Mika Taanila’s solo show entitled “The End” is on show at STUK in Leuven, Belgium from 17 October until 16 December 2018. The exhibition consists of works depicting dystopian future. The multi-channel video installation The Most Electrified Town in Finland (2012) shows the construction of the ill-fated nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 in Eurajoki, Finland. The scale model of the same power plant called is a ready-made piece of marzipan art, entitled Date of Expiry.

In the single-channel video installation The Earth Who Fell to Man (2017) abandoned landscapes, animals, furniture and empty vehicles are left awaiting for disaster, accompanied by three cut-out works based on the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis.

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Mika Taanila’s The World (2017) is screening at an outdoor rooftop screening program of Finnish short films on Tuesday 26 June 2018. The session “LES SÉANCES AU TOP #6 X FORMAT COURT” starts at 22h and is presented by Clément Beraud. Tickets: 5€.

Venue: 200 Quai de Valmy 75010 Paris

The short film A Physical Ring (2002, 35mm, dir. Mika Taanila) is screening at Gartenbaukino Vienna as part of an evening dedicated to Mika Vainio (1963 – 2017).  Original film score by Ø.

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SSEENNSSEESS live performance by Circle & Mika Taanila is part of Jyväskylän Kesä summer festival. The show takes place on Thursday 5 July 2018 in The Main Audiotorium of the University.

“Finnish supergroup Circle and filmmaker/artist Mika Taanila’s SSEENNSSEESS show is spectacular, somewhat akin to an over-the-top rock opera and a theatrical audio-visual performance with dashes of glam rock, improv, metal, French chanson, and The Shangri La’s as well as Taanila’s perfectly timed, 16mm projections. A feast for the senses.” – Ruth Timmermans, Gonzo / Amsterdam.

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Mika Taanila has been invited to make a year-long silent digital projection on the ceiling of Stadtkino Basel’s bar as part of the city’s annual film festival Bildrausch. The piece is entitled Still Water.

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Mika Taanila’s sound installation Plastic Heart (“Muovisydän”) at WeeGee Exhibition Centre / EMMA, Tapiola, Espoo from 17 August until 16 September, 2018.

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Mika Taanila’s solo show “Partial Head Clog” is on show at La Neomudéjar in Madrid from 10 May until 29 July 2019.

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Mika Taanila’s anaglyph 3D film Delay of Game (“Pelin viivyttäminen”, 2017, 6 min) has been selected for the International Competition The 34th Hamburg Short Film Festival that runs from 5 to 11 June, 2018.

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Pakasteet, the musical duo project of Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) and Mika Taanila (Swissair) is performing with Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) on Saturday 28 July 2018 at Ilmiö open-air festival in Turku.

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