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-THE EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED-The first part of performance protocols Nordic Sessions # 3 will be held in Helsinki from September 18.-27. 2021. The topic for this edition is soundings in performance and includes different ways to use sound as a tool, material, and theme, spanning from music compositions to performance art exploring a conceptual use of sound. This frames both amplified and non-amplified sound, performances in public space, and active listening exercises. The events will take place in the art spaces Third Space (exhibition and performance sessions) and Akusmata (performance program), and outside in public space.
In Akusmata there will on September 22. and 23. be sound performances performed by the artists Ana Gutieszca (FI/MX); Petri Kuljuntausta (FI); Tero Nauha (FI); and Timo Viialainen (FI). Additionally, each event will begin with the activation of a score created by artist Eva Sjuve. All of the performed works evolve around different means of soundings, from animal sounds, thunder, self-containing systems, and crisp bread. Their scores (or an iteration thereof) will be shown in the performance protocols score exhibition held in Third Space, which contains all participating artists in the Helsinki events (full list of artist can be found in the program below and online). The exhibition opens on September 18. and closes on September 27.
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Program for 22.09 in Akusmata, the event will be from 18:00 to 21:00 (registration required, see info below):
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- Eva Sjuve: Krispr (Spatialized)
Krispr (Spatialized) is part of an ongoing investigation in everyday sounds and alternative ways to experience sound. This work is an acoustic meditation over the "displaced familiar," using a very familiar sound in Sweden that can be traced back to the Middle Ages, the sound of Krispr. This work focuses on listening and the attention of spatiality and temporality.
The background to this work is equally inspired by Foley sound production for film, and the historical avant-garde exploring the boundary of musical performance and the sonic capabilities of everyday objects with text scores, from Fluxus artists to Happenings, and the work of Pauline Oliveros. This score seeks to explore the rich sonic texture and variation that can be produced playfully, using Krispr as a spatialized sound instrument.
Eva Sjuve works with sound composition, performance, and new media art. She has investigated various ways of working with sound in urban environments, exploring the perception of sonic experiences and the changing role of the audience. In her sound installations, she creates compositions from everyday sounds and sound processing, from insects to radio communications signals to investigate the use of scale and temporality in the listening experience. More recently, she has researched ways to create new kinds of embodied experiences of atmospheric pollution through the use of sound, movement, and the creative use of artificial intelligence.
http:www.moolab.net
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- Tero Nauha: Current. Mix. Currents
Minor experiment for theremin, analog synthesizer, curtain and fan.
2021
"Recently my performance practice has focused extensively on the performativity of materials, be they tangible, such as fabrics, or intangible, like sound waves. In this short experiment I will mix two currents of air and sound, and with the help of ‘grounded’ curtain will play the theremin."
Tero Nauha is a professor in Live Art and Performance Studies at Uniarts Helsinki, and a performance artist. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Finland funded postdoctoral research project, How To Do Things With Performance, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2017. He defended his doctoral thesis at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts in Helsinki in January 2016. His primary research interest is in the relationships between economics, artistic research, performative practices, and writing. He is a member of the Performance Philosophy Network, Performance Studies International Association, and the International Federation for Theatre Research. In 2015, he published his first fiction novel, Heresy & Provocation, for the Swedish publishing house Förlaget. His performance art projects have been presented at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Theatrediscounter in Berlin, CSW Kronika in Bytom, Poland, and Performance Matters in London. He has actively collaborated with sound artists, performance artists, and in theatre in various contexts globally. In his artistic practice he focuses on the interstices between intangible forms and material cultures. Nauha’s researches the complex narratives that tie together global financialization, its effect on the social sphere, and the cultural knowledge production that takes place in institutions.
teronauha.com
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- Timo Viialainen: What did you do as a child when the thunder cut the power?
Thunder and rain. Rain and thunder. Somewhere where to linger and lay in. To soothe in heartache, romantic suffering, apocalyptic wishes.. Some of my favorite music is written with thunder in mind. Do I really remember some of the thunderstorms of my childhood? What did I do then?
Timo Viialainen works in the fields of visual art, performance art and sound art. Though most part of his work has been live performances, his contemporary work usually takes its shape in conceptual sculptures that often feature an activating element which engages the viewer. His interest lies in intuitive prelinguistic experience and contradictory concepts that can be found in the various capitalised environments in which we exist. Timo is a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
https://timoviialainen.com/
----The full program for performance protocols Helsinki, with times, locations, and work descriptions can be found on the performance protocols website:
http://performance-protocols.net/Helsinki2021/Helsinki.html
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About performance protocols:
performance protocols is a nomadic platform for instruction-based performance art and collaborative practices which opened its first online exhibition Walking Protocols I (INT) in June 2019. In February 2020, came the first in a series of Nordic Sessions, where bureaucratic protocols were presented and performed in Aalborg (DK). In May 2021, Walking Protocols II took place in Copenhagen (DK). After the Helsinki edition, future performance protocols Nordic Sessions will take place in Bergen (NO) in May 2022. performance protocols is founded, organized and curated by artist and researcher Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (DK).
performance protocols Nordic Sessions is supported by the Nordic Culture Point, Nordic Council of Ministers, and Nordic Culture Fund (Opstart).
http://performance-protocols.net/
https://www.facebook.com/performanceprotocols
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Practical information:
--- Please only come to the events if you are feeling healthy and don’t have any flu symptoms, wear a face mask in all indoor areas, and if not possible to keep safety distance to others outdoors. If you have reserved a spot for a performance and can not come, please notify us so we can give the spot to one on our waiting list!
--- To reserve, write full name, contact info, to which performance and day you wish to book for (reservations only required when mentioned) to: info (AT) performance-protocols.net.
Please note, your reservation is first confirmed when you have received a confirmation email back from us!
--- For the activated score by Eva Sjuve, the artist is not intended to be present, but the score should instead be activated on behalf of the artist.
--- Venue address:
Akusmata, Tukholmankatu 7 K, 00270 Helsinki
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Akusmata, Tukholmankatu 7 K, 00270 Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki