Research Center of Site-specific Art to the Oranki Art Environmental Park

                                       





















Juha Allan Ekholm, Tuomo Kangasmaa: Research Center of Site-specific art

Juha Allan Ekholm and Tuomo Kangasmaa made an artwork called Research Center of Site-specific Art to the Oranki Art Environmental Park during the International Oranki Art -symposium 20. - 26.6.2016. The Research Center of Site-specific Art is a part of continuous work in-progress.

The Oranki Art Environmental Park is located in Oranki, a small village in county of Pello, situated to North Finland and Western Lapland about 40 kilometers up from the Arctic Circle.

International Oranki Art -symposium and the exhibition has been organized since 2001, and over the years there has been participating over 150 artists from Finland and abroad. In Oranki Art Environmental Park has a collection of about 50 site-specific artworks. Some art works last only one season until merges with nature and some changes their appearance year by year.

http://www.environmentalart.net/orankiart.htm
http://www.orankiart.fi

Tuomo Kangasmaa's Sound Installation "Remember Uuno Kailas" at Oulu Museum of Art

TUOMO KANGASMAA: Remember Uuno Kailas 2016
Photo: Mika Friman



 Tuomo Kangasmaa's Sound Installation "Remember Uuno Kailas"  presented at Oulu Museum of  Art 18 June 2016 – 8 January 2017. as a part of Hiukkavaaraaa -exhibition.
The Hiukkavaara garrison, located approximately six kilometres from Oulu city centre, has had many faces since 1957, when the non-commissioned officer school and the engineer company moved there. Since 1963, the garrison in the middle of the forest housed the entire Northern Brigade. The formerly closed area was given a new life in 1998, when facilities freshly vacated from conscript training turned into studios, rehearsal rooms, workshops and other spaces for dozens of artists, hundreds of bands and other users, and, as the latest arrival, asylum seekers, for whom emergency accommodation was provided in Hiukkavaara in autumn 2015. The former garrison is now one of the biggest centres of creative activity in Finland, and is set to become the heart of a new residential area.

The majority of the more than thirty visual artists who currently work in Hiukkavaara have their studios in the former K2 barracks, now known as the K2 House of Artists, while some have their studios in what was earlier known as barracks K3. The artists have been very satisfied with the affordable studios, the peaceful environment and the community spirit, testified by projects such as the Hiukkavaara Piknik festival and the K2 Unplugged studio exhibition arranged annually for several years now. Numerous events open to the general public have helped downtown and nearby residents discover the unique community.

The exhibition in the Oulu Museum of Art features 12 artists, who have been invited to present their latest works. The rich and versatile selection features paintings made using various techniques, sculptures, photographs, installations of diverse materials, video and media artworks, material collages and paper cut-outs.

Oulu Museum of Art 

K2 Unplugged 23. - 24.4.2016

K2 Unplugged, organized by artists of K2 Artists’ building, is a novel exhibition event that transforms studios to galleries for one weekend in April. The K2 Unplugged event premiered in spring 2015 with great success.

A total of 25 artists will participate the event this year. Each artist, who works in the K2 Artists’ building, will build a unique exhibition in their work rooms. This will form a chain of individual exhibitions under one roof – like a vivid block of galleries in three storeys inside one single building.


When: April 23rd-24th 2016 at 12:00-16:00

Where: K2 Artists’ building, Kulttuurikasarmi, Oulu

Hiukkavaara, Hiukanpiha 25, 90650 Oulu

No entrance fee

https://www.facebook.com/events/184762305237431/?active_tab=posts

Sound Art Bank by MUU

Sound Art Bank is dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of Sound as an artistic practice. Sound Art Bank collects inspiring and remarkable Sound Art, with the aim of sharing information and knowledge about Sonic Visions. 

Sound Art Bank is database which collects and archives contemporary Sound Art, such as Sound Installations, Sound Sculptures, Contemporary and Experimental Audio works, Performances and Concerts, as well as Sound Art Exhibitions and Documentations. Sound Art Bank offers possibilities for listening and buying Sound Art, and is a tool for helping Sound Artists in their work.

About MUU

MUU is an artist run, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association, founded in 1987 to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art.

LINKS:
http://soundartbank.fi
http://www.muu.fi/site/?lang=en

KULTTUURIHÄIRINTÄÄ 1 POLARIZED! VISION -ELOKUVA- JA MEDIATAIDETAPAHTUMASSA ROVANIEMELLÄ

Rovaniemellä järjestetään 20.–22.11.2015 toisen kerran POLARIZED! Vision -tapahtuma, joka esittelee monimuotoisia ja ajatuksia herättäviä lyhytelokuvia pohjoisesta. Tapahtuma sisältää elokuvakilpailun, lyhytelokuvanäytöksiä, seminaarin sekä muuta oheisohjelmaa. Tämän vuoden teemana on kulttuurihäirintä.

