ARCHIPELAGO SCIENCE FICTION PART OF SPLICE EXHIBITION @ OULU ART MUSEUM, 20 MAY – 12 NOVEMBER, 2017

  Arhipelago Science Fiction is part of SPLICE exhibition, which focuses its gaze on our relationship with nature, including diverse approaches towards the transforming environment. Canadian curator Nina Czegledy and the Finnish Bioart Society compile a review of relevant ideas approaching it from a cross-disciplinary viewpoint. The exhibition presents a showcase of contemporary artistic perspectives with the aim to unfold a new understanding of our changing environment.

PROFESSORSHIP AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, HELSINKI

We are excited to work as visiting professors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki during 2017. Our course creates a complex artistic snapshot of Finland in the year 2017. Together with the students we will map and discuss current tendencies, conflicts and phenomena  and will process them with the artistic tools at our disposal.  Looking behind the curtains of the 100 years of independence celebrations the course asks what’s actually going on in the state of Finland?

PEOPLE IN WHITE SCREENING & BROADCAST

People in White – a movie in which ex clients of mental health services share experiences and stories about the personnel that have treated them – can be seen 19 March at the auditorium of Lapinlahden Lähde (Helsinki), followed by discussion. The screening is part of Sjählö9 -exhibition. 26 March, 1.30pm, People in White is broadcasted by Finnish National TV station YLE

TRACKING DAR ES SALAAM @ ZK/U, BERLIN, 17-26 MARCH, 2017

Our new work Tracking Dar es Salaam premiers at ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin, as part of Juxtaposing Narratives -exhibition.

The work is an interactive video installation, which shows parallel realities of Dar es Salaam through one weekday of 11 local inhabitants.

ARTIST TALK @ 2nd THURSDAYS, WIEN, 15 DEC, 2016

Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen talk about their practice at Studio der Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung, Wien, as part of 2nd Thursdays -program by Roland Rauschmeier and Anne Juren.

Time: 15 Dec, 8pm
Address: Studio der Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung
Pernerstorfergasse 5 / Bürogebäude 3. Stock, 1100 Wien

PLAY HOUSE BY YKON @ BALTIC CIRCLE, HELSINKI, 19 NOV, 2016

A flat filled with dozens of people, drinks, food, music… and then what? YKON invites you to play and experiment with the conventions of social interaction. This evening will show whether simple, low-tech game mechanics can radically alter how people relate to each other.

Welcome to the suspension, deconstruction and general messing around and reconfiguration with social interactions. Welcome to a collective journey to something else than party as usual. Welcome to Play House!

This four-hour event will take place in a yet undisclosed location. Guests will receive further instructions via sms.

More info here

ARTIST TALK AT NAFASI ART SPACE, DAR ES SALAAM, 14 JUNE, 2016

Warm regards from Tanzania, where we are working within a larger project called Simulizi Mijuni / Urban Narratives. On 14th June, 5pm, we invite you to “Artist Hangout” at Nafasi (Eyasi Road, Dar es Salaam). We´ll tell about our practice, and hope to have people staying to hang out with us afterwards!

YKON DINNER-GAME AND SEMINAR ON PARTICIPATION, MAY 2016 IN HELSINKI

YKON was invited  to organize the YKON Dinner Game -workshop event at Harakka island, Helsinki, 21-22 May, and join a discussion at Kiasma museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki 26 May on Art and technologies of participation. Both events are produced and curated by Minna Tarkka, M-Cult.

EMAP – SAVE OUR SOULS: ART FOR A TIME OF URGENCIES AT SEOUL 24-29 MAY

We show Archipelago Science Fiction as part of EMAP -festival – an open air sound and moving image festival in Seoul. The festival consists of  art program from Korea and Finland.

IDENTITY -EXHIBITION AT NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF UKRAINE 19 MARCH – 22 MAY 2016

This exhibition at NAMU brings together artists from Nordic countries, the Baltics and Ukraine, to survey the marks of identity left on today’s world. We are happy to show there our work Before Changing The Mind. The curator of the exhibition is Solvita Krese from Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.