The feature documentary Return of The Atom (2015, 110 min, dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is screening twice at Stranger Than Fiction Dokumentarfilmfest in Germany. The first screening is at Endstation Kino in Bochum, on Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 19:00 and the second one at Filmpalette in Cologne on Sunday, 5 February 2017 at 17:30 (+ Q&A ).
The feature documentary Return of The Atom (2015, 110 min, dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is screening at I Boreali – The Nordic Festival in Milan, Italy on Saturday the 4th of February 2017. The venue is Teatro Franco Parenti, via Pier Lombardo 14, 20137 Milano and the screening starts at 22:00h.
The short collage film entitled The World (2017, 8 min) will have its world premiere at IFFR’s “Nuts & Bolts” section, curated by Edwin Carels. Screenings are at Kino 3 on Saturday 28 January and on Monday 30 January 2017.
Mika Taanila’s solo show Memoria esterna at gallery Rita Urso in Milan takes place from 23 March until 27 May, 2017.
Curator: Lorenza Pignatti.
The feature documentary Return of The Atom (2015, 110 min, dir. Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola) is screening at Umeå Bildmuseet in Sweden as part on ongoing events and talks in the Nuclear Culture programme. This screening is in conjunction with the Perpetual Uncertainty exhibition, produced by Bildmuseet and curated by Ele Carpenter, Goldsmiths University of London. The exhibition is accompanied by The Nuclear Culture Source Book, a collaboration between Bildmuseet, Arts Catalyst and Black Dog Publishing.
Date: 21 March 2017 at 18:30h.
The short film Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998) is part of the exhibition “1000m2 of desire – architecture and sexuality” at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Spain. The exhibition looks at the way Western society has planned, built and imagined spaces for sex from the 18th century to the present day. Curated by Adélaïde de Caters and Rosa Ferré.
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow (1998) is screening at DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival as part of film programs dedicated to Eila Ranta’s (Werning) life-time achievements in promoting documentary film culture in Finland. The event is a double-bill screening with Lasse Naukkarinen’s Artist’s Life (1999).
Wednesday 25 January 2017 at Cinema Orion at 16:00h.
The paper-based work is a companion piece to Taanila’s 2013 video installation My Silence. Here the point of departure is the published script of the feature film My Dinner with André (dir. Louis Malle, 1981). The artist photocopied each page of the book, cut out all the dialogue content using small knives, then re-photocopied the residue on standard office paper. The piece is shown on a wall as a grid of 97 paper sheets.
Additionally Fish Gallery in Helsinki produced an signed edition of 50 copies of page 101 of the work on thicker cardboard material.
Selected shows:
The exhibition Mirrored will be presented in the 2017 edition of the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. Mirrored is a group exhibition featuring works by six artists from different generations: Siri Aurdal, Nina Canell, Charlotte Johannesson, Jumana Manna, Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki, and Mika Taanila. Curator: Mats Stjernstedt.
brief Q&A on Film Reader project by Laura Boxberg
interview by Miisa Pulkkinen in Taiteilija (in Finnish)