Ptarmigan tegutses Tallinnas aastatel 2011-2014. Veebilehelt on leitav arhiiv nendel aastatel aset leidnud üritustest. Meie tegevus Tallinnas on lõppenud.
Ptarmigan's Liminal Images series, in conjunction with the ongoing Workshop in Architecture and Vitality, will be screening Dusan Makavajev's 1971 classic, WR: Mysteries of the Organism.
WR - Misterije Organizma (WR - Mysteries of the Organism)
Directed by Dusan Makavejev
Yuvoslavia, 1971
84 minutes
English, Serbian, Russian and German with English subtitiles (imdb)
This feature-length film is described by Amos Vogel in Film as a Subversive Art as:
... unquestionably one of the most important subversive masterpieces of the 1970s; a hilarious, highly erotic, political comedy which quite seriously proposes sex as the ideological imperative for revolution and advances a plea for Erotic Socialism. Only the revolutionary cubist Makavejev ... could have pulled together this mélange of Wilhelm Reich; excerpts from a monstrous Soviet film, The Vow (1946), starring Stalin; a transvestite of the Warhol factory; A.S. Neill of Summerhill; several beautiful young Yugoslavs fucking merrily throughout ... It is an outrageous, exhuberant, marvellous work of a new breed of international revolutionary, strangely spawns by cross-fertilization between the original radical ideologies of the East, Consciousness III in America, and the sexual-political radicalism of the early Wilhelm Reich ...
... Beneath the film's light-hearted frivolity and marvellous humour lurks a more serious ideological intent: opposition to all oppressive social systems, East or West, the removal of prurience from sex and a final squaring of accounts by the new radicals with the now reactionary Russian regime ... Makavejev is quite accurate in describing his film as 'a black comedy, a political circus, a fantasy on the fascism and communism of human bodies, the political life of human genitals, a proclamation of the pornographic essence of any system of authority and power over others.' ... The film is also a tribute to the ultimate power of ideas over institutions.
Teisipäeval, 29. novembril kell 20.15 Ptarmiganis (Toom-kooli 13) räägib Daniel Vaarik meiega ühel mõtlemapaneval ja südamelähedasel teemal, mille võiks sõnastada kui: Kas üks inimene suudab maailma muuta?
Olete oodatud kuulama, kaasa mõtlema ja arutlema!
Novembri L&R: Oma loomingut tutvustavad multikunstnik Lori Felker Chicagost ning Soomes resideeruv Kanada installatsioonikunstnik Scott Andrew Elliott. Nagu ikka, saab esmaspäevaõhtust mõnusat salongi ja letialust värskendust, muusikapalu serveerib DJ Adam Strohm (USA). *
Ptarmigan esitleb:
mahedad šansoonid, päris tšello. Laupäevaõhtu Kodu baaris.
+ sissejuhatuseks lisandus Leitmotif Limbo, täiesti mahedusest mööda improkräu, ja!
Sans Provinces is French-Finnish duo Nathalie Aubret (vocals) and Jugi Kaartinen (piano). Their acoustic journeys follow the meanders of a cinematic piano & delicate voice. They move somewhere between minimal piano music, chanson française, and singer-songwriter vulnerability, drawing influences from the likes of Yann Tiersen, Clint Mansell, Antony & the Johnsons etc. The duo formed in Helsinki in the autumn 2010.
http://soundcloud.com/sansprovinces
Peter Nicholson, on residency at Ptarmigan Tallinn, will perform material from his recent album Shutters Drawn, comprised of songs and multi-instrumental compositions.
http://peternicholsoncello.bandcamp.com/
Saab kaunis olema.
Peale väikest pausi jõuab Svamp heliimpro töötuba tagasi Tallinnasse. Sel kuul on külalisläbiviijaks muusik Peter Nicholson (http://peternicholsoncello.bandcamp.com/), kes on nädalasel kiir-residentuuril Tallinnas. 19. novembri õhtul annab ta Kodu baaris ka tasuta kontserti.
Osalemiseks ei pea olema päris muusik. Põhiline on kuulamisoskus ja huvi. Võta kaasa mõni instrument või ükskõik mis ese, millega heli teha. Arvesta, et võimenduse võimalused on limiteeritud (nt. ainult kompuutriga läbi ei aja).
T-tulemast!
