Echoes.in.Space
Helsinki Art Ensemble (HAE!)
30.10.2021 @ 19:00
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The performance Echoes.in.Space studies how the city unfolds before us as a multi-sensory entity, when instead of simply walking and looking we explore new perspectives on familiar environments through movement and touch. How does the skin meet the city? What do the buildings around us feel like?
Conceptualized by Anna Olkinuora, Echoes.in.Space is a performative visual-sound installation. The visual installation will be a wall size projection of architecture and body movement by Virpi Velin. The photos explore building a new architectural body using the existing built structures and sculpting them into new visual forms. Using long exposure while selecting architectural details of the exterior and interior of a building, Virpi assembles a new perspective through the lens of the camera. During the long exposure, Virpi Velin interacts and moves with the architectural structures moving not only the camera but her body, to embody the surfaces and their depth creating a resonance with the environment. The sound installation is an electroacoustic sound design by Majella Clarke that creates a foundational hum and shimmer reflecting the urban environment played continuously. Movement artist Anna Olkinuora performs against the visual sound backdrop accompanied by Virpi and Majella with instrumental improvisation. |
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Helsinki Art Ensemble (HAE!) is a recently formed multi-disciplinary artist ensemble co-founded by Majella Clarke and Anna Olkinuora in 2020. Helsinki Art Ensemble’s mission is to provide multisensorial immersive art and performance experiences - to enlighten, make curious, and explore what is possible…
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Anna Olkinuora is a performance artist and a theatre maker, with a heavy emphasis on movement and interdisciplinary practices. She holds a BA in physical theatre from St.Mary’s University College (UK) and an MA in public space performance from Fontys University of Arts (NL).
Majella Clarke is a conductor, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist fusing technology and art with experimental music. Majella holds a BMus in Performance from the University of Sydney, MSc from the University of Helsinki, MBA (Innovation) from Aalto University and Certificate in Advanced Studies in Contemporary Repertoire Conducting from the Swiss Italian Conservatory.
Virpi Velin is a photographer, researcher and performing artist. In her research and artistic practice, she is interested in how virtual images affect and alter the developing body image and identity. She holds a BA and MA in Photography from Aalto university School of Arts, Design and Architecture and she is a postgraduate student (PhD) in Cardiff University (UK) researching image embodiment processes in self narratives of young adults.
*** The performance is part of Third Space open call selected projects for the year 2021 with the theme "Vulnerability, collaboration, exchanges", supported by Taike.
https://www.instagram.com/helsinki_art_ensemble/
Anna Olkinuora is a performance artist and a theatre maker, with a heavy emphasis on movement and interdisciplinary practices. She holds a BA in physical theatre from St.Mary’s University College (UK) and an MA in public space performance from Fontys University of Arts (NL).
Majella Clarke is a conductor, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist fusing technology and art with experimental music. Majella holds a BMus in Performance from the University of Sydney, MSc from the University of Helsinki, MBA (Innovation) from Aalto University and Certificate in Advanced Studies in Contemporary Repertoire Conducting from the Swiss Italian Conservatory.
Virpi Velin is a photographer, researcher and performing artist. In her research and artistic practice, she is interested in how virtual images affect and alter the developing body image and identity. She holds a BA and MA in Photography from Aalto university School of Arts, Design and Architecture and she is a postgraduate student (PhD) in Cardiff University (UK) researching image embodiment processes in self narratives of young adults.
*** The performance is part of Third Space open call selected projects for the year 2021 with the theme "Vulnerability, collaboration, exchanges", supported by Taike.
