Finissage for Helsinki Expedition show

Eclipse Happening 4th June, 2009, Helsinki The “Eclipse Happening” is the “finissage” event of the “Expedition to the Total Eclipse” exhibition on view at Kiasma Mediatheque until June 7th, and of the Pixelache season before the summer break. It consists of presentations focusing on eclipses and space traveling and a workshop in Kiasma Theatre, and of an urban expedition, culminating in the evening with an event in Kaivopuisto around the URSA observatory.

Keywords : Siberia, astronomy, eclipses, space traveling, geese, moon walk, weightlessness.

Preliminary programme:

- 15.00 – 16.00: Presentations focusing on eclipses and space traveling by Professor Tapio Markkanen (Observatory of the University of Helsinki) & artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE) / Kiasma Theatre

- 16.00 – 17.00: Moon Walk workshop for humans and moon geese, with leading moon walker Milla Koistinen / Kiasma Theatre

- 17.00 – 18.30: Urban Expedition / from Kiasma to URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto

- 18.30 – 22.00: Happy Eclipse gathering with Russian snacks and music, moonwalking, telescope observations (only until 21.00), video projections in URSA’s portable planetarium / URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto

All the events of the Eclipse Happening are free of charge. The number of places for the moon walk workshop is limited. If you want to participate, please send an email tomoonwalk@pixelache.ac before June 2. The Eclipse Happening is organised by Capsula and Pixelache With kind support of : Opetusministeriö, Goethe Institut, HIAP, URSA, Kiasma Theatre.

The event forms part of the activities of the International Year of Astronomy.

Expedition to the Total Eclipse in Kiasma

The three new artworks by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Mireia C. Saladrigues and Tommi Taipale who participated the first Curated Expedition of Capsula last summer, will be shown in Kiasma, Contemporary Art Museum of Helsinki. The exhibition will be opened on 6th March, 2008 and will be shown until the 7th June.

The show is part of Pixelache09 activities and had received support fromHIAP, AVEK, Finnish Art Council, Kiasma Mediatheque, Ramon Llull Institute and Goethe Institute.

We make art not money – blog is featuring the Curated Expedition in an article where Regine Debatty interviews Ulla Taipale about the expedition and in the Expedition blog more information of the project can be found.

“Naturology” and “En la Ciudad” in Global EcoForum

The most complete description of the tree is both myth and botany.
Gregory Bateson

Eco-innovation and sustainability are often used in terms of something tangible and measurable, but can also go together with art and creativity. The artistic interventions of the first Global Eco-Forum are determined by limited time and space of the generous programme of the day. Yet, during these interventions the mind can rest and become recharged, as it does when one walks through a park or on a lake´s shore.

In her artistic work mcarmen gªmahedero reveals almost invisible secrets and details of the manipulated urban nature. Her new performance, En la Ciudad “In the City”, exhibits the personal space between of us and other human beings, and, perhaps other living beings, such as trees and plants? Through Pintando Naturaleza, “Painting Nature” , another of mcarmen´s works, shown in the auditorio, she subtly observes the changes of light and shadow and their visual effects on our environment.

The audiovisual performance of SOLU and Arbol is characterised by a great complicity and sinergy between of the two artists. The image and sound is combined, in flexible and fluid forms. The homage to the natural landscapes, digitalized and processed by SOLU, is repeated in the musical composition of Arbol. “Shiatsu for ears and eyes” – as SOLU describes the performance called Naturology, which vibrates positive energy, revitalising the public, through the images, melodies and organic movements, bringing to an end the intensive conference day.

Global EcoForum is organised by Eco-Union.

solu&arbol _ naturology

Global EcoForum

Capsula is collaborating with Eco-Union organisation in the first edition of an one day event Global EcoForum in the Centro Bonnemaison. On 7th October, 2008, several conferences dealing with eco-innovation, sustainability and social responsability are celebrated in the center of Barcelona. The presential part of this event consists of conferences and workshops in two auditorios of the Centre, and among the international participants are Cradle-to-Cradle designer Michael Baungart, architect Livia Tirone and educator Francesco Tonucci.

Two proposals by spanish artist MariCarmen G Mahadero will interrupt the day´s talking, her performatic action “En la ciudad” will bring a poetic imaging of the natural system to the urban context, meanwhile the screenings of the minimalistic video work “Pintando la naturaleza” remind us of the continous changes of the visual surroundings.

“Shiatsu” for eyes and ears, a performance called Naturology by visual composer SOlu, and musician ARBOL, that together conclude the extense programme of the day.

naturology stills by SOlu

The blog has been abandoned since many months, mostly because of my almost 100% dedication for the First Curated Expedition that finished some weeks ago. That project´s evolution can be followed in it´s own blog and I will try to improve this one – that really is in a sad condition at the moment. Too bad, time is limited in this world!

Somewhere in the vast woods of Siberia

Curated Expeditions -blog launched

The last project of Capsula, Curated Expeditions, has an own blog. The basic information about the first Expedition to the Zoo of Novosibirsk is now available – more information will be added during the next weeks.

Collaborators and funding needed!

Ars Bioarctica – biological art activities in an Arctic Station

The first finnish Bioart Seminar (29-31 May) is taken place in Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (Faculty of Biosciences in Helsinki University), situated in the mountain birch forest zone near the 70th parallel of northern latitude (69°03′N; 20°50′E) in the northwesterenmost part of Finland.

The principal aim of the station is to promote biological and geographical research in the north, and to provide students of biology and geography with information about natural phenomena in northern lands.

During the Seminar the Finnish Bioart Association is going to founded and there is a real time connection to the Hybrids: Reflections on Science and Art -Conference, held in Porto, Portugal on 31st May.

Programme Kilpisjärvi Bioart Seminar

GRASSROOTS art&ecology seminar, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki

GRASSROOTS is a 2-day conference, a public forum for discovering and debating the wide field art and ecology today with renowed and specialist speakers leading the way.

2007

Hemos añadido la nueva sección “calendar” con información de los eventos realizados por CAPSULA durante el 2007. Aquí

New “calendar” section has been added with some graphic information of the events organised by CAPSULA during 07-08, Aquí

For more photos, please check http://www.flickr.com/photos/000capsula000 (Dias de Bioarte07, Proyecto Taxonomias, Proyecto Neurotica)

TAXONOMIES celebra la última actividad TOPOFILIAS el sábado 19 de enero 08

proyecto Taxonomies_COMAFOSCA_alella_barcelona

19 de enero a partir de las 17 horas screening INVISIBLE & GANGA

a las 19.15 horas – charla por Josep Mañá, diseñador y profesor de Escola Massana, Centre d´Art i Disseny en Barcelona

TOPOFILIAS

La materialidad de nuestro entorno, no es tan sólo un recurso o unas fuerzas naturales a las que haya que adaptarse, también es una fuente de seguridad y de placer, y objeto de vínculo profundo y de amor.
Geógrafo Yi-Hu-Tuan, Topofilia, 1990

El científico y naturalista sueco Carlos Linné realizó a mediados del siglo XVIII una investigación exhaustiva, que se extendió por los lugares más remotos del mundo, pero realizada sin salir prácticamente de su casa. Fueron sus alumnos, a los que él llamó sus “apóstoles”, a los que confió la labor de explorar y viajar por el mundo. Ellos fielmente le fueron enviando muestras de plantas desde lugares exóticos del planeta, hasta donde llegaron en sus expediciones. El científico, que creó la base para la clasificación de la biológica moderna, se quedó pues en su hogar y en su universidad en Suecia concentrándose en poner orden y clasificar las plantas, los animales y los minerales que recibía.

La diferencia de escala en la extracción de flora y fauna en el mundo global e industrializado supera con creces a la realizada en tiempos del Linné. Las consecuencias de esta actividad voraz se evidencian en documentales audiovisuales y reportajes fotográficos que corresponsales y documentalistas independientes – los “apóstoles” de nuestra época – traen de regreso de sus viajes desde diferentes puntos de la Tierra.

En la actualidad tenemos acceso directo a la naturaleza en todo el mundo sin salir de la casa – en palabras del famoso documentalista inglés David Attenborough – por medio de múltiples canales de televisión que ofrecen documentales de naturaleza y de culturas exóticas.

Topofilias ofrece una selección de documentación filmográfica y fotodocumental que pretende relatar historias sobre el amor y el vínculo emocional a sus tierras por parte de personas de distintos pueblos afectados por los cambios en el clima, en el territorio o por las transformaciones de los recursos naturales disponibles.

Se presentarán dos películas documentales, comentadas posteriormente por diseñador y profesor en Escola Massana, Centre d´Art i Disseny en Barcelona.

INVISIBLE / roz mortimer_wonderdog productions

GANGA / gayawana productions
Invisible_Roz Mortimer, 2006