera Kuusisto, Mathilde Palenius, Timo Tuhkanen and Egle Oddo.

The place and time of the exchange:

- From 1st to 15th of December 2022 the artists based in France will be at HIAP Villa Eläintarha Residency in Helsinki. During this period all the artists involved and guests will use Myymälä2 gallery as shared studio, a space for encounter and experimentation.

- From 8th to 14th of December 2022 artists Carita Savolainen, Marie-Cécile Conilh de Beyssac, Nina Schipoff, Alain Léonési, Gilles Bingisser, Alan Bulfin, Marjatta Oja, Veera Kuusisto & Alva Strang, and curator Irina Mutt, will exhibit at the French Institute in Finland.

- From 1st to 15th February 2023 a few members of Collective Intelligence group (Alan Bulfin, Martin Dahlström-Heuser, Irina Mutt and Veera Kuusisto) will have a two weeks residency at the Echangeur22, in St. Laurent des Arbres, France. The same idea of experimentation and dialogue is the core of the residency in France too.

The Rain Theatre by Mandarina Collective

office@pixelache.ac — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0300

Photo: Maikki Kantola
Festival graphics: Wojtek Mejor, Evdokia Asseeva

THE EVENT IS FULL, NO MORE REGISTRATION IS POSSIBLE

In The Rain Theatre, the science of cloud formation and rainmaking is blended with English storytelling in a sensorial experience, supported by a magical scenography, analogue projected visuals and soundscapes that will transport the audience to the rainforest itself.

Water, coming from the abundant rains, is the blood that flows in the Amazon. Human action, ubiquitous nowadays not only alters essential natural mechanisms like the water cycle but also causes biodiversity loss, displaces indigenous communities, threatening knowledge and symbiotic ways of living with Nature. Combining storytelling with all our senses will translate into a universal language, as we aim to create awareness about one of the most important phenomena that take place in the Amazon, and elsewhere: Rain.

This performance was conceived as a multi-sensorial experience and aims to bring the science of cloud formation and rainmaking closer to young and family audiences.

This performance is adapted to welcome pairs of one child and one adult. We invite not only parents, but grandparents, older siblings, uncles, aunts and non-blood-related families... to join children in this journey that combines participatory science experimentation, storytelling in English and visual and sound arts. During the performance, we ask children and adults to engage, empathise and help to restore the unbalance created by humans in the Amazon and bring the rain back.

Please join us on the 12th of September at 13:00 or 14:30, at the Oodi Library, 1st floor in Maijansali, Töölönlahdenkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki for the performance and after it, when the members of Mandarina Collective will extend this space of encounter beyond the stage and take questions about the science of water, clouds and rain or about any other of the elements that take part in the performance.

Due to covid-19 restrictions, the event is accessible to a limited number of persons.

Register at the bottom of this page for you and your children !

All Finnish and Helsinki City safety measures apply to this event, you can see the latest information here.

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Mandarina Collective: Ana Piedehierro (ES), Ines Montalvao (PT) and Ina Fiebig (DE).

Mandarina Collective

Mandarina Collective became real in 2019 when Helsinki-based Ana Álvarez Piedehierro (ES), Ina Fiebig (DE) and Ines Montalvao (PT), were selected to perform in a multilingual Children’s Festival.

The collective is passionate about different but also common fields and, in their work together, they combine their knowledge of Science, Illustration and Experience Design with our passion for communication and a cross-disciplinary approach.

Instagram @mandarina.collective

Ana Álvarez Piedehierro

Ana Álvarez Piedehierro is an atmospheric scientist who loves sharing the wonders of science with everybody, especially the little ones. She obtained her PhD in Physics in Spain. She founded a science outreach project “Fis & Kids” (Extremadura, Spain), that focuses on reaching young students to increase their interest in the physical sciences through interactive workshops.

Now as a postdoc researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, she has found ways to continue and expand her commitment with science outreach in Finland. She is a member of Ninho Kulttuurikeskus Ry, has participated in three editions of Kolibrí Festivaali, and collaborated with Heureka science centre and The Science Basement (University of Helsinki). Reaching multilingual communities in Helsinki with her science outreach skills has become one of her priorities.

