Tampere Art Film Festival 8.-9.3.2007
Tampere Art Film Festivalin parhaaksi teokseksi valittiin Pilvi Takalan Easy Rider. Tuomariston mielestä se on hauska ja provokatiivinen, samalla kuitenkin esteettisesti mielenkiintoinen. Tuomariston oli myös hankala kuvitella idean toteutustapaa jonakin muuna kuin nimenomaan videotaideteoksena.
Teos palkittiin videokameralla ja levityssopimuksella. Tuomariston muodostivat Näyttämötaiteiden Satakunnan läänintaiteilija Hilkka Hyttinen, runoilija Bosse Hellsten ja kuvataiteilija Minna Suoniemi.
Tänä vuonna osallistuvia teoksia oli yli 150 kpl joista festivaaliohjelmistoon valittiin 28. Näiden lisäksi muutamia teoksia esitettiin Tampereen kaupungille sijoitetuista televisioista.
Tampere Art Film Festival 8.-9.3 klo 23
Elokuvateatteri Niagara, Kehräsaari
Liput: 4 €/pv 6€/2pv
The Bridge / Radikal Art
The Bridge by
Ahmet Öğüt & Pilvi Takala
location: Gayrettepe Esbank Genel Md. önü, Mecidiyeköy yönüMeclisi Mebusan Cad. Kabataş İskelesi önü,
09-15-January-2007
Radikal ART
http://www.radikal.com.tr/diger/radikalart/
A Screening-evening of WALLFLOWER/TAZ Tallinn
A Screening-evening of WALLFLOWER by Pilvi Takala (Finland) in TAZ Tallinn
TAZ TALLINN (Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space)
Pärnu Road 27-13, Tallinn, Estonia
October 6, 2006
www.moskva80.com
The video work Wallflower is based on a simple performative event in a dance-evening, a version of the traditional Finnish summer pavilion dance. Mostly elderly couples enjoy themselves dancing to old-fashioned music while the artist, a younger woman, is sitting in a shiny dress alone the whole evening waiting for somebody to ask her to dance. But everybody is dancing only with their partners and never ask the stranger to dance, as it would be appropriate in the proper dance-events in Finland. So the girl is sitting, the hours are passing, the band finishes and everybody is about to leave. What a unpleasant situation! What a foolish situation! On the one hand, the piece evokes embarrassment and sweet-bitter discomfort as well as raising the question, what is the artist looking for from the territory that is clearly not hers? The territory she tries to "fish" is shared by a particular community with a clear set of rules shared among them. This in-between contradictory feeling seems to be shared among the dancers in the some kind of spa in Pärnu as well as among viewer in front of the screen. Wallflower is a smart interference, which points to the characteristics and value system of one generation as well as unwritten rules shared on national bases. The performative experiment comes to an end with the same result as several of Pilvi's works before: the social structure is functioning and protecting itself.
The artwork Wallflower was commissioned by Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space in summer 2006.
The show is supported by Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finnish Institute, Tallinn and Estonian Cultural Endowment.
A poster with a text by Rael Artel is available to download here (about 200 kilos):
Wallflower poster
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Forever Yours,
Rael Artel
+ 372 56 460 983
+ 372 56 229 213
moskva80@moskva80.com
www.moskva80.com
WALLFLOWER in Rael Artel Gallery, Pärnu
WALLFLOWER by Pilvi Takala (Finland)
Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space
Lõuna 20, Pärnu, Estonia
August 17st throughout 20th, 2006
www.moskva80.com
Consisting of two videos and a small installation, the project titled as Wallflower by Pilvi Takala is based on a performance situated in dance-events for Finnish tourists in Pärnu, Estonia. Pärnu is very popular tourist destination among Finnish people and events visited by the residence artist Pilvi Takala are a version of the traditional Finnish summer pavilion dance. Mostly older couples on their holidays come to these events, they dance only with their partners and never ask strangers to dance as it would be appropriate in the proper dance-events in Finland.
