Category: New Media

Katrin Enni will open her solo exhibition “Almost Parallel” at Vent Space project space on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 6pm.

“Almost Parallel” is an audiovisual installation. The inspiration for creating
the installation came from a romantic
sci-fi fantasy about lonely robots drifting around in space and looking for companions. During the process, while investigating the physicality of sound and how materials resonate, the robots were born with bodies looking like large metal cones. At the same time they also function as large vibrating speakers. The final result is a cosmic sound installation, involving sound, noise, light, movement, algorithms and also randomness.

A live performance by Katrin Enni
will take place on Thursday, January 10
at 7pm. Various soundscapes that are created specially for this sound installation will be presented. Entrance is free.

The exhibition is open daily from
1pm to 7pm and will remain open
until January 11, 2019.

Katrin Enni is currently studying at the Master programme of Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts (where she also obtained her BA in 2018 in the department of Sculpture and Installation). She has created sound installations from electronic components, micro motors, found objects, ready-mades and industrial materials. “Almost Parallel” is her first solo exhibition.

System & Error

Exhibition: 23rd February / 4th March

Off-season Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM),

Opening Party: 18:00 / Friday 23rd

Ordinary life is made of eventful junctures, constant surprises and adjustments that go beyond all attempts to rigorously plan and design things. Infrastructures crack, smart phones make errors, printers print funny stuff, states fail and the financial market fall into cyclical crises; Also our body can react strangely. All these failures have an aura though: they do not occur twice in the same way and produce the adrenaline of edges. Paraphrasing Tolstoy, all the families are successful alike, but failed in their own unique way.

The artworks of this exhibition have been produced honouring the meaning of collaboration, since the groups of artists are composed with MA students from Aalto University and from the Estonian Academy of Arts, which adds to the exhibition a reflection about the risks, potentials and failures of cooperation between artists and between institutions. For the exhibition, students have engaged with how misbehaviours and things out of place constitute a terrain of experimentation, addressing different meanings of systems, randomness and dead ends, and facing questions such as:

• Do failures need an excuse?
• What does an error look like?
• What is the benefit of being part of a system?
• How much tolerance for the non-perfect do our societies have?
• Is a list of failures more revealing than a list of successes?
• Are gaps, holes, tricksters and hackers part of the system or the error?
• In which ways systems are organised by defining some practices as normal and some others as deviant (noise, dirt, queer…)?
• And does anything right might come from pursuing wrong practices?

Curator: Francisco Martínez

Graphic designer Heleliis Hõim

Artists:

• Madis Kurss & Martha Jessen
• Mirka Sulander & Elina Saat
• Hanna Perälä & Heleliis Hõim
• Sandra Schneider, Anu Jalas & Kadi Reintamm
• Uzair Amjad, Aman Askarizad & Aap Jaapan
• Ana Fernandes & Mark Antonious Puhkan
• Solveig Lill & Tuomas Lehtomaa
• Elham Rahmati, Danai Anagnostou & Heidi Paju

From May 18th to 31st takes place New Media’s alumni exibition “The Artist´s room” at Supersonicum Sound Gallery in Viljandi (Estonia). For more informations read from Facebook.