Sonic Wilderness Ensemble, Performa NYC (2023) Sonic Wilderness Ensemble, Performa NYC (2023) “Are we still Nature?” Curated by PUBLICS, co-presented with PERFORMA and co-produced by PALO Art Productions, SONIC TONIC ASSEMBLY, a listening program of innovative sound artists using location-specific field recording as their starting point to create aural worlds at the intersection of sonic poetry, abstracted music, and experimental black and global feminist technologies. SONIC TONIC ASSEMBLY has two overlapping episodes of an extended unfolding event that sounds out and listens in. Episode 1: Sonic Wilderness: AGF, Islaja, Lau Nau, and Cucina Povera Curated by PUBLICS, Performa and Pioneer Works co-present Sonic Wilderness with renowned Finland based artists AGF, Islaja, Lau Nau, Cucina Povera. This episode is co-produced by PALO Art Productions, Helsinki. Gathered in New York for the first time, this assembly performs together in a dedicated event as individual artists and as a collaborative group as part of an intense sonic experience. During the one-day performance, viewers listen to Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, Lau Nau, and Cucina Povera who will each perform collectively as part of a durational relay of sonic movements, and responsive interconnections across and between each artist’s work based on a dialogical process […]Read More…
Nicosia Melbourne Coupling
Nicosia Melbourne Coupling (2023) Nicosia Melbourne Coupling (2023) “Hope is in the stars”. Two newly produced video works by two internationally renowned artists Eugenia Lim and Anu Pennanen are in dialogue at Nicosia NiMAC Art Center – PUBLICS Helsinki – Composite Melbourne. The artist’s works both explore the current ecocide in an era of resource-based conflict and global environmental crisis. In this exhibition, 5, 10, 100 YEARS FROM NOW (2023) by artist Anu Pennanen is based on petrol-station customers wild reflections on what they imagine the future will look like seen from the window of a Neste- gas station in Helsinki. Eugenia Lim’s METABOLISM (2023) is a film-essay around the site of the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), considers the body-as-land and land-as- body. Wirribi-yaluk (Werribee river) is the backbone of the film, a flowing entity connecting old ways with new. NiMAC COUPLING is organised by PUBLICS Helsinki and NiMAC Nicosia, Cyprus / Festival Open Up. Curated by Paul O’Neill, Artistic Director of PUBLICS, and Stéphane Querrec, Director of PALO. CO-Produced by PALO. PALO has also made possible the inclusion of “Metabolism” in exhibition: Lagos Photo Festival 2023 – curator Azu Nwagbogu. Browse other programmings: […]Read More…
Helsinki Coupling
Helsinki Coupling Helsinki Coupling “P.S: They go so much lower than you think”. In 2020, PALO commissioned renowned Afro-American artist Dave McKenzie to create a new work in Finland. A series of Letters were written by the artist, delivered to unknown recipients in Helsinki, addressing a number of things that McKenzie had been living with during the course of the pandemic. Five textile Banners were then produced using short post-scripted texts with and without images, expressing different modes of ‘public address’. The work was exhibited in PUBLICS Helsinki new “Coupling series”, where two artists/ practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their practices. In this exhibition, all four pieces from the Versus Series (2012-15) by artist Maryam Jafri are displayed together alongside the new correlated work (Dis)appearance Online (2021) and Getty vs. Ghana (2012), in dialogue with Dave McKenzie’s. The artist says of the work: “I have been working with the banner format since 2016. I go through a collection of 35mm slides that I have amassed and pull out images that feel resonant. I scan them and then try to write to them. In the initial moment […]Read More…