Ina Fiebig

Ina Fiebig is a German graphic designer and illustrator. She loves drawing and the different manual techniques of creating images. In her design work, she creates illustrations and other playful key visuals for public campaigns, expositions and books. Ina worked on different projects throughout Europe (Berlin & Barcelona) as a Designer, Illustrator and Art Director, with a focus on social, cultural or educational projects. Since 2014 Ina lives with her family in Espoo, Finland – where she works at her own studio. She designs and leads creative workshops with international participants at libraries and educational centres in Helsinki and Espoo. Since 2015 she is a member of Ninho Kultturrikeskus Ry and is part of the key team of Kolibri Festivaali, a multicultural art festival for families in Helsinki and Espoo where she curates the exhibitions of the invited artists and overlooks the visual design of the festival.

www.inafiebig.de

Ines Montalvao

Ines Montalvao is based in Helsinki since the beginning of 2017 and has been working at Heureka, the Finnish science centre in Concept & Experience design. With a degree in biology and a passion for art, she combines both, explores cross-disciplinary approaches, storytelling, illustration and innovative ways to create meaningful experiences.

All this comes from an enthusiastic and dreamy way of being. She is a member of Ninho Kulttuurikeskus Ry and has participated in two editions of Kolibrí Festivaali. She is also a member of the International Society of Female Professionals (ISFP) and the Finnish Bioart Society.

www.linkedin.com/in/ines-montalvao

The Rain Theatre by Mandarina Collective is finally happening !

Mathilde Palenius — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:21:00 +0300

Photo: Maikki Kantola
Festival graphics: Wojtek Mejor, Evdokia Asseeva

*Due to covid-19 restrictions, the event is accessible to a limited number of persons, register at the bottom of the event page: https://pixelache.ac/events/the-rain-theatre-by-mandarina-collective *

Please join us on the 12th of September at 13:00 or 14:30, at the Oodi Library, 1st floor in Maijansali, Töölönlahdenkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki for the performance and after it, when the members of Mandarina Collective will extend this space of encounter beyond the stage and take questions about the science of water, clouds and rain or about any other of the elements that take part in the performance.

Due to covid-19 restrictions, the event is accessible to a limited number of persons.

Click here to register for you and your children ! (registration form at the bottom of the page)

All Finnish and Helsinki City safety measures apply to this event, you can see the latest information here.

Facebook event

Mandarina Collective: Ana Piedehierro (ES), Ines Montalvao (PT) and Ina Fiebig (DE).

Mandarina Collective

Mandarina Collective became real in 2019 when Helsinki-based Ana Álvarez Piedehierro (ES), Ina Fiebig (DE) and Ines Montalvao (PT), were selected to perform in a multilingual Children’s Festival.

The collective is passionate about different but also common fields and, in their work together, they combine their knowledge of Science, Illustration and Experience Design with our passion for communication and a cross-disciplinary approach.

Instagram @mandarina.collective

Ana Álvarez Piedehierro

Ina Fiebig

www.inafiebig.de

Ines Montalvao

www.linkedin.com/in/ines-montalvao

Drifts Festival - Unmapping Futures

office@pixelache.ac — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0300

Drifts festival 2021 explores the theme “Unmapping Futures” in order to map out a plurality of futures. Unmapping Futures opens up social spheres with 33 transdisciplinary practitioners for dialogue on current socio-political and ecological challenges, as well as actionable futures through screenings, performances, lectures, workshops and exhibitions.

Unmapping Futures is co-directed by artist-curator Soko Hwang and researcher-curator Mi You. The festival programs are co-curated by the artistic directors in collaboration with curator-educator Bassam El Baroni and curator Marianne Savallampi. The events are taking place at Kontula central square, Museum of Impossible Forms culture centre and Wenla in Kontula.

Please join us at Kontula central square on Thursday, 5th August at 06:00 p.m., and at events through Sunday, 8th August (free entrance) - The full festival program and further information is available on the Drifts homepage.

Participants

Nei Zigma, Larissa Sansour, Saara Ekstrom, Heidi Piiroinen, Egle Oddo x Jamie MacDonald, Gregoire Rousseau, Jérôme Grivel, Olle Holmberg, Tuomas A. Laitinen, Linda Lazarov x Aala Nyman, Sansibar x Antti Salonennen x J. Culebro, Station of Commons, Mattin, Adham Selim, Diakron, Pekko Koskinen, Ayoung Kim, Royce Ng, Hyeseon Jeong, Bahar Noorizadeh, Metahaven, Bebetton(Jani A. Purhonen x Eeva Rönkä), REUNION x Trojan Horse, Minna Henriksson x Sezgin Boynik, Julia Trofimova, Soko Hwang x Marianne Savallampi

Partners

Museum of Impossible Forms
Wenla

Funders

Taiteen edistämiskeskus - Taike - Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Helsingin kaupunki - Helsingfors stad - City of Helsinki - Culture and Leisure Department

Media Supporters

Myymälä2 Gallery
Pixelache Helsinki

Pixelache

I thought the earth remembered me

Monuments Summer 2025

Dunya: Persona

Limbo

Island Apocalypse Tours: #2 Naissaar - #3 Vartiosaari

Island Apocalypse Tours: #1 Suomenlinna report

Island Apocalypse Tours: #1 Suomenlinna

PIXELISH

FORUM PIXELACHE x LUMBUNG RADIO

Info

Rahoitus ja kumppaneita MUU Helsinki nykytaidekeskus Taiteen edistämiskeskus Institut Français - Finlande Reset! Network, co-funded by the European Union

TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre City of Helsinki - Culture and Leisure Division

Lumbung radio and Station of Commons: Collaborators of the Forum 2.-3. September 2023

Pixelache is excited to work in collaboration with lumbung Radio and Station of Commons on the Forum The state we are in; Sustainability through collective actions, happening on 2.-3. September 2023 at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre and broadcasted live.

Who is Station of Commons ?

Who is lumbung Radio ?

Station of Commons and lumbung Radio involvement as collaborators of the Forum:

See you at MUU and on live broadcast on Station of Commons platform on 2.-3. September 2023 !

PIKSELIÄHKY FESTIVAALI 2023: GLITCHZ

Pixelachen residenssiwikimedistit 2022: podcastit, joissa Wikimedia ja ruohonjuuritason kulttuuriorganisaatiot löytävät toisensa ja tutustuvat toisiinsa pitkän ajan jälkeen

Open Call: Pixelache is looking for an intern !

Assistant producer for Pixelache 2023 artistic programme in Helsinki mid-April - mid-September 2023 (6 months), part-time

Please send your CV and tell us why you are motivated to join us by email to hallitus@pixelache.ac

Deadline to apply: 27. March 2023

Make Friends, Not Art

CONTACTS 20 Years of Pixelache

CONTACTS 20 Years of Pixelache Saturday 3. December 2022 Symposium 10:00-17:30 Kiasma Teatteri (Theatre) Helsinki Free entrance

CONTACTS is a transnational symposium that weaves sociocultural issues that are facing our contemporary times. The symposium opens a public sphere for critical dialogue on communal survival and cohabitation, and will unfold a series of presentations, film screenings & an open-mic closing session.

Contacts are fundamental life forms such as gathering, confronting, and sharing. Transversal solidarity, interdependence and mutual support are potential tactics to reveal and confront silenced structural oppressions such as racism, classism, nationalism, authoritarianism, and patriarchy.

Participants

Juha Huuskonen, Z. Blace, Minna Henriksson, The Otolith Group, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Pierre Michelon, Alice Mutoni (Ubuntu Film Club), Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Paula Pin, Quimera Rosa, Marc Dusseiller, Eeva Berglund, Kisito Assangni

Symposium Program

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Pixelache Team

Biographies

Pixelache Helsinki contributes to CreaTures at the Cooler Planet exhibition

Pixelache Helsinki at the CreaTures Festival

Production credits:

Funding & support:

Another Story: an interview with curator Kisito Assangni

* In the picture: Mohammed Laouli, Les Sculptures n'étaient pas blanches, 2020, courtesy the artist.

Moataz Nasr, The Mountain, the Egyptian pavilion at Venice Biennale, 2017, courtesy the artist.

Tabita Rezaire, Deep Down Tidal, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 2017, courtesy Goodman gallery.

Monica de Miranda, Beauty, 2018, courtesy the artist.

TIME is Love Screening - 11th edition, Ex-New Contemporary Art Centre, Sulbiate (Italy), 2018, courtesy Ex-New.

Gathering of Elders: 2002 Edition

An anthology of ongoing CreaTures ExPs

Performative Habitats: film and book launch

film screening + talk

Performative Habitats by Egle Oddo

Collective Intelligence goes Echangeur

The Rain Theatre by Mandarina Collective

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Due to covid-19 restrictions, the event is accessible to a limited number of persons.

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Mandarina Collective

Ana Álvarez Piedehierro

Ina Fiebig

Ines Montalvao

The Rain Theatre by Mandarina Collective is finally happening !

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Mandarina Collective

Drifts Festival - Unmapping Futures

Please join us at Kontula central square on Thursday, 5th August at 06:00 p.m., and at events through Sunday, 8th August (free entrance) - The full festival program and further information is available on the Drifts homepage.

Participants

Partners

Funders

Media Supporters

Rahoitus ja kumppaneita

MUU Helsinki nykytaidekeskus
Taiteen edistämiskeskus
Institut Français - Finlande
Reset! Network, co-funded by the European Union

TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre
City of Helsinki - Culture and Leisure Division

Assistant producer for Pixelache 2023 artistic programme in Helsinki
mid-April - mid-September 2023 (6 months), part-time

CONTACTS 20 Years of Pixelache
Saturday 3. December 2022
Symposium 10:00-17:30
Kiasma Teatteri (Theatre)
Helsinki
Free entrance

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