All these photos are by Reino Koivula. Thanks a lot, Reiska!
Growing darkness in the yard of Åbo/Turku municipal library; “Pimeyden kodat” (“Cots of darkness”) exhibition can be seen during the library’s opening hours until August 31st.
On returning from Finland, I spent two weeks in the Land of Mir (temporarily located outside the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
growing darkness
Posted in art, recent work on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
working Darkness VI
Posted in art, recent work on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s my last day at Titanik. The Darkness workshop will go on for another week, though, with Reiska, Timo, Simo Helenius and others. Finally it will end up with an exhibition in the yard of the public library, just across Aura river.
Thunder and rain reached Åbo/Turku yesterday – just after my last writing. [...]
Pina Bausch 1940 – 2009
Posted in art, beauty, time-out on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Venice, a truly magnificent thunderstorm passed by during the night between Friday and Saturday; sounding like canonades, turning electricity off, and – lights out – pouring rain over the city for hours.
Saturday night – June 27th – at the dance biennale, the Compagnia dell’Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma performed a show at Teatro [...]
working Darkness V
Posted in art, recent work on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Darkness workshop at Titanik; three photos by Reino Koivula
In Åbo/Turku, the Darkness workshop continues, and, returning from Venice, Reiska and I join in again.
One three-dimensional piece of felt is produced by using a smaller part of the bell-shaped textile form; the technique works out well, but the gutefår wool seems too coarse to make good [...]
Venice reflections
Posted in art on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Light installation by Spencer Finch
and Buddha’s hand sculptures by Huang Yong Ping
(Fare Mondi/Making Worlds at Arsenale)
Latex sheet used for the cleaning of a wall at the Doge’s palace in Venice
by Jorge Otero-Pailos, theorist of architecture and contemporary preservation
(Fare Mondi/Making Worlds at Arsenale)
Arsenale spaces
To perceive such a mass of artworks as in [...]