[of sound]
Performance evening II (Iida Hägglund, Ilmari Säävälä, Half A Map / Jukka Inehmo)
24.3.2023
Photo: Ilmari Säävälä
EN
During the [of sound] sonic arts exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11 gallery there two performance evenings organised! In the second evening on March 30th, 2023 the performers are Iida Hägglund, Ilmari Säävälä, Half A Map / Jukka Inehmo. At the same time the event is the Finissage of the exhibition.
Iida Hägglund: girlcrushcrushcrush
girlcrushcrushcrush is Iida Hägglund’s solo performance – a music and sound art gig that speaks about crushes, crushing, friendship, bisexuality and love towards girlhood through naivety and dreamy melancholy sad girl aesthetic. The dramaturgical arch is drawn from Hélène Cixous’ l’ecriture feminine theory: it’s gestural, rhythmic, spasmodic, immediate, fluid, elastic. Boundaries melt. Frequent repetitions and conjoined phrases produce cumulative effect. There are backtracking and stumbling, phrases are rephrased. There is resistance to the finite, the definitive, the highly structured, to closure and resolutions, to hierarchies. girlcrushcrushcrush consists of auto-fictious poem logs that are based on Instagram photos, sound art and music – borrowed and composed by Hägglund. The performance is dreamy but also tense, Paris Hilton sings sanasaa and ponies gallop by. It is a window to one version of girlhood.
Iida Hägglund
Iida Hägglund (s.1991) is a sound designer, composer, musician, writer and performer. She has studied music and film sound design in Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and performance art sound design in Theatre Academy, Helsinki. Hägglund works as a freelancer and is interested in feminist practices and themes. In her work she’s constantly exploring what could feminist sound design be. Hägglund’s works have been heard in Tero Saarinen Company, Theatre Academy, Tampere Theatre Festival, Hangö Teaterträff, Finnish National Theatre, Yle, Underwire and Raindance film festivals in London, Rome Independent Cinema Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival.
https://iidaainosound.wordpress.com/
Ilmari Säävälä: Holy Whales
Non-harmonic human voice which builds to soundscapes with the help of looper effect.
Ilmari Säävälä
Lives in Orivesi and runs the art gallery Maitojuna.
Half A Map / Jukka Inehmo
Half A Map is the current sound project of Jukka Inehmo. Among other things, it explores how harshness and gentleness can coexist and complement each other in sound. Pieces made under this name may be anything from abstract soundscapes to experimental techno, blurring the line between high art and popular culture.
Half A Map has recently released an album on the Finnish label Signature Dark. More live performances are planned for this year. Previously, they’ve performed their work and music in London, Manchester, Paris, and around Finland, and released work on labels in the UK, Italy and Finland. They’ve performed at various events and venues from an outdoor festival via art galleries to club nights. Their work has been heard on BBC Radio 3 as well as Finnish radio stations like YLE 1, Radio Helsinki, Basso and IDA.
The Performance Evening II is part of [of sound] sonic arts exhibition organised in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery between March 5th–30th, 2023.
The exhibition has been supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and Musiikin edistämissäätiön (MES).