Empty Spaces And

Their Occupants


/////Artists/////////////////////////
/////////////////////Merike Estna///////Sandra Jgeva///////Meelis Kaldalu///////Raul Keller///////Kiwa///////Kaarel Kurismaa///////Andres Lo///////
//////////////Kaido Ole///////Martin Pedanik///////Maksim Surin///////The Hafler Trio///////Margus Sorge Tiitsmaa///////Timo Toots////////////////////////////

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/////////////////////////////////////////////////Festival of Non-Existent Bands///////Neformat///////Pink Punk///////C....T.////////////

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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ana Berkenhoff and Anselm Belser /Germany////////Sami Hyrskylahti /Finland////////Jorge Piquer & Ana Cembrero /Spain/////////////

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 /////Merike Estna /////Sandra Jgeva
Born in 1980 Born in 1976
Estna has created a technique of her own by not fully developing the Collaborating in a range of disciplines and media, Sandra Jgeva
hyper realistic style but by expertly manipulating it. Iconographically, has performed and shown in festivals and exhibitions in Estonia,
we can compare her style of working with Vladimir Dubossarski and Germany, Hungary, Finland, Iceland, Romania, Slovenia, U.S.A.
Aleksander Vinogradov who synthesize Sots Art, socialistic realism (New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Iowa) and New Zealand. She works
and the world of pictures in advertising and media industry. For the with photography, digital projection, video, telecommunications,
viewer to get the real feeling, they exploit with child, animal and performance, costume and even tattoo. Her distinctive pro-glam
butterfly motifs in a paradise like milieu. aesthetics deliberately contrast with a program of socially engaged
At the same time, Estnas works are not just decorative ornaments works and a non elitist art philosophy which endeavors to reach a
but very meaningful content wise. The titles have sometimes an wide audience.
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even greater part to play than the visual language. Exactly this kind In 2004 she won the premier art award in Estonia for contribution to
of antagonism between sadness and joy, love and hatred creates the field of visual art.
the existentialistic question about the stability of the earthly world.
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 /////Meelis Kaldalu
Born in 1981
Meelis is the organiser of yearly avant garde festival Eclectica (http:
//eclectica.damtan.ee). In his own production uses three art egos:
Meelis From Tartu is a performance artist selfidentified through
Intelligent Striptease series; ParamAthman is a conceptual curator
for social site specific sound art (http://www.timefreeday.org,
http://www.under-sound.us);
Puddhist is a mass media manipulator and environmental activist.
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/////Raul Keller
Born in 1973
My work is determined by the tension between the inner and outer
circumstances, how they interact, oppose and influence each
other. Usually when this balance is off somehow, a potential for
new work is created, when in harmony, usually no new work will
emerge. I consider sound and visual stimuli equal and constantly
reconsider my positions. I am politically aware and responsive. I lack
in the department of teamwork but I am taking trips to this mostly
uncovered territory. Improvisation and contemplation, nontextual
and textual are both welcome here. I like radio, I like old electricity.
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/////Kiwa /////Kaarel Kurismaa
Born in 1975 Born in 1939
Kiwa is an artist whose practice includes a wide range of media: Kaarel Kurismaa has simultaneously cultivated kinetism and
music/sound-art, texts/books, performance, social sculpture, bad- abstract painting throughout his career. He has also worked as
painting, video, installation, critics, conceptual projects in media a decorator, an animator and teacher. The most original side of
and public space. His art draws on pop-lifestyles, youth and club Kurismaas work is his kinetic objects, although numbered among
culture and the counter cultures as well as cryptic texts, multimedia those recluses who devoted themselves to abstract painting, he has
lectures, theories and practices in the field of micro-literature, been one of the most uncompromising artists from the 1970 until
pseudoidentities and mystical conceptualism. He is the organizer of the present. The artist almost always manages to realize his idea
noise/sound-art platform *metabor* (www.nihe.ee/metabor) and the in his kinetic works with playful ease and without any visible effort.
Festival of Non-Existent Bands (www.nihe.ee). This is not always true of his paintings. One can sense tenseness,
inner uncertainly and subconscious dissatisfaction with the result.
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paint as by composing a moving, resounding object seems to be the
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 /////Andres Lo /////Kaido Ole
Born in 1978 Born in 1963
When you take a stone and smash it on the wall, itll probably break Rhythm and routine, everyday life with all its forecast sides,
into several pieces. Now lets pretend this stone is the cultural exactness in details, long lasting processes, skills and experiences,
