Labyrinths and Rings with Ellen Friis(DK) and Henrik Vestergaard Friis(DK)

Ptarmigan presents the first of it's Labyrinths and Rings programme -  an ongoing series where creative practitioners (artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, or anything else) present their work and engage in a discussion with the audience.

The artists presenting are Ellen Friis and Henrik Friis.  There will also be local djs and themed food and drink (more details to come)

Ellen Friis (1973, Denmark) studied "interdisciplinary art in the public space" at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, exchanged 2002-2003 to to the Turku Arts academy, interdisciplinary art study, "Crossing Borders". Now living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Investigating topics of time, such as slow motion, backward motion and quantum mechanics in performances and videos shown at various festivals and events in Scandinavia, Poland and Germany. Coming up this fall 2010: Participation in ELLEN by Hotel Pro Forma, a site specific piece where all actors carry the name Ellen. Is now initiating a danish forum "Samtalekøkkenet" for discussions about art, practice and performativity - starting this fall in Copenhagen with 6 foreign and 6 danish artists.

Henrik Friis
Born 1971 in Aalborg, Denmark and holds an MA in Theatre Science from the University of Copenhagen and from the Free University in Berlin.

In Denmark he has worked with Kanonhallen, Erik Pold and in Norway with Balteatret and Verk Production. In 1999 moved he to Berlin, where he has lived and worked since, mainly with artists from Applied Theatre Science in Giessen: Otmar Wagner, Florian Feigl, Dariusz Kostyra, Nino Sandow, Jörn J. Burmester and the groups Elizalde Area Code and Keifer.

 In 2001, he established his own label Zarathustras Onkel in order to do Relationel Theatre. Zarathustras Onkels performances We Come in Peace and Gerüstbauficken has toured quite a lot the last years. Furthermore he has edited an anthology, several articles, and worked as a curator.

Henrik will preent his latest work. Zarathustras Uncle's reconstruction of the danisch Culture Canon. www.zonkel.com for more info.

Olympia Splendit is a guitar-bass-guitar trio by Heta, Katri and Jonna.
They play blues influenced stonerhenge with some occasional shrieking.

Cleavage is a duo by Tuukka and Joonas. They play lofi beats adjusted
with comfy noise bulk.

http://www.myspace.com/cleavagecleavage

Join us for the opening of 'Fragment #6'.  This is part of Kuebel's ongoing 'Somnambulia Stories' series.

Exhibition: 15.06. – 22.06. 2010 open Tuesday to Saturday 12.00-17.30

Satakieli-installaatiotaan varten Eronen imitoi kotikutoisen elektroniikan avulla sataa eri Suomen lintua. Nämä synteettiset linnunlaulut on nauhoitettu 50 kasetin sadalle puoliskolle. Installaatiossa kasetit soivat samanaikaisesti.

Curated by Sari TM Kivinen.

Identity construction within popular culture, artistic practices and the everyday.

Description: This event will look at clips that highlight ways in which imitation occurs within popular culture, artistic practices and in everyday life. Posing the question of who is copying whom this presentation will contemplate ideas surrounding identity authorship as well as consider the various levels of parody evident in the selected clips shown. Consideration will be given to ways in which various cultures parody each other’s dominant strands of popular culture and how this can form parodist hybrids. For example artists such as the Motel Sisters from Australia will be considered for their imitation of the American heiress Paris Hilton, the work of the Motel Sisters readily available online as an example of manipulating (via parody) the so called original.

Kivinen is a performance artist from Sydney, Australia currently based in Helsinki whilst completing an MA in Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy. Her work explores elements of fiction, reality, imitation and performativity. 

Opening night of the exhibition of work culminated from the previous week's events. This will include new drawings by Malcy Duff alongside some of his past work relating to the theme of "You're A Winner."

Team Usurper, from the workshop on Wednesday, will perform as well as Helsinki's own Reijo Pami.

Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff will jam in the studio space for the duration of this day. People are welcome to come and look at them, cheer and boo.

We've moved around some of the events this week so please check out the new plan -

Now, on Friday evening:

Usurper (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Dismantled instruments, broken objects, and junk-as-aesthetic sound interplay. 

Kuupuu
Helsinki's own Jonna Karanka, a warmup show before her Greek tour!

and individual activities by Usurper members:

Malcy Duff: The Knuckleball
A routine, and a selection of readings from comix and images by Malcy Duff.

Ali Robertson
Ali will provide a motivational speech to the audience.

Music will start at 20:28 sharp! The usual sushi/refreshments will be available. Admission is free!

