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Safety as Ambience is a collaboration between the artists Eero Yli-Vakkuri & Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, which critically investigates whether public safety can be sensed as a specific ambience, manifested by certain sounds and gestures. The performance regards the city as a site of cohabitation, signified by moving bodies which maintain an awareness of each other through noise. This soundscape constructs a milieu which designates meaning to individuals passing through it and affords the formulation of particular groups. These meanings are thus negotiated through their implementation in the cityscape, where even arbitrary patterns appear through their various manifestations and connotations.
The artists will amplify and perform in relation to sound sources which constitute the soundscape of a specific site in Helsinki, the Tripla Mall and Railroad Station in Pasila. Through this engagement, movements resonate safety, care, and nourishment - and the sounds found are communicating, and even alarming, what happens both visibly and invisibly in other parts of the mall and railroad construction.
Some crucial questions are asked - how do these sounds contribute to the public's sense of safety and how can spaces be reclaimed and controlled through different means of enunciation and through the use of sound? How do we activate and absorb these sounds through our encounter with them and how is a sense of safety (re)established through our bodies’ movements?
The performance starts outside the Tripla Mall and Railway Station in Pasila. We will meet at the entrance to the right side at 10 am, where we will then move together to the performance sites. Be prepared to be asked to help with documentation and bring your mobile phone (if you have one - if not, then that is fine too). Duration approximately 40 minutes. Later on the same day, from 17:00 to 19:00 the artist will host an informal listening session in Third Space (Tarkk'ampujankatu 18, 00150 Helsinki), where you can drop in and out during this timeframe (due to Covid19 there can only be a few people present in the space simultaneously).
About the Artists:
Eero Yli-Vakkuri is a recovering survivalist. In the past he made annoying street interventions which made people uncomfortable. Presently he is exploring how sounds organize communities and advancing sustainable design through campaigns. Yli-Vakkuri is a doctoral candidate at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI), studying contemporary equestrian culture.
http://eero.storijapan.net/docfolio/
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen is an artist and researcher, who works in the intersection between performance art, sound, open technology, and matter. Madsen is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI), researching in environmental, ethico-aesthetic performance art and affective relations in the context of climate change. Madsen is additionally the founder of performance protocols.
https://tmkm.dk/
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More on performance protocols Nordic Sessions in Helsinki: http://performance-protocols.net/Helsinki2021/Helsinki.html
Event for opening of the score exhibition:
https://www.facebook.com/events/243954410959746
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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 (Upstart).
Contact and info: info (at) performance-protocols.net
http://performance-protocols.net/
https://www.facebook.com/performanceprotocols
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pasila, Helsinki, Finland