


Jaakko Niemelä and Shadowplay. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro
The themes of this year´s IHME Contemporary Art Festival are collecting, archives, memory and temporality. The IHME Project, Christian Boltanski´s The Heart Archive, invites audiences to participate in four cities.
The IHME Days held at the Old Student House in Helsinki feature discussions, films, workshops, music.
During the Days you can also experience Jaakko Niemelä´s work of shadow art Shadowplay in Kamppi, Helsinki, and in Myyrmäki, Vantaa, supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.
You can find the full IHME Days program here. Registration for the workshops has started: select the empowering photography workshop, the story-telling workshop, or the role-game! Free admission to all events.

Chris Marker: La Jetée Photo: ARGOS FILMS
"Past in the future, future in the past. Chris Marker´s La Jetée, constructed