Jussi Koitela

Visual Artist/Curator

News Curatorial Not Another Public Process Work It Out Act 2 Floating Ghost New Arrangements Dissolving Frontiers Skills of Economy — Post Models: Ore.e Refineries To Use As a Capital For Your Health Only! Work It Out Skills of Economy Event Artist-Build-Time Skills of Economy Featherweight Portable Museum MediaPyhät Circle – New Paintings from Tampere Ars Kärsämäki “Experimental Life” Works/Projects Class War Room Streamtease (Whether They Are Speaking Or Just Making a Noise) Puhuvatko he vai metelöivätkö he Study Circle 120 repäisyä-Schengen-Tekosyy Nobody’s Space FAQ Safe Play Reader Safe Play History Sex Words 2009 Live Blog Sex on the Street Gay Dad Texts On Being Able To Do Ethics Institutionaalisesta melankoliasta eettisiin vaatimuksiin Taidetyöläisen monet roolit — jälkipuhetta Tampereen One Love –teoksen ympärillä Työelämään liittyviä normaaleja tunteita Bio/Cv

News

Curatorial Not Another Public Process Work It Out Act 2 Floating Ghost New Arrangements Dissolving Frontiers Skills of Economy — Post Models: Ore.e Refineries To Use As a Capital For Your Health Only! Work It Out Skills of Economy Event Artist-Build-Time Skills of Economy Featherweight Portable Museum MediaPyhät Circle – New Paintings from Tampere Ars Kärsämäki “Experimental Life”

Not Another Public Process

Work It Out Act 2

Floating Ghost

New Arrangements

Dissolving Frontiers

Skills of Economy — Post Models: Ore.e Refineries

To Use As a Capital

For Your Health Only!

Work It Out

Skills of Economy Event

Artist-Build-Time

Skills of Economy

Featherweight Portable Museum

MediaPyhät

Circle – New Paintings from Tampere

Ars Kärsämäki “Experimental Life”

Works/Projects Class War Room Streamtease (Whether They Are Speaking Or Just Making a Noise) Puhuvatko he vai metelöivätkö he Study Circle 120 repäisyä-Schengen-Tekosyy Nobody’s Space FAQ Safe Play Reader Safe Play History Sex Words 2009 Live Blog Sex on the Street Gay Dad

Class War Room

Streamtease (Whether They Are Speaking Or Just Making a Noise)

Puhuvatko he vai metelöivätkö he

Study Circle

120 repäisyä-Schengen-Tekosyy

Nobody’s Space

FAQ

Safe Play Reader

Safe Play History

Sex Words 2009

Live Blog

Sex on the Street

Gay Dad

Texts On Being Able To Do Ethics Institutionaalisesta melankoliasta eettisiin vaatimuksiin Taidetyöläisen monet roolit — jälkipuhetta Tampereen One Love –teoksen ympärillä Työelämään liittyviä normaaleja tunteita

On Being Able To Do Ethics

Institutionaalisesta melankoliasta eettisiin vaatimuksiin

Taidetyöläisen monet roolit — jälkipuhetta Tampereen One Love –teoksen ympärillä

Työelämään liittyviä normaaleja tunteita

Bio/Cv

koitela.jussi (at) gmail.com

Float­ing Ghost

At Mani­festa 10 On Board & What Is Monu­mental Today? Symposium

In rela­tion to the cur­rent geo­pol­it­ical situ­ation, a strong dicho­tomy between Rus­sia and the West­ern world has gained new value as a means to artic­u­late cul­tural and polit­ical dif­fer­ences in European dis­cus­sions. Debates in the art field around Mani­festa 10 in St.Petersburg also seem to high­light dif­fer­ences and ant­ag­on­isms between con­di­tions for art and artists in St.Petersburg and the West­ern art field. Europe how­ever still seems to be under a regime of glob­al­ized and net­worked fin­ance cap­it­al­ism. Finnish for­eign min­is­ter Erkki Tuomi­oja recently stated that mar­ket forces have already pun­ished Russia.

Float­ing Ghost is a per­form­ance and video pro­gram cur­ated by Jussi Koitela for the Mani­festa 10 On Board pro­ject and What is Monu­mental Today? Sym­posium. The pro­ject addresses the neo­lib­eral con­di­tion of free­dom and oblig­a­tion from the per­spect­ive of cur­rent chal­lenges in daily life con­di­tions and deve­pop­ment of imma­ter­ial tech­nol­gies in the North­ern and East­ern Europe through works by Anna Breu, Tero Nauha and Anna Johans­son. The second part of the pro­ject is being con­duc­ted at What Is Monu­mental Today? Sym­posium at Eure­pean Uni­ver­sity at St. Petersburg/Smolny Insti­tute, St. Peters­burg show­ing video works by Tero Nauha, Pekka Niskanen and Anna Johansson .

