The
chambre is filled with intimate obstacles: the soundscape consists of
noise, sounds, beeps, and occasionally, resonances of piano string
machinery.
Diamond
needle of the LP player carves record made out of stone. The sound of
silence, the diorite dust amplified through a sound system in Laura
Könönen's (b. 1980) Only One and All produces a meditative
soundscape around kinetic sculpture from year 2010. "Time is a
destructive force of existence. Stone as a material sets the illusion
of stability in being in time and space, it is the most extreme
silence in the world. There's nothing less than infinity and void,
love and death." Könönen graduated as MFA from Finnish Academy
of Fine Arts in 2012, and has been exhibiting in most prominent
exhibitions in Finland, as well as been nominated as Ars Fennica
candidate in 2015.
A
box with it's wooden structures painted with bright colours is
ringing synthesized psychedelic noises, accompanied with an animation
of the painting process from the screen. The box with the sounds of
it's own painting hails the spirit of Eastern European animation with
their imaginative soundtracks. Alexei Gordin is a multidisciplinary
artist born in 1989 in Tomsk, Russia. He recieved his BA in Estonian
art academy in 2011 and currently doing his MA in Kuvataideakatemia,
painting department. His art is mostly characterized by ironic
way of expression, inspired by conditions of contemporary liberal
society.
ZERO
OK, a human-sized "0" with led light constellation forming
letters "OK" above it. Kristina Sedlerova is interested in
the inconsistency of the human nature, the attraction of the mankind
towards building systems, creating concepts and the need to believe
in them. The nocturnal star constellation of led lights emphasize the
aesthetics of tribalistic night life that gathers in clubs and other
venues around the frequencies that move the mind, the body and the
soul. Kristina Sedlerova (b.1987) is currently studying in the MFA
program of the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in the Sculpture
department. Kristina enjoys working both with small- and large scale
projects, moving from spacial design to making small-scale kinetic
sculptures.
Installation
with a speakers, electronics and 35mm optical film loop is hanging on
the ceiling. The loop is in motion, rotating and creating an animated
form. There is no visual projection of the film but a direct
translation of the visual information into sound. The method of this
transformation is optical sound, a analog technique used in film
projectors to playback soundtrack that has been optically stored on
the film. Optical soundtrack is located on the edge of film, besides
the visual image. In this installation film loop is flowing freely
and gently touching the ground. It is being exposed to air currents,
dust and other interactions. This freedom in movement and the
exposure of the film material expands the translation outside the
original optical soundtrack. Film frames, perforation, optical
soundtrack, scratches and dust take all equally part into creating a
changing soundscape. Tero Niskanen, artist and experimental musician,
and Jani Purhonen, artist focusing on sound and new media, realised
they might share a small part of their brain. They began working on
installations using uncontrollable film loops, entities created for
further explorations in spacetime.
"Cheeks"
- Strangely familiar, skin coloured shape out of silicone is set on a
black sculpture stand. It is reacting to bass frequencies from
concerts and performances of the exhibition by shaking and vibrating
its carnal shapes made out of silicone. The work unites innovatively
different materials into an elegant composition of forms, adding an
up-to-date layers to the tradition of contemporary sculpture.
Electronically prepared butt visualizes the physical force of sound
and reminds the spectator where the groove is supposed to hit: shake
that thing! Emma Jääskeläinen is studying the sculpture
deparment of the University of the Arts. Her work can be described as
playful, physical and to the point.
In
contrast, from the ceiling there is hanging a pendulum made out of
iron letters. "Random Letters Found from a Dumpster" -
Emptiness, insignificance, decorativeness, hoax, self-deception,
ponderous words… A composition out of iron and light, based on more
or less nihilistic approach of producing art work. Latin letters can
after all be understood continuing the foinicean tradition of
notating sound, speech, and in Byström's case, silent exclamation of
a young contemporary artist in the spirit of Munch and others. Otto
Byström is an artist studying MFA in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
whose works, in his words, "tingle the outstretched and
fragmented bubble bobble where you and I unconsciously fumble."
There
is also piano, inviting the musical talents to touch it's keys... But
one needs not to touch it to play it: Kytömäki's "Untitled"
sculpture is a piano prepared with DC motors that is triggered by the
precence of the viewer, filling the space with its intervening
resonances . The piece playfully comments on the tradition of western
avantgarde compositions, automatic music or even the saloons of
western films, as well as extends the auditive possibilities of
traditional instrument anchored to 12-tone harmonic systems.
Antti Kytömäki is a Helsinki based artist who votes for the Finns
Party and makes works about loneliness, politics and the triviality
of the art world. He is interested about sound and movement as
elements of sculptures.
The
sounds of the exhibition are not restricted only to soundwaves!
Erno-Erik Raitanen's "Finlandia" is a FM-transmission at
98,0 Mhz, that visitors can listen also through their own cellphone
radios. Raitanen has combined interpretations of Finladia symphone
from around the globe and mixed them together into a collage that
does not sound the original at all, but emphasizes the differences in
interpretations. The different tempos result in atonalic masses that
carry very different kind of patriotic associations, if any at all.
Erno-Erik Raitanen is an artist and photographer. At the moment
Raitanen works with sound, installations, sculptures and radios. He
is born in Lahti, having studied in the UK and USA before enterint
the master program in Time and Space Arts department. Raitanen has
participated in various exhibitions e.g. in Helsinki, Pori, Lontoo,
San Fransisco and Japan.
Finally,
in the back room of the space, a double-channel video
installation, showing a giant loop of students works from Time and
Space study program / Prof. Caspar Stracke. ”Macroscapes” by
Josefina Nelimarkka, ”On Proposals” by Andrey Bogush, ”Allday
Everyday” by Jana Slaby, ”Nausea” by Ilkka Pitkänen and other
works by Otto Bystr, Minna Kallinen, Ristomatti Myllylahti,
Josefina Nelimarkka, Erno-Erik Raitanen, Tuukka Salonen and
Aarni Vaarnamo occupy the room offering a compilation of artist's
moving image from the young talents of the Academy of Fine Arts.
