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Recycling You

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As the name suggests, I host a recycling event. Audience members exchange old opinions. An idea you no longer need may be interesting to someone else. Some opinions are needed by nobody.

I have performed Recycling You at numerous festivals and art events since its premiere at the Teatteri Nyt festival at Kiasma, Helsinki, in 2009.

The photo is taken by Carolin Blöink at Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, as part of an art event called Isn’t Everything After all a Part of Our Inner Life With the External Left Outside Our Counsciousness, curated by Dr Sonja Müller.

 

Investment Zone

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Investment Zone is a reality game, experiment and participatory art work, which took place April – October 2014 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and Bangalore, India.

GAME ZONES
In Bangalore the game zone was located under the KH Double Road flyover, one of the noisiest places in the city.

In Gelsenkirchen the game zone was located at Schalker Verein – the site of a former steel factory. Despite several urban planning proposals and interest from the city officials to develop the area into a new vibrant quarter of Gelsenkirchen, the land, to date, has ceased to attract the necessary private investment and has stood relatively empty for several years.

PLAYERS
10 locals in both cities committed to a half a year game-like process.
Bangalore: Vivek Chockalingam, Ria Rajan, Rebana John, Nikhil Narendra, Neha Mehta, Kamya Ramachandran, Kadambari Misra, Jackson Porretta, Avril Stormy Unger, Arzu Mistry, Shaona Sen Game Master: Archana Prasad
Gelsenkirchen: Marino Bakoulis, Cynthia Browne, Carina Duchale, Thomas Frank, Lars W. Gieskes, Lasse Gieskes, Connie Mealing, Florian Mealing, Roman Pilgrim Guest Players: Valid Hassan, Irwan Ahmett und Tita Salina Game master: Angelina Duchale

GAME MONEY
In the bi-weekly game meetings the players receive (25 EUR / 50 EUR) each to invest into the game zone during the next two weeks.

GAME MOVES
The game moves, which players realize with the help of the game money, can be anything from poetic gestures to urban planning approach. They can team up or act on their own.

GAME RULES
There are fixed rules for the game (red rules) and changeable rules (green rules). At any game meeting a player can suggest a change to the green rules.

THE AUDIENCE
The game can be followed at www.investmentzone.info

The project was part of Archipel Invest. It was commissioned by KunstRepublik. It was produced by Urbane Künste Ruhr, a division of Kultur Ruhr GmbH. The Bangalore -part of the project is organised by Jaaga.

KÄSKY JA HYRÄILY – LP

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Kaukaisu: Käsky ja hyräily

Vinyl LP, limited edition of 500 copies. Release date 4 June 2014.
Listen at Sound Cloud

In June 2014 Tellervo Kalleinen released an album Käsky ja Hyräily (A Command And a Hum) under the name Kaukaisu. The album consists of songs she has composed over the past 22 years.

The record is sold at Bandcamp, Recorshop x  and Digelius.

 

Family Comes Home

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Family Comes Home takes place in a private home, where audience members are thrown into an odd family reunion. The evening explores the stories of ancestors that audience members carry with them, whether they remember them or not. The performance consists of three acts: Memory Game, Odd Family Party and The Play.

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and I developed the project for the Helsinki Festival in 2013, curated by Erik Söderblom. It was performed by Max Bremer and Johanna af Schultén.

Dreamland

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Dreamland is a film montage containing dramatizations of dreams of Finnish citizens in which the President of Finland Tarja Halonen makes an appearance. It is a work investigating people’s subconscious attitudes to the mother / father figure of a state.

In the video the dreams are presented as one long stream where the borders between the dreams are blurry, creating one collective portrait of a leader of state.

The Making Of
In Spring 2009 Tellervo and Oliver collected 87 dreams from all around Finland. A selection of 21 dreams were then dramatized and filmed. The President was played by four different actors, all other roles were acted by volunteers.

Installation
The films are distributed on the walls of different rooms, so that the spectator can walk through them. The installation can be adapted to any space consisting of 3-10 rooms.

All 87 dreams submitted to the project can be read from one wall.

One channel version available for screenings.

Play This at My Funeral

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Audio by Blood Music aka Karl Jonas Winqvist
Video by Tellervo Kalleinen & Niina Lehtonen Braun

In the video different individuals are posing with the instrument they wish to be played at their funeral. The video is combining the genres of music video and participatory art.

What I Wish I Had Learned In School

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We invited people to contribute a 45-minute lesson about what they wished they had learned at school. We supported ten participants in the process of preparing a lesson on their chosen subject.

The classes ranged from practical skills to personal revelations, and they were open to anyone attending. The space for the lessons resembled a school classroom, and there were 15-minute breaks between the classes.

The project was a collaboration between Maija Hirvanen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and myself. It took place at the Kerava Art Museum in 2012 as part of Palikkaooppera, curated by Kristian Smeds.

Archipelago Science Fiction

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The Turku archipelago – thousands of islands located on the Baltic Sea – provide the framework for four sci-fi scenarios. The islanders themselves perform the hilarious and sometimes chilling episodes they scripted based on their own fears and hopes of how the area will develop in 100 years.

The episodes:

Paradise for the aging elite
Lifestyle immigration
Neo-capitalism in a post-apocalyptic world
An outdoor museum for the Chinese middle-class.

Regardless of their surrealistic ambiance the visions are contemporary and universal. These actually inhabited islands open a dizzying window for viewing current social tendencies.

The Making of

Using web questionnaires and face to face interviews the filmmakers Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson mapped islanders´ worst and best case scenarios about the future of the archipelago. Based on those interviews, three workshops were held at Utö, Houtskär and Korpo -islands. The workshops produced different science fiction film ideas portraying bleak or optimistic (or both) visions of the archipelago of Turku in the year 2111. More than 100 locals acted in the films.

Installation

4 monitors with headphones, a bench.
One monitor is reserved for each of the episodes. You can see the title of the episodes in each of the monitors. One episode at a time is running.

One channel -version available for screenings.

Home Theatre

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The performance took place in a private home in Mannheim, Germany. Audience members arrived in pairs, and each participatory performance lasted 10 minutes. They were invited to choose one of the plates on the dining table. Under each plate was a script describing a situation that had once taken place around that very table. The audience members then acted out the scene together. The homeowners watched each performance from the balcony, as if attending a theatre performance.

The project was developed for X APARTMENTS Mannheim (2011), commissioned by Hebbel am Ufer in collaboration with the International Schillertage.

An Etude for Everlasting Life

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AboutHealing_webCollaboration of Tellervo Kalleinen and Tuomas Laitinen. The project was part of 12 Etudes for Everlasting Life -series by Tuomas Laitinen,  produced by Reality Research Center, Helsinki.

A performative crash course on the roles of the helper and the one who gets help. After an introduction the performance happens in pairs – each pair is behind closed doors in private ”clinic rooms”. One takes the role of the helper, and the other one takes the role of the one seeking help. The rules for behaving in the roles have been agreed on together earlier, during the intro.

Complaints Choir

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In the Complaints Choir project the complaints of the choir members are transformed into an impressive choir song with the help of a local musician. The project is open for anybody, no earlier singing experience required. The complaints vary from small daily irritations to big global issues.

The concept was open sourced in 2006, and has been spreading around the globe since then.

Installation
The documentation of the choir performances from all around the world form a 4-channel video installation. The videos are shown one after another distributed over 4 walls.

Videos and more info at the Complaints Choir web site

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The First Summit of Micronations, Helsinki 2003

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concept: Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. Production: Artists´ Association MUU

In August 2003 Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen  organized The First Summit of Micronations in Helsinki. During the three day event the representatives of six micronations had a round table discussion and a gala evening in the historical setting of Finlandia House and they opened temporary embassies at Harakka island.

The summit took place  in the context of a performance festival Amorph!03, produced by the artists´association MUU. Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen were the curators of that festival.

An extensive reader on micronations was published.

 

In The Middle Of A Movie

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Tellervo Kalleinen traveled around the world placing ads: ”Plan a film scene in your home and give a Finnish woman a role in it”. She went to every home where she was invited and acted the roles she was given.

The project was realized in Hamburg, Helsinki, Los Angeles, Seydisfjördur, St.Petersburg and Tallinn. Altogether 65 scenes were filmed.

Installation

The work is presented as an installation with six arm chairs and six tv monitors on a carpet.