Mika Taanila’s video installation A Physical Ring (2002, music by Mika Vainio) is part of a group exhibition Persisting Realities at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in Berlin from 26 January to 17 March, 2019. The show runs as part of CTM Festival.

“Pula”, the cassette album of musical duo Pakasteet (Jussi Lehtisalo & Mika Taanila) will be broadcasted live in its entirety as part of the Untitled Art Fair‘s live stream on Tower Radio, San Francisco, Friday 18 January 2019 from 7pm to 8pm at (PST, Pacific Standard Time).

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“Pula” at Ektro online store

“Pitkät päällä” at Soundcloud

Mika Taanila’s series Film Reader (2017) will be shown in the exhibition program of the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam, together with his 2015 work My Silence (on paper).

The exhibition “Mika Taanila: Works On Paper” is part of Say No More, IFFR’s thematic programme.

PrintRoom,  from 24 Jan to 10 Feb, 11:00 –18:00 Schietbaanstraat 12 + 17, 3014 ZV Rotterdam. Free entrance.

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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