Live Herring

Pete Revonkorpi & Henri Lindström: Eksyjä
Yläkaupungin Yö arts festival, May 16^th 2009
Ilokivi ground floor 8 p.m.

Eksyjä is a performance by illustrator Pete Revonkorpi and musician Henri Lindström that combines live music and digital painting. It is a story about birth, side-steps and death.

In Eksyjä the birth of the painting is the actual artwork itself.

Eksyjä will have the premiere in Yläkaupungin Yö arts festival on May 16^th 2009. It has been supported by Live Herring work and Jyväskylä Art Museum.

For more information contact
Henri Lindström
henri@elisabethunderground.com

Pimp My Passport workshop
- Craft a protective “Faraday cage” passport cover for your passport

Yläkaupungin Yö arts festival
May 16^th 2009, from 4 p.m. to 00.00 a.m.
Jyväskylä University Main Building lobby

Live Herring workgroup invited media artists Mari Keski-Korsu and Mika Meskanen to carry out Pimp My Passport workshop to Jyväskylä on May 16^th , 2009 as part of the program of Yläkaupungin Yö arts festival. Workshop will take a place in Jyväskylä University Main Building lobby from 4 p.m. to 00.00 a.m.

Pimp My Passport workshop examines DIY and hacking prospects as well as control and privacy issues of the RFID passports currently being rolled out throughout the European Union. It also plays around with the notion of nationality and its symbols - seeking new ways to signal identity by “pimping” personal travel documents. In workshop we are crafting protective “Faraday cage” passport covers for passports.

Although dealing with heavy subject matter like electronic privacy, big brother and nationality, Pimp My Passport is a playful, hands-on project that anyone can take part of. It is realized in Jyväskylä as non stop workshop so you are welcome to join when it’s good for you. If you wish, please take your passport with you for testing your passport cover.

Realization of Pimp My Passport workshop in Jyväskylä has been supported by AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture).

For more information:

media artist Mari Keski-Korsu
mkk[AT]katastro.fi
http://www.artsufartsu.net

or

Soile Ollikainen 1/3-regional artist, Live Herring
tel. +358 (0)50 3053 540
info[AT]liveherring.org
http://www.liveherring.org/

Mari Keski-Korsu, a media artist, who participated to Live Herring ‘08 exhibition and visited also Jyväskylä at November is taking part in an expeditions of mikroPaliskunta. At the moment mikroPaliskunta explores tourism in Canary Islands.

As advance information Live Herring is happy to inform that media artists Mari Keski-Korsu and Mika Meskanen will arrive to Jyväskylä to Yläkaupungin yö to have a workshop in Jyväskylä! More information about the workshop will be announced later.

REINDEER ON THE ROAD

An expedition collects artists to explore nationality of a tourist in Canary Islands 3. – 10.4.2009
The travel can be followed in real-time at renewed website www.mikropaliskunta.net

mikroPaliskunta is a series of interdisciplinary expeditions exploring contemporary imagined nation called Finland and its eco-social changes in a sustainable way. mikroPaliskunta has already made two expeditions: across Finland from north to south by a biodiesel car with a stuffed reindeer in 2006 and around Berlin by bicycles in Germany in 2007. This spring, the group starts a series of expeditions themed ”The Finnish on Holiday”. The first expedition in the hell triangle of tourism is made to Canary Islands - the ever-popular holiday destination and a border shore for African refugees risking their lives to enter European Union. Following two expeditions head to entertain centres in Vantaa and Lapland in Finland

- The Finnish culture is moved to warm climate in Canary Islands. How does tourism intensify presented national identity in tourists themselves and in local people? Also, the affects of mass tourism from perspective of economic depression and ecological awareness is an interesting subject matter, explains media artist and member of the expedition Mari Keski-Korsu.

mikroPaliskunta website is renewed for the Canary Islands expedition. As with the earlier expeditions, also this expedition can be tracked almost in real-time. The artists of the expedition work with their own individual themes producing articles, photographs, videos, maps and a series of performances about coffee drinking as a social phenomenon. All the materials about this and the past expeditions are exhibited at the website.

Members of the expedition include media artists Mari Keski-Korsu and Mika Meskanen, photographer Eija Mäkivuoti, author and scriptwriter Taina West. Researcher of sustainable consumption and production Satu Lähteenoja is a special guest of the expedition.

mikroPaliskunta is supported by Arts Council of Finland and Finnish Cultural Fund.

Contact person:
Mari Keski-Korsu
Mobile +358 40 506 5871
E-mail mkk@katastro.fi
Skype mkk_kuus

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