The performance is a subtle act: just the artist, a younger woman, going into the dance in a shiny dress and sitting alone the whole evening waiting for somebody to ask her to dance. Just being overdressed and obviously expecting to get to dance creates a very awkward situation and pushes the boundaries of Finnish modest mentality and the Finnish idea of politeness. Everybody is embarrassed on the lonely girls behalf, but nobody thinks they are the man to ask her to dance. Pilvi is playing with uncomfortable feelings generated by following/not following a set of rules shared by a social group.
The artwork Wallflower was commissioned by Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space in summer 2006.
The show is supported by Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finnish Institute, Tallinn and Estonian Cultural Endowment.
A video still is visible at www.moskva80.com
Stranger Than Fiction/LAB, San Fransisco
Stranger Than Fiction
A video screening curated by Nomi Talisman
Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 7-9 PM
$5-10 sliding scale admission
Stranger Than Fiction will include short video pieces (up to 12 minutes long) that combine real life with performative acts. This event will showcase works that manipulate the sense of what is real and what is present, by highlighting, subverting, or acting upon it--documents which capture mundane, extraordinary, or surreal events occurring in the everyday.
Program:
Victor Barbieri – Beauty No. 3
Benjamin Bellas – “doesn’t matter that I followed the rules…”
Ian Cheng – MoMa Audio Adventure Club
Lisa Erdman – Annual Checkup
Claudia Esslinger w/ Leslie Seiters and Ron Estes – Breathing Lessons
Sean Fletcher & Isabel Reichert - Proceedings
Linda M. Ford – Fille Publique
Robert Heel – Downtown Crossing
Berit Hummel – Arena TV
Scott Kidall – Stolen Moments
MAS-Lab/ The Egg Ensemble – (The Enigma of Salvador) Dali’s Egg
Sean Olson - Affection
Julie Orser – Bit Parts
Carol Pereira - Remote
Pilvi Takala – Easy Rider
Michael Trigilio – Book 15
Nyok Mei Wong _ I’m too sad to tell you
And special guests
The LAB
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
p: 415.864.8855
f: 415.864.8860
http://www.thelab.org
Stranger than Fiction program
A video screening curated by Nomi Talisman
Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 7-9 PM
$5-10 sliding scale admission
Stranger Than Fiction will include short video pieces (up to 12 minutes long) that combine real life with performative acts. This event will showcase works that manipulate the sense of what is real and what is present, by highlighting, subverting, or acting upon it--documents which capture mundane, extraordinary, or surreal events occurring in the everyday.
Program:
Victor Barbieri – Beauty No. 3
Benjamin Bellas – “doesn’t matter that I followed the rules…”
Ian Cheng – MoMa Audio Adventure Club
Lisa Erdman – Annual Checkup
Claudia Esslinger w/ Leslie Seiters and Ron Estes – Breathing Lessons
Sean Fletcher & Isabel Reichert - Proceedings
Linda M. Ford – Fille Publique
Robert Heel – Downtown Crossing
Berit Hummel – Arena TV
Scott Kidall – Stolen Moments
MAS-Lab/ The Egg Ensemble – (The Enigma of Salvador) Dali’s Egg
Sean Olson - Affection
Julie Orser – Bit Parts
Carol Pereira - Remote
Pilvi Takala – Easy Rider
Michael Trigilio – Book 15
Nyok Mei Wong _ I’m too sad to tell you
And special guests
The LAB
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
p: 415.864.8855
f: 415.864.8860
http://www.thelab.org
Stranger than Fiction program
Songs of Freedom and Love, Platform, Istanbul
Songs of Freedom and Love – Contemporary Art from the North of the North
Platform, Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
17 March – 22 April, 2006
www.platform.garanti.com.tr
Songs of Freedom and Love – Contemporary Art from the North of the North is an exhibition presenting works by ten artists of the younger generation who are working in Finland. The exhibition explores the ways and means of how we live together, how we form, shape and maintain our relationships to ourselves, our surroundings and others who occupy the same contexts we are in. It is about the idea of sharing, about being-with, and about the growing awareness and self-reflection of not being alone.
