With great gratitude we are happy to tell that we won the Ars Fennica 2014 -Award. You can read the statement of Vasif Kortun – the curator who was invited to choose the winner out of the five candidates – here.
Thank you for all the participants of our projects (must be over 1000 by now) for sharing their valuable insight and experiences through our art works, all the professionals who have helped us realize our visions, helpful parents, encouraging friends and all the art lovers. Thank you Vasif Kortun for the trust and Henna and Pertti Niemistö Ars Fennica Art Foundation for creating this prize.
We have had extraordinary month in Georgia, working with the wonderful people who joined the Complaints Choir of Khurvaleti and Shavsvebi. Both villages include an old village -part and the newer IDP -settlement. This time the participants are mainly children! As there are 36 of them, our performance tour will be for sure very memorable for all of us. Here is the schedule, please come to support the little singers and appreciate the music of the brand new complaint song, composed by Giorgi Sadzaglishvili:
Thursday 20 March
16:00-17:00 Open rehearsal in Shavsvebi Settlement
18:00 Performance at Khurvaleti Settlement
Friday 21 March
15:00 Performance in village Khurvaleti
Saturday 22 March
14:00 Project presentation and performance, Europe House, Tbilisi
15:00 Liberty Metro Station, open air performance, Tbilisi
15:30 Performance in the lobby of Children’s Palace, Tbilisi
During March and Aprli 2014 our film People in White can be seen in three cities:
Helsinki, Finland
7 February – 20 March: Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Ars Fennica 2014 -exhibition
8-26 March, Kuva/Tila, For Your Health Only -exhibition
Pula, Croatia
20 March: Screening at Klubu Pulske Filmske Tvornice
Reykjavik, Iceland
5-27 April: The Nordic House, SJÄLÖ9 -exhibition