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January 28th, 2021

28/1/2021

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T H E R E 'S    F R O S T    O N    T H E    W I N D O W S 
Josef Ka

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Josef Ka was born and raised in Nizhnevartovsk, Western Siberia. White, gray and red are the colors that predominate in her childhood memories from October to May. White and grey colors present in the frozen forests in Siberia. The red was her favorite color to wear at that time. 

My childhood memories took place between settings contrasted by the intense blue of the Sea of Cortes and the ocher and cuttlefish of the deep landscapes in the style of the Mexican painter, José María Velasco. Winter feelings in Mexico City were more appreciable for me when we visited my great-aunt in a small town near Nevado de Toluca. There the cold was noticeable and left its visible traces in the grasslands covered by a very thin layer of ice. 

The contrast of my childhood memories compared to Josef's are surely very diametrical. My experience with very white and snowy winters started relatively recently, when I came to live in Finland in 2009. Since then until this last winter experience, I have only seen one completely snowy from October 2009 to April 2010. 

Last year practically in Helsinki we had a black winter. No frozen sea or excessive snow. 

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With this installation Josef tried to bring out the idea of the white winters that she had in her childhood, when the windows of the houses were completely covered with frost. "I really miss the winter time... (when the windows were totally covered with frost....)".

In her performance and installation, Josef Ka takes us to her memories behind the window. The glass is the screen that takes us to a distant world and lets us contemplate stories of her childhood in a voyeuristic way. Her curious and mischievous face leaning against the window gives traces of those childish grimaces. Making figures of steam and trying to see everything that happens through the memory glass. 

Imaginary snow becomes tangible but does not stay anywhere. She struggles trying to hold the frost on her body, on her tongue, in her memory. In the first performance she plays with the frost stuck on the window. In the second performance, she tries to paint white those brown walls from her memories but the white slides off. It disappears. Not her body, neither the walls, nor the canvas can hold the white color of her memory. 

This winter started black, the snow returned unexpectedly to the pleasant surprise of all. January 2021, there’s frost on the windows. Weather refuses to lose its frost and wants to keep playing and dressing trees, streets, cars, buildings… the urban landscape. 

Climate change is a reality. Earth is warming. 

Rosamaría Bolom.
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January 05th, 2021

5/1/2021

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Ceremony for the empty
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Ilia Ollikainen & Helena Pulkkinen

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Get ready to go out. Make a ceremony to raise consciousness of the fact that your traces will be left behind you. Solemnity and preparation for the exact moment. The exact moment to empty a space of otherness. Ø ceremoniously created. 

Ilia Ollikainen & Helena Pulkkinen drive us to think that we had no time for rituals or ceremonies to leave the streets empty and remain at home to work or to study the major part of our time. We didn't have time for that kind of ceremony, however we started a new ritual to get out ready for the street and enjoy with others, the ritual of cleaning hands and using face masks.

From being face-to-face spectators, we become virtual spectators. RMB.


Ceremony for the empty
Ilia Ollikainen & Helena Pulkkinen
3.1.-15.1.2021  
https://www.facebook.com/events/694570174594757/ 
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Pulkkinen and Ollikainen have been interested in working with text, sound and installation in performative ways. Within their collaborative work Pulkkinen and Ollikainen have a mutual interest in the many notions of empty space and its opportunities to host and shelter, its ability to in a sense care for the needs of its occupants. Their ambiguous party seeks to take a step closer to its host and participants, in a moment of togetherness. The exhibition is an afterparty for the viewer and the empty to spend together.

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