𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗜 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗥𝗬 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢𝗦 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧
Vartiosaari Artists house would like to welcome you to celebrate the end of this wonderful and warm summer with us on the Magical Vartiosaari island on Friday 25th / Saturday 26th / Sunday 27th of August. We have recently become an official association Vartiosaari Artists Ry. This event will welcome our new members of the association and will launch our new project and media spaces. Vartiosaari artists house is a place for artists to contemplate and to produce experimental visual, media and performative projects. Currently there are 17 artists working in the house. In 2022 Vartiosaari Artists Ry started to organize workshops and art for the public and the Open Studios will be an ongoing support event to secure the future of the Artist house.
𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵, 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀, 𝗩𝗥 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹l𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 / 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 k𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲.
𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟮𝟱𝗧𝗛 𝟭𝟰-𝟭𝟵𝗽𝗺 - 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟮𝟲𝗧𝗛 - 𝟭𝟮-𝟮𝟮𝗽𝗺 - 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟮𝟳𝗧𝗛 𝟭𝟮-𝟭𝟵𝗽𝗺
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 - 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝟮𝟱𝗧𝗛 - 𝟮𝟳𝗧𝗛 𝗩𝗥 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝘆𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝘾𝙯𝙮𝙯𝙮𝙠 * 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙉𝙚𝙞𝙡 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠 & 𝙂𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙖 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙯 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣. A psychedelic virtual reality journey through a night-time Baroque pleasure garden, set in a forest of mushrooms and reconstructed as a dream topography of spaces, objects, dance parties and entities. Accompanied by driving organic techno sounds, it is an immersive glimpse into a timeless zone of revel in which man has become a mere fragmented memory. The glitched and chopped nature of grabbed digital artefacts lends a palpable sense of the unreal to this VR universe, leaving space for an imaginary narrative and a place to reflect on the connectedness of things, mirrored by the super connectedness of the fungal networks that loom large over the whole landscape. The artefacts –captured from the real world via Lidar Scanning technology– and the course plotted around them, mark different spaces and times, moments of orgasmic ascension and amniotic submersion.
Anna Matveinen - Mixed media - (Green one) egregore parasite, bio leather, pyrography, (Brown one) egregore veins, bio leather, pyrography, 2023.
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 - 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼: 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝟮𝟱𝗧𝗛 - 𝟮𝟳𝗧𝗛 Tuomas Lehtomaa - Wrap / 2023 / Silicone sheet, dried apricots, headphones, a bottle cork, a bottle cap, batteries, a ping pong ball, dried peas, superballs, raspberry branches, a receipt, an earplug, bicycle backlight, toothpaste tube, a token coin, a strip of dried paint, a pecan nut, a plastic holder piece, a coin, a pinecone, a reflector strip, a piece of string, bark. Torsten Zenas Burns - Ressurectables Vartio-Waystation - Digital print – Variable dim. 2023. Snailing-STATION - Digital print – Variable dim. 2023. Sirja Moberg - Aavasaksa - 2023. 50 x 30 cm, Series of Blueberry, and moss chromatography. Vartiosaari series, 2023, 12.7x17.8cm, Lumen photogram. Jessica Andrey Bogush - The Third Nostril (Notes on Cooperation) / 7 pages / Text Project / 2023. Anna Matveinen - Egregore lamb, handmade paper, laser marking. / 2023. Guest Residency : Lenka Cernota (Czech Republic) “Perceive as wolves (wolf-human´s docu-fiction”) A series of 2023 mixed media works presenting the way, in which I approach and embody the perception of wolves.
𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻: 𝟮𝟱𝗧𝗛 - 𝟮𝟳𝗧𝗛 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗘𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝟭𝟭): 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗪𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮 157𝗺𝗶𝗻. / 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝙏𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙕𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙨 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙠𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙖 / 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣 & 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨 / 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙖 / 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙝 𝙏𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧 / 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙇𝙤𝙝𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙣 / 𝙐𝙧𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙖 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙠 / 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣 / 𝘼 5-𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧 / 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙪𝙨𝙯 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙗𝙤𝙧 / 𝙆𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 / 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙣 / 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝘾𝙯𝙮𝙯𝙮𝙠 / 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙙 𝙇𝙮𝙣𝙘𝙝 / 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙡 𝙀𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙤𝙣 / 𝙇𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙖 𝘾𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙖.
𝗩𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 - 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁s: 𝙇𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙖 𝘾𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙖 (Czech Republic) “Perceive as wolves (wolf-human´s docu-fiction”/ Painting / video series. 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙪𝙨𝙯 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙗𝙤𝙧 (Warsaw, Poland) Mycelium, Herbs and magic readings, performative walking, and video performances. *Support for the residency program provided by The Saastamoinen Foundation / Helsinki, FI.
Outdoor art: 𝟮𝟱𝗧𝗛 - 𝟮𝟳𝗧𝗛 Sculpture by the seaside – ‘𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲-𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗱’ - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙚 feeling the waves going through the body nervous system extending into the surroundings pieces of experiences building limbs and tumors and artificial extensions pieces of other entities merging in and other pieces falling away, not sticking anymore joy of exploration and mutation
𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵: 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗶 (𝗪𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮) 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲𝟭 𝟮𝟰𝟬𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 / 𝟯 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 / 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 – 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝙏𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙕𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙨 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨. 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨: 𝙉𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥 / 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙨 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙡 / 𝙊𝙨𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙞 𝙍𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙠𝙖 / 𝙀𝙢𝙢𝙖 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙖.
Weavings / stencil sprayed mirrors / kombucha tea service. - Eotun
𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 - 𝟭𝟮-𝟭𝟴 - 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗮 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝙎𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙖 𝙃𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙖 "The goal of the installation is to reflect on the importance of an individual's social and societal safety net at different stages of his life, and what kind of sheltered cove it creates at any given time. The work is made up of a shelter, inside which you can stop and give your own network a thought."
𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼-𝗦𝗽𝗮 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙀𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙠𝙖
𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀: 𝟮𝟱th - 𝟭𝟲-𝟭𝟴 - 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 - 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝙀𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝙑𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙤 / 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝘾𝙯𝙮𝙯𝙮𝙠 / 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙪𝙨𝙯 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙗𝙤𝙧 Collecting clay and shaping it while walking. Discovering mysterious forces of herbs and stones while reading of Sorcery and Deuces of Poland, 1924 by Julian Tuwim. 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 - 𝟭𝟳-𝟭𝟵 - 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀. 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝘾𝙯𝙮𝙯𝙮𝙠 / 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙪𝙨𝙯 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙗𝙤𝙧 Workshop on reconnecting with nature using sexual energy through our sensory channels in a forest after dark.
Performances: 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 - 21:00 - Old Mansion - 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 / 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗽𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗼/𝗼𝗳𝗳-𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 - 𝟭𝟱𝗺𝗶𝗻 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙞𝙖 𝙍𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙤 / 𝙊𝙤𝙣𝙖 𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙖 / 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙇𝙤𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙖. 26th - 20:00 – Artist House - Basement studio - Live Concert: Mimi Veter 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 - 𝟮𝟬:𝟯𝟬 – Old Mansion - 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 - 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮/𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲 – 𝟭𝟬𝗺𝗶𝗻 – 𝙊𝙤𝙣𝙖 𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙖
𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 – 15:30 – Media Barn - 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝙊𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙.
𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 – 15:30 – Media Barn - 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝙊𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙.
Food kiosk – 26 - 27th - With master chef Jakub Bobrowski & Guests. Vegan Dal Makhani, cakes / coffee / teas. Homemade Polish blueberry buns.
𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 / 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲. BUS 𝟴𝟵 from Herttoniemi Metro station. Walk to the end of Reposalmentie 1 road where you will arrive at the dock. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝟭 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗸 - 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆, Ticket price: price for both ways ferry tickets is 5e. The ferry stops running back to Reposalmentie 1 dock at 19:00., on Saturday 26th until 22 - The ferry runs from 𝟭𝟬:𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬 daily.
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SPECULATION (ELATION 11):
VARTIOSAAR - WUNNDERKAMERNAUTICA (LOOPING PROGRAM 157MIN)
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS / CURATOR / 2023
The 11th edition of an ongoing speculative themed VILM screening series. For Finland, we explore a constellation of time-based works created by local and international artists. These scenes are linked by a shared curiosity related to reimagined organisms, sacred places, and relationships both real and imaginary. Ecological fictions, temporal visitations, virtual geography, appropriated stories, and phantasmagoric manifestations are activated delivering unique experiences for the Collaborative viewer.