Siin saab koos teistega vabalt improviseerides tantsida.
Korraldab Pire Sova.
On artist talksud, performance'id ja videod, baaris dringid ja ledlambid (ja siinkohal elagu eesti keel).
Õhtu tähed:
Kristīne Želve (Läti)
On režissöör, kirjutaja ja kuraator Riiast. Ta on teel Soome Ptarmigani residentuuri. Želve teeb praegu filmi Soome-Läti režissöörist Teuvo Tuliost alias Theodor Tugaist. Sel õhtul tutvustab ta oma projekti ja Tulio loomingut ning näitab mõningaid ülesvõtteid valmivast filmist.
Giles Bailey (Suurbritannia)
Bailey teeb performance'i nimega "All Whirlwind, Heat, and Flash (Undertone)" ("Kõik on üks tuulispask, lõõm ja välgutamine (Alatoon)"), kus ta mängib ümber Vito Acconci 1978. aasta filmi "Undertone" ("Alatoon").
+ Ed Clive'i ja Camilla Wills'i (Suurbritannia) videoteosed.
Olete teretulnud!
Hasso Krull räägib sel mütoloogilisel ja antropoloogilisel teemal, mis ulatub ka filosoofiasse, psühholoogiasse ja teoloogiasse.
Olete oodatud kuulama ja arutama!
Järjekordne Melomaania toimub neljapäeval, 3. novembril 2011.a. kell 19.15 Toompeal, Ptarmigani projektiruumis, Toom-kooli 13, Tallinn
Seekord astub esimesena üles noor muusikakriitik Niilo Leppik, kelle muusikaline maitse on suhteliselt lai.
Mängib ta meile seekord "ühe heas mõttes hipsteri muusikalisi noppeid ja leide aastast 2011. Värsket kraami ja kuldset paremikku."
Seega kuuleme Niilo kokkuvõtet möödunud aastast.
Teiseks astub meie ette Raimond Mägi, kelle teemaks on basskitarri roll erinevates stiilides.
Kõik on teretulnud!
Novembrikuust taasalgab senini Tallinna Ülikooli Eesti Humanitaarinstituudi filosoofia osakonna poolt korraldatud filosoofiline Sümpoosion, mis on sellel aastal hüljanud boheemlasliku Kuku Klubi seinad ja salakavalalt end võimukeskusele lähemale nihutanud ning endale mõnusa pesa tekitanud hoopis Toompeal, Ptarmigani projektiruumis.
Seega kuulge kõik kel kõrvad: sümpoosion tuleb taas, õhinapõhiselt, tugevalt ja järjekindlalt, kaks korda kuus, uute tegijate, laiema vaatenurga ja elava fantaasiaga. Tegijate hulgas on inimesi kõigilt EHI erialadelt.
Võtkem käest kinni ja mingem üheskoos sõbralikult uitama mööda viljakaid mõttemaastikke ja otsima ahhaa-elamusi. Igal korral on reisijuhiks mõni teadmistega laetud erialaspetsialist või niisama huvitav inimene, kes esitab vabas vormis ettekande, millele järgneb avatud mõttevahetus.
Kõik huvilised on teretulnud, üritus on tasuta!
http://tinyurl.com/6yojvpl
Join us for another installment of Labyrinths and Rings, a platform for artists, filmmakers, and other creative practitioners to present their work in a friendly, fun atmosphere. L&R events always feature food and refreshments and a DJ.
Tonight we're pleased to welcome two Helsinki-based artists, Bita Razavi & Jaakko Karhunen.
Bita Razavi
Bita Razavi is an Iranian contemporary artist based in Helsinki. She studied bachelor of music performance in Tehran Art University and master of fine arts in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. She mostly works with video, installation and photography. Socio-political criticism, art history, collaboration and collective memory are the essential elements in her works. Razavi had her first solo exhibition in Israel under the name of an Israeli artist, which was a manifestation against political games between Iran and Israel. She has shown works in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Third New Art Biennial of Tehran, first Trondheim biennial and Thessaloniki biennial.
