Performances
Performances with a metal detector
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series of performances with a metal detector, 2007 - 2014
mitä meistä jää - mitä meistä jää - / what will be left of us - mitäs täältä löytyy - / what can be found here - collaboration with soundman Veli H what will be left of us - human life tramping grasslands searching for metals Perhaps a tale like a dream that will be forgotten mitä meistä jää - ihmiselämä ruohontallausta ja metallinetsintää Ehkä tarina kuin uni unohtuva The performance and documentation : Since 2007 Tiina Hölli cleaned the ground from metal trash. Hölli used a metal detector and documented the search as well as the findings, and respected the earth. The performances were flexible and details negotiable. Detecting one piece of metal and digging it up takes about 15 minutes plus preparation. Documentation, photography, and artist's books : Tiina Hölli documented all these performance processes from the beginning of the acts ( sometimes months before the actual performance day ), findings, exhibition process ... and while all this was going on, the same book was the guest book for the audience. Each performance included a B4-sized, 100-pages interactive, hand-made Artist´s Book. Installations indoors and outdoors, environmental works : The searching areas were marked with yellow and red ropes and flags outdoors on the ground, the actual performance in a red hat with a metal detector, interviews and conversations with audience, performance photographs, videos, drawings, writings, photographes from the site and about the whole working process, including the negotiations with car rentals, curators, all behind the scenes, several different kinds of tools, findings, the books. apologies - some of following links will be fixed asap - situation noticed 2017-05-05 Archipelago Nature Centre 2014 Suomen Pohjoismainen Taideliitto - Pohjoinen Rakkaus - Kärlek i Norr | Art Center Haihatus 2013 Suomen Pohjoismainen Taideliitto - Pohjoinen Rakkaus - Kärlek i Norr [ poster 2013 ] article Art Path Palas 2013 Art Path Palas 2013 Art Path Palas - Palas Taidepolku 2013 Art Path Palas [ Aamuposti 2013-07-28] Beneath the Surface | Salo Art Museum 2013 Beneath the Surface | Salo Art Museum 2013 Beneath the Surface | Salo Art Museum 2013 PERFEKT12 | Gjutars 2012 Taiteen tiet | Mathildedal 2007 Taiteen tiet | Mathildedal 2007 .. photograph series coming about each event & yes I have not yet fixed the links .. and oh sigh it is SUCH a bore when official pages are changed all the time and we are supposed to testrun through all them myriads of links continuously or what ?? hmm ..? Yle Uutiset Historia 30.4.2018 klo 11:01 https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10184580 Metallinetsijät muuttavat käsitystä Suomen muinaishistoriasta: Espoossa asutusta läpi rautakauden, Hämeessä paljon tiedettyä rikkaampaa. Metallinetsinnän harrastajista on valtava apu historiantutkijoille. Yle Uutiset Arkeologia 6.9.2018 klo 11:30 https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10387636 Koululaiset innostuivat arkeologiasta – neljäsluokkalainen Jeremias Tuhkanen: "Mie aion omalla rahalla ostaa metallinpaljastimen". Arkeologiaa voidaan hyödyntää kouluissa esimerkiksi historian ja ympäristö- ja luonnontiedon opetuksessa. |
Performances with paper sheets
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Painting performances
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Photo Susanna Malmsten | Salo Art Museum 2008
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Performances about being present - 3D
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Performance about incompleteness 7.9.2013
in Labeling Panic from Classics-series - collaboration with soundman Veli H in an exhibition opening during a night of art - village happening Seuralaiset / Eläköön rakennus! of a Culture Center for a month -project Surprise performance as action happening during the Grand Opening of The turning the old communal house a Cultur Center for a Month -project. Two persons were labeling ( with too big papers ) artworks during the busiest hours as the audience of several hundred people at the same time was crisscrossing through all the spaces and visited the exhibition rooms in a building of about 2000 m2 in 4 floors. The idea was to get action and lively movement and free talking while a labeling work team was still at work. It worked perfectly. The performance got a little out of hands with its timetable, because in the middle of our performance I assisted the interviewing camera crew of Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle for several hours. Some exhibition rooms were left with only the handwritten information untill the next morning when I finished the official labeling, but luckily it did not seem to bother the audience or the artists too much, as each artist had the chance to show and distribute limitlessly and freely their portfolios and whatever other own individual presentation material of their own choise and style in their exhibition spaces. Seuralaiset, Salo Artists' Association's 45th Anniversary Annual Exhibition 7 - 29.9.2013 Eläköön rakennus ! - hylätystä kunnantalosta kuukauden kulttuuritaloksi 7 - 29.9.2013 – project Grand Opening during Pimeän peitto raottuu Perniössä 7.9.2013 – Village Happening on the European Heritage Day 7.9 with theme Eläköön rakennus ! Perniö Finland Poster Seuralaiset - exhibition Poster Pimeän peitto - evening art happening Press release 2013-08-28 Happenings for a month 2013-09-26 Read more about this event from my Curatorial projects ! hmmm ... 4 years later ... |
Performances about being present online - diary projects / networking
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The experience of experimental solo diary projects in a time window with a public interactive option - here online, compared to performances and experimental conceptual works about artists connecting and networking in an unconventional way on a public or a closed professional internet platform.
