After George Brecht, Three Dances, 1960. 1. Hand-Shaking 2. Salting 3. Not-Two
Read more »Three Dances
Elina Brotherus
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Prepare Coffee using a Metronome
Elina Brotherus
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After Tuomas Timonen, Prepare coffee (with percolator or espresso pot) and use a metronome (recommendation 208 bpm). From Pieces for Liimatainen, 2010.
Read more »Passing Music for a Tree
Elina Brotherus
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After Mieko Shiomi, Passing Music for a Tree, 1964: Pass by a tree or let some object pass by a tree, but each time differently.
Read more »Paper Piece
Elina Brotherus
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After Benjamin Patterson: Paper Piece, 1960: Improvise with paper.
Read more »Orange Event
Elina Brotherus
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After Bengt af Klintberg, Orange Event Number 16 (for Åke Hodell), 1963–1966: Regard two or three oranges for a long time
Read more »Nu montant un escalator
Elina Brotherus
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After Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (Nu descendant un escalier), 1912
Read more »Love Poem Machine
Elina Brotherus
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After Tuomas Timonen, Rakkausrunokone (Love Poem Machine), 2015: Start with the first card from the first pile, move on to any card from the second pile, and similarly to the third and fourth pile. Then return to the first pile and continue to pick random cards from each pile. Like this you can perform an endless love poem... Read more »
Look intensely at somebody's hand
Elina Brotherus
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After Giuseppe Chiari: Look intensely at somebody’s hand
Read more »Lighting Piece
Elina Brotherus
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After Yoko Ono, Lighting Piece, 1955: Light a match and watch it till it goes out
Read more »Le Cadavre Exquis
Elina Brotherus
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After Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Peret, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Max Ernst and Frida Kahlo, Le cadavre exquis, 1925: A folding paper game where a sentence is composed by a number of people, without any of them being aware of what the other collaborators are writing.
Read more »John Cage's Words Out of Joseph Beuys' Hat
Elina Brotherus
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After Tristan Tzara, Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love, 1920. To make a dadaist poem. Take a newspaper. Take a pair of scissors. Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem. Cut out the article. Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag. Shake it gently. Then... Read more »
Crazy Days
Elina Brotherus
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After Milan Knízák: Performance File 40: Lying Ceremony, December 12, 1968: Everybody lies on a floor with a kerchief on his eyes. For a long time.
Read more »Forest Event
Elina Brotherus
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After Bengt af Klintberg: Forest Event Number 1 (winter), 1966. Walk out into a forest when it is winter and decorate all the spruces with burning candles, flags, apples, glass balls and tinsel strings. From Seven Forest Events.
Read more »Figure/Ground
Elina Brotherus
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After Larry Miller: Figure/Ground, 1968(89): Wear white clothes and skid into the landscape.
Read more »Falling Event Followed by Drip Music
Elina Brotherus
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After Mieko Shiomi, Falling Event, 1963: Let something fall from a high place, and After George Brecht, Drip Music, 1959: Second Version: Dripping
Read more »Ekphrasis 1
Elina Brotherus
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After Tuomas Timonen, Description of an image, 2015
Read more »Dump a Bushel of Lemons in a Northern Forest in Winter
Elina Brotherus
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After Geoffrey Hendricks, Dump a bushel of lemons in a Northern forest in winter, from Bici and Geoffrey Hendricks, The Friday Book of White Noise, 1963–1965
Read more »Drummer 1-3
Elina Brotherus
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After George Brecht, 1966.For a Drummer, Fluxversion 2: Performer drums with sticks over a leaking feather pillow making the feathers escape the pillow.For a Drummer (for Eric): Drum on something you have never drummed on before. Drum with something you have never drummed with before.For a Drummer,... Read more »
Der Lauf der Dinge
Elina Brotherus
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After Fischli/Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987
Read more »Circus Horse
Elina Brotherus
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After Leila Sillantaka, Circus Horses, Helsinki Dance Institute, 1981
Read more »Can One Sit So Low?
Elina Brotherus
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After Tuomas Timonen, Is it possible to sit so low?
Read more »Brushing Teeth
Elina Brotherus
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After Takehisa Kosugi, Manodharma with Mr Y, 1964: Watch over every part of Mr. Y’s body about 10 cm apart when he brushes his teeth. If it is dark, a flashlight may be used. If it is bright, a magnifying glass may be used.
Read more »Beach Crawl
Elina Brotherus
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After Walter de Maria, Beach Crawl, July 1960. Go to sea shore (Beach). Take three stones, large or small. Place yourself on your hands and knees. Put one stone down. Crawl forward a few feet, and place second stone down. Crawl forward a few feet more, place third stone down. Then crawl back to the first stone, pick it up.... Read more »
Balloon Dash
Elina Brotherus
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After Larry Miller, 220 Yard Balloon Dash, 1970. All runners have as many inflated balloons as possible tied to their bodies. Once the balloons are in place, they run a normal 220-yard race.
Read more »“New and Old Sincerity” opens AV-arkki’s 30th anniversary programme at Tampere Film Festival
THE 49TH TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL IS HELD BETWEEN MARCH 6 AND 10. THE OLDEST AND LARGEST SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES IS AV-ARKKI’S MAIN ASSOCIATE IN FINLAND. Both THE NATIONAL COMPETITION and the International competition OF TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL INCLUDE… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s, Sami van Ingen’s, and Maija Blåfield’s short films compete at Ann Arbor FF
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018), Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018), and Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation (2018) were selected for the international competition of the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Held from March 26–31, Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Cinedans FEST, Amsterdam
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Cinedans FEST, held from March 8–10 at Eye and A-Lab in Amsterdam. Helander’s short film is included in the screening “Urgent: Social Shorts 1“, screened on Saturday, March 9,… Read more »
Anikó Kuikka’s exhibition Wednesday 12 at GAO Gallery, London
Anikó Kuikka‘s exhibition Wednesday 12 is open at GAO Gallery, London, until March 31. Showing in international exhibitions and film festivals, and often featuring a cast of archetypes from traditional fables, Kuikka’s work aims to deconstruct our pre-existing values surrounding… Read more »
Sara Pathirane’s, Azar Saiyar’s, and Timo Wright’s works at Les Rencontres internationales
Sara Pathirane’s Holding Clouds (2018), Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018), and Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2018) are screened at Les Rencontres Internationales, held in Paris from March 5–10. Sara Pathirane’s Holding Clouds will be screened on Tuesday, March 5,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Somnivm and Sami van Ingen’s Flame at FIFA, Montréal
Jonna Kina’s Somnivm (2018) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at Montréal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), held from March 19–31. Jonna Kina‘s Somnivm will have its World Festival Premire in the international short film… Read more »