Hello dust
Konsultaatioita [Consultations]

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During October, Outo olo is inhabited by Hello dust – the curatorial duo of Essi Kausalainen and Mikko Kuorinki – along with three invited artists. Joonas Siren (Forces), Laura Cemin and Taneli Viljanen will be working in the space for one week each, opening the doors for the public on the weekend. The basis of each working period is formed by conversation, or private consultations, in which questions run both ways between Hello dust and the invited artist. 

The space has been tuned with scents, shelters, ornaments and sounds by artists Olli Aarni, Jaana Laakkonen, Kristina Sedlerova-Villanen and Elina Vainio.

More about the program below.

All events are free of charge. The entrance is limited to five people at a time, and seat reservation is recommended to Laura Cemin’s and Taneli Viljanen’s performances. We kindly ask the visitors to wear a face mask, which are also available at the space.

Hello dust is an event based platform run by Essi Kausalainen and Mikko Kuorinki. In a matinee format, it combines visual arts, poetry and sound. In the future, Hello dust also wants to work with publications.

More info: info (at ) kuorinki.com

www.hellodust.com

Consultation # 1
Joonas Siren (aka Forces)

Joonas Siren will be working on a spatial, thematical, and temporal remix of Oceanlab’s 2001 vocal trance track ‘Clear Blue Water’ that was provided by Hello dust as a starting point. Over the weekend, the working process will be open for the public to hear.

Open for audience (max five people in at a time):
Sat 17 October, noon–5pm
Sun 18 October, noon–5pm

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Joonas Siren is a Helsinki based artist and electronic musician. Siren works with computer programming, installations and sound. His musical alias Forces explores the possibilities of live-coding and granular textures of modern day electronic music.

Consultation # 2
Laura Cemin – L&I (thought experiments) 

Tue 20 October – Fri 23 October, 11am–noon:
You are invited to “fall-in” the space for a chat with Laura about falling and failing while playing the block balancing game Jenga. Or simply listen together to the sound of the falling pieces meeting the ground.

PERFORMANCE BY LAURA CEMIN
Sat 24 October, 2 pm and 4pm
Sun 25 October, 2 pm and 4pm

Slippery hands, slippery meanings, associations. Holes in the fabric of a thought.
Vertical lines, high platforms, blurry holding points. 
Spoken words, small gestures, double voices. Time to drift away.

The performance will be approx 30min. The entrance is limited to five people at a time, please reserve a seat in advance by emailing info (at) kuorinki.com. 

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Laura Cemin is a Helsinki based artist whose practice focuses on the intersections and overlaps between language and movement and on how verbal language, with its metaphors and rhetoric, shapes the way we move and physically interact.

Milka Luhtaniemi's writing about the performance (FI + EN)

Consultation # 3
Taneli Viljanen – Pimeä kuu, linnut, rakennustelineitä

Pimeä kuu, linnut, rakennustelineitä (”dark moon, birds, scaffolding”) is a performance, a draft for a performance, literature and sound art occurring in space, some words and some sounds, a glance into the process of making, or perhaps something else. Everything, or almost everything, is unfinished. The work consists of about five beings, some of which are versions of each other. They might contain some, perhaps self contradictory, perhaps intertwining or just cohabiting, strands of speech, writing, field recordings, unidentified other sounds, poetry, essay, utopia, dystopia, form, breaking of the form, multiplicities of gender. Nothing huge is necessarily going to happen. Something might happen.

Performance:
Sat 31 October, 1pm and 5pm 
Sun 1 November, 1pm and 5pm

The entrance is limited to five people at a time, please reserve a seat in advance by emailing info (at ) kuorinki.com.

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Taneli Viljanen is a non-binary writer and sound artist. Their latest publication is the essay collection Varjoja, usvaa (Poesia 2020).