Inversia in Exile Showcase

Performance information:

Sat 26.11.2022 16:00

RTI-talo

Uutiskatu 2, 00240 Helsinki

RTI-talo facilities are accessible – information about the accessibility of the premises HERE.

Free of charge

Baltic Circle 2022 ends with a happening in RTI-talo that fills the old office building with audiovisual performances, installations and music curated by Fridaymilk.

Fridaymilk 

Fridaymilk is an independent art collective from above the Polar Circle. Founded in 2012 and united by Northern identity, the group of Murmansk-based curators, producers and artists are promoting the concept of cultural decentralisation by shifting the cultural centres from traditional “capitals” to remote areas. Fridaymilk is an open reflection by the artists and curators about life in the High North. The constant search for a meaning and inspiration to stay and grow in this area. Fridaymilk develops projects in the sphere of culture, works as a residency for artists from all over the world, and promotes alternative forms of documentation. At the moment the group works in exile.

Nolanders
live audiovisual performance (50 min)
by Sergey Kostyrko & 1999Q

Nolanders project reflects on the presumable future of the Russian northern monotowns, based on its unique formation story behind. The audiovisual performance is assembled in real time using audio and video field recordings, as well as improvisational sound synthesis and video processing techniques. It is a mesmerizing cinematic experience that takes the viewer on a hypnotic journey into the pre-human era, through the rumbling industrial heritage to the illusive future of the northern territories.

Sergey Kostyrko, sound artist (RU).

Sergey Kostyrko is an associate professor at St. Petersburg State University, sound artist, mathematician. His research area covers the different aspects of mechanics and thermodynamics of thin film materials. In recent years, Kostyrko is also active as a sound artist with a focus on science and bio art projects as well as a musician working in the field of improvisational and noise music.

https://sergeykostyrko.bandcamp.com

1999Q, filmmaker, visual artist (RU)

1999Q is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Murmansk. Using various shooting techniques, the artist immerses the viewer in a meditative, unhurried flow of life in the North. Hypnotic natural patterns flow, blend and overlap with each other, capturing the slow and detached lifetime at the far reaches corners of the Earth.

http://1q9q9q9.info 

Dj set
Misha Ponomarev (RU/FI)

Installation (textile, light)

Shoplift (DE/RU) is a design studio based in Cologne (Germany) and St. Petersburg (Russia). Since its foundation self-initiated and commissioned projects have equal importance for the duo. Shoplift provides a full range of creative services, focusing on digital, web development, print, identity and exhibitions. It was founded by two designers interested in a systematic approach, where analysis of the audience and development of the scenarios go hand in hand with creative processes. They have participated in Art Cologne and Berlin Gallery Weekend, Inversia festival in Murmansk and more.

https://shoplift.design

Installation (sound, video)

Radioarctica is a long-term sound/visual almanac project, exploring the life of people who were born, came, stayed or returned to the North. This is a collective voice of people who live in the Northern territories, it is a general polyphonic, multilingual radio-wave about the northern people, who are courageous enough to stay and live in the severe conditions of the Arctic.