December 4, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Our video work Dream Land will be on view at Rauma Art Museum, this time seen as an extended installation version for the very first time. Exhibition is curated by Henna Paunu. Twenty dreams about the President of the Republic of Finland will be filling the Museum’s first floor until January 2, 2011!
Ada Bligards film about the the Complaints Choir project will be screened at the One World Festival in Berlin. It is the film’s German premiere. The 7th edition of the One World Berlin Film Festival for Human Rights and Media takes place from November 25 to December 1, 2010 in Berlin. The festival will be held at the Arsenal Cinema in Berlin with a total of 14 film programs. All screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers and topics experts. (in German). In cooperation with www.realeyz.tv, the film COMPLAINTS CHOIR as well as streams of post-film discussions can be watched for free on the festival website www.oneworld-berlin.de.
October 28, 2010 – March 6, 2011
Complaints Choir will be soon on display at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain. The complete 4-channel installation with all eight choirs from Birmingham to Tokyo will be part of the group exhibition titled Public / Counter-Public curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez Rey,. Opening will be on October 28.
The New York Times featured the Complaints Choir project in their Arts section on December 9, 2009. The extensive article was written by Phyllis Korkki and was headlined: “Turning Complaints Into Art.” You can read the article online at the NYT website.
“Regardless of the complaint and where it is sung, being able to sing it while standing alongside others is apparently often cathartic.”