Committing for a set period of time versus commitment open end. At what point does the commitment become absurd ? (= Wait a minute. Why am I here and doing this ? Why don't I just leave ? ) Are we really supposed to pull some things through no matter what ? (Nope.) We made a commitment ? To whom ? (= To ourselves. But is this for our own good ?) What is incompleteness ? (=No such thing.) Do set time window diary projects include built-in obsolescence ? What is authenticity ? (= Honesty to oneself.) What is the point in anything we do if not having fun ? 2017
DIARY PROJECT : Augie ❤ a sweet thing ❤ ETHER NOCTON & Love, Similia ❤ Performance about establishing a structure
in a form of a play July - November 2017 17 7 17 - 17 11 17 August 2017 Romantic Plan for Augie September 2017 ETHER NOCTON October 2017 10.10.10.10:10 & Love, Similia ❤ November 2017 171117 Click here to follow me online in July - November 2017 building a diary structure / a structure diary 2018
DIARY PROJECT : 2019 - ongoing
DIARY PROJECT : NONNIIN ! - Diary Project - - 2019-02-01--- 2019-02-09 - What on Earth is going on ? Endurance performance 2.1 - 1.3.2016 in Art Professionals Worldwide
Featured Artist of the Week : Tiina Holli The choice of Mark Kulaga, M. Ed. Apple | Binary Sculptor | Writer Manager and Curator in Art Professionals Worldwide The Founding Member of Art Group Critique Performance : being present as the artist in the resident and interactive for 60 days on a group discussion forum Artist of the Week 1 - 2016 : Tiina Holli 2. - 12.1.2016 The discussion remains permanently in Art Profesionals Worldwide, and on March 13, 2016 there are 539 comments 122 likes Highlights compiled here. More statistics updates coming up as time goes by ! ART Professionals Worldwide is the largest curated group for artists on LinkedIn with its over 123,000 members. Read more about what was going on in the background : Artist of the Week : Tiina Holli | AIR BORNE Expiring in 1 second, 2014 & Eric's, 2014 >
Expiring in 1 second => Down at Eric's Bar Starting February 2014 --------------------o-o-o-------------------- . o.0.o . --------------------o-o-o-------------------- problem: absolute/-less, ..no.. / ..yes..? ahaa..? ...now : processing ==> First hangout : " Expiring in 1 second ", February 2014 -- 21.09.2014 in APWw Second hangout : Eric´s Bar & Gallery 21.09.2014 --> --------------------o-o-o-------------------- . o.0.o . --------------------o-o-o-------------------- I used to hang out there in LinkedInland at Eric´s down at Art Profs. Censorship closed once so popular bar 21.09.2014 in 1 second PÖFF! All gone [... those golden memories ... oh wtf - it was a black hole in the center of the Universe] BUT ! Koogz opened a new bar (see below at Groups). You can meet me at the bar for Jerrystuff and have a meaningless chat with absolutely no content. Join today! : D more & stress less &less Above is the presentation in Tiina Hölli's and other performance artists' LinkedIn profiles. Background : It had become obvious already in 2014, that artists are not concidered as professionals or as professionally conducting, when they are trying to network especially amongs each others, but also with patrons, galleries and other agents in art field in general on platfroms that are designed for marketing, business etc. purposes. Art -related networking needs somewhat broader borders than ordinary networks. Instead of being annoying all over the network, we offered artists a place to vent, a place to get peer support and a place to quickly alarm everybody to come and help if a colleague was being under the gremlin poo attack in LinkedIn. It was a place without behaviour restrictions but those of a regular bar. Our virtual artists' bar was very popular in amounts of contributions ( mainly by us few regulars, but nevertheless ) and quickly it rose to be all the time either the first or the second ( altering ) as the most popular discussion thread in that group Art Professionals Worldwide : algorithm showed our virtual bar on top of the main directory page in Art Professionals Worldwide, and this happened as this group was getting closer and closer to the upper limits of its agreement, it seemed - 100.000 members, after which it would be shut down from new members ( which soon happened, but then again later it was arranged to open again to accepting new members ). What happened ? The problem occured with LinkedIn discussions' contributions' -notifications. B this time, surprisingly, this sole feature in LinkedIn was working too well ... apparently some group members, who visited the bar maybe only once ( maybe appalled by the behaviour never came back again ) kept receiving into their personal e-mails notifications from the bar's constant flow of absolutely emptyheaded commenting in the bar, and of course they were not happy about it - but simultaneously they also were too ignorent about LinkedIn -procedures to easily stop notifications from appearing in their e-mails by just one click of the mouse. So instead of being normal, they decided to complain about the crowd in the bar, that there was not appropriate conduct