TITLES: FINLAND COMMERCIAL 1984
LENKA CERNOTOVA - RUNNING – 7:00 / 2023 Perceive as wolves (wolf-human´s docu-fiction) I wish to thank : Pavel a Jan Černotovi, Vladimír Kokolia, Eva Červená, Stanislav Komárek, Jiří Malík, Jan Koranda, Pavel Hulva, Magda Stanová, Karel Pivoňka, Martin Karel Klusoň, Torsten Zenas Burns, Monika Czyzyk, Michal Bojda, Václav Tomášek, Pavla Semeráková, Buhuslav Kuřík, Róza Černot
DARRIN MARTIN - FREE TO BE YOU AND ME - 4:20 / 2006 Four of the original children on the merry-go-round in the opening sequence of Marlo Thomas’s star-studded television special of the same name rephrase the catchy opening theme song. An internet mogul, an independent filmmaker, a temp computer specialist, and an orthodontist reiterate the songs nostalgic promise of freedom couched within a technologically mediated environment. Free to Be You and Me was part of the Free to Be . . . You and Me Invitational curated by Thomas Beard & Nick Hallett. Asking artists to re-envision various sections of the album / television special. https://darrinmartin.myportfolio.com
HELENA ALEKSANDROVA - GARDENIA – 8:20 / 2021 Inspired by ‘Society of the Spectacle’ by Guy Debord and ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley, “Gardenia" is a visual essay on video pleasure and video boredom. Helena Aleksandrova is a Helsinki-based artist and cinephile who engages with film and moving image through the roles of director, performer, editor, and art director. Her visually rich scenography draws on camp and vintage aesthetics to put forward subversive but celebratory explorations of popular (sub)cultures. Her works often play with familiar and contested ideas about female representation and sexuality through humour, spectacle, horror, and artifice. https://www.helena-aleksandrova.com
KARL ERICKSON - AUTONOMOUS REALITY COMMUNITIES - 6:50 / 2018 "Autonomous Reality Communities" is a visual tone poem using the vocabulary of motion graphics and abstraction to posit that humankind is not the center of universe and that there are other layers of existence. I draw the title from Gene Youngblood's essay of the same name, in which he argues for the use of computer generated and modulated moving image art as the basis for forming new ideas and connections. I combine this with the need for empathy with the non-human. The combination of empathy and technology allows us to dismantle dominant, stagnant modes of thinking and assemble new futures. "Autonomous Reality Communities" was created as a live performance, with the video and sound manipulated in real-time. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. https://karlhugoerickson.com
ANNA MATVEINEN - ISLE OF GUARDS - 6:30 / 2022 This film was made in Cult of Euphoria 2022, a "Halloween" themed genre film workshop. Crew: Angel del Riego Boza, Anna Matveinen, Taimi Nevaluoma, Veera Ruoholinna. https://amatveinen.com
DAVID LYNCH - SCENE FROM A DAVID LYNCH DV PROJECT - 6:00 / 2005 I may be the sole pirate here with the use of one hand…. You might be ….I am…
A 5-MINUTE HOUR - EPISODE 15 - 5:00 / 2022 Daniel Werger gives us a welding demonstration. We visit the Urban Light installation by Chris Burden at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Jessica makes a new primitive folk doll. Torsten Zenas Burns gives us a sneak peek at his latest video G.A.R.D.E.N. Colin samples Pink Panther tea. The noise poet known as blackhumour gets the last word in; well, kind of. https://www.youtube.com/@A5MinuteHour
KELLY SEARS - PHASE 2 - 6:00 / 2022 In the near future, real estate developers deploy sonic weapons used at protests to clear neighborhoods for high-end high rises. On the front lines are sound medics that tend to those injured by the assaults. As they respond, one member of the team documents the incidents to create a future archive for other sonic activists. For Phase II, the filmmaker walked around areas of rapid development in her city and took thousands of photographs. This animated, speculative fiction/non-fiction archive maps out more aggressive eviction and deployment tactics to come. Kelly Sears creates hybrid speculative fiction and nonfiction animations. She animates appropriated source imagery that suggests an official process, order, or account – ranging from instructional guides to chronicles of specific histories. https://vimeo.com/kellysears
MONIKA CZYZYK - ASTROBOTANY - 2:37 / 2023 Vegetation on Mars might be blue. Monika Czyżyk is a visual artist based in Helsinki/Finland. She works primarily with moving image in the context of experimental documentaries and socially engaged projects. She is currently researching the topic »reimagined gardening« and collecting locally sourced clay for DIY kiln firings. https://monikaczyzyk.org
SARAH TURNER - GRIEF KINK - 10:00 / 2022 Know Yourself. Part guided meditation, part psycho-spiritual ritual, the Oracle of Alfred seduces you into sitting with your grief. Sarah Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages in ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho spiritual activations. https://www.sarahsarahturnerturner.com
