Mika Taanila’s single-channel video installation My Silence is part of the group exhibition “Qué hacer/A pesar de todo” at Muntref – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes in Buenos Aires as part of Biennial of Moving Image (Bienal de la Imagen en Movement in Spanish) until 23 December 2018.

Earlier in November 1 to 11 BIM showed seven works by  Taanila in the cinema screening programs at ENERC.

Five films in the program “Collapsing Worlds“: The Zone of Total Eclipse, Optical Sound, Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Branches, World.

Two films in the program “Tribute to Mika Vainio“: A Physical Ring, Tectonic Plate.

Artist talk “Poéticas del cine experimental” on Tuesday 6 November at Lumiton Museo del Cine Usina Audiovisual.

“Tulemme sokeiksi”,  a cd compilation of 1980-81 cassette home recordings of Musiikkivyöry (a.k.a. Mika Taanila) will be broadcasted live in its entirety as part of the Untitled Art Fair‘s live stream on Wynwood Radio, Friday 7 December 2018 from 2pm to 3 pm at Miami Beach, Florida (EST, Eastern Standard Time). Untitled Art, Podcast programs run from 4 until 9 December.

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Tulemme sokeiksi at Ektro Store

The Untitled Art, Podcast will stream live on our broadcasting partner,  Wynwood Radio. The content will also be streamed through a number of headphones placed in the lounge, encouraging our visitors to tune-in.  Please note that the broadcast will not be amplified on loud speakers at the fair. Rather, we encourage our listeners to tune in using either the headphones provided, or their own personal earbuds. 

To share the web stream with others, you may encourage them to listen by going to WynwoodRadio.com and clicking the LISTEN LIVE button. 

All programs will be archived on Untitled’s Website as well as our Soundcloud page. All programming may be considered for further distribution on the Untitled Art, Podcast, available in the iTunes Store and wherever listeners subscribe to podcasts. 

Mika Taanila’s short films Optical Sound and The World are screening at the 24th Short Film Festival Leuven in Belgium 1–8 December 2018. The World screens in the compilation program “Labo 1” and Optical Sound in “Labo 2“.

Mika Taanila’s Optical Sound is screening in a compiled short film program entitled “Finland’s Finest” at 67. Internationales Filmfest Mannheim-Heidelberg. The program is presented in collaboration with The Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland.

The program screens six times:

MANNHEIM

15 NOVEMBER 2018 — 21:30 — KINO ATLANTIS

17 NOVEMBER 2018 — 14:00 — KINO IM STADTHAUS I

24 NOVEMBER 2018 — 19:00 — KINO IM STADTHAUS II

HEIDELBERG

17 NOVEMBER 2018 — 11:00 — KINO II

24 NOVEMBER 2018 — 23:00 — KINO II

25 NOVEMBER 2018 — 22:00 — KINO I

The cameraless feature film Tectonic Plate is screening at Club Mayhem (Ragnhildgade 1) in Copenhagen on 8 November, 2018. The screening starts at 20:00h. Tickets 5 kr.

Biennial of Moving Image (Bienal de la Imagen en Movement in Spanish) in Buenos Aires is showing eight works by filmmaker/visual artist Mika Taanila. The event dates are from 1 to 11 November, 2018.

BIM is a combination between film festival and a contemporary art exhibition where the central axis is the non conventional films and experimental video. The biennial, with its exhibitions in museums and cinema theatres, is broadened by a wide offer of other activities (workshops, conferences, seminars and lectures with artists).

My Silence in the group exhibition “Qué hacer/A pesar de todo” at Muntref.

Five films in the program “Collapsing Worlds“: The Zone of Total Eclipse, Optical Sound, Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Branches, World. Venue: Cinain, at 18:00h.

Two films in the program “Tribute to Mika Vainio“: A Physical Ring, Tectonic Plate. Venue: Cinain, at 17:00h.

Artist talk “Poéticas del cine experimental” on Tuesday 6 November at Lumiton Museo del Cine Usina Audiovisual at 10am.

Mika Taanila’s Film Reader series is on show at The 14th International Experimental Film and Video Festival 25FPS in Zagreb, Croatia 27-30 September 2018.  A program of  five short films by Taanila  (A Physical Ring, Optical Sound, Branches, The Zone of Total Eclipse and Future Is Not What It Used To Be)  and SSEENNSSEESS live performance with Circle are also part of the festival’s oeuvre.

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