of artists. You wish ... Maybe there was only one ignorant like this, but it was enough, and flagging bar customers' comments ( clicking them as unappropriate ) made LinkedIn algorithm show red alert, and apparently one of the too touchy or with too clumsy finger one day close that whole discussion group down. Without any notifications - ppuuufh and it was gone. Of course we had expected this, and screensaved the experiment from the beginning. But it did not make us feel better about being censored by anonymous and without warning and unrightly, also, it seems still today, because with that thread was deleted also some other threads that were legendary and long-lasting and beginning to be gigantic - and the real problem we had with this is, that Art Professionals Worldwide did not save these discussion threads to its archives, but deleted them totally. This was unheard-of and the beginning of many similar actions against the copryrights, private messages disappearing, comments being deleted etc.- crimes against freedom of speech and expression, that goes on still in LinkedIn's multiple platforms. In that way this was a very useful experiment to test the limits of freedom on that platform. I am aware that much worse is going on in regular discussion forums - but we were never trolls, mean or cruel to anybody - just having fun INSIDE OUR OWN DISCUSSION THREAD - we did not force anybody to join us - nobody was obligated in any way to join that thread or stay there - we did no harm - au contraire - we offered a place to be for anybody that needed protection or ventilation or artistic jokes or new strange friends. We had already grown to feel Eric's like it was our real bar, we had all our friends there - and we were reality-regulars sitting and chatting there, welcoming each new incoming drunk eagerly and lushly. But most of all - all our jokes and comments and visual effects were there. Well - not anymore. Active artists participating in the first virtual bar were Fabienne Le Corvaisier, France Susan Eves, UK Titus Hora, Austria/Canada Gerry Hull, USA Tiina Hölli, Finland Mark “Koogz” Kulaga, USA Bill Kort, China Susanne Vendsalu, Spain Stephen Zepf, China/Canada Eric's by Mark Kulaga - starting September 2014 After first Eric's bar was closed ( read : censored ), Mark Kulaga established a new group in APWw and invited us all to participate as a rescue, as a home, and as a continuing conceptual work of the original virtual bar. This time we choose the regulars ourselves, and keep our jokes to ourselves, but believe it or not - LinkedIn has still put its nose into our bar. Very interesting performance and experiment on artistic expressions in LinkedIn. Performance about establishing a discussion group starting February 2016
Independent Fine Art Professionals in beBee --- i F A r t Pro, be Bee --- Is it possible to create here a simple to use, friendly and deep, fun and light, inviting but not addictive hangaround and happy hour - international group discussion platform for professional artists ? What should an artistic discussion platform include to be interesting in beBee -way? How long does it take until discussions start to shape naturally ? Status 2016-07-27 beBee is a quickly growing, one year old networking site originally from Spain, with over 10 million members in only the first year. In 2016 it is aiming to expand to English speaking areas, and rushed strongly into The United States. Asia or The Northern European countries and languages are not in focus. By inviting a special chosen group of North American bloggers to start rolling the new publishing platform called Honey Producers, beBee also welcomed a continuous talk about what should we do about what we should do. By suggestions many good fine tunings in UX are made all the time by the owners, but yet not the few essential ones needed to establish a well running artist discussion group. It is paradoxical, that free atists should need an organized frame to come together to act freely, but so it seems. So far ( July 2016 ) the concept and ideology of open " hives " means that a hive is provided with only a nominal administration by the owner without any sharp-cutting-means to set standards or guidelines to discussions, like being able to feature discussions and center bees in one point to get to know each other quicker, or highlight some members. Hive managing policy and the viewpoints from many of the hive -owner's are discussioned, like the wish to maintain a certain style in one's own hive, but owner's, in fact worker bees' wishes do not seem to agree with the original beBee ideology of total free openness. Which is of course a beautiful concept. On the other hand, as long as there are no means for the owner to guide the hive's content - other than the individual bee-means as any other equal fellow-bee with bee's individual choises to shape one's own personal hive-view only, the hive owner thus has only a minimal effect on the whole. The curatorial and performative art aspects inside a certain chosen hive are not taken in concideration at all - even not if, for example, hive could be categorized and