Language
Finnish/English.
Duration
Durational work. You can enter the space and leave in your own timing within the opening hours of the installation.
Participation
The audience is invited and guided to move in the space and observe the archives, the objects and their stories in different ways.
Credits
Installation, facilitator and performer: Emma Fält
Media artist and Light designer: Roberto Fusco
Composer and Sound designer: Andrea Mancianti together with Fält
Thank you for all the participants who have been offering their stories for the archives.
The work was initiated by Fält & Sonja Jokiniemi in 2022.
Working group
Emma Vilina Fält is a multidisciplinary artist working with drawing, installation, performing arts and participatory practices. Their main interests are in live acts, contact and togetherness of drawing. Fält is inspired by the body, its boundaries and possibilities to connect with the world. Fält seeks to expand and stretch the understanding of drawing and the ways to present it.
Previously their work has been presented at Mänttä Art Festival, Lonely in the Rain Festival, ANTI – Contemporary art festival, ITAK Stage, M_ITÄ Biennale, MUU Gallery and Third space – gallery. They have done workshops at Thinking Through Drawing and Draw to Perform – symposiums (UK) and in Äänen Lumo events. Fält teaches at Art School MAA, Helsinki. They work as one of the directors at Thinking Through Drawing, an international group of drawing research.
“For me, drawing is a multidisciplinary way of doing things. It is not directly related to visuality, but above all, it is corporeality. It creates a possibility to study the experience and thinking processes through the trace. My practice focuses on soundscapes and dialogue. I am also interested in relation between traces and matter. I understand drawing as a way of being, a journey of finding one’s voice, an intimate, fragile, wordless dialogue and a manifestation of presence. Doing it together can allow strangers to experience connection and share space even in the hardest circumstances. Drawing makes it possible to reorganise oneself and the world and make non-existent existing. It touches from a distance.”
Roberto Fusco, (M.Phil. Music and Media Technology, D. Sc. (Technology), b. 1980, is an Italian media artist based in Helsinki. At the intersection of physical and computational processes, Roberto focuses his artistic research on the use of digital techniques capable of recording, reconstructing and simulating reality, exposing the role of technology itself in mediating our perception and experience.
His work, in the form of installations or audiovisual performances with real-time and interactive elements, combines material and digital elements towards the creation of hybrid forms in which the processes of negotiation with technology become manifest and the materiality of the world, with its complexity and unpredictability, transcends what is computable.
He has presented his work in festivals such as Mänttä Art Festival, Ars Electronica (AT), VAFT (FI), NIME, RIXC (LT), FLUSSI (ITA), Currents New Media 2016 (USA), Videoforma (RU), PIXELACHE (FI), AAVE (FI), Borealis (NO), Plektrum (EE) and CARTES FLUX (FI) and Loikka (FI) and in galleries such as ArsLibera, Third Space, Titanik, Rajatila, MUU Galleria (FI), the Science Gallery (IE) and EYEBEAM (NY, US).
Andrea Mancianti is a composer, performer and sound artist mostly devoted to experimental sonic arts. He studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano in the Conservatory of Florence. Mancianti holds an MA in composition and music technology from the same conservatory (2012) and a Bachelor in Philosophy from La Sapienza, Rome (2006). He also completed the IRCAM Cursus in Paris (2013-2014). Currently he is a PhD candidate in the department of Media, of Aalto University, Helsinki, researching case-specific sonic experiences.
Manciantis artistic work, is in the intersection between music, sound art and electronic lutherie, includes compositions, installations and mixed media performances, involving interconnected audiovisual ecosystems, where material phenomena extend in the virtual digital world and complex feedback networks are established between the two realms. With media artist Roberto Fusco Mancianti founded the audiovisual project quietSpeaker.
Andreas works have been performed or exhibited in Europe and Usa, for institutions such as Ircam (FR), Biennale Musica (IT), Ars Electronica (AU), Currents New Media (USA), Musica (FR), Impuls and KUG (AU), Muziekcentrum De Bijloke (BE), Centre Henri Pousseur (BE), STUK (BE), Boston University (USA), Nuova Consonanza (IT), Sibelius Academy (FI) and others.