Jaakko Karhunen
Jaakko Karhunen has made his master degree in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. He is the founding member of the artist-run gallery and collective Oksasenkatu 11. After graduation he has mostly exhibited his work under pseudonyms and heteronyms, and worked extensively in collaboration with other artists and in collectives. His primary medium is installation, as that is the generic medium that can accommodate all other media. The thematic focal point of his artistic practice is the subject, the formation of subjecthood through ideology. Karhunen has exhibited in museums in Finland and abroad. He also curates shows for Oksasenkatu 11, and has been to several international residency programs.
As always, each artist will give a brief presentation of their work followed by a moderated question-and-answer forum.
Väikeselt on vormistatud dringid ja miniatuursed on isetehtud fotokad, filmid on maksimaalselt minutipikkused ning helid tulevad mikroimpulssidest.
Põhiline on aga see, et kõik väike saab seekord taskutest ja sahtlinurkadest välja ja tähtsuselt ja mõõdult suureks.
Ja see on ka põhiline, et GFYP on linna ainumas igakuine varieteeõhtusari. Ja punk on põhiline.
Nii et.
Tulgem kokku ja pühitsegem väikevorme. Tulge.
Õhtu kava on allpool ja avatud ka dringinurgake.
Ning taaskord nagu ikka - õhtu algab kui kell kukub!
Õhtu kava:
Kihiliste napsude klass
Lewis, jah, see sama Lewis McG, kes eelmine kord andis tervele õhtule peene suuna ja maigu oma kokteiliklassiga, teeb seekord pidu. Tuleme siis kõik kohe alguseks kohale ja õpime, kuidas teha kihilisi napsusid, väikeseid aga vägevaid vigureid. Füüsika ja keemia, klassiõhtu. Klaasis ja siis su sees. Tuleme kohale, näeme.
Tikutoosikaamerate töötoa osalised ja läbiviija räägivad ja näitavad
Päev enne GFYP varieteeõhtut on Ptarmiganis inglise kunstniku Daniel Alleni töötuba, kus õpitakse pisikestest papist mittemiskitest sama pisikesi töötavaid fotokaameraid ehitama. Sorri, kõik kohad on juba algusest peale täis. Nii populaarne on. Aga kõigil, kes ei mahtunud töötuppa, kõigil meil jääb üle vaid vaadata ja imestada, mida need üksikud õnnelikud osalejad ehitanud ja pildistanud on. Ja mida räägib kunstnik ise.
_Cha-_Cha klipiminutid
Näeb valikut eri alade tegevate inimeste loodud kuuekümnesekundilisi helilis-visuaalseid kompositsioone. Vorm ise on juba miniatuurne,
see on ainult väike suts, valu saab kohe mööda.
Aga efekt võib olla igavene.
Ja kui ei ole, siis läheb kohe meelest ära.
Sest see oli ainult suts ja kohe möödas.
Minutijagu intensiivset andmist.
Komponeeritud ühesus või vabad seosed.
Minuteid jagavad:
Toomas Savi
Riho Kall
Bugra Dedeoglu
Vil Lem
Eleriin Ello
Lewis McGuffie
Hy Grynszpan
+
Hannah Harkes'i uus linoolanimatsioon. 13 sekki. Täiuslik komplekt-performatsioon.
Vil Lem
Vil Lem on meie seas juba päris kuulus ja teie seas võiks ka olla. Sest ta keerab pisikesi nuppe ja ta arvuti on palju väiksem kui kümne aasta tagune keskmine ja ta ohjab nende väikeste nuppudega määratuid helihõlmasid ja seekord, esmakordselt avalikult koos helidega suurendab ta seinasuuruseks pisikesi valgusliikumisi. Ja ta elagu.
Laupäeva õhtu juhatab välja ja linnapeale laiali muidu Ptarmigani sage külastaja, kes seekord kehastub MUUSIKALISEKS ÜLLATUSESINEJAKS!
Palju õnne meile ja talle!
Ja tere tulemast ka seekord. Eelmine kord oli ju tore.
In this workshop, participants will build a pinhole camera out of a matchbox and use it to take photographs. The photographs will be exhibited in the monthly variety show Gherkin Frenzy Youth Passport, happening the following evening (29 October).
The workshop is led by Daniel Allen, who descibes it:
The point of the camera for me is it's unashamedly low-fi and very much fits in with that aesthetic. The fact that there's no viewfinder, for example, means that people are forced to look at the scene and identify what interests them, and to be inventive about photographing it, rather than immediately getting their camera to tell them what they see. So the matchbox camera strips people of some common props and forces them to re-evaluate photography a little. It reintroduces an element of serendipity and reinstates some kind of artistic investigation ...