The exhibition brings together a group of artists, who each individually stand up for themselves and the themes they are confronting and obsessed with, not representing any kind of collective identity. It is a selection of interpretations on how to be and live together in a reality that is complex, pluralistic and confused. The aim of the exhibition is to construct a frame for a wide variety of sensations and sensibilities that are not insular and exclusive, but inclusive and open.
The participating artists are Panos Balomenos, Anna Tuori, Kati Immonen, Mauri Kuitula, Aurora Reinhard, Joonas Kota, Minna L. Henriksson, Henri Tani, Pilvi Takala, and Tuomas Laitinen. The exhibtion is curated by Mika Hannula and Minna L. Henriksson
Talk is cheap-Mika Hannula&Minna Henriksson
Platform, Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
17 March – 22 April, 2006
www.platform.garanti.com.tr
Songs of Freedom and Love – Contemporary Art from the North of the North is an exhibition presenting works by ten artists of the younger generation who are working in Finland. The exhibition explores the ways and means of how we live together, how we form, shape and maintain our relationships to ourselves, our surroundings and others who occupy the same contexts we are in. It is about the idea of sharing, about being-with, and about the growing awareness and self-reflection of not being alone.
The exhibition brings together a group of artists, who each individually stand up for themselves and the themes they are confronting and obsessed with, not representing any kind of collective identity. It is a selection of interpretations on how to be and live together in a reality that is complex, pluralistic and confused. The aim of the exhibition is to construct a frame for a wide variety of sensations and sensibilities that are not insular and exclusive, but inclusive and open.
The participating artists are Panos Balomenos, Anna Tuori, Kati Immonen, Mauri Kuitula, Aurora Reinhard, Joonas Kota, Minna L. Henriksson, Henri Tani, Pilvi Takala, and Tuomas Laitinen. The exhibtion is curated by Mika Hannula and Minna L. Henriksson
Talk is cheap-Mika Hannula&Minna Henriksson
9th International Istanbul Biennial
9th Istanbul Biennial
The 9 th International Istanbul Biennial, one of the most significant contemporary art events in the world, will take place from 16 September to 30 October 2005.
Curators:Vasıf Kortun and Charles Esche
Esche and Kortun are working together on an exhibition structure that folds out of and reveals its context - the city of Istanbul. The title of this Biennial is "Istanbul", referring both to the real urban location and the imaginative charge that this city represents for the world. "Istanbul" as a metaphor, as a prediction, as a lived reality, and an inspiration has many stories to tell and the Biennial will attempt to tap directly into this rich history and possibility.
Participating artists 2005 Istanbul Biennial
Hüseyin Alptekin
Pawel Althamer
Halil Altındere
Yochai Avrahami
Yael Bartana
Otto Berchem
Johanna Billing
Michael Blum
Daniel Bozhkov
Pavel Büchler
Phil Collins
Smadar Dreyfus
Lukas Duwenhögger
Maria Eichhorn
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Hala Elkoussy
Jon Mikel Euba
Cerith Wyn Evans
Jakup Ferri
Flying City
Luca Frei
Erik Göngrich
Gruppo A12
Daniel Guzman
Hatice Güleryüz
IRWIN
Chris Johanson
Y.Z. Kami
Karl-Heinz Klopf
Servet Koçyigit
Yaron Leshem
David Maljkovic
Oda Projesi
Paulina Olowska
Silke Otto-Knapp
Serkan Özkaya
Ahmet Ögüt
Sener Özmen
Dan Perjovschi
Ola Pehrson
Khalil Rabah
Mario Rizzi
RUANGRUPA
Solmaz Shahbazi
Wael Shawky
Ahlam Shibli
Sean Snyder
Nedko Solakov
SUPERFLEX/ Jens Haaning
Pilvi Takala
Tintin Wulia
Alexander Ugay/ Roman Maskalev
Axel John Wieder/Jesko Fezer
http://www.iksv.org/bienal/bienal9/
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