COLLABORATION

INTERIM-näyttely 16.-22.12. klo 11-19 / Mia Seppälä, Salla Myllylä ja Nanni Vapaavuori & Juhannusyö Sörnäisten rannassa talvipäivänseisauksen iltana, keskiviikkona 21.12.2022

INTERIM oli yhteisnäyttelymme Valkoisessa studiossa, hybriditilassa Kuvataideakatemian päärakennuksessa. Näyttely oli auki viikon ajan vuoden pimeimpään aikaan, kahden lukukauden välissä 16.-22.12. klo 11-19.  Lue lisää näyttelyn sivulla.

Esitimme väliaikaisia kokeellisia järjestelyjä käyttäen liikkuvaa kuvaa, puutavaraa, Molton-verhoja, huonekaluja ja valoa.  Tarkastelimme hybridiyden materiaalista ilmentymistä tilassa, joka on suunniteltu palvelemaan sekä näyttely- että esitystoimintaa. Siirsimme muissa paikoissa – parantolassa ja uimarannalla – toteutettuja tekoja kadun toisella puolella olevalle urbaanille ranta-alueelle. 

Näyttelyyn liittyi tapahtuma Sörnäisten rannassa vuoden lyhimpänä päivänä. Osallistujat asettuivat seuraamaan urbaanin hämärän vaiheita lepotuolissa huopien alle peiteltyinä. 

INTERIM-exhibition 16.-22.12.,11-19 / Mia Seppälä, Salla Myllylä and Nanni Vapaavuori & Midsummer Night goes Sörnäinen at Winter Solstice, Wednesday 21 December 2022

INTERIM was a brief exhibition by three doctoral researchers in the darkest time of the year, between university terms, in White Studio, the hybrid space in the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition was open for one week 16.-22.12.2022, 11-19. Read more about the exhibition here.

We presented temporary experimental arrangements using moving image, wood, curtains, beach chairs, blankets, and light. We took a closer look at the hybrid studio space conceived for the needs of both visual and performing arts. We transposed acts made previously in other sites – a sanatorium and a public beach – to the urban shoreline across the road from the campus.

As a part of the exhibition Interim, there was an event, where participants were invited to view the phases of urban twilight on the shortest day of the year, on Sörnäinen shoreline in a horizontal position, wrapped up in blankets on a foldable beach chair. 

GIFT CEREMONIES (2021-2022)

The Gift Committee: Ingvil Fossheim, Liv Kristin Holmberg, Mia Seppälä, Charlotte Østergaard

We organized the first GIFT ritual at the SAAR summer school event in Hanasaari 2021. During the ritual, the participants wrote a letter to themselves in the future. We sealed the letters tightly in an envelope and mailed each one to their home address.

As you can see on the photo the carefully raped GIFTS arrived safely to Copenhagen where they were stored for the next year. In the beginning of August 2022 everyone received a gift at home address. 

Monday (August 1st) the gift letters was posted from Copehangen. Participants received the letter they wrote to themselves. We kindly asked participants NOT to open the letter upon arrival.

We invited people to join the GIFT ritual August 31, 2022 at 7pm Danish/Swedish/Norwegian and 8pm Finish time. We hosted the GIFT ritual [zoom] where we collectively opened our letters.

KATKOVIIVA RANNASSA KLO 20 – DOTTED LINE AT SHORELINE AT 8 p.m / Salla Myllylä ja Mia Seppälä / performanssi Hietsun uimarannalla elokuussa 2022 (60 min.) / Performance at Hietaniemi beach in the evening at sunset in August 2022 (60 min.)

Hietsusta avaruuteen / Hietsun paviljonki, Helsinki 25.8.2022 http://www.sofy.fi/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/08/Ari_Seminaari-ohjelma_suomeksi.pdf

ART BY METER (2019)

Art by Meter is an art installation and a social sculpture by Artist Collective Kunst in Art Fair Suomi Festival for Contemporary Art in Cable Factory in May 2019. Art by Meter is a collective installation and a social sculpture where art is sold by meter. Carnivalistic work comments on value of art and artists´ work as well as art being subject of trading and investments.

See more: http://artbymeter.com/ and http://artfairsuomi.fi

IMPACT 10 – ENCUENTRO Santander (2018) Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions after John Donne

This collaborative work has several outcomes and publication modes. It is coordinated by Printmaking department (Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki) Professor Annu Vertanen. The work was originally produced in 2018 for an exhibition in Santander, Spain. After that it was invited to a joint exhibition in the USA in the fall of 2019: Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, USA.

See more: IMPACT 10. Encuentro. Santander, ES.  International Printmaking Conference 1 – 9.09. 2018., collective installation and art book: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions – John Donne. Biblioteca Central de Cantabria. https://www.impact10.es/exhibitions/

Printed Matters – merkitysten kerroksia (in Finnish) / Ruth Pelzer-Montada: Tulevaisuuden takaaminen tai Taide suojana elämän hyökkäyksiltä?

Kuvataideakatemian taidegraafikoiden John Donne-projekti (2018) s. 79 – 95

A BARELY PERCEPTIBLE COLLABORATION / Valencia (2022)