The fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s “Art for Art’s Sake” screening, event and discussion series kicks off on October 8, 2024 with the theme “Touch me”.

The first event titled “Bodily Present” will examine touch, bodily presence and physicality. The event opens with Natalia Koziel’s live cinema performance Warm Data – also seen at Midnight Sun Film Festival last summer – where the artist uses film projectors and an overhead projector to sketch the “warm data” pulsating in the city. The work of the OJOBOCA artist couple The Skin Is Good (2018) and Barbara Hammer’s lesbian film classic Dyketactics (1974) continue the themes of touching and skin-to-skin contact. Mona Hatoum’s Measures of Distance (1988), on the other hand, looks at bodily longing and the impossibility of touch. In Minna Suoniemi’s work Hit (2006), the artist longs for a different kind of touch; she asks to be hit in the face. The last work will be presented Keep On Trying (2012) by visual and performance artist Diana Soria Hernandez.

Art for art’s Sake brings together artists moving image, media art and experimental film from Finland and around the world, novelties and classics. The drama series has been supported by the Kone Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Culture and the City of Helsinki. The series is curated by a working group consisting of Diego Ginartes, Sepideh Rahaa, Azar Saiyar and Avreno Heikka. The next Art for Art’s sake shows will be shown on November 5, 2024 and December 10, 2024. Admission to the screenings is free!

Book your free ticket from Cinema Orion’s web store.