URSULA BROOKBANK - SOLO - 6:20 / 2020 Using film, overhead projection, photography, video, and performance, I make textural experiences that capture the illusive and transformative
potential of humble objects and materials. These ordinary things, under conditions of
light and shadow, produce another world, one that illuminates the poetry of the ordinary. http://www.ursulabrookbank.com
potential of humble objects and materials. These ordinary things, under conditions of
light and shadow, produce another world, one that illuminates the poetry of the ordinary. http://www.ursulabrookbank.com
DANIEL MALPICA - SELECTION OF VARIABLE DIGITAL PIECES FOR VARTIOSAARI SCREENING – 12:00 / 2023 Daniel Malpica is a Finnish-Mexican writer, graphic designer, publisher and multimedia artist. His work involves the exploration of cross-narratives, transmediality, design and literary arts. http://www.danielmalpica.com
JULIA LOHMANN - MITOMNIA – 18:00 / 2022 We are eco-systems. We have embedded organisms into even the deepest layers of our body: Mitochondria, bacteria derived organelles live within each of our cells. A Billion years ago, the aerobic Bacteria they derive from made all complex life on Earth possible when they incorporated themselves into the then Unicellular ancestor of the Eukaryotic cell (Margulis and Bermudes, 1985) and made multicellular organisms possible. Perhaps they have more agency than we think? Perhaps they are the ones who built this world, an omni-presence that grew our planet into the complex, rich system we love and destroy. Perhaps we are their AI organisms. And we are not behaving to plan. This film was commissioned by the MIT Museum in 2022 for the exhibition ‘Gene Cultures’. Credits: Concept: Julia Lohman / Script: Julia Lohmann, Gero Grundmann, Ena Naito, Zoe Robertson / Actors and Speakers: Julia Lohmann, Ena Naito, Elise Piquemal, Zoe Robertson / Illustrations: Gero Grundmann / Camera, Editing and Sound Design: Julia Lohmann, Ossi Oikari / https://www.julialohmann.co.uk
MATEUSZ SCIBOR - PROMISED LAND – 4:30 / 2016 Artist living in Warsaw, Poland - Promised Land, (Single channel documentation of appropriated graphics and music subverting Cambridge Analytica) Primarily used in clubs during a live DJ- sets, the dancing footage is (mixed live) to a DJ’s music and finish with a Monteverdi bit leaving people rather confused and/or in emotional states.
MONIKA CZYZYK - ORGANIC TECHNO - 2:37 / 2023 Hypnotic portrait of love for the garden and love to the island. Carefully documented using 360-time lapse videos. Cyclical repetition, attachment, care, friendship with a spider from a black barrel has been manifested. The 360 hypnotic video is accompanied by a dance track constructed completely from organic field and studio recordings (clay, boars, vegetables, water, etc). https://monikaczyzyk.org
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS & DARRIN MARTIN - VOLCANICA - 9:30 / 2005 A feel-good glimpse into a full-bodied lava canal. Horror and hippies transmigrate through a portal begun through a hole in the head, which activates a redefined eruption. Burns & Martin both received BFA’s at Alfred University. Burns received his MFA in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Martin received an MFA in media and sculpture from The University of California, San Diego in 2000. Together, they have based their videos and installations on their research into diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, appropriated horror genres, animation choreographies, cosplay, and cryptid-human love stories. https://www.torstenzenasburns.com/martin-burns
VARTIOSAARI (WUNNDERKAMMERNAUTICA) - EPISODE #1
Designed and curated by Torsten Zenas Burns / Helsinki, Finland / 2023
Welcome to the 1st edition of an annual curated catalogue that mirrors a living and breathing collection of speculative moments on an island called Vartiosaari. This constellation of life and art practices is personally collected from the years 2015-2023.
Within this speculative lens we see seasonal landscapes, improvisational research, holistic workshops, science fiction video, ritualistic portraits, social scenes, family visitations, DJ documentation, Helsinki exhibition dispatches, open studios experiments, reimagined allotment gardens, performances for the camera, and visual art projects created by former and existing Vartiosaari artist house members, guest artists, and visitors.
Vartiosaari (Wunnderkammernautica) - Episode #1 is printed with three unique covers. Monika Czyzyk’s newest VR collaborative project called: Mycelium Orgasm Report, Nomadic Kiln Group’s clay workshop, and Torsten Zenas Burns’s G.A.R.D.E.N.S. video performances. Local art dispatches include: Thomas Westphal / Oskari Russka / Emma Karolina.
Vartiosaari is an activated imagination generator and I hope you will have a chance to visit this special place in Finland. A special thanks to all the contributors, and guardians (past, present, and future) protecting this island.
