Pilvi Takala News: 2008

Outshiners in galerija miroslav kraljevic

17.12.2008-31.01.2009

Pilvi Takala:
OUTSHINERS

opening Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 7 pm

Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is proud to present Pilvi Takala's solo show Outshiners. Besides a selection of the artist's earlier work, the exhibition presents a new piece The Messengers, produced during the artist's research and residency at G-MK in Winter 2007.

Curated by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majaca

With the support of FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange

g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic
Subiceva 29
10000 Zagreb
+385 1 4592 696
www.g-mk.hr

SMART-joulukatselmus

SMART-wiew at Korjaamo
3.12.- 4.1.
open every day 11-17

*Jiri Geller * Toni Hautamäki *Hannaleena Heiska * Jenni Hiltunen * Eemil Karila * Katri Kuparinen * Susanna Majuri * Heikki Marila * Tiina Mielonen * Riiko Sakkinen * Maiju Salmenkivi * Pilvi Takala * Pekka Finland

Kultturitehdas Korjaamo
Töölönkatu 51 a-b Helsinki

invitation
Korjaamo

The Announcer in 25. Kasseler DokFest

The Announcer in "Seeking a partner"-screening
Friday 14.11. at 22:15 BALi Cinemas
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & videofest
Seeking a partner

The Angels in Turku Art Museum

Pilvi Takala: The Angels
7.11.2008 - 11.1. 2009
Turku Art museum / Darkroom
Aurakatu 26 20100 Turku

Opening 6.11. at 6 pm
Artist talk 9.11. at 12

The exhibition has been kindly supported by Aflred Kordelin Foundation and Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Turku Art Museum
Angels in Pimiö/Darkroom

The Shining Shining in Freewaves festival

Freewaves festival

Salon of the Revolution

HDLU, Zagreb
04.10.2008.- 26.10.2008
Curators: Ivana Bago & Antonia Majaca

JULIETA ARANDA, ARTURAS BUMŠTEINAS & LAURA GARBŠTIENE, PETAR BUNIĆ, ALEJANDRO CESARCO, KAJSA DAHLBERG, MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL, CLAIRE FONTAINE, SAMUEL DOWD & FLORIAN ROITHMAYR, DISOBEDIENCE ARCHIVE, IVAN DUJMUŠIĆ, KÖKEN ERGUN, MARIN KANAJET, PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS, JAKUP FERRI, MARIO GARCÍA TORRES, ĐURO GAVRAN, IGOR GRUBIĆ, NICOLINE VAN HARSKAMP, STEFAN HAUS, ADRIJANA HISENI, ILEGALNI BIOSKOP, SINIŠA ILIĆ, THE INSTITUTE OF ART AND PRACTICE OF DISSENT AT HOME, JANEZ JANŠA, JEUDI NOIR, BOŽIDAR KATIĆ, IVA KOVAČ & NATAŠA TEPAVČEVIĆ, NENAD KURĆUBIĆ, SINIŠA LABROVIĆ, RUNO LAGOMARSINO, IVAN LATIN, MARKO MARKOVIĆ, MONUMENT TO TRANSFORMATION, RADENKO MILAK, CIPRIAN MURESAN, ANGEL NEVAREZ & VALERIE TEVERE, AHMET ÖGÜT, DAMIR OČKO, CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU, LALA RAŠČIĆ & VUNENY, R.E.P.- REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIMENTAL SPACE, JOANNE RICHARDSON, DINA RONČEVIĆ, MAJORIAN 458, KARLA ŠULER, PILVI TAKALA, STEFANOS TSIVOPOULOS, NASSAN TUR, MONA VATAMANU & FLORIN TUDOR, VOINA
Salon of the Revolution

The Trainee at Helsinki Airport 1.9.-31.10.

The Trainee is on show in Deloitte Lounge at Helsinki Vantaa Airport, next to gate 33

Photos: Petri Virtanen, Central Art Archives, Helsinki.

The Announcer in 13th Milano Film Festival, Short Film Competition

Milano Film Festival

Short Film Competition Programme

The Announcer screening times (with 5 other films):
Sun 14 - h. 22.30, Teatro Strehler
Tue 16 - h. 23, Teatro Strehler
Fri 19 - h. 22.45, Parco - Piazza Grande

The Trainee in Kiasma

Pilvi Takala: "The Trainee"

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Room X

8.8.-5.10.2008

reMAKE 4 Pilvi Takala

Kiasma’s partner Deloitte came up with an offer for an artist residence in their office building in Ruoholahti, Helsinki. The aim of the project was to re-examine the development of the cooperation between the company and the museum together with an artist. Pilvi Takala’s works open up the codes of different social situations. The Trainee is a work based on a one-month intervention, in which we see an initially normal-seeming marketing trainee starting to apply peculiar working methods.

