POST MAKER CAMP:
Residential camp and presentation event
13. - 21.10.2018, Future Lake - Hiidenvesi Centre for Art, Research and Design, Vihti and 20.10.2018, Merikerho, Suvilahti, Helsinki
POST MAKER CAMP
13. - 21.10.2018, Future Lake - Hiidenvesi Centre for Art, Research and Design, Vihti, Finland
EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES
Post Maker Organism
Saturday 20.10.2018
18:00 - 19:00 Start
21:00 - 23:00 Live
23:00 End
POST MAKER ORGANISM
Post Maker Camp invites you to their second presentation, first of its kind in Finland. The event will include music, performances and post-religion interventions by members of Pixelache, KOELSE - Association of experimental electronics - Kokeellisen Elektroniikan Seura and the Slovenian association Cirkulacija2.
The three groups collided in Vihti at the Future Lake - Hiidenvesi Centre for Art, Research and Design in the preceding week, and will present their findings and musings on Saturday, 20.10.2018 at Merikerho, Helsinki, Finland starting at 18:00.
Link to the event
POST MAKER CAMP
In recent decades, digital communication and technology have thoroughly spread to every field of society and human life. This also includes art, with new media, usage of electronic instruments in music, application of technology in otherwise traditional fields of art and similar phenomena growing rapidly and establishing themselves. It is easy to place this development into a more general frame of increasing importance of the rational, scientific and technological thought.
However, it is becoming increasingly evident that while the rational approach provides staggeringly efficient tools and provides answers to many questions that were previously complete mysteries, it is not a sufficient base for a balanced, happy human experience. According to us, the tools and knowledge from the rational explosion should be consciously used for exploration and advancement of other kinds of thought. As to why, firstly, as previously mentioned, the tools provided by technology are very effective and secondly, use of technology to present that which is missing highlights the imbalance.
Here we propose to undertake the above program in the field of contemporary art by establishing an international artistic exchange program between art groups that apply technology in their work and have been either consciously investigating the rational-irrational imbalance or have been fumbling in that direction. The objectives are to provide a channel for presenting such topics, to establish connections between groups working in the field, and to enable both interested young and established artists to contribute and exchange meaningful conversations about the topic.
The general concept of the program contains the exchange of ideas, artistic collaboration and inclusion of new participants. Ideas are exchanged in the form of facilitated discussions and presentations, whereas artistic collaboration takes the shape of a joint working session which results in jointly created work of art. The inclusion of new participants is achieved with apprenticeship programs and organization of bold cooperative projects.
The program is envisioned as a continuous program spanning many years. This project description describes the initial exchange, scheduled for the summer of 2018, in detail. Further exchanges are planned to happen every year. Their details are fleshed out based on experience gained from the 2018 edition.
For the 2018 exchange, the two artist groups Koelse from Helsinki, Finland and Cirkulacija 2 from Ljubljana, Slovenia have been invited as the core participants. Both Koelse and Cirkulacija 2 have already accepted the invitation. Each group will host one event, called a camp, during 2018 with the other group as the attendee. Other suitable participants can be invited depending on how they fit in.
More about the project: https://pixelache.ac/
CONTACT AND INFO
Saša Nemec (ENG, SLO) +386 31 200 286, sasanemec@gmail.com
Otto Urpelainen (ENG, FI) +44 7925 858142, oturpe@iki.fi
ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE EVENT
Public Transit: 500 meters walk from Sörnäinen metro station. Next to Hanasaari 2514 and 2515 bus stops.
Photo: Antti Ahonen
