Mediatheque - PROGRAMME
March 7 – June 6
Pixelache Capsula: Expedition to the Total Eclipse
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Germany
Mireia C. Saladrigues, Spain
Tommi Taipale, Finland
Curator Ulla Taipale, Capsula, Finland
The works of the exhibition are based on a cross-disciplinary expedition in Siberia in the summer of 2008. The purpose of Capsula’s expeditions was to experience and observe different natural phenomena.
> http://capsulaexpeditions.com
Pixelache Capsula: Expedition to the Total Eclipse
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Germany
Mireia C. Saladrigues, Spain
Tommi Taipale, Finland
Curator Ulla Taipale, Capsula, Finland
The works of the exhibition are based on a cross-disciplinary expedition in Siberia in the summer of 2008. The purpose of Capsula’s expeditions was to experience and observe different natural phenomena.
> http://capsulaexpeditions.com
June 6 – August 23
Lena Séraphin 1962 Finland
Watchmakers, 2007
This short film has a skilfully crafted loop-like structure, where the repeated robberies at a jewellery store present the criminal as the victim, and the victim as the criminal, who returns to the crime scene. The same scenes opens up new levels which, at the same time, both complement and break the logical structure of the story.
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Lena Séraphin 1962 Finland
Watchmakers, 2007
This short film has a skilfully crafted loop-like structure, where the repeated robberies at a jewellery store present the criminal as the victim, and the victim as the criminal, who returns to the crime scene. The same scenes opens up new levels which, at the same time, both complement and break the logical structure of the story.
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August 28 – October 4
Cory Arcangel 1978 USA
a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, 2007
The topic of the video installation of this New York based artist is Glenn Gould’s interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1741). In his video montage, Arcangel has joined together almost 2000 video clips, which amateur musicians playing different instruments had uploaded to the Internet.
Commissioned by the Film and Video Umbrella
Courtesy: artist and Team Gallery, New York
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Cory Arcangel 1978 USA
a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, 2007
The topic of the video installation of this New York based artist is Glenn Gould’s interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1741). In his video montage, Arcangel has joined together almost 2000 video clips, which amateur musicians playing different instruments had uploaded to the Internet.
Commissioned by the Film and Video Umbrella
Courtesy: artist and Team Gallery, New York
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October 5 – November 1
/theatre.now
Organized by the Kiasma Theatre,
/theatre.now aspires to offer a new vision or new perspectives on performing arts. It is typical for the festival to break out from the theatre space, to show experimental performances and to collaborate intensively with the artists.
Curators Riitta Aarniokoski, Jonna Strandberg, Kiasma Theatre
> Kiasma Theatre
/theatre.now
Organized by the Kiasma Theatre,
/theatre.now aspires to offer a new vision or new perspectives on performing arts. It is typical for the festival to break out from the theatre space, to show experimental performances and to collaborate intensively with the artists.
Curators Riitta Aarniokoski, Jonna Strandberg, Kiasma Theatre
> Kiasma Theatre
Milja Viita 1974
Finland The Missing Letters, 1939-1945, 2008
The Missing Letters, 1939-1945, is a video based on the correspondence between Aino and Allan Rusinen during the war. The work examines the spaces between words and images. The original letters are now lost, but the children of the couple rewrote them based on their own memories and conceptions over fifty years later.
Finland The Missing Letters, 1939-1945, 2008
The Missing Letters, 1939-1945, is a video based on the correspondence between Aino and Allan Rusinen during the war. The work examines the spaces between words and images. The original letters are now lost, but the children of the couple rewrote them based on their own memories and conceptions over fifty years later.
Huone X - OHJELMA
March 26 – June 7
Cristina Lucas 1973
Spain In her video work Habla, 2008, the artist undertakes a performative dialogue
with Michelangelo’s Moses sculpture (1513-15). Lucas reinterprets the legend associated with Michelangelo from a woman’s perspective. The sculptor is so taken with the vivaciousness of her own work that she demands that it should talk, enforcing the request by hitting the sculpture on the knee with a hammer.
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Cristina Lucas 1973
Spain In her video work Habla, 2008, the artist undertakes a performative dialogue
with Michelangelo’s Moses sculpture (1513-15). Lucas reinterprets the legend associated with Michelangelo from a woman’s perspective. The sculptor is so taken with the vivaciousness of her own work that she demands that it should talk, enforcing the request by hitting the sculpture on the knee with a hammer.
> Imprint
June 12 – August 23
Zhao Shaoruo 1962
China From series There is a ZHAO SHAO RUO in China
In the Name of the Market, 1996
In the Name of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 1996
Traditionally, switching and playing with the portraits of those in power has offered artists a way to ironize the power holders. Shaoruo has continued with the method of switching heads in these photographs. The artist has changed every face in the pictures with his own image. The works present a fictitious journey back to one’s own roots.
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Zhao Shaoruo 1962
China From series There is a ZHAO SHAO RUO in China
In the Name of the Market, 1996
In the Name of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 1996
Traditionally, switching and playing with the portraits of those in power has offered artists a way to ironize the power holders. Shaoruo has continued with the method of switching heads in these photographs. The artist has changed every face in the pictures with his own image. The works present a fictitious journey back to one’s own roots.
> Bar Code
August 28 – October 31
Fanni Niemi-Junkola 1962
Finland Giants, 1998
The trial of strength between two women has grown into gigantic proportions. The sea and the sky form a historical background for the wrestlers. Slow motion emphasizes physical violence, which is usually not connected to women.
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Fanni Niemi-Junkola 1962
Finland Giants, 1998
The trial of strength between two women has grown into gigantic proportions. The sea and the sky form a historical background for the wrestlers. Slow motion emphasizes physical violence, which is usually not connected to women.
> Imprint
November 7 – February 14, 2010
Ilmari Gryta 1979
Poland Overture, 2008
The mechanic instrument studying the dynamics of movement and change connects manual skills to the memories of childhood games. Steel balls roll randomly across the surface of the furniture-like sculpture towards the steel strings at the edges, resulting in deep chords.
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Ilmari Gryta 1979
Poland Overture, 2008
The mechanic instrument studying the dynamics of movement and change connects manual skills to the memories of childhood games. Steel balls roll randomly across the surface of the furniture-like sculpture towards the steel strings at the edges, resulting in deep chords.
> Bar Code