restricted by a choise of the hive's name, or some other policy to differentiate the purpose, and thus tell free bees about that particular hive to be administrated by a set style and stay away if not interested in that sort. As a result to this impotence, at the moment it seems to me from a single hive-owner's point, that pretty soon the final result will end up in an uncontrollable chaos. Experiencing this impotence and being completely unorganized in my own space and as a host in creating an atmosphere that I'd prefer in my own space, has been a total turn off to me. I toally lost my interest in this, also as a psychological experiment. So it has been a no show mainly in regards to expand an artistic discussion group without scattering all efforts to outer space. It also seems to me, that this effect is bound to cover the networking platform beBee as a whole, if not taken some differentiative methods in use soon. But this is fun, I am monitoring the progress from the viewpoint of a spacecase artist who'd really love to administrate a hive but is not allowed to - and we'll see what happens next : ) Status 2016-08-03 " Comments are restricted to 1 - 2000 characters ". This was the very reason that killed all art discussion groups In LinkedIn 2015-2016, and was widely complained about by group members, and individual and joint pleads were made many to change it. No use. Instead it resulted in even more restrictions in amounts of characters to all that had complained, and finally apparently even to those who payed for the LinkedIn Premium membership. The situation was absurd - LinkedIn was beating its own members which resulted to its own death - and we witnessed it happening there on-line. Yesterday in beBee finally appeared a skillful host : Henri Galvão : Some thoughts on how to talk about art Delighted I decided to at last start my first normal art discussion with longer comments than what I usually make in casual commenting, but, to my surprise and utter disappointment, I immediately bumpted at this character number restriction, as that above shown announcement pop-upped. I was totally in shock, because as told, this was the very reason I (and many others ) had quit LinkedIn, and now the same thing appeared in beBee from out of the bushes when I had just lured many of my artist colleagues to sign up in beBee with promises of FREEDOM IN ART DISCUSSIONS. The establishing of a flourishing discussion group was rejected in 2 days by a highly annoying and totally unnecessary technical reason ? As there now has been them so many in beBee, and I already had been suffering from these in LinkedIn, I felt that this required immediate actions. So I announced that I will be on strike untill that restriction is removed. It is a major occupational safety and health hazard for art talkers, and I will absolutely NOT talk a single word there anymore before it is fixed. It seems I need a holiday from so-me. I might even start reading books again. It came to me last week. I have really missed quality content. Status 2016-09-28 They are talking there ... ! cool My friend and colleague David J. Lisle from British Columbia, Canada requested to become an administrator in Independent Fine Art Professionals in beBee, and immediately I accepted him. David has his own voice as a writer, and he writes from a fresh and interesting angle about topics that are relevant to me too, mostly art, and equality and gender issues. We have had some warmhearted talks and experiences together during defending the rightminded Li UX since 2014. 2016-08-23 beBee had sent me the following message: " Tiina: David Lisle is a bee of your hive "Independent Fine Art Professionals" and is requesting to be an administrator. Would you like David Lisle to manage the content of your hive? ACCEPT | REJECT " ACCEPT ! David wrote back to me after I e-mailed him a notification about his acceptance, that time will tell when he will figure out how to manipulate his new access, and yes, I am thinking to such great extent quite similarly about my own role in this experiment. Thank you David, a relief to share the responsibility - and I am also delighted to see shares and posts and to read everyone actively participating in group discussions in this hive. Thank you especially Chas Wyatt and Amanda Ashton-Booth and Cameron A. Kuntz for your contributions ! I have yet not checked out if beBee has changed its politics about 2000 marks/comment box ( it would require a 2001 marks message ... ) so I am still on holiday from beBee, but it was nice to visit anonymously the hive and see my colleagues and friends active there : ) Participating in group working in Art Professionals Worldwide
starting November 2016 Aesthetics in the Arts " Aesthetics in the arts has as its intention the resolution of a full understanding of aesthetics philosophically. We reject out of hand anything that smacks of sentiments such as " It's Art if I say it's Art ", and " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ", or the postmodern idea that " personal opinion trumps all." " David Lisle, the initiator of this project of 37 members ( by 05.05.2017 ) |