The devel­op­ment of the neo­lib­eral cap­ital in the last few dec­ades has intro­duced us to a float­ing cur­rency, float­ing share prices, and other ”float­ing” eco­nomic instru­ments that have trans­lated to gen­eral liv­ing con­di­tions and value sys­tems mak­ing daily life pre­cari­ous and unre­li­able. This “float­ing” life style and the accel­er­at­ing abstrac­tion of cap­ital com­bined and the devel­op­ment of digital com­mu­nic­a­tion imposes a new sus­pi­cions on free­dom and oblig­a­tion. Are there rights bey­ond eco­nom­ical rights? What are our oblig­a­tions to the mater­ial and imma­ter­ial con­di­tions of daily life?

Part 1

Mani­festa 10 On Board

Per­form­ances by Tero Nauha and Anna Breu, video by Anna Johansson

http://manifesta.org/2014/07/manifesta-10-on-board/

Part 2

What Is Monu­mental Today? Symposium

Videos by Tero Nauha, Pekka Niskanen and Anna Johansson

http://www.kuva.fi/en/latest/news/what-is-monumental-today-symposium-on-the-politics-of-memory-in-st.-petersb

Anna Breu

Con­stel­la­tion

Per­fermance in two acts

Anna Breu is a cross-disciplinary artist col­lect­ive, using mov­ing image, sound and per­form­ance as its primary medi­ums. The group shares a shame­less interest towards art lan­guage and dys­lexic con­fu­sion as the basis of their artistic practice.

Tero Nauha

Life in Bytom

Per­form­ance

Bytom is a former min­ing town in Upper Silesia, Poland. This area is fam­ous for its min­ing industry, which, how­ever, has almost dis­ap­peared dur­ing the past twenty years of eco­nomic trans­form­a­tion. Bytom is an exem­plary example of the trans­form­a­tion, which neo-liberal polit­ics pro­duces. In 2011 I was invited by the cur­ator Stan­isław Ruk­sza from CSW Kronika to do a pro­ject in Bytom, and for this reason, vis­ited this city on sev­eral occa­sions in 2012. These vis­its were com­posed of work­shops, inter­views, field trips and other events, which aimed to pro­duce source mater­ial for an effect­ive inter­pret­a­tion of the situ­ation. Even­tu­ally, the final res­ults were presen­ted at the Kronika as a scrip­ted per­form­ance, install­a­tion and a video piece.

Dur­ing my vis­its, I encountered many indi­vidual and sin­gu­lar stor­ies and events, which revealed things not par­tic­u­lar only to Poland, but as signs of a gen­eral trans­ition in neo-liberal Europe. At first, my rather the­or­et­ical research circled around the prob­lem of eco­nomic trans­form­a­tion, or as I call it: a mess of cap­it­al­ism. Mess has no cer­tain centre, which in the case of Bytom is in straight dis­sym­metry with the pre­vi­ous, state con­trolled social­ism in Poland. How­ever, right from the start, after the first meet­ings with Ruk­sza, one aspect of Bytom became clear, that Bytom is not going through a con­trolled trans­form­a­tion period, but rather a series of arbit­rary changes. He called Bytom, “the Detroit of Poland.” In other words, a place without an ideo­logy or roadmap, but a mess of col­lapsing build­ings and infra­struc­tures where no one knows how long the dur­a­tion of this pro­cess will be or what forms it will take. It is the pre­cari­ous­ness of this mess, where my endeav­our took place, and where I asked myself what could a per­form­ance do?

Anna Johans­son

Rig­mar­oles

Per­form­ance video

Deliv­er­ing the 110 most searched phrases on Google in the main street of Umeå. Is there a dif­fer­ence in how we behave in the designed pub­lic spaces com­pared to the digital ones? Our digital activ­ity trans­formed to the pub­lic space. The con­stantly chan­ging lan­guage. A clash between private and public.

Pekka Niskanen

Vir­tual War

Doc­u­ment­ary Film

The Chechen refugees of West­ern Europe are exper­i­enced users of com­puters. The broken fam­il­ies con­stantly keep in touch by email and Skype Inter­net phonecalls. To bal­ance the insec­ur­ity that fills their every­day life, the Chechens in dia­spora have a need to cre­ate a uni­fy­ing vir­tual world, a haven that would be pre­pared for hack­ers’ attacks and even a vir­tual war. The refugees want to build a place in Second Life where at least their avatars can be safe. A vir­tual trauma cen­ter for refugees recov­er­ing from the war, a mosque, a cinema and a press con­fer­ence cen­ter were all planned to be a part of Vir­tual Chechnya.