AV-arkin näytöksessä lauantaina 21.11. klo 18 nähdään valikoima festivaalijakelussa kiitettyjä ja palkittuja, uusimpia teoksia viime vuosilta. Näytös on koottu yhdessä POLARIZED! Visionin kanssa.

Kulttuurihäirintää 1 / Culture Jamming 1: Films from AV-arkki  (47 min)

Sat 21.11. 18.00 / 6 pm; LaY: Esko ja Asko sali

Risto-Pekka Blom: Themepark (2015) 4:53

Azar Saiyar: Primus Tempu (2014) 5:16

Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts: The Factory of the world (2014) 8:15

Salla Tykkä: Giant (2014) 12:46

Ewa Gorzna: Rearranged (2014) 09:41

Tuomo Kangasmaa: Foret Shell (2015) 06:06

http://magneetti.org/events/2015/11/20/polarized-vision-2015

"Preliminary Design of an Experimental Art-Circling Spaceship"

http://hildegardprojekt.net

http://www.kunsthaus-essen.de

Forêt Shell by Tuomo Kangasmaa selected for the 25th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema 2015

The festival takes place in Cine Odeon – Centro Cultural Luís Severiano Ribeiro and at Cine Arte UFF in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between November 4 and 11, 2015.

The film participates in the Remote Landscape programme.

“This special programme focuses on films that target the relations between individual subjectivities and the landscapes they inhabit. The programme’s selection has been crafted by the selection committee to reflect a multiplicity of worldwide environments and cultures.”

On Kangasmaa’s video, a French-speaking narrator recollects an event where a film director, who was popular in Finland but defamed by critics, stopped off at a certain service station. Forêt Shell is a cinematic microhistory created by the artist, trying to tie the lost service station to a wider context. The various ingredients in the story interpret Northern Finland as a meeting place of different cultural epochs. The themes in Forêt Shell include locality, national popular culture, the origin of civilisation and essayistic film narrative.
AV-arkki distribution:
http://www.av-arkki.fi

More information:
http://curtacinema.com.br
www.facebook.com/FestivalCurtaCinema 

UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2015

The experimental short films Forêt Shell (2015) by Tuomo Kangasmaa 

have been selected for the Uppsala International Short Film Festival.

Forêt Shell presents an urban story and its setting in Northern Finland. There used to be a service station along a highway outside a small town, a popular stopping place for travellers and meeting place for the youth in the 1960s-80s. Local people called it “Forest Shell” (Forêt Shell in French). The examination of the urban story and personal memories from the service station of the past as well as historical facts blend into a narrative and myth on the video.

Fôret Shell will also be screened at the 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, organised in Marseille, France between November 6 and 29, 2015.

Forêt Shell is distributed by AV-arkki. AV-arkki is the Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art. AV-arkki distributes and promotes Finnish media art to festivals, events, museums and galleries worldwide.

Hildegard Projekt im Stipendiatenatelier des Kunsthaus' Essen Stipendiatenatelier des Kunsthaus' 8.11. - 13.12.2015

In der Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Essen präsentiert sich Hildegard Project zum ersten Mal mit dem Konzept eines "Preliminary Design of an Experimental Art-Circling Spaceship". Die Künstler von Hildegard Project, Minna Kangasmaa, Tuomo Kangasmaa und Hildegard Skowasch, sind Reisende für die Kunst und spielen mit den Rollen des Sammlers, des Kurators und des Künstlers.

Das Hildegard Project verwandelt sich in eine mobile Galerie, die ihre Sammlung auf ungewöhnliche Weise präsentiert. Zur Durchführung der Idee, lädt Hildegard Project 11 Künstler_innen ein, eine Arbeit beizutragen. Ziel der Ausstellung ist, die Hildegard Project Collection zu zeigen und das Potential der gesammelten Kunstwerke zu entfesseln. Dies wird auf verschiedenen Ebenen der Transformation geschehen.

Teilnehmende Künstler_innen sind:

Anett Frontzek (Dortmund) Gaby Peters (Dortmund) Gerda Schlembach (Essen) Jerzy Olek (Wrocław) Karen Stuke (Berlin) Laura-Jane Atkinson (Manchester) Maria Hanl (Wien) Miran Kres (Ljubljana) Pauliina Turakka-Purhonen, (Helsinki) Petri Kuljuntausta (Helsinki) Sae Bom Lee (Seoul)

http://www.kunsthaus-essen.de