OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome to the opening ceremony of The Other Side performance art platform at Vantaa Art Museum Artsi.
Date: Thursday 29th Feb 2024
Time: 17.30 - 19.30
The event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL.
What to expect at the opening event:
- Welcome words.
- Introduction of The Other Side Platform by Aman Askarizad and Parsa Kamehkhosh And Performances by
- JAKUB BOBROWSKI & SZYMON STEMPLEWSKI
- OLGA SPYROPOULOU & JULIUS ELO
- QIONG ZHANG & LEIK SILVESTRINI
Address: Artsi, Myyrmäkitalo, Paalutori 3 01600 Vantaa
How to get there: Artsi is located in Myyrmäkitalo, next to the Myyrmäki train station.
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Mitä odottaa avajaisissa:
Tervetulosanat.
The Other Side -alustan esittely Aman Askarizadin ja Parsa Kamehkhoshin toimesta
Ja esityksiä
JAKUB BOBROWSKI & SZYMON STEMPLEWSKI
OLGA SPYROPOULOU & JULIUS ELO
QIONG ZHANG & TANJA SILVESTRINI
Lämpimästi tervetuloa!
Artsi sijaitsee Myyrmäkitalossa, Myyrmäen värikkään juna-aseman vieressä.
Participating Artists' bios:
-Olga Spyropoulou (she/her) is a Finland-based performance artist and writer. She experiments with various modalities of spect-actorship and non-hierarchical methodologies. In her work, she explores questions of encounter, agency and consent and how those translate in language.
-Julius Elo (they/them) is a Helsinki-based live artist who creates performance concepts and participatory performances where the audience is set at the core of the piece in different ways. Elo is one of the founders of Reality Research Center.
-Jakub Bobrowski: Graduate of Master’s Programme in VICCA at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Previously, after first MA in film and literature studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, he worked with film festivals as programmer and coordinator. For several years now he has been developing an interest in slow and grounding practices like woodcut and lino printing, ceramics, foraging, long distance walking and cycling.
-Szymon Steplewski: Graduate of Cultural Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Completed studies at the Faculty of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. Diploma in 2009 in the studio of Prof. Piotr C. Kowalski. Creates using various media mainly drawing, walking and photography. Initiator and curator of various cultural and artistic events.
-Qiong Zhang is an artist-researcher and poet based in Helsinki, Finland. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. Her artistic practice plays with performative gestures and choreographed images to reveal hidden political issues related to surveillance, contamination, and patriarchal narratives in various social-cultural contexts.
-Leik Silvestrini (b. 1995) is a queer, non-binary artist from Oslo, Norway. With their feet planted firmly in playfulness and performativity, their extensive projects emerge from the environment they find themselves in. The past years their focus has been on creating characters that enter existing situations in public and private space, attempting to break with false dichotomies such as human/animal, fiction/reality and stranger/friend.
