Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna B 28, Susisaari, Helsinki
Thursday, March 31 from 7 p.m.
Friday, April 1 from 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 2 from 3 p.m.
Free admission. Welcome!
Baaba Jakeh Chande, Egle Oddo, Elena Margarita Kakaliagou, Hyun Joo Min, Jaap Klevering, James Andean, Johanna MacDonald, John Court, Karolina Kucia, Kristina Hjulstad Junttila, Magnus Logi Kristinsson, Marek Pluciennik, Mark Ward, Maurice Blok, Oliver Whitehead, Panagiotis Balomenos, Philip Pedersen, Robin DeWan, Shinji Kanki, Tomasz Szrama, Willem Wilhelmus
Finnish performance artists Irma Optimisti and Roi Vaara will host the festival.
Design Tomasz Szrama
Fake Finn Festival of experimental live arts 2011 In Finland lives a big group of foreign artists. They are over-represented in performance art and other forms of experimental live arts. FFFela aims to present the rich variety of their contribution to Finnish cultural life. The artists are asked to focus on the festival’s theme Once a Guest, Always a Guest?
Being an immigrant artist offers both possibilities AND impossibilities. Foreign artists living in Finland are encountered with curiosity, hospitality, suspicion, demarcation... Although they may have more freedom to express themselves, at the same time they can never be totally part of the socio-cultural settings and structures of this country. They always move on the fragile equilibrium between lacking the same cultural and linguistic background of the country’s people and having the ability to provide fresh viewpoints to this society.
The aim of the festival is to offer an artistic contribution to this debate. FFFela focuses on performance art and other forms of experimental live art, because they offer the closest proximity to the audience.
21 artists will present their work in a three-day festival which will take place from Thursday, March 31 until Saturday, April 2, 2011 at Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna B28, Helsinki. The invited artists have been living from three to thirty years in Finland. They come from various countries around the world representing almost all continents.
Initiator and curator of FFFela is Willem Wilhelmus. Members of the organising team are Egle Oddo, Tomasz Szrama and Eleni Tsitsirikou.
The festival is supported by HIAP, the Arts Council of Finland and the Kone Foundation.
Download BOOKLET here! (pdf)
Thursday, March 31 from 7 p.m.
Friday, April 1 from 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 2 from 3 p.m.
Free admission. Welcome!
Baaba Jakeh Chande, Egle Oddo, Elena Margarita Kakaliagou, Hyun Joo Min, Jaap Klevering, James Andean, Johanna MacDonald, John Court, Karolina Kucia, Kristina Hjulstad Junttila, Magnus Logi Kristinsson, Marek Pluciennik, Mark Ward, Maurice Blok, Oliver Whitehead, Panagiotis Balomenos, Philip Pedersen, Robin DeWan, Shinji Kanki, Tomasz Szrama, Willem Wilhelmus
Finnish performance artists Irma Optimisti and Roi Vaara will host the festival.
Design Tomasz Szrama
Fake Finn Festival of experimental live arts 2011 In Finland lives a big group of foreign artists. They are over-represented in performance art and other forms of experimental live arts. FFFela aims to present the rich variety of their contribution to Finnish cultural life. The artists are asked to focus on the festival’s theme Once a Guest, Always a Guest?
Being an immigrant artist offers both possibilities AND impossibilities. Foreign artists living in Finland are encountered with curiosity, hospitality, suspicion, demarcation... Although they may have more freedom to express themselves, at the same time they can never be totally part of the socio-cultural settings and structures of this country. They always move on the fragile equilibrium between lacking the same cultural and linguistic background of the country’s people and having the ability to provide fresh viewpoints to this society.
The aim of the festival is to offer an artistic contribution to this debate. FFFela focuses on performance art and other forms of experimental live art, because they offer the closest proximity to the audience.
21 artists will present their work in a three-day festival which will take place from Thursday, March 31 until Saturday, April 2, 2011 at Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna B28, Helsinki. The invited artists have been living from three to thirty years in Finland. They come from various countries around the world representing almost all continents.
Initiator and curator of FFFela is Willem Wilhelmus. Members of the organising team are Egle Oddo, Tomasz Szrama and Eleni Tsitsirikou.
The festival is supported by HIAP, the Arts Council of Finland and the Kone Foundation.
Download BOOKLET here! (pdf)