Good grief. Has it been 4 years already! And we haven't uploaded any videos online?! In this day and age this ought have been done already.
We begun this project in 2007 and we've collected a body of more then 429 separate live-art works shot on video.
My Dear, 429 works! That's a jackload of gigabytes! 5% of those are suitable for internet-audiences out of which we´ll share a selection here. The rest has importance
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+ MoreGood grief. Has it been 4 years already! And we haven't uploaded any videos online?! In this day and age this ought have been done already.
We begun this project in 2007 and we've collected a body of more then 429 separate live-art works shot on video.
My Dear, 429 works! That's a jackload of gigabytes! 5% of those are suitable for internet-audiences out of which we´ll share a selection here. The rest has importance for the people in whom's hoods we hosted our on-the-road project at and after meticulous post-production a selection may be presented in exhibitions.
So far we´ve executed shows in: An anonymous and clean gallery (Galleria Titanic, Turku), in a private home (Anti-Festival, Kuopio) with a deep personal attack into private space, a tavern in Brüssels (Les Halles, Trouble#5 Festival, Brüssels) by integrating into a community, we've knitted our-self's into the social fabric of the district of Kallio (URB09 Festival, Helsinki) and explored the virtual other in Second Life and Prague (Pirkanmaantaiteen keskustoimikunta Residency program, Prague), again with a urban interventions (Cultural Capital City 2010 Pécs - Europemania). Recently we performed at Shopping Centers like Ideapark, Ikea and Koskikeskus on hosted a presentation of these performances in a Hotell mid Tampere. The canvas just keeps on getting bigger!
We select a site, investigate it, perform pieces for live audiences, shoot them on video and present these in a multi-channel installation preferably within a days delay after their execution. We do the works in non-stop cycles. 12:00:00 for 50 performances, 12:58:36 for 54 and so forth. +14,4 each time we begin a project. In the year 2057 we´ll host a 24 hour long performance during which we´ll execute 100 separate live-artworks.
This is crazy right? Think again.
We tend to imagine that we are conducting ourselves as individuals, as opposed to constructed characters serving a narrative story but during these session the sites specific character resonates into our ordinary actions. Our performances visualise the ideological position spaces place us in. Thus we visualise the context we perform at. Pure poetry right? Cool, we just agreed that pissing in your pants is poetry.
This small glimpse to our universe only serves those interested in further exploration.
Here is a link roll to detailed descriptions (NOTE: Not all work).
General: keosto.org/Xxx_performanssia (NSTW)
Photos: flickr.com/photos/xxx_group/
50.
storijapan.net/wordpress/?p=28
eero.storijapan.net/aineisto/50performanssia/ (Liar liar pants of fire (Chris Burden style) ! Here is some video!)
51.
storijapan.net/wordpress/?cat=26
eero.storijapan.net/aineisto/51performances/
52.
eero.storijapan.net/aineisto/52/
53.
storijapan.net/wordpress/?p=288
eero.storijapan.net/aineisto/26+27/
54.
kiasma.fi/index.php?id=2221
youtube.com/watch?v=dfha5plephc
55.
fi-fi.facebook.com/pages/Kaasuhella/190948232731
56.
58.
muistio.tieke.fi/At67layPIM
Collaborators,
Arttu Merimaa (53, 56, 58): arttu.linnake.net/
Pia Sirén (50&51): piasiren.com/
Emmi Vainio (51, 53)
Alexandre Riviello (54)
Miina Hujala (58)
With support of organisations such as,
urb.fi
halles.be
nyte.arkku.net/galleria.html
antifestival.com/
arte.fi/titanik/titanik_main.html
alkovi.linnake.net/
rajataide.fi/
with the support of,
Art Council of Finland: taiteenkeskustoimikunta.fi/
Arts Council of Pirkanmaa pirkanmaantaidetoimikunta.fi/
Helsinki City Art Council
Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux: finncult.be
Arteles - Creating Culture: arteles.org/
Finnish Culture, Science and Business Center of Hungary finnagora.hu/
Landing Points project for Media Holidays
mediapyhat.rajataide.fi/
Featured Artist:
pekkaruuska.com
eero.storijapan.net
ingamustakallio.com
paulalehtonen.net
see also:
nongrata.ee/