phenomenon called Pop Music. The one who likes to break the core focusing on something, humor and absurdity, restrictions and limits
of that stone is Andres Lo. - if I try to name only some of my sources of inspiration or important
He enjoys throwing stones on the wall of sonic embryo and he loves parts of my way to make art.
to perceive himself as a pedestrian in japanese garden -- despite the Lately I have recognized that ethics gives also the key to solve
perspective he might have on all those stones in that garden, one of even esthetical problems. Things will become the same, if I started
the stones always remains hidden. That can serve as for definition making art taking world apart now these different parts of the world
of Andres Los music -- the genuinely percussive mass of subsonic would start to get back together again. And the most important
quotations. answer will wait me in the very end of the whole trip, thats what Im
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 /////Martin Pedanik /////Maksim Surin
Born in 1974 Born in 1974
Kizoo Since mid 90-ties I started to investigate visualization of sound,
Martin Pedaniks brand characters have existed among us for a couple of years. worked with real-time video improvisations and projections for
Their first coming was on leaflets and posters but they did it powerfully: in theater, contemporary dance, opera and wide range of electronic,
large quantities, proliferating, billowing and bending, acquiring new faces and jazz music. Organized series of open-platform experimental
changing masks.
events exploring electro-acoustic-visual space. Lately working on
At first it seemed that it is just the cleansing of design Pedanik drowned out the
noise around the characters and was constantly moving towards the simplest
interactive objects, kinetics and light. Founder of independent film
possibilities. studio / neformat /, producing documentaries, video art, animation.
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repeat his characters methodically - he injected them into side projects, found-
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or are we talking about little devils, tricksters and werewolves? True, they do , , ,
not act in secret and in the dark but in public and even noisily watching us , .
from behind Pedaniks back or from the urban space. But this doesnt make a
difference. Pedanik has encircled himself with rows of ghosts - mythological
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creatures making it pointless to talk about functions any more, not even about
what we can see (as customary in view of design) but about that which Pedanik - .
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 /////The Hafler Trio
The Hafler Trio is Andrew M. McKenzie
(Born in 1963 in Newcastle, England currently residing in Tallinn,
Estonia) working in the field of psychoacoustics and sonic research.
Since 1982, The Hafler Trio has produced a prolific body of work involving
art, science, sound, religion, comedy and philosophy emphasizing a
dynamic balance and interplay of body mind and spirit over any one of others traps and they love traps. For example: politics is a trap
these. McKenzie has previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire,
Clock DVA, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Whitehouse and Zoviet France.
Andrew has also collaborated with performance artists John Duncan
and Annie Sprinkle, ex-Fluxus artist Willem De Ridder, artist/designer
Neville Brody, and sound/poetry artist ZEV. Recently, The Hafler Trio are
concerned with the ramifications of technology and the creation of the
most extreme, all inclusive experience as possible, that resonates over
a period of time lasting much longer than just the physical time it takes to
apprehend it, and affects and engages all levels of being.
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Born in 1963
Trap.
Trap is a trap. Forbidden for under 12 year olds.
People are attracted to the trap by a decoy.
Everybody has its own trap. People have messed up a bit with each
art is a trap
heaven is a trap
love is a trap etc.
In this exposition I depict life in itself with an artists point of view.
Exhibition Trap doesnt have a specific audience nor does it
concern modern society trouble spots (carrot = food processor etc.)
The substance of the exhibition addresses thus the psychological
convictions of mankinds history through humorous solutions.
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 /////Timo Toots /////Festival of
Born in 1983 Non-Existent Bands
My mother was a chief accountant in the department store.
performance group
My father was a chief of computerizing the Point-of-Sale of the
Kiwanoid - art prankster, media manipulator, ex-supermodel
department store.
Fabrique - sound engineer, keyboard roker, turntable manipulator
I am the child of consumer business.
Lets try to discuss the role of the consumer. Does a buyer have a
The Festival of Non-Existent Bands is foreign meta-music/
face? Does it have a choice? If so, are we innocent jumping jacks,
performance/electro/shifted-pop act.
memories erased by the flashing of the barcode readers; or au
The concept - creating unique monikers for each track/band/
contraire selfish egoists, causing the tragedy of the commons,
