• untuvasade

Alicja Rogalska, Anja Helminen, Eeva-Mari Haikala, Gustaf Broms, Hannele Romppanen, Helinä Hukkataival, Jaan Toomik, Joonas Jokiranta, Kaarina Ormio, Luo Fei, Melati Suryodarmo, Minna Suoniemi, Niclas Hallberg, Paula Lehtonen, Pia Sirén, Tanssiboxi, Vera Nevanlinna, XXX-ryhmä

‘Rain Of Down’ – Videperformances

Viiskulma 13.5.-31.5.2009

The program

Rain of Down (Untuvasade) is an international exhibition focusing on video performances. It demonstrates the more quiet and intimate side of performance art which has rarely been experienced at performance events or festivals. Here you can relax on the couch and take your time watching performances. We have compiled the exhibition of performances presented for camera, and we enliven the whole with a couple of live performances, both in Galleria Huuto and in the city. Photographs by Swedish Gustaf Broms, portraying his performances in the city area, are also on display.

With this exhibition, we take part in the ongoing discussion of performance art and the relationship between physical presence and how to portray it. We present those areas of performance art that are left between a live performance and its recording, or areas where these two join each other. We ask: “When is a work a video, and when is it a performance?” Artist by artist, the exhibition discusses the borderlines of a video work, a video performance, and a live performance. In order to present our own approaches, both of us will have one work in the exhibition.

Melati Suryodarmo (ID/DE)
Jaan Toomik (EST)
Luo Fei (CN)
Gustaf Broms (SE)
Alicja Rogalska (PL/GB)
Niclas Hallberg (SE)
Helinä Hukkataival
Vera Nevanlinna
Eeva-Mari Haikala (FI/GB)
Hannele Romppanen
Minna Suoniemi
Joonas Jokiranta
Paula Lehtonen and Pia Sirén
The XXX Group
Tanssiboxi and Anja Helminen
Kaarina Ormio

The opening will be held Tuesday, 12 May, at 6–8 pm. Welcome!

Anja Helminen and Kaarina Ormio
The producers and curators of the event

The exhibition has been kindly supported by:
ARTS COUNCIL OF FINLAND
CITY OF HELSINKI CULTURAL OFFICE
AVEK – THE PROMOTION CENTER FOR AUDIOVISUAL CULTURE
GALLERIA HUUTO
FINNISH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS