Live Herring

Voluntary participants (Siipeijät) and the museum staff have built community art work Airport to the Lower Gallery of Jyväskylä Art Museum and Live Herring Working Group participated in the construction of the Airport.

In the Airport there is nostalgic flight-related games which are loan from private collector. You can for example reminice with Vectrex game system. At the same time there is an opportunity to test your flying skills with the open source flight simulator Flight Gear. Live Herring looked also internet archives for nostalgic aviation-related movie clips. In the Airport there is film material for example, about the air ship Hindenburg. You can also see the last movie about female aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared on her tour around the World in July 1937.

There is also events in the Airport, such as performances, dance and workshops.

There is free admission to the Airport and its events!
The Airport is open Tue-Sun from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and it closes on April 5th, 2009. 

The Airport is part of the The Magic of Flight project of Jyväskylä museums in which all the Museums of Jyväskylä city are concentrating to the theme of flying from different perspectives. The museums participating are the Jyväskylä Art Museum, Museum of Central Finland, Central Finland’s Aviation Museum, Finnish Museum of handicrafts, in Central Finland Museum of Nature and the Alvar Aalto Museum.

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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