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Mobile.Performance MOBILE.PERFORMANCE presents a short overview of Finnish experimental
theatre and contemporary performance. The programme includes some of
the highlights of the season and many familiar names of the
contemporary scene. Together with the companies and the independent
artists MOBILE.PERFORMANCE is proud to present this special programme
at the IETM meeting.
During the last decade, a new generation of interdisciplinary artists has given rise to a new performance scene. In the landscape of Finnish performing arts it seems to articulate a shift towards diverse and global perspectives reflecting the complex realities of our present day. It is clearly born out of the earlier post-modern scene, but has also greatly benefited from the new educational programmes offered at a wide range of art schools and academies in Finland. This rather new movement is closely connected to the contemporary struggles in the age of globalisation and often combines critical thinking and theory with artistic processes. The contemporary scene is diverse and derives its strength from many different disciplines. MOBILE.PERFORMANCE cannot fully represent the variety of the Finnish performance art scene but it can offer a glance of that world which is constantly evolving, changing and re-creating itself. MOBILE.PERFORMANCE is curated by the Kiasma Theatre at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Föreställningar: Fredag 10.11.2006 Lördag 11.11.2006 14.00 – 15.45 Nälkäteatteri: Aniara, Teaterhögskolan 17.00 – 18.00 Oblivia: We’ll never Let You Go, Vanha, Musiikkisali 19.30 – 20.15 Maija Hirvanen: Perception Score, Kiasma Seminaari Presentationer Maus&Orlovski: Mr Nilsson – I Memo on Time Kiasma Teatteri Thursday 19.30 Friday 19.30 Duration: 1h30min. Mr Nilsson is a performance about our relationship to
animals, death and fiction. One of the underlying concepts is the difference
between knowing and imagining which is explored in reference to animals and
death; things that are used to define humanity and its limits. No-one can know
or imagine what it is like to be an eel, a starling or a horse, or what it is
like to die. Mr Nilsson, like so many modern performances, is a modern cyborg,
a fusion of man and machine. The performance examines the links between people
and the environment, including technology. For viewers, the performance may be
a kind of simulator, allowing them to consider their thoughts on and
relationship to non-human things, to imagine and perhaps even experience
something differently. Maus&Orlovski is a changing ensemble with members from
different art disciplines led by Tuija Kokkonen. Prior to Mr Nilsson the
ensemble produced two works: Maus and Orlovski – Memos of Love in the City
(three theatre performances and a radio play realised in Helsinki in spring
1997) and Catchment Area – Memos of Freedom (three performances at Kiasma in
1999-2003). The works examined the possibility of various shifts: a shift away
from theatre's anthropocentrism (or egocentrism at least), a shift towards the
periphery, a space between, a shift towards listening and silence. The
performances started off by minimising fictitious elements and developed into
events that moved around the city and finally became almost void of performers,
handing the space over to the audience instead. with Tanja-Lotta Räikkä, Marja Silde, Robin
Svartström Assistant director: Leo Torvalds Sound: Miikka Ahlman Lighting: Tomi Suovankoski Visual design and videojockey: Kaisa Illukka Video: Terike Haapoja, Kaisa Illukka Up Maija Hirvanen: Perception Score: Just Looking Kiasma Seminaari Thursday 21.00 Friday 18.30 Saturday 19.30 Duration / Durée:
45min. Perception
Score is about the various roles of the camera in relation to the subject of
the picture. How are the performer, the situation and the public space affected
by these roles? The audience is invited to use the three cameras provided in
the gallery. The performance can be seen as creating performative statements
about visual identities and commenting on situations created by different
gazes. Maija
Hirvanen is an artist working with contemporary art, dance, performance art and
writing. Since 1999 her works have been at festivals and art events all over
Europe. In her work she searches for the awareness of the human body and its
meaning as a conveyer of ideas and messages. Her point of view varies and can
be poetic, political, conceptual or linguistic. with
Maija Hirvanen Photography: Maija Hirvanen, Anni Gustafsson Music: Johan Arrias: Sitting and Watching, Bros: When will I be famous?, Charlie Chaplin: Smile Soundscape: Maija Hirvanen, Petteri Hirvanen http:// www.perceptionscore.net Animator Kimmo Pohjonen Savoy-teatteri Thursday 21.00 – 22.10 Animator is
Kimmo Pohjonen’s latest solo adventure with which he pursues his mission to
expand the capabilities, sound, performance and scope of the accordion to
levels never seen or heard before. Accordion, voice, effects, surround sound
and lighting are combined to make a unique and captivating performance event. Animator
features the live computer graphics of multi-media artist and designer Marita
Liulia, the live video mix of Antti Kuivalainen and the lighting of Mikki
Kunttu. Kimmo
Pohjonen is one of the most respected and in-demand musicians and performers in
Finland. An accordionist of exceptional ability and imagination, Kimmo
Pohjonen’s musical history goes back more than twenty years in rock, folk,