Comic Workshop (The Dog Walking Technique)
klo 10- 12
A character based comic book workshop hosted and designed by Malcy Duff. Participants will be invited to create characters through unique drawing techniques, and explore further possibilities in character development using a method invented by Malcy Duff.

Team Usurper workshop
klo 14-19
You are invited to join Usurper (Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff) in a workshop of dismantling instruments and improvising. Participants will play a show as part of the workshop on May 9th. Please bring an instrument you are willing to dismantle.

A weekly meeting group for photographers to present their work and discuss/critique, with exercises and other activities.

Facilitated by Norah Nelson and Vilma Pimenoff.

For more information, and to register, please visit the Helsinki Public School class page.

A weekly meeting group for photographers to present their work and discuss/critique, with exercises and other activities.

Facilitated by Norah Nelson and Vilma Pimenoff.

For more information, and to register, please visit the Helsinki Public School class page.

“Let’s not throw away anything”.

The participants of this workshop will make sculptures with seasonable vegetables, pulses and other edible things.

Afterwards we will dismantle the sculptures and cook them into a delicious dinner.

Facilitated by Salla Kuuluvainen.

Please register through the Helsinki Public School class page.

Our 2nd drawing event!
New people, please just come and participate even if you were not in the first class! Please sign up through Helsinki Public School's class page -- click on "olen kiinnostunut/i'm interested".
The first drawing night proved a success so we are organizing the next one right away. This one starts a bit earlier, so that kids and people who cannot stay overnight can also participate. Again, you may come as you please: drop in and out, or stay the whole time... We have ideas of dancing in the dark with flashlights and drawing at the same time, drawing to music... and you can introduce yours! And everyone, bring materials to draw on/with (pens, pencils, cardboard, papers, whatever), music, pillows and bedding to take naps if you wish.

Ilia Belorukov (s. 1987) on pietarilainen saksofonisti, joka esiintyy sekä soolo- että yhtyemuusikkona free jazzin, vapaan improvisaation ja noisen suunnalla. Ilia on nuoresta iästä huolimatta vakiinnuttanut paikkansa Venäjän kokeellisen musiikin kentällä. Viimeisen parin vuoden aikana häneltä on ilmestynyt pitkälti toistakymmentä julkaisua, joiden äänityksestä ja jakelusta hän pääosin vastaa itse. Ilia vieraili Suomessa ensi kertaa viime kesänä, jolloin hän soitti konsertteja Turussa, Tampereella ja Helsingissä.

Turkulainen Topias Tiheäsalo (s. 1978) on improvisoituun musiikkiin keskittyvä kitaristi. Kuluneen vuosikymmenen aikana hän on soittanut kotimaisessa vapaan musiikin skenessä erinäisissä kokoonpanoissa, mutta pääosin hänet tunnetaan sooloesityksistään. Helsinkiläinen Tyyfus-levymerkki julkaisi näitä sooloja levyllisen nimellä Eyes of a Dead Lamb vuonna 2007.

A weekly meeting group for photographers to present their work and discuss/critique, with exercises and other activities.

Facilitated by Norah Nelson and Vilma Pimenoff.

For more information, and to register, please visit the Helsinki Public School class page.

Model Court

Model Court is an ongoing curatorial/research project involving the artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees. It uses the structure and technologies of the courtroom to interrogate the signifying and controlling role architecture plays in contemporary art and society.

This opening will present the results of their research during their residency at Ptarmigan.  The exhibition (opening through 22 April) will explore the intersection of the courtroom and the cinema, the use of technology in jurisprudence and specifically the extraordinary case of the François Bazaramba trial.

Anthea Caddy and Felicity Mangan

Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist based in Berlin, Germany. She has developed her practice through frequent collaborations with dancers, visual artists as well as musicians, utilising digital composition techniques to explore field recordings and sampling from found sound archives. Through the deployment of custom-built amplification, Felicity presents her work in live performance and sound publications, to explore the physical sound qualities of field recording via hand-made speakers and contact speakers made from re-cycled and found objects.

Anthea Caddy (Melbourne, Australia) is a media artist and cellist. Her practice centres on the relationship between recording, spatialisation, and the instrument. Exploring the cello’s textural, spatial and dynamic capabilities, she draws reference points from electro-acoustic music and sound art. Working with digital composition, environmental field recording, and acoustic performance she consolidates the conceptual and practical aspects of these approaches by applying techniques and concepts indigenous to digital spatialisation to her performances and recordings. She has performed previously at Ptarmigan with Thembi Soddell.