SEMINAR IN MARSEILLE ABOUT URBAN COLLECTIVITY

Tellervo will take part to a seminar called Narrating Urban Collectivity : Art & Activism in the City

in Marseille, 17-18 December 2013 – at IMéRA – institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université – Free entry.

“This colloquium invites participation by and reflection upon groups generating narratives of collectivity — (Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity) – via media art, particularly those that cross over from video to multimedia works that engage their audiences in the spaces of the city in thoughtful ways.”

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COMPLAINTS CHOIRS OF DRESDEN AND BERLIN PERFORM!

Yesterday was the premier of the amazing and ambitious polyphonic choral piece, composed by Santiago Blaum for Dresden Complaints Choir! Today November 23 the choir will perform all around Dresden, and we will document it well for you to enjoy also later. The choir performs in Dresden’s city center  2 – 2.30 pm in front of Frauenkirche and 3 – 3.30 pm near tram Station Prager Straße in front of Karstadt. In the evening 7.15 pm  the choir will perform at Festspielhaus Hellerau.

The groovy Berlin Complaints Choir, which has been led by lovely Catriona Shaw, will have the premier wednesday 27th November 7pm sharp at HAU2, Berlin – free entry!!! On 30th November we´ll perform at Alexanderplatz  3.30pm sharp by the clock. After that unannounced performances around the city, feel free to follow us after the Alexanderplatz performance…

More info from Nordwind festival and Kulturaktiv

Image: rehearsal Complaints Choir Dresden, the basso section of the choir

ARTIST TALKS IN LEIPZIG AND BARCELONA, NOVEMBER 9

November 9, 7pm, Oliver will give an artist talk in D 21 Kunstraum Leipzig, which also currently hosts a complaints choir installation. One hour later Tellervo will make a presentation at Influencers -festival in Barcelona.

Image: post talk party im Bau Büro Leipzig; fast so wie in guten alten Zeiten in Hamburg.

NEW PROJECT STARTING UP IN GELSENKIRCHEN

We are looking for citizens of Gelsenkirchen to take part to an exciting and unusual project called Investment Zone. It is at the same time a game, an experiment and an art work: We invite 10 locals to make use of a plot of empty land at Schalker Verein (aka game zone) over the course of 9 month. The first meeting takes place in December 2013, and the game really starts January 2014.

Participants will come together every two weeks to deliberate and discuss in a structured manner the development of the plot. At each meeting micro-grants will be given to every player to invest in the game zone. Until the next meeting players will follow through with their decisions. The players can act on their own, or they can pool their resources and collaborate to achieve greater impact. It is entirely up to the discussions and negotiations between the players what investments and actions in the zone shall be taken.

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INFLUENCERS FESTIVAL, BARCELONA

Tellervo is presenting our works at Influencers -festival November 9 in Bareclona. This great non conventional festival was originally initiated by by artits whom we really admire – Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG  and it is organised by Bani Brusadin together with them. About the festival: “The Influencers is an atypical festival devoted to experiments in non conventional art and communication guerrilla. For three intense days we will be discovering rebellious projects, inventions and adventures in the troubled waters where information society, everyday technology and fragments of collective imagination mix and clash into each other.”

ARS FENNICA AWARD 2014 CANDIDATES

We are honored to be candidates for the biggest art prize of Finland – Ars Fennica. The process includes an exhibition in The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, opening 7 February 2014. The winner will be announced later in the spring. We are happy to be in good company – see the whole candidate gang here

COMPLAINTS CHOIRS OF BERLIN AND DRESDEN!

After a long break of organizing complaints choirs ourselves, this time we were temped to say yes… We had an opportunity to get involved with complaints choirs starting in our two home cities in Germany – Dresden where Oliver lived his first 18 years, and Berlin where we spend a lot of time every year. So, here we are, looking for members for those two choirs!

Photo by Yuriy Rumiantsev, St Petersburg Complaints Choir, 2006

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THE SUMMIT OF PRACTICAL UTOPIAS IN BRIONI

Finally – the summit which YKON has been planning since 7 years, will take place! See below the official press release – and be prepared to change all your plans just to be in Brioni for the open day 28 September..

The Summit of Practical Utopias
26—29 September 2013
Brioni Island, Croatia
www.practicalutopias.org

image: View of the Tito Museum, Brioni, Croatia, 2011, Image courtesy YKON

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AUGUST!

In August we have several projects in our hometown Helsinki!

We have made a commissioned art work to the Helsinki Festival´s series where they invite one artist / artist duo every year to make an art work that takes place in  private homes. The project is entitled Family Goes Home  For that we produced a participatory concept around the stories about ancestors. It has been a great project with a lot of laughter and tears! We have worked in collaboration with improvisation actors Johanna Af Schulten and Max Bremer. In the end of the evenings they improvise an absurd play out of the stories of the audience members.

Tellervo is also part of Maija Hirvanen´s Walkapolis – guided city walk. In the middle of the tour she appears, performing her piece Recycling You, where old opinions are recycled among the participants.

Also Checkpoint Helsinki has had a great start in August. It is an initiative to start a new organization in Helsinki – commissioning and producing  ground breaking international contemporary art pieces. We have been involved in this exciting process, which has activated more than hundred art professionals in Helsinki.

Meanwhile we were happy to get news that Edinburgh Art Festival´s own complaints choir was a success. See the news clip made by BBC In the festival you can also see our 4-channel complaints choir installation.

ARCHIPELAGO SCI-FI – WORLD PREMIERE

We are very excited that Archipelago Science Fiction will have its official world premiere in the competition series of Kino der Kunst -festival in Munich, Germany, 27th April 2013, 5.30pm. The festival is organised for the first time and is featuring visual artists working with film. Among the jury were Cindy Sherman and Isaac Julien.