character, deconstructing electro/new wave clichs.
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 /////PINK PUNK /////C....T.
performance group performance group
The Holy BREAD performance.
Sandra Jgeva, Kristin Kalamees, So called Modern Days. I do not know what are you talking about. There is a
certain amount of equality between people and lands. Between footsteps and
Kaarel Sammet, Aino Sepp followers. Like criticism- also we have our time. There is no need to make
comments or add sarcasm to seriousness to prove your point, even when it
seems necessary.
Pink Punk is a proglam-grouping from Tallinn. Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their
living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning,
Their performances are usually accompanied by shine and tumult.
they will exclaim, Was there ever a city like this great city?
Fans are asking for autographs and artists can not give away as All the sailors are afraid and each cry out to his own god. And they throw the
many blown kisses as wished. cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. Rodrig goes below deck, where he lays
We have a feeling that art which turns itself into a rather elitist play down and falls into a deep sleep.
will lose a great deal of its potential audience. We want to find our HE insists so strongly that they would go with him and enter his house. He
prepares a meal for them, bakes bread without yeast, and they eat. He is priest
way out from the self- contained galleries right into peoples hearts;
of God Most High.
to examine peoples willingness in raising different questions. The So Rodrig hurries into the tent to Liimi. Quick, he says, get three seahs of
political display could be taken for a grandiose performance or fine flour and knead it and bake some bread.
the other way around. Art is a communication between different I do not understand. How have these songs and stories twisted and turned over
values, said Aldo Pellegrini. We regard art as something visionary. the centuries, and how have they defined our expectations of heroism, romance,
and adventure?
We believe in art that can create and mediate new values. The aim of
art should not only be to set free of the artist, but of the audience. To Artworld, with Love, to Ofcial Culture , with Lust.
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 /////NEFORMAT /////Ana Berkenhoff and
performance group Anselm Belser /Germany/
performance group
Sergo Babasjants, Andrey Bontsuk, Anton Sionberg,
Maksim Surin, Arnold Praust
a live open-platform happening for creative expression and action.
Neformat directly addresses this issue at the human and community
level by moving the lead role from technology back to the human
element. Neformat is about constructing a human network-of-
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 /////Sami Hyrskylahti /////Jorge Piquer and
Born in 1971 Ana Cembrero /Spain/
performance group
Main sources and interests of personal art: conceptualism in chaos,
soviet and non-soviet architecture, electronic music,
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Empty Spaces And Their Occupants. We are a part of space and space is not something static and . -
solid; it arises in a constant negotiation between space, object and viewer, time or duration, the ; ,
relational understanding of orientation, movement. This are some of the fundamental basics for , , -
experiencing/understanding space - and thus ourselves. , . / -
The space, in most western societies is disappearing as a focus of the person, in favour of .
imagined and imaginary spaces that rely on temporal rather than physical, and that the space can , -
be said to be living in the person. ,
Our experiences, then, are constantly oscillating between the expectations we bring with us; , , , , .
gestures, postures, language and movement suddenly come to assume a very special form , , ; , ,
that seems to be guided and controlled by the institutions demands. This enforced orthodoxy, , , , ,
which finds its parallel in the consumer cultures marketing strategies, where the standardizing . -
regimentation of the consumer promises greater profits to the market.But this does not stop the , -
external spaces from being imprinted. .
Beauty is a question of interaction, not a fulfillment of certain culturally valorizing expectations. / .
We expecting physical input from the audience, and us are investigating the audiences experience , -, -
of navigational interfaces. The atmosphere itself is never completed, but constantly modified by . ,
those who are present in a system of continuous feedbacks. . , -
Being made aware of the true nature of ones surroundings is a first step towards a dialogue: and , .
to enter into that means that an approach can be made to see the self as it is, and not as it likes to , , :
think it is. By moving towards this state, it can be said that the breaking down of the habits, armour , , ,
and illusory coatings of the self can begin, and that the possibility of a real I begins to emerge. , . , , -
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VI International Performance and Experimental Art Festival, Manege, St.Petersburg, Russia. 2006
Supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture / Estonian Cultural Endownment / Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia

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