avant-garde, improvisation, classical, dance and theatre music projects. He has
toured all over the world and received various awards and titles. with Kimmo
Pohjonen Live-multimedia, photography and costumes: Marita Liulia Live-video mixing and lighting: Antti Kuivalainen Sound: Heikki Iso-Ahola Lighting: Mikki Kunttu Programming: Jacke Kastelli Consulting director: Tero Saarinen Premiere:
19.03.2004, Savoy Theatre, Helsinki Oblivia: We'll Never Let You Go Vanha Friday 18.00-19.00 Saturday 17.00-18.00 We’ll Never Let You Go draws on aspects of making mistakes, lying and misunderstanding through the use of spoken text, sound and stage action. The four performers move from one task to another and repeat actions and texts thus linking them together in a looped pattern. The tasks consist of working the multiple cassette recorders and CD-players, the telling of lies and stories and re-enacting fragmented actions. The costumes and objects are remnants from previous processes which are re-cycled and put together in new and surprising ways. The soundscape mixes wild tracks and popular tunes. The piece was presented at the Plateaux Festival at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt in October 2006. Oblivia is a performance company founded in the year 2000 and based in Helsinki. The group collectively devises inter-disciplinary performances which deal with structures in and outside performance. Oblivia works with artists who have a background in performance art, music, dance and writing. Its core members have worked together since the foundation of Oblivia and thus been able to develop a common performance language. Guest collaborators are invited for individual projects. with Timo Fredriksson, Magnus Logi Kristinsson, Anna Krzystek, Annika Tudeer Lighting: Pekka Pitkänen Production: Johanna Fredriksson, Virva Sointu http://www.oblivia.fi Up Todellisuuden Tutkimuskeskus: How Are You? and other everyday documentaries Kiasma Seminaari Friday 21.00 Duration 1h How Are
You? and other everyday documentaries is a lecture/performance about the
process of documenting and its results. What do uninteresting things look like?
What do we do automatically every day? What are people's lives really like?
What do documentaries really tell us about reality and ourselves? The project
starts from the premise that everyday things are meaningful. When we look
closer at things considered ordinary, everyday life suddenly appears special
and unpredictable. Documenting and recording have become a trend today, even an
obsession. The group explores the procedures of documenting and performativity.
Each team member has defined the theme in their own way, bringing their own
personal perspective to the work. The piece
was devised over a period of one and a half years by five artists from
different fields brought together by performance and video artist Pilvi
Porkola.
She graduated with a degree in Performing Arts and Theory from the
Theatre Academy of Finland in 2003 and is a member of the Reality
Research Center (Todellisuuden Tutkimuskeskus). Her group members are Anne Mäkitalo, a visual artist working in the field of media art and electronic
communications, Tuire Tuomisto, an actor and theatre practitioner, Marko
Järvikallas, a playwright and dramaturge, and Pekka Pitkänen, a lighting
designer and visualist. Devising / Conception: Anne Mäkitalo, Marko Järvikallas, Pekka Pitkänen, Tuire Tuomisto, Pilvi Porkola Up Teatterikorkeakoulu Duration:
2h30min. Aniara continues the collaboration between the ensemble of
Nälkäteatteri (hunger theatre) and the director Esa Kirkkopelto.
Published in 1956 by the novelist Harry Martinson Aniara was translated
into Finnish by Aila Meriluoto in 1965. It is an epic sci-fi poem and a
landmark of Nordic modernism, a pessimistic allegory of the post-war
world where science and technology promote the destruction of the
planet without any counterforce. To return to Aniara in the new
millennium is to engage in a dialogue with the modernist tradition of
the previous century. Despite the picture Aniara paints of itself, is
it possible to find in it hope for the future, unfulfilled dreams or
promises?
Up Riina Saastamoinen: Hand/Dance/Power Kiasma's Hall Installation Thursday 10.00-20.30 Friday 10.00-20.30 Saturday 10.00-20.30 Sunday 10.00-20.30 Duration: 10 min. The film Hand/Dance/Power is made as a preliminary study to a larger project Nameless, that studies the anonymity of the human body. The project attempts to place the human body as an innocent observer of today' s society and it' s ruling values. Through the expression of figures, shapes, symbols and signs the body communicates to us about our world today. Hand/Dance/Power is a rhythmical montage of visually attractive images: a set of figures, shapes, signs and gestures presented by the human hand, arranged in a careful linear form. The working focus within the filming and the editing process was to focus on themes of the rhythym, the shape, the body and the relation of the videocamera and the body of the dancer. Artistic Direction, camera and editing: Riina Saastamoinen Artistic Assistance and assistance on editing: Sato Endo Sound: Sound Studio de Pianofabriek (Studio Z) and soundtrack nro 2 / n.m.q.p. from CD "ROW" (Thomas Brinkmann) Technics: Michael (De Pianofabriek) Production: VZW Nadine / Tani, De Pianofabriek Thanks: Trudo Engels, Fredinand du Boi, Indirah Osumba, Johan Van Hoye, E. Omarsdottir, O. Saastamoinen Up
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