AQUARIO-TRILOGY -Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja

AQUARIO-TRILOGY
PART
”BIOLOGY- BIOLOGIA”

PERFORMANCE 12TH MAY 2003 AT 22.00 PM.

Aquario-trilogy is a final work by performance artist Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja for his graduation from The Turku Art Academy. Korkeaoja has studied in an interdisciplinary and live art course, from which the first Nordic professionals in interdisciplinary arts will graduate the upcoming spring. Korkeaoja himself has concentrated in performance art using a variety of different mediums in his works. Aquario-trilogy is a part of “Last Escape” graduation show by the Crossing Borders class in Turku 5th –9th May 2003.

Aquario-trilogy’s parts ”Society-Yhteiskunta” (Turku, Titanik 5.5), “Biology-Biologia” (Pori, Art Museum 12.5) and ”Technology-Teknolgia” (Helsinki, Muu gallery 19.5) are all different examinations of life and connected to each other by the 2500-litre tank built by Korkeaoja as his peculiar performance infrastructure.

The part of the trilogy to be seen in Pori “Biology-Biologia” combines the traditional idea of a closed eco-system in an aquarium to the absurd liberty of choice that a human being has. Are we parts of the nature or detached as some kind of super natural beings?

The performance’s duration is approximately 30 minutes and the entrance is free. The performance takes place in front of the Pori Art Museum at the Kokemäenjoki riveride.

Additional information
– producer Hanna Angerias, hanna@viidakkorumpu.org, tel. +358-44-080 7781
– curator Hannele Kolsio, Porin taidemuseo, hannele.kolsio@pori.fi, tel. +358-2-621 1083