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Art Fair Suomi 09 Place: Cable Factory / Puristamo and Valssaamo Open: Mon-Fri 11-19, Sat-Sun 12-16 Free entrance Finland's Most Versatile Sales Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Artists´ Association MUU and the Union of Artist Photographers organises ART FAIR SUOMI 09, their fifth joint sales exhibition of contemporary art, at the Cable Factory in Helsinki with 150 artists - 600 works of art. The program includes inspiring presentations by artists and talks about contemporary art and collecting. PROGRAM The week preceding the opening: 12-7 p.m. Place: Narinkkatori, Kamppi, Helsinki Commissioned by Siemenpuu Foundation The work on display only for one day! Friday 25th September 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Saturday 26th September Time: 26.9.-4.10.2009 Artists Touko Heikkinen and Ilkka Karhu invite everyone interested in photography to participate in a playful treasure hunt in the Ruoholahti neighborhood. In the immediate surroundings of the Cable Factory photographic works have been placed, for participants to look at, if they manage to find them with the help of a map and hints. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Place: Kamppi Narinkka Square A photo-performance and itinerant photographic project, which takes place in front of the Kamppi Center in central Helsinki. In an outside photo studio the audience will be able to choose between several backgrounds to project on the inside of a tent and in which they will be able to set their dreams´ portrait. The project is created and realized by Filippo Zambon, student at Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. The event is a part of the project "Our Game" that celebrates the 30th anniversary of Photographic Gallery Hippolyte. 2 p.m. Place: Cable Factory Pirkko Siitari is Chief Curator of Collections at Kiasman in Helsinki. She has worked long with photo-based art: 1990-1999 she was director for Norhtern Photographic centre in Oulu (FI) and 1999-2004 shen was chief exhibition curuator at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki (FI). 2004-2008 She worked as director of Kerava Art Museum in Kerava (FI). 2.30 p.m. Place: Cable Factory Svein Ingvoll Pedersen is director and artistic director at Tromsø Kunstforening in Norway. Pedersen is an art historian with a special interest in film and photography, as well as gender and masculinity studies. He has lectured at several Norwegian universities, published articles in magazines and newspapers and has been leading artist run organisations. In Tromsø Kunstforening he has among other things been developing projects grounded in meetings between art and natural science. Sunday 27th September Time: 26.9.-4.10.2009 Place: Ruoholahti neighborhood surronding the Cable Factory, Helsinki Artists Touko Heikkinen and Ilkka Karhu invite everyone interested in photography to participate in a playful treasure hunt in the Ruoholahti neighborhood. In the immediate surroundings of the Cable Factory photographic works have been placed, for participants to look at, if they manage to find them with the help of a map and hints. 2 p.m. Adel Abidin was born in Baghdad in 1973. Since 2003 then he has been working with videos and video installations. Abidin´s works have been exhibited in several venues and festivals in Finland and abroad. With his fictive travel agency Abidin Travels he represented Finland at the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2007. In his art practice he focuses on issues such as cultural alienation and marginalization. Sarcasm, humor and irony are central to his language. 2.30 p.m. Place: Cable Factory Sormina is new musical instrument, created as a doctoral dissertation project by Juhani Räisänen in the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab. The instrument is a wireless tool to create electronic music and live video from a computer. The design of the hand held interface and all the programming is done by Juhani Räisänen. Wth the project, the interface design and the audiovisual output have been of equal importance. The music of Sormina can be described as ambient or environmental, with reminiscences of water drops, wind and other "spacy" sounds. Also melodies can be played. The musician controls the music by turning the small knobs of the interface with his/her fingers. When desired, the finger movements may also control live video processing, which is created by the same software. See more at: www.sormina.com Fri 2nd of October Time: 26.9.-4.10.2009 Place: Ruoholahti neighborhood surronding the Cable Factory, Helsinki Artists Touko Heikkinen and Ilkka Karhu invite everyone interested in photography to participate in a playful treasure hunt in the Ruoholahti neighborhood. In the immediate surroundings of the Cable Factory photographic works have been placed, for participants to look at, if they manage to find them with the help of a map and hints. 10.30 a.m. - 16.30 p.m. Place: Museum of Contempory Art Kiasma, Theatre The topic for the two-day seminar is borders, borderlands and interfaces: photogrpahic art as one of the borders of contemporary art; the borderlands of photographic art and journalism; what happens when nature photography meets art pictures or when art pictures engage in dialog with fashin and design imagery. And what does documentarism mean in the fiel of art? One of the topics is also the bordercrossings of nation states and the "national" - the internationalization of contemporary art. Seminar language: The talks of the morning session on Friday are in English, while the talks on Friday afternoon and on Saturday are in Finnish. Sat 3rd of October Time: 26.9.-4.10.2009 Place: Ruoholahti neighborhood surronding the Cable Factory, Helsinki Artists Touko Heikkinen and Ilkka Karhu invite everyone interested in photography to participate in a playful treasure hunt in the Ruoholahti neighborhood. In the immediate surroundings of the Cable Factory photographic works have been placed, for participants to look at, if they manage to find them with the help of a map and hints. klo 14.30 Place: Cable Factory 10.30 a.m. - 16.30 p.m. Place: Museum of Contempory Art Kiasma, Theatre The topic for the two-day seminar is borders, borderlands and interfaces: photogrpahic art as one of the borders of contemporary art; the borderlands of photographic art and journalism; what happens when nature photography meets art pictures or when art pictures engage in dialog with fashin and design imagery. And what does documentarism mean in the fiel of art? One of the topics is also the bordercrossings of nation states and the "national" - the internationalization of contemporary art. Seminar language: The talks of the morning session on Friday are in English, while the talks on Friday afternoon and on Saturday are in Finnish. 2 p.m. Place: Cable Factory Vexi Salmi is a renowned record producer, song lyricist and writer. Salmi is also a passionate art collector. His collection of mainly contemporary art is places at the Hämeenlinna Art Museum in Finland. Sun 4th October Time: 26.9.-4.10.2009 Place: Ruoholahti neighborhood surronding the Cable Factory, Helsinki Artists Touko Heikkinen and Ilkka Karhu invite everyone interested in photography to participate in a playful treasure hunt in the Ruoholahti neighborhood. In the immediate surroundings of the Cable Factory photographic works have been placed, for participants to look at, if they manage to find them with the help of a map and hints. 2 p.m. Place: Cable Factory - - - Art Fair Suomi guides and purchasing assistants are personal helpers for both first-time buyers and collectors. They are there to help throughout the entire exhibition period. On offer, are video, photography and performance-art procurement manuals. |
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