Musical Etude For Mobile Phones
PERFORMANCE / SEPTEMBER 26 / 19.00-19.30 / KUMU LOBBY
The performance introduces a new spatial musical instrument that consists of hundreds of old mobile phones and a synthesizer. The recycled phones collected from all over Estonia represent the history from the first models to modern polyphonic phones. Ringtones are all authentic – the ringtones the last owners of the phones have chosen have not been altered.
Development of technology is set against personal choices and memory hidden in the phones which represent the Estonians’ taste and moods of the era. During the performance a musician will play a special synthesizer made with software created by Aqris, and call certain phones by pushing certain buttons, so the ringing phones create a musical etude.
Artists: Eve Arpo (EST) is an architect, Riin Rõõs (EST) a media artist, Timo Toots (EST) a photographer, Lauri Eltermaa (EST) a sculptor and musician.
Escaping Camera’s View & Digital Body
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
The solution is to stop producing digital images, escape the camera’s view, reduce the huge amounts of information or locate art in town in place of the museum. The struggle is human beings against technology.
Lúmine
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
Marit Ilison’s master’s project, installation-collection Lúmine uses esoterics, quantum theory, string theory and alternative medicine, plays with time and space and challenges the senses. Are the space and objects around us the inexorable truth or an illusion
Disconnected Gestures Series 1-9
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
This work is composed of nine short videos made as elements of a series. Each of the nine chosen body parts performs a particular gesture.
HYPEReSPACE & EILE
3rd October 20.00-21.00 / Von Krahl
HYPEReSPACE is a hypnotic experience of escape and dream in a fantasy space, a mix of sound and image. By its minimalism it resembles the universe of video games and sci-fi films.
Tales of A Sea Cow
27th September 19.00-19.30 / Von Krahl
The parable „Tales of a Sea Cow“ describes recent scientific research on the first translation of animal thought. The song of the now extinct Steller’s sea cow is put into words and visuals and presented as a testimony, a critique of the human desire for a true separation of body and mind.
Chronicle
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
The video takes place in an underwater world. The aim of changing realities is to create an illusion of a metaphysical atmosphere where everything is beautiful. Yet this is a desire to escape into a metaphoric womb - our beginning.
What you sleep is what you are
29th September-3rd October / Laste Maailma Gallery
What do we do every night? Party, rest, think, try to fall asleep, snore, pretend to be “someone else”, find ourselves in unbelievable situations, escape? The exhibition explores candidly, boldly and playfully what sleep is made of.
Musical Etude For Mobile Phones
26th September / 19.00-19.30 / Kumu
The performance introduces a new spatial musical instrument that consists of hundreds of old mobile phones and a synthesizer. The recycled phones collected from all over Estonia represent the history from the first models to modern polyphonic phones.
Emoticonize me!
24th September-4th October / Cityspace
The idea to transfer Skype iconography into the physical dimension arose when the artist discovered Skype was developed in Estonia. As a street artist Karo will interpret people´s faces as Skype emoticons translating emotions into their symbolic equivalent in the online world.
Videoscreening
28th September - 3rd October 20.00-23.00 / Rotermanni kvartal
Every year the Plektrum Festival brings forth new video art pieces based on the artist and the theme. The content of the four video programs originates from the festival’s key topic of 2009 “Do You Live in a Reality?” and it’s source “Where is Virtuality?”.