I will guide the group through making the camera to ensure people get reasonably close to what is required for photographs, although the process is a little random and depends to some extent on participants' craft skills. The good thing is that each camera is an individual work of, if not art, then at least craft. Each person's camera is their own and the results, whatever they are, are enhanced by this. The resulting cameras shoot one roll of film and then basically have to be destroyed (to get the film out). The film is then developed at a 1 hour place. The negatives can then be scanned or digitally photographed so that the images can be manipulated on computer. Viewing as a slide show is the most effective way to present the photographs to everyone in the workshop.
The workshop will last approximately five hours depending on how much time is spent photographing. Places in the workshop are limited to 10 and there will be a 6€ fee for materials, so please register here.
Liikumine saab koos teistega vabalt improviseerides tantsida.
Korraldab Pire Sova.
Õhtupoolik George Kuchari auks.
Seekordne Ptarmigani kinoõhtu Liminal Images (Vaevuhoomatavad kujutised) keskendub eelmisel kuul me hulgast lahkunud USA underground filmimehe George Kuchari loomingule. Saab näha valikut Kuchari lühifilmidest ja väsimatuile lõpus tunniajalist dokki mehest endast.
Programm:
**Hold Me While I'm Naked**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1966
17 minutit
“A very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness. In its economy and cogency of imaging, HOLD ME surpasses any of Kuchar’s previous work. The odd blend of Hollywood glamour and drama with all-too-real life creates and inspires counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality.” — Ken Kelman
“This film could cheer an arthritic gorilla, and audiences, apparently sensitized by its blithely accurate representation of feelings few among them can have escaped, rise from their general stupor to cheer it back.” — James Stoller, The Village Voice
**Eclipse of the Sun Virgin**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1967
17 minutit
"I dedicate this film poem to the behemoths of yesteryear that perished in Siberia along with the horned pachyderms of the pre-glacial epoch. This chilling montage of crimson repression must be seen. Painstakingly filmed and edited, it will be painful to watch, too." — George Kuchar
**Pagan Rhapsody**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1970
25 minutit
"Since this was Jane and Lloyd's first big acting roles, I made the music very loud so it would sweep them to stardom. She once hurt Bob Cowan's back by sitting on it so this time I had her laying on his stomach. Donna Kerness was pregnant during her scenes but her stomach was kept pretty much in shadow and it's not noticeable. My stomach was the same as always except it contained more mocha cake than usual since that type of cake was usually around when I filmed in Brooklyn Heights. Being that the picture was made in the winter, there are no outdoor scenes because it's too cold and when the characters have to suddenly flee a tense situation, it's too time consuming to have them put on a coat and gloves.
Originally not scheduled as a tragedy, things swiftly changed as the months made me more and more sour as I plummet down that incinerator shaft I call my life." -- George Kuchar
* vaheaeg *
**A Reason to Live**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1976
25 min
"Co-directed with Marion Eaton (who also stars), George Kuchar’s A Reason to Live is a hilarious and wonderfully evocative noir — not quite an homage, a pastiche, or a parody — in opulent, silvery black and white. Kuchar also follows Jack Smith (and, of course, many others) with beautiful, ersatz Von Sternberg lensing (with lots of foreground distraction and soft focus). Kuchar even references JVS’s Anatahan with the tactic of using silver-painted foliage, maximizing the shimmering cinematic gawdiness." -- KG
**I, An Actress**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1977
10 min
"This film was shot in ten minutes with four or five students of mine at the San Francisco Art Institute. It was to be a screen-test for a girl in the class. She wanted something to show producers of theatrical productions, as the girl was interested in an acting career. By the time all the heavy equipment was set up the class was just about over; all we had was ten minutes. Since 400 feet of film takes ten minutes to run through the camera … that was the answer: Just start it and don’t stop till it runs out. I had to get into the act to speed things up so, in a way, this film gives an insight into my directing techniques while under pressure." -- KG
**Forever and Always**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1978
19 min
"This is a great little short by the man that brought us "Hold me while im naked" and "Thundercrack". It's two film's in one for the most part but it works. He was approached by the "Horray for Kids" (oh dear) people to film a convention, needless to say what they got was hardly suitable for children. With great sound bytes from 50's romance records , as his quirky technique he produced a film more about the break up of marriage and the death of his children and wife in a car crash (not based on fact) , the car being driven by a shop dummy "A motor car has too big eyes too see where it is going and if you dont use your own big eyes you know where you'l be going" is sung heartily as the threesome become roadkill , done with a great slow mo of a kiddies three wheeler falling to the ground. There is so much compacted into the twenty or so minutes that I cant do it justice so track it down and have a look at what im going on about." -- a random IMDB user comment
**Mongreloid**
Režissöör George Kuchar
USA, 1978
9 min
"A nice look at George and his dog Bocko. Bocko starred in several of George's films and here is seen cavorting outdoors with the film maker Curt McDowell. He is also seen indoors with George. George shows Bocko some of the outdoor footage and comments on it, reminding him of the places they had visited. A wonderful film in beautiful color." -- KG
Kui keegi veel viitsib, siis peale ametlikku programmi läheb peale 1983. aasta dokk **George Kuchar: Comedy of the Underground**, režissöör David Hallinger (60 min).
