An event at International Workers Day (1.5.2018) at 6pm and an exhibition until 9th of May that took place at Alkovi.
Students of The Fine Arts Academy from
Kino Club and
Reading group organized a special happening for the opening. It was a festive event celebrating the International workers day and Vappu. Kino Club and Reading Group collaborated on a public performance for the opening of the exhibition. The performance involved music and a video screening followed by serving soup to the public.
The theme of the exhibition and collaboration is 'Networks' and 'Reverse Images' reflecting on the history of dominant modes of mass-communication in relation to urban collectivism, student organizing, and community insurgency.
VIDEOORATOR was the installation in Alkovi shaped out of the digital works curated specifically for Red May by TMNW (This Might Not Work- working group). The concept by Ilya Orlov referencing the avant-garde artist Gustav Klutsis's the 1920s' utopian propaganda machine 'Radio Orator' In the installation, Klutsis 'Radio Orator'paper layouts, that were never implemented in his time, became real by turning into a VIDEOORATOR – a new virtual platform for sharing today's artistic, political, social ideas, and critical thinking.
In the Screening:
#1 SEMAPHORE Flatchestedmama
#2 SCREENINGS Kasra Rahmanian
#3 WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK FINNISH? Fatmir Mustafa-Karllo
#4 MEDIATED PRESENCE/ PERFORMANCE Ksenia Yurkova
#5 GO BACK GO LEFT Arash Akhlaqi
#6 SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN, (YOU BETTER WATCH OUT) Hami Bahadori
#7 UNTITLED - Jo Kjaergaard
#8 CHINOISE2018 Jani A. Purhonen
#9 THE COST OF PRIVACY Jessica Escobar
#10 61217 Verneri Salonen
#11 Jo Kjaergaard
#12 PERUNA SAARI. KANAVA Sashapasha
#13 RED PRESENCE Esther Planas
#14 NANA MAIOLINI
#15 JAANA KOKKO
#16 PAOLA FIGUEROA
Music performance:
Burdo
Rotts Pavel
"What is it that today some of us are connected to all parts of the world via internet (and might even know hundreds of colleagues internationally) but we might not know any of the people who live with us in the same apartment complex? At the same time, many others around the world are in constant state of fear and paranoia form war and terror."
Kino Club:
Paola Figueroa
Lasse Krister Vairio
Verneri Salonen
Theo Tornberg
Rotts Pavel
Sekular Tomasz
Marie Boisson
Ignat Burdo
Reading Group:
Linda Ciesielski
Arash Akhlaghi
Hami Bahadori
Jo Kjaergaard
Go?kc?e Sandal
Ilya Orlov
The exhibition was supported by Kuvataideakatemia.
RED MAY is a month-long festival of Radical Art and Thought taking place at Seattle, in United States. In the festival various speakers deal with the questions linked with the contemporary cultural situation and for instance capitalism. Alkovi was one of the offsite partners of the event also in 2017.
More info:
https://www.redmayseattle.org/
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