MARCOS ÁVILA FORERO
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
HALL

A young artist fast garnering international attention, Marcos Ávila Foreron participated in Viva Arte Viva!, the main exhibition of the 2017 Venice Biennale, with a video piece called Atrato, which is also included in the show at Pori Art Museum. Marcos Ávila Foreron typically works in challenging terrain or inaccessible places such as remote rural villages in Colombia. The exhibition presents key works from his output focusing on the impacts of Colombia’s drug wars and FARC guerrillas on the lives of its population.
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STEINA & WOODY VASULKA
Art of Memory
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
WING, MEDIApoint

Steina (born 1940, Reykjavík) and Woody Vasulka (born 1937, Brno) are pioneers of electronic and digital image production. In their ongoing dialogue with machines – from cathode-ray televisions to digital Computer systems – they consider the electronic signal as artistic medium.
The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the National Gallery of Iceland.
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Nils Agdler and Timo Menke
LAHJOITTAJIEN MUOTOKUVIA / DONOR PORTRAITS
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
PROJECT ROOM

The three-channel documentary film installation Gifted Men (2015) examines the staff of Danish fertility clinics, the owners of sperm banks, and the donors. “Anonymous sperm donors are like blind creators of entire family trees or populations that remain unaware of their begetter and can never learn their identity. Donors affect the demographics of society with much more far-reaching consequences than they themselves or anyone else can foresee.” Timo Menke
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Eroding Human Memory - The Process of Creation of Meanings
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]


What is art that is typical to the Satakunta province? What is Finnish art? Who can be called a master, who a trailblazer? On what grounds? Maurice Halbwachs first used the concept of collective memory back in the 1920s. It is not a metaphor but a social reality created, passed on and maintained by groups and institutions. Interpretations of the past are not constructed on the basis of individual memory; individual memory is socially constructed and therefore formed by mutual communication.
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KAISA SALMI
Field of Blood (2018)
[10.04.2018 - 10.06.2018]
STAIRCASE

Participatory performance ”Field of blood” was held in Kouvola city 23.7.2016 at the same field where in the Finnish Civil war 1918 were executed and buried hundred’s of ”white’s” and after the war hundred’s of ”red’s”. Film ”Field of blood” consists the performance (300 participants) and one main character’s story. Kari Harju tell’s his family story of 1918 happenings and why he wanted to join the ”Field of blood” performance at Kouvola city.
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