Olge tervitatud!
Liikumine saab koos teistega vabalt improviseerides tantsida.
Korraldab Pire Sova.
Liikumine saab koos teistega vabalt improviseerides tantsida.
Live muusikaimprovisatsiooni teevad Ööo ja Ann Kuut.
Korraldab Pire Sova.
Taas on kätte jõudmas Ptarmigani igakuine kultuurideülene varjeteeõhtu GFYP,
seekord teemas "Kodune ja Kardetud".
Varjeteeõhtul on kavas:
Lewis McGuffie Kokteiliklass
Lewis tuleb meile Inglismaalt. Kindlasti on ta meie jaoks veidi ülekvalifitseeritud, kindlasti on ta meie jaoks natukene liiga hea. Ent ta on siin, ta on rabavalt soliidne ja ta on tõesti Londoni parimates lokaalides koolitunud kokteilimeister, kes näitab meile sujuvamaid randmeliigutusi kokteilimaailma klassikute valmistamiseks. Kultuurse joomarluse peenutsev maailm omas kodus. Tule, õpi, tee omale ise kokteil, joo. Täiesti tasuta.
Erik Alalooga + Hans-Gunter Lock + Andreas W + Meeland Sepp
Kunstikonteineri ülevärvitud betoonist ja Vana-Kalamaja kommuunide ahiküttest on kristalliseerunud heliekstravagants: kodusvalmistet masinaist ja kolmest kõrgeltharitud mehest saab kokku üüratu heligigant. Teisisõnu - saab küll veider olema, vaimustav ka.
Flo Kasearu
Flo on kangelanna. Pakitsev loov impulss. Pole kahtlustki, et varsti vallutab ta maailma. Kuidas iganes. Ja siis on ta veel kunstnik. Ja sõber. Ja ta teeb kodus erinevaid asju. Ja ta tuleb ja näitab meile neid asju, võib-olla isegi räägib midagi. Ma arvan, et see on jälle üks samm maailma üle võtmisel. Olge tunnistamas.
Riho Kall
Põlvamaa tihedaist metsadest Annelinna modernismi. Ja sealt otse meile. Riho võtab kassettmaki ja lastekandle, istub korra maha. Ja siis hakkab toimuma. Võrgutustants. Tagasihoidlik aumees, jah, vormistuseks püssirohule, jah.
Riho!
* * *
Astugem läbi!
(üritus algab kui kell kukub)
(avatud ka dringinurgake (pärisnimega ei tohi nimetada))
| resonance | is based on practices that enable heightened states of sensory perception. The workshop shares methods for reverberating mindfully with other artists during duet and ensemble improvisation. We will focus on listening, sensing, and acting from sound, movement, and memory impulses. We will explore expansions and contractions of energy and sound in our bodies and in the space. We will trace the pathways that movement material takes between outside and inside: input - filtering - output - sending. Rather than reacting to other artists, we will cultivate a stance that allows us to observe, consider, and respond with as much of our selves as possible.
The group will explore questions like: How do we transmit messages that perpetuate in different forms through the space instead of dying out? How do we translate or morph messages into different media like writing, drawing, or assessing? How can we use vibration, reflection, sounding, panning, resounding, writing, and remembering to create a resonating body?
