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ARTISTS’ ASSOCIATION MUU PRESENTS:
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE 4, “Performanssi päivässä”
Performance ”Scream to Scream” by Anastasia Ax and Marja-Leena Sillanpää
in Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari
Sunday April 6th 2014 at 5 pm.
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE 4
– A series of international video performances and live performances in April
4.4. – 27.4.2014, MUU Gallery
Opening Thursday April 3rd 2014 at 5–7pm. Welcome!
Artists: Anastasia Ax & Marja-Leena Sillanpää (Sweden), Romulo Bañares (Spain), Alex Bodea (Romania/Germany), Elina Brotherus (Finland), Cristian Chironi (Italy), Chun Hua Catherine Dong (China/Canada), Allison Halter (USA/Germany), Constantin Hartenstein (Germany), Marja Helander (Finland), Marianne Myungah Kim (Korea/USA), Verica Kovacevska (Macedonia/Switzerland), Julia Kurek (Poland), Marika Orenius (Finland), Benas Šarka (Lithuania), Minna Suoniemi (Finland)
Performance Voyage 4 by MUU premiered in Madrid in February and is presented at MUU Gallery in April. Performance Voyage 4 is a series of international video performances. The theme this year is “Self-portrait”. The collection presents performance art on video by 15 artists and groups of artists, selected from pieces submitted through an international open call.
The collection of self-portraying pieces challenges the viewer to reflect upon the self. The pieces bring out themes connected to self-portrayal, such as identity as acts and processes, autobiographicality and entitlement to one’s own story, the artist in a societal context as well as the self in relation to the other and otherness. The Performance Voyage 4 selection proves that nudity, tape, scissors, mirrors, clothing and food items still are basic elements in performance art.
3.4. at 5 pm. MUU Galleria, Lönnrotinkatu 33: Romulo Banares
4.4. at 12 Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu, Hämeentie 161: Allison Halter
5.4. at 4 pm. Helsingin Ylioppilasteatteri, Aleksanterinkatu 23: Julia Kurek
6.4. at 5 pm. Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, Tyynenmerenkatu 6: Anastasia Ax & Marja-Leena Sillanpää
The “Performance Voyage” project started in 2011, in conjunction with the Amorph! Festival. In 2011 Amorph! was organized as part of the official programme of “Turku – European Capital of Culture”. After that Performance Voyage became a part of MUU’s annual project repertoire, and has year by year become an increasingly prominent international project.
After the exhibition at MUU Gallery, Performance Voyage 4 tours the world. Already decided places are: PAE Performance Art Event (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Hanasaari (Espoo, Finland), Interakcje Festival (Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland), Art-Athina 2014 Art Fair(Athens, Greece), TAL art space (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil), Ses Voltes (Mallorca, Spain), Lilith Performance Studio (Malmö, Sweden), New Performance Festival (Turku, Finland), Visualcontainer (Milan, Italy), Sala Fenix (Barcelona, Spain), Hangar (Barcelona, Spain), and Knockdown Center (New York, USA).
Tour destinations will be updated on http://www.muu.fi/ during 2014.
The jury members for the Performance Voyage 4 were Taina Erävaara, Leena Kela and Timo Soppela.
MORE INFORMATION
Timo Soppela, +358-(0)9-625 972, muugalleria(at)muu.fi, http://www.muu.fi
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