Live Herring

MetalkinG (”hallucinating high energy noise cinema”) is a cinésonic performance of French artists Richarles Bronson (electronic toys), Riojim and Gaëlle Rouard (16mm film projector screwing). They will be showing for the first time in Finland at the Tampere Film Festivals, but you are also able to see their performance in Jyväskylä when the artists continue their tour of Finland.

In Jyväskylä the MetalkinG duo, Riojim and Richarles Bronson, will be joined by Gaëlle Rouard from La Foxe sound-on-film, to make a special trio performance. La Foxe has its Finnish premiere at the Tampere Film festival on Sat, March 7th.

Welcome to see this unique performance at the Jyväskylä Art Museum, Holvi (Kauppakatu 23) on Friday, Mach 6^th at 7 p.m!

Free entrance!

Please note, that there is a limited amount of admission.

Event is organized in co-operation between Praesens-klubi, Live Herring working group / Arts Council of Central Finland, Jyväskylä Art Museum and The Film Centre of Central Finland.

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Date: 28.2
Location: Koelse.org HQ, Vallila, Helsinki

During spring 2009, Pixelache festival will organise experimental electronics workshops around the theme of “audiovisual hacking”. In the hacking workshop on 28 February you will have the chance to do some strange experiments with a variety of different sound and video producing devices. These experiments can be developed further in workhops during Pixelache festival in April 2009.

Search your attic, flea markets and thrash, bring your favourite audio/ video devices and come bending and hacking with us at the Koelse.org headquarters. Any electronic device that produces sound or video output, from sound toys to video games can be used, but please do not bring anything fancy or expensive, since most of the things will probably not make it through the process.

Max. amount of participants: 20
To sign up and/or for more info: aahonen(at)gmail.com

One goal of the Live Herring working group is to indroduce film and media art projects that are ongoing at the middle of Finland area. Fist one that we idroduce is the Work not Working art project of Rebekah Rousi. Rousi is an Australian born printmedia and performance artist that lives and works in Jyväskylä.

This is how Rousi describes her project:
“Is a mixed blog and performance based project, which entails me, the artist, undertaking various job roles in organisations and companies. It can be classified as a ‘performance by order’ piece, whereby either viewers give suggestions regarding jobs I can apply for (via the blog), or organisations recruit me specifically for the tasks at hand. The piece challenges notions of privileged space as I, an artist will be undertaking other job roles, as an artist.

Thus, the audience/ customers are generally aware that I am an artist, and thus, may leave a message in my ‘guest book’ after their art experience.

The purpose of the project is to look at every facet of work from under employment to over employment (exploitation) and the ways in which our lives and identities are effected… by work. It aims to highlight the individualisation (and personalisation) of the matter of work,
particularly considering the notion that ‘everyone is an artist at what they do’.

The guest book comments as well as photo/video documentation and daily entries will be recorded on the blog. The hope is that through this outlet and material the audience will want to contibute to moulding the artist’s identity…”

Projects blog can be found from this address: http://worknotworking.blogspot.com/