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Mari Keski-Korsu, 'MEGA', production shots, © 2008
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SYNCHRONIZED GALLERY DISCOURSE /// Residency Artist Mari Keski-Korsu
23rd April 08/// The Time of Distance exhibition
Berlin (GMT+1) 19:00 FIELD Live
Helsinki (GMT+2) 20:00 Maa-tila Web-stream
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RESIDENCY ARTIST
We are pleased to announce Mari Keski-Korsu as the participating artist for the Transidency residency with her proposal ‘MEGA’. Her work most exemplified the collective concerns of the Transidency project.
Transidency would like to extend many thanks for the interest from all those who applied.
Mari Keski-Korsu (mkk)is interested in storytelling and moments that befall. She explores nations as imaginary communities, tourism as presented identities and also eco-social and structural changes. She works with mixed and locative media applying process oriented methods. She is / has been concentrated on net and video art, streaming happenings and live visual mixing.
Transidency Residency is supported by:
'Mega' is supported by:
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TRANSIDENCY RESIDENCY
TRANSIDENCY - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
A two-week residency at Aqua Carre Kreativhaus for the production of new work to be shown during Helsinki in Berlin Week in April 2008.
Transidency collective is looking for a Finnish artist for a two-week ‘transitory’ residency - in Berlin. The residency period is from 4 -18th April and will end with an exhibition between 18 April – 10 May.
Transidency-residency coincides with an event called Helsinki in Berlin (18.4 -27.4.2008), which comprises of Finnish contemporary art exhibitions and numerous other cultural events. In addition to this, the Berlin Biennale, which is the city's largest contemporary art event, takes place at the same time. During this period Transidency collective will organise various events, comprising of a visual art exhibition, one-off dance and performance pieces, short film screenings and related gallery
talks both in Berlin and Helsinki. In both cities the events will be scheduled to run like clock-work. Dancers will begin their performances in exactly the same positions; films will be played at exactly the same second and gallerists will mouth identical words...
An integral part of this project is to build alliances and rapport between the two cities of Helsinki and Berlin. Artists are invited to respond to the idea of simultaneity; but Transidency collective is happy to receive artistic interpretations. Examples (but not definitions) of the type of work we are interested in hosting are: performances which are live-streamed to the other city, double installations, photo's which only make sense when they are coupled together. Artists should consider that the artwork
will either be exhibited in both cities, or should relate to both cities.
Transidency Residency is supported by: