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.

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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.

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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.

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Tectonic Plate (2016) and A Physical Ring (2002) are screening on two Mika Vainio (1963-2017) tribute nights at Film Noir Cinema in New York City.  The films are shown together with Jimi Tenor’s Sähkö – The Movie (1995). Film Noir Cinema, 122 Meserole Ave, Greenpoint NY 11222.

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The documentary film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998, 28′, dir. Mika Taanila) is screening as part of the event “100 Objects from Finland” at Museo de Artes Decorativas in Madrid. The date is Monday 8 January 2018 and the screening starts at 19:00.

Free entrance, Spanish subtitles.

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Mika Taanila’s short 3D film Delay of Game (“Pelin viivyttäminen”) is screening in the Nordic Competition in The 30th Anniversary Edition of Minimalen Kortfilmfestival in Trondheim, Norway 23–28 January 2018.

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