The Trainee is a work based on a one-month intervention, in which we see an initially normal-seeming marketing trainee starting to apply peculiar working methods. Gradually she shifts from the position of someone others believe normal to the object of avoidance and speculation. The videos and slideshow reveal a spectrum of ways of looking after the odd member in a group. Sincere interest and bewildered amusement is juxtaposed with demands directed at the superior regarding the strangely behaving worker.

We see the trainee sitting at her workstation in the consults’ open plan office space or in the tax department library all day doing nothing. One of the videos shows her spending an entire day in an elevator. These acts or rather the absence of visible action slowly make the atmosphere around the trainee unbearable and force the colleagues to search for solutions and come up with explanations for the situation.

Masking laziness in apparent activity and browsing Facebook during working hours belong to the acceptable behavioural patterns of a work community. However, sitting in front of an empty desk with your hands of your lap, thinking, threatens the peace of the community and breaks the colleagues’ concentration. When there is no ready method of action, people initially resort to avoidance, which fails to set their mind at ease when the situation drags on.

What provokes people in non-doing alongside strangeness is the element of resistance. The non-doing person isn’t committed to any activity, so they have the potential for anything. It is non-doing that lacks a place in the general order of things, and thus it is a threat to order. It is easy to root out any on-going anti-order activity, but the potential for anything is a continual stimulus without a solution.

Urban pedestals in Helsinki

www.urbanpedestals.org

URBAN PEDESTALS AND
SUBURBAN PEDESTAL HELSINKI
11.07 to the 18.07 2008

URBAN PEDESTALS Jens Axel Beck, Tove Storch, Lisa Torell, Halldor Ulfarsson, Nanna Debois Buhl, Luca Frei, Pilvi Takala, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta Kalleinen and Hans Rosenström, SUBURBAN PEDESTAL: Søren Assenholt, Cecilia De Jong, Uffe Holm and Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen.

Opening the 11.07 at 20-21pm,
At the bridge of Helsinginkatu and Wallinikatu

The Announcer in VIEW08-festival

The Announcer in City-life-screening
SATURDAY 24.5.2008, ANDORRA, HELSINKI
screenings info

and in VIEW online gallery

VIEW gallery

Easy Rider in Intervene!, Interrupt!

The Show Starts on the Sidewalk:
Outdoor screenings
-San Jose (May 2, 8:30 PM San Jose State University campus, downtown)
-Santa Cruz (May 14, 2008, 9:30 PM Cedar @ Locust St, Downtown Santa Cruz)

The Show Starts on the Sidewalk

Bag Lady in Alexa 9th of April

After some of the audience had asked the security guards at Alexa where to find the performance, they went online to find the description of the event and eventually catched Bag Lady and took her to the central management. After a discussion with the manager and a person from the marketing, Bag lady was allowed to go on one more hour, until 8pm, now closely followed by the security. Even if Bag Lady was willing to risk her money, the manager couldn't risk the reputation of Alexa.

5th Berlin Biennial

Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 / 5-10 pm
Bag Lady

Bag Lady is a performance that will take place in the large, new Alexa shopping mall at Alexanderplatz. It was realized for the first time in the Arkaden shopping mall on Potsdamer Platz in 2006 for the duration of one week; the artist’s book Bag Lady, published in 2007, is based on this performance. A neatly dressed woman will appear, carrying a lot of cash in a transparent plastic bag. Behaving like a perfect customer while doing something completely “wrong,” Bag Lady is both a security threat and a subject of protection. Existing in both roles but fitting in neither, she challenges the pleasant and secure shopping atmosphere of the mall, especially the people responsible for maintaining it. This slight intervention sheds controversial light on the fragility of the social order, where private property in the form of money or a consumer product is of such supreme value that it is under constant intuitive public control. The Finnish artist Pilvi Takala was born in 1981 and lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Istanbul (TR).

Alexa Shopping Center, Alexanderplatz, Grunerstrasse 20, 10179 Berlin-Mitte, U2/U5/U8, S5/S7/S9/S75, Tram M2/M4/M5/M6 Alexanderplatz

Free admission

Berlin Biennial
FlashArt online NEWS
Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours program