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\t\u201cI want my revolution \/ nice and comfy\u201d
\n\t\t\t-Niko Skorpio<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPerformance Voyage 7 (PV7), an international collection of video performances produced by Artists\u2019 Association MUU, Finland, will be screened at project space \u201cSod\u0173 4\u201d in Vilnius, Lithuania, 20 December 2017, 7 pm, in collaboration with Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association. The PV7 tour takes the video collection to altogether 15 venues around the world.<\/p>\n
The theme of Performance Voyage 7 is \u201cProtest Song Competition!\u201d Protest songs typically reflect great social changes. The videos featured in Performance Voyage 7 explore the political situation, frustration and the individual\u2019s possibilities to promote social change, and they also present alternatives to existing circumstances.<\/p>\n
The collection contains works by 18 artists or groups from around the world: Kuesti Fraun, Kim Dotty Hachmann & Steffi Simmen, Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko, Heidi Kilpel\u00e4inen, Francois Knoetze, Timo Kokko, Pawe\u0142 Korbus, Vik Laschenov, Elin Magnusson, Elena Mazzi, Iwona Ogrodzka, Ignacio P\u00e9rez P\u00e9rez, Arja Renell, Kikka Rytk\u00f6nen, Julia Schicker, Jukka Silokunnas, Niko Skorpio and Elizabeth Wurst (more about artists and art works: http:\/\/www.muu.fi\/site\/?p=9989&lang=en<\/a>).<\/p>\n
The PV7 collection is presented at Project Space Sod\u0173 4 by Petri Saarikko, one of the artists in the collection. Petri Saarikko has choreographed \u201cRongoa Remedies\u201d together with artist Sasha Huber Saarikko during a residency in Wellington, New Zealand, much inspired by the local Maori culture, but also by the imminent threat of nature \u2013 earthquake and tsunami \u2013 against a city, which is located on the very edge of a potential disaster. <\/p>\n
The videos comprising Performance Voyage 7 were selected by a jury consisting of artist Heidi Kilpel\u00e4inen, Head of Arts & Culture Jaakko Nousiainen (Finnish Institute in London), and director of MUU Timo Soppela. The production of Performance Voyage 7 has been supported by the City of Helsinki Cultural Office.<\/p>\n
Artists\u2019 Association MUU is an artist run Finnish interdisciplinary artist association, founded in 1987 to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art. These are such as media art, performance, video, environmental, space and conceptual art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production. The aims of MUU are to develop the collaboration and interchange of artists working within different fields, to produce projects, events, seminars and exhibitions of the MUU (\u201cthe Other\u201d) art fields and to arouse cultural political discussion. MUU operates with Finnish and international cultural and educational organizations. In December 2017 MUU has 650 professional artist members based in Finland. http:\/\/www.muu.fi<\/a><\/p>\n
The Performance Voyage, a series of international video performances created for the camera, has been produced annually by Finnish Artists\u2019 Association MUU since 2011. Taking the video performance collection on a worldwide tour is a new way to introduce the artists and their works. The tour expands the artists\u2019 networks, working possibilities and increases their reputation as performance artists. One of key aims of the Performance Voyage series is to record and document ephemeral performances and thereby extend their lifespan.<\/p>\n
The event is organised by Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association and Artists\u2019 Association MUU, Finland, with kind support of Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, and bar \u201cD\u0117v\u0117ti\u201d. The production of Performance Voyage 7 has been supported by the City of Helsinki Cultural Office, Finland.<\/p>\n
Wednesday 20 December 2017, 7 pm<\/p>\n
Project Space \u201cSod\u0173 4\u201d
\nSod\u0173 Str. 4, Vilnius, Lithuania
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