This workshop is led by William Bilwa Costa (USA) and Kristin Orav (Estonia), and participants will perform in the evening concert on the same date.
William Bilwa Costa is a sound and visual artist/electronic musician/improviser. He has worked with movement artist Emily Sweeney as perpetual movement sound since 2006. He currently works internationally, generating research/ lab/ performance projects, actively cultivating opportunities for artists to work together on new interdisciplinary explorations. His most recent album | resonance | was released on earSnake records in 2011. Bilwa has been artist-in-residence at STEIM (Amsterdam), Gallery Titanik (Turku, Finland), PRISMA Forum (Oaxaca/Mexico City), Community Education Center, NEXUS/foundation for today’s art, and the Mascher Space Cooperative (Philadelphia). He has performed in Berlin at VeneKlasen/Werner Gallery in Spencer Sweeney’s exhibition Teatr Laboratorium; in Turku, Finland at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art; in Melbourne at The Substation; in Vienna at FLUTEN, a performance series in a defunct 19th-century water tower, and Raum 35. In Philadelphia he has played as part of Ensemble N_JP at the International House and presented his own work at Sought Foundation, <fidget> space, Mascher Space Cooperative, and Temple Gallery. He has been a guest lecturer at Turku University of Applied Sciences and Marlboro College. Collaboration with other musicians, dancers, and designers and use of improvisation are central to his practice. His collaborators include: Gene Coleman, Audrey Chen, Werner Moebius, Mariella Greil, Christian Schroeder, Michael McDermott, John J.H. Phillips, Maria Nurmela, J. Milo Taylor, Marina Peterson, Helena Espvall, Kimmo Modig, Martin Lanz Landazuri, Topias Tiheäsalo, Daniela Lehman, Klaus Janek, and Antje Velsinger. Bilwa works in both the performing and visual arts contexts. His electronic music and sound art often involve the abstraction of source material such as dancers’ breath and body sounds, acoustic musicians, and audio frequency feedback—sonic relics through which he pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested insensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documents those acts of decipherment. He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory environment rich in ambient, rhythmic, and spatial sound.
http://perpetualmvmtsnd.org/
Kristino Rav is a performance artist whose creation could be described as pushing her body to the extremes. Thus, the intersection of completed projects contains an element of tiredness together with physical, mental and temporal endurance. She draws inspiration from movements, silence, coincidences, as well as from the tension that lies between public and private spaces, being lately interested in the phenomenon of dance in this context. She has finished the Estonian Academy of Arts in sculpture and The university of Tartu in semiotics.
This is a performance of structured improvisations developed in William Bilwa Costa's | resonance | workshop earlier in the day (co-led by Kristino Rav). You can join the workshop here. The performances will be made of small duet and ensemble improvisations, mixing movement/dance with sound. Performers will explore expansions and contractions of energy and sound in their bodies and in the space; they will trace the pathways that movement material takes between outside and inside: input - filtering - output - sending. They will cultivate a stance that allows them to observe, consider, and respond with as much of theirselves as possible.
Celebrate the last open evening of Cafe Hardcore Metaphor with us! All contributed artworks and publications we received over the last month will be on display. Live performance by Simi The Curse-Free Rhyme Slayer, “long distance dj’ing” by Gayborhood, Rick Nichols, music by Servataguse Muusika and more to be confirmed!
Ptarmigan's artists in residence, Hardcore Metaphor, will be giving a talk on their work here in Tallinn, their experiences of the Danish and London art worlds, why Estonia is great and how much fun they have had here. As ever, the event is free, and there may even be some free food.
The talk is the night before the Hardcore Metaphor Cafe closing party (on 24.09) so, come along and enjoy one of the last Hardcore Metaphor events in Tallinn!
The talk will start promptly at 19:00 and will run until 20:30, so as to give time in the evening to explore the other wonderful cultural events going on in the city.
See you there!
This 4 hour workshop is a short immersion into the tattooing world. The class begins with a brief discussion on the route tattooing has traveled across cultures, through history and how that relates to the practices we know today. All tattooing during the workshop will be done on fruit; however the prevention of diseases transmitted by blood, health risks, and aftercare will be covered. During the practical portion of workshop, participants will begin by learning ‘stick & poke’. As prisons have played a large part in the imagery and development of tattooing, we will follow up 'stick & poke' with all of the workshop participants learning how to make their own "prison style" rotary tattoo machines (which they will be able to take home). For the finale of the workshop, all individuals will get to practice using a professional tattoo machine on their fruit. Participants should leave the workshop with a historical context for the practice of tattooing, basic knowledge of how to accomplish tattooing (by a variety of methods) in a safe and sterile environment, their own “prison style” rotary tattoo machine and a tattooed piece of fruit.
The fee is 10€ to cover materials, as participants will construct their own tattoo gun to take home. After registration, you will receive instructions about pre-paying to reserve your space in the workshop.
Justin Tyler Tate was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and grew up in Florida USA. He relocated back to Halifax to attend the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has since migrated to Tallinn. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts his solo practice incorporates a variety of media; primarily sculpture, installation and performance. Over the past few years, he has exhibited his work across Canada and internationally. Tate's work investigates the relationship between the viewer and the object questioning the weight of viewership and creation alike.
Core of the Coalman (US/CZ), the solo project of sound artist Jorge Boehringer, consists of continuity and discontinuity for viola, voice and circuits on the border between order and chaos. Sonically diverse and at times explosive in texture, Core of the Coalman emphasizes the physicality of sound in its synesthetic relationships between ear, brain, and environment.
Performances including feedback-driven yodel triggers,descending tympanic pressures implying sexual interface, and extended upwardly-mobile Carnasitic arrays, with ornaments, have been featured on all kinds of concert programs. This project has comfortably shared programs with everything from power electronics and noise (such as Deathroes, D Yellow Swans and Dead Machines), to rock bands (from Deerhoof to Caroliner Rainbow to Skullflower) and famed avant-garde figures (like Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, and Ghedalia Tazartes), and been presented on several international festivals such as Impakt Festival (presented by Kraak) and Colour Out of Space (presented by Chocolate Monk).
Boehringer and his solo project accidentally moved from Oakland, California to Prague, Czech Republic four years ago, and since then he has released several recordings among them: Aggregate and Crackle (Chocolate Monk, UK), Symmetrical Cavepeople (Insect, CZ), You'll Need A Catapult (KlangundKrach, CZ), Box of the Last Help (Zum, US), Affinity Groups (self-released), Precambrian Figures (Unverified, UK) and numerous tapes and other items. He teaches sound, experimental and interactive media, and runs a visual art studio at Prague College, where he also moderates the Experimental Arts Reseach Lab (EARL) a clearinghouse for crazy people with soldering irons and noisy ideas.
videos:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcem6y_core-of-the-coalman-live-at-k4-prah_music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4GlfKWNvY
stream anything from several new-ish records here:
http://coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com/track/kills-iv
websites with sounds:
http://www.last.fm/music/JorgeBoehringer
http://soundcloud.com/core-of-the-coalman
Shawn Pinchbeck (Kan/Est) for the last 10 years has split his time between his home town of Edmonton, Canada and Estonia. Active as an sound artist since the mid-80's, his recent work centres on interactive sound and video installations, computer vision, dance performances, electroacoustic music composition, and improvised live acousmatic/soundcape/noise experiments. He is currently a PhD research student at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has taught sound and interactive art related courses at many institutions in Estonia and Latvia
Shawn has five solo CD releases, and his music has appeared on numerous compilations. His music has been used in many films, most notably in the multi-award winning documentary The Corporation (2004), which has played in cinemas and on TV around the world. His work with interactivity and dance with Estonian Fine 5 Dance Theatre won 2008 Best Dance Performance in Estonia. Shawn’s music and installations have been performed and presented at numerous festivals internationally. He has collaborated with many artists and has releases with Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade, Sorrow, Spell), David Tibet (Current 93/Nurse with Wound), Ken Gregory, Steve Heimbecker, and Marion Garver.
A live spoken word meditation with accompanying ambient music, taking place at Cafe Hardcore Metaphor, based on London art 'mirrorist' Glamorra Concern's 2009 self help tape "How to relax around circles: An art makers guide". The focus of the meditation is on the experience of being a contemporary artist and how to stay calm when confronted by art and other artists. Relaxation and reflection provided!
Homemade Kimchi will be served at the event, courtesy of Ursula Wild.
Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and come with an open mind!
dokumendid / ressursid