Mika Taanila’s video piece Verbranntes Land (2002) is screening as part of a lecture and screening by curator Amanda Schmitt (NYC) at Cinema Orion (Helsinki) on Saturday 3 March 2018 at 14:00. Free entry.
The event is made possible by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York’s MOBIUS Fellowship Program and Helsinki Contemporary’s Guest Curator Program.The screenings are made possible with the courtesy of ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe) and AV-arkki, The Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art (Helsinki).
The World (2017) by Mika Taanila is selected for the National Competition for films under 30 minutes at Tampere Short Film Festival. The film screens twice, on Friday 9 March at 16:00h (Plevna 5) and Saturday 10 March at 13.30h (Plevna 2).
Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound(2005) is screening at Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro on Friday 2 March 2018. The film is part of a program entitled “Enhanced Visions” as part of OLHO III / Tentacular. Curator: Vanina Saracino.
Mika Taanila’s found footage film A Physical Ring (2002) is screened in OBORO, A centre dedicated to production and presentation of art, contemporary practices and new media, in Montréal from 3–23February 2018 , in the exhibition “Spectres, Waves and Modulations”.
Spectres, ondes et modulations is a collaboration between artist Martine H. Crispo and curator Nicole Gingras. The exhibition Fantaisie optophonique emerges from an exchange between the two women dating back to the artist’s first exploration with visualized sound. It features an original installation by Martine H. Crispo with a selection of films and videos in the adjacent gallery drawing on a range of optic and acoustic phenomena by artists and filmmakers.
Mika Taanila’s short film Optical Sound is part of a short film program OLHO_Binaural at The 21st Mostra de cinema de Tiradentes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The program is running from 19 to 27 January at SESC Cine Lounge.
Tectonic Plate is screening on Friday 26 January 2018 as part of The 9th Bienal Arte Lanzarote in Spain. The screening takes place at CIC El Almacén’s cinema at 20:00h, followed by a Q&A with Mika Taanila.
Mika Taanila also participates in the project “El Bu Vecino” by the artist collective Las Conejeras, together with interdisciplinary artists Simone Rüssli (Luzern), Patrick Germanier (Bern), Nohemí González (Barcelona), Onofre Montenegro (Canarias) and Guaya Milán (Canarias). Their live performance is based on the theme of the mysterious figure of Bu, a conceptual entity created by Agustín Espinosa in his novel Lancelot 28º-7º.
Film Reader is a series of prepared cinema books by Mika Taanila. It was commissioned by curator Mats Stjernstedt for Moderna Museet, on the occasion of The Nordic Pavilion show “Mirrored” at La Biennale di Venezia 2017.
Brushes from the series Film Reader. Photo: Johnny Korkman.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
“Wounded” from the series Film Reader at The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
“Narrative” from the series Film Reader at The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet.
shows:
“Mirrored”, The Nordic pavilion, La Biennale de Venezia, Italy 2017
Pakasteet is a musical collaboration between Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) and Mika Taanila (Swissair). The duo released its first album “Pula” in cassette format on Ruton Music in October 2017. When performing live, Pakasteet prefers to collaborate always with a fellow guest artist.
LIVE SHOWS:
20 October 2107 Café Oto, London, with Charles Hayward (This Heat) as special guest on drums, keyboards, melodica and vocals.
Live LP entitled “Molten Salt” is available on Full Contact.
Pakasteet with Charles Hayward at Café Oto. Photo by Stanley Schtinter
28 July 2018 at Ilmiö Festival in Turku, with Jukka Nousiainen (Räjäyttäjät) as special guest on guitar and keyboards.
Pakasteet with Jukka Nousiainen at Ilmiö Festival. Photo by Juho Liukkonen
3 August 2019 with Draama-Helmi at Klubi in Tampere + 4 August 2019 Pakasteet with Draama-Helmi at Alt Ektro event at On the Rocks in Helsinki.
Pakasteet feat. Draama-Helmi at Alt Ektro Festival in Helsinki. Photo: Jussi Tarvainen
26 November 2019 with Alexei Borisov at Dom in Moscow + 27 November 2019 with Ilia Belorukov at Club Serdtse in St. Petersburg.
Pakasteet feat. Alexei Borisov at Dom, Moscow. Photo: Anne HämäläinenPakasteet feat. Ilia Belorukov at Club Serdtse, St. Petersburg. Photo: Anne Hämäläinen
3 January 2020 with Draama-Helmi at G Live Lab in Helsinki + 4 January 2020 with Draama-Helmi at Suisto Klubi in Hämeenlinna.
Pakasteet feat. Draama-Helmi in Hämeenlinna. Photos: Markku Wiik.
Thirteen prepared cinema books from Mika Taanila’s series Film Reader are on show at Künstlerhaus Graz as part of a group exhibition entitled The Remains of Cinema.
”The show’s melancholy title has been deliberately selected to emphasize ambiguity. It paraphrases the title of the famous novel and film “The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989; James Ivory, 1993) and literally alludes to the “remains,” the “leftovers” of film productions. The title also raises the question as to what parts of “cinema culture” continue to live on in the era of smartphones and the Web 2.0. At the same time it could also be interpreted to mean that the cinema is already over and done with, leaving only remnants and ruins.”
Participating artists:
John Baldessari, Erica Baum, Joseph Beuys, Jörg Buttgereit, Anne Collier, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Karl Holmqvist, Ito Ryusuke, Björn Kämmerer, Johann Lurf, Bernd Oppl, Katrin Plavčak, Eric Rondepierre, Constanze Ruhm, Hans Scheugl, Viktoria Schmid, Michaela Schwentner, Haim Steinbach, John Stezaker, Mika Taanila, Antoinette Zwirchmayr.
Curated by Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Sandro Droschl.
Künstlerhaus Graz from 10 February until 22 April 2018.
