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Archipelago Science Fiction is screened at Oodi, Helsinki, at OP2 -space during 20.-25. October. You can enter the loop any time between 6pm-7.30pm. The event is part of Agenda – Art 2030,  curated by artist Marika Tomu Kaipainen. The film work is made in collaboration with Henrik Andersson. The fabulous animations are made by Antonia Ringbom.

JOKAklubi participates Séance Fiction @ Kunstverein Familie Montez with two audio pieces I Almost Said and I Shouldn´t Have Said, and a performance.

The exhibition features JOKAklubi´s heart-rending yet humorous songs consisting of collected sentences, which were almost said, or which shouldn´t have been said. 

The participatory painting performance will take place 4th September, 9pm

JOKAklubi (Niina Lehtonen Braun, Berlin, Mirka Raito, Hamburg, Tellervo Kalleinen, Helsinki) was formed in 2009. The group combines performance, music, and installation. Inspired by people, JOKAklubi welcomes guests to their art, and depending on who, what and where, unique ambience emerges.

Me and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen present our new piece Forms of Social Distancing at Ars Kärsämäki (Kärsämäki, Finland). The exhibition focuses on artist couples who work together and it is curated by Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val.

Looking forward an evening with JOKAklubi, Olento Orchestral and The Spermbankers 9 May @ West Germany, Berlin. EDIT: The event was cancelled due to Covid 19 -pandemia.

I will be composing a complaints choir song out of the complaints of the Art At Risk -conference participants – and leading a process of learning and performing the choir song. The event is exclusively for the conference members.

I will be talking about our video work Archipelago Science Fiction in the finissage of Ocean Dwellers exhibition, curated by Solvej Ovesen. The talk takes place at the auditorium of the Nordic Embassies, Rauchstrasse 1, Berlin. In the same occasion we will be hearing the talk by curator Heidi Ballet. Free entry!

I am deeply grateful for the artist grant from KONE foundation, which allows me to continue the full focus on my artistic work.

I look forward to give a workshop ”Anatomy of a Conflict” at Shared Campus, the Zurich University of the Arts. ”Shared Campus is a cooperation platform for international education formats and research networks launched by eight arts institutions. Close cooperation is imperative to tackling issues of global significance. Especially the arts can, and indeed ought to, play an important role in this respect.” The event is open for anyone to join.

JOKAklubi is happy to perform The Perfect End at Opean10 -event at  MUG im Einstein, Munich, 5 December 8pm. The evening continues with the concert of LAU. Thank you Tobias Frank und Patrick Morarescu for the invitation!

I will be talking about Keskustelupuisto / Common Ground Park at KampusART -seminar, organised by Turku Arts Academy. Address Joukahaisenkatu 3, Turku. The event starts 2 December 5pm, my talk is 7pm. Free entry! Welcome!

You are warmly welcome to For this dance, I will take the lead at Mad House Helsinki.

The audience is invited to experience the piece on a dance floor. The starting point for the piece is an experience of not being able to always influence your own life as much as you´d like to. The evening bases six dances, led by six participants. All of them bring along one life experience of being led by others.

The duration is ca  75min.

Everyone can move within the limits of their own capacity, and one does not need prior experience in dancing.

Reserve your place by sending an email to liput@madhousehelsinki.fi

The concept for the piece is created by contemporary artist Tellervo Kalleinen. Her artistic discussion partner in the project is Maija Hirvanen.

The dances take place on Thursday 28 November 6pm or Saturday 30 November 4pm.

Mad House Helsinki
Työpajankatu 2a, building 4
00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 44 4910058 

Haemme esitykseen ihmisiä jakamaan kokemuksensa siitä, kun on liikaa muiden vietävänä. 

Esitys Tässä tanssissa minä vien koostuu osallistujien valitsemista musiikkikappaleista. Niiden soidessa osallistujat toimivat viejän roolissa – yleisön liikkuessa osallistujien ohjeiden mukaisesti. 

Teoksessa pysähdytään tunteeseen siitä, kun ei pysty vaikuttamaan tarpeeksi omaan elämäänsä. Millaisissa tilanteissa ja millä elämän alueilla tämä tunne valtaa? Mitä kokemus kontrollin puutteesta kertoo yhteiskunnastamme tai ihmisten välisistä suhteista? Taiteilija Tellervo Kalleinen auttaa jokaista osallistujaa suunnittelemaan, kuinka osallistujan omaa kokemusta voi välittää yleisölle yhden tanssin ajan.

Jos olet kiinnostunut, hae mukaan! Teos ei edellytä kokemusta tanssista tai esiintymisestä. Osallistumiseen liittyy henkilökohtainen tapaaminen Tellervon kanssa, kahdet harjoitukset ja kolme esitystä Mad House -esitystilassa Helsingin Kalasatamassa 27.11. (ennakko), 28. ja 30.11.2019. Tapaamisissa on ruokatarjoilua. Osallistumisesta ei makseta.

Vapaamuotoiset hakemukset ja lisätiedustelut 16.10.2019 mennessä: mukaan@madhousehelsinki.fi 

Tellervo Kalleinen on palkittu nykytaiteilija, jonka työskentelyn ytimessä on luova yhteistyö. Tellervo on tehnyt osallistavia taideteoksia jo vuodesta 2003 asti ja hänen elokuviaan, näyttelyitään, tapahtumiaan ja performanssejaan on nähty ympäri maailmaa. www.tellervo.net 

Lisätietoa Mad Housen esityksestä: https://madhousehelsinki.fi/events/ForthisdanceIwilltakethelead

Isäni -music video, created by artist Niina Lehtonen Braun, was chosen to the competition series of Oulu Music Video Festival 2019. Isäni is a song by my band Olento Orchestral.

Archipelago Science Fiction is part of Ocean Dwellers exhibition at Nordic Embassies, Berlin. The exhibition is curated by Solvej Ovesen.

The Turku archipelago on the Baltic Sea provide the framework for four sci–fiscenarios. The islanders themselves perform the hilarious and sometimes chilling episodes, which base on their own fears and hopes of how the area will develop.

As part of Real Work -exhibition of Fact, a work -related complaints choir will be created in Liverpool. Participation is free for anyone who is ready to spend some time turning complaints into choir lyrics, and practice the new great song with the fabulous choir director Jennifer John. Public performances take place 31 August – follow Fact web site for details! I will be present at Fact 12 September at the premiere of the video, which documents the new choir piece.

The complete installation of Complaints Choirs is presented at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen 12 April – 30 June 2019. We will give an artist talk 30 June. Thank you Curator Barbara Auer for this wonderful invitation!

For Havana Biennial me and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen make a new work: 9 CARTUCHOS – Paper Bag Stories From Cuba. For the piece we  commissioned local professional writers and thinkers to write a speech about Cuba from their particular point of view – using a paper bag as a reference point. An edition of 9 paper bags with excerpts of each of the 9 speeches were printed on 100.000 bags. The bags are distributed over the period of the biennial to vegetable markets and small grocery stores around Havana to be given out to people. Thus the artwork is slowly distributed to many households of the city. The full length speeches can be listened at the Havana biennale exhibition.

The simple paper bag can be a curious interrogator of histories, politics, economics and, conflicts of a global scale. In Cuba paper bags mean both past and the future: paper bags – or cartuchos as they were called – were an important object of daily live but exchanged with plastic bags after the Soviet Union collapsed. In a reversal of history Cuba has just recently promised to abandon plastic bags in the future.

The writers: Juan Triana, Maikel José Rodríguez, Isdanny Morales, Mario Castillo, Roly Ávalos & Alex Díaz, Modesto Díaz, Orlando Hernández, Israel Castellanos and Hilda María Rodríguez. We are happy to have also drawings of Ibrahim Miranda as part of the paper bag design of Orlando Hernández.

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In 2015 artists me and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen visited one hundred homes around Finland and interviewed people about their personal relationship with 30 topics that tend to divide opinions. The 100 interviewees formed a cross-section of the Finnish population in terms of gender, age, region, education, level of income, country of origin and mother tongue.

Why do we think like we think? The interviewees tried to pinpoint experiences and influences that play a role on how their opinions were shaped. Their 1900 responses fed into an interactive video-installation first shown in Helsinki Art Hall in 2015.

The Finnish Cultural Foundation supported the exhibition in Helsinki Art Hall and the publishing of the work online in 2019. Even 92 of 100 participants allowed their interviews to be used also in the online version of the art piece.

The piece is now in Finnish only, but English subtitles will follow.

Niina Lehtonen Braun has made a new music video for Olento Orchestral´s single Isäni!

Archipelago Science Fiction will be screened at the two day Making Worlds -event including screenings, performances and conversations at Zentrum für Teoretische Peripherie. Thank you curator Isabel de Sena for the invitation!

People in White (by Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen) will be screened at Ludwigshafen Kunstverein together with Plantheon (by Ulu Braun and Teuri Haarla) 10 January 7pm. The event is organised by Ludwigshafen Kunstverein, Port25 and Finnland institut.

I am glad to be one of the three ”provocateurs” at Talk Kallio! Do You Have A Say? It is a series of monthly unconference happenings designed to encourage people to talk about the issues that matter to them. The discussions will be set off by invited guests who will act as provocateurs. The theme of 13 September (5pm) discussion is City:  “Who owns the City?” The guest provocateurs, beside myself, are Eric Lipchis and Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé. The event is curated and facilitated by Ceyda Berk-Söderblom.

101 For All – including 65 hours of video material – is finally translated into English! It´s therefore ready to pass the borders of Finland. We are very happy to show the work at  Stadtgallerie Kiel in spring 2019 as part of An Der Nordkante -exhibition.

Archipelago Science Fiction -video installation will be part of Considering Finland -exhibition at Ludwigshafen Art Museum 10 November 2018 – 13 January 2019. The exhibition program includes our artist talk and the screening of People in White 10 November.

Common Ground – A Public Space Game (Keskustelupuisto) web site is launched, and the project is now open for applications! Anyone living in Rauma, Finland, can apply. The project will involve 36 residents who reflect the age distribution of the local population. They will design and realise a public park within a game-like process April 2019 – August 2020. The game will consist of six moves that begin with individual views and move gradually toward collectiveness. In the beginning, the park will be divided into 36 parts, with each participant initially receiving one part to design. A sum of 200 euros per person will be reserved for each move in the game. After the initial individual move, participants will get a chance to cooperate during moves 2–5; they can merge their plots and pool their allocations. The changes to the park will be implemented as the game progresses. The sixth move can only be made by unanimous decision. A sum of 14,000 euros will be reserved for the last move. When all changes are made, a party will be held to celebrate completion of the project. The project is collaboration with Lönnström Art Museum.

Happy to be part of Ulme festival in Tartu, Estonia, with my new solo performance Exaggerating Mind. The festival is Curated by Kiwa.

”Ulmefestival transforms Tartu New Theatre into an unique state of mind, where fantasy knows no borders and the sci-fi perception horizons come to life in words, sounds and movements. ’Ulme’ is an estonian word invented by writer Henn-Kaarel Hellat in 1970. It translates not only to sci-fi /fantasy /dreams, but references to the Golden Age of sci-fi.”

JOKAklubi´s Time Machine invites audience members to re-live selected situations from their memory lane. The evening is a wild combination of short performances of local artists, improvised talk show, music and chaos.

We start 9pm with a concert of Olento Orchestral, followed by Time Machine Show and dance party!

We are honoured to have the Finland premiere of Tracking Dar Es Salaam at Mänttä Art Festival (17 June – 31 August, 2018).

This work by Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and myself  is an interactive video installation, which shows parallel realities of Dar es Salaam through one ordinary weekday of 11 local inhabitants. The spectator have to make choices which of the video clips to watch, recorded in different parts of the city during that day – which of the people to follow and listen. The soundtrack consists of recorded interviews with the participants as well as music, which is individually composed for each of the 11 inhabitants.

In the new project of mine and Oliver – commissioned by m-cult – we will collaborate with three different kind of groups from Maunula to influence their neighbourhood. Each group will develop a real-life avatar, played by actors (Max Bremer, Outi Vuoriranta and Niina Sillanpää), which they conduct within the local ’game zone’. We wish to create a playful form and an exciting collective experience to address urban change.

Public can follow the gaming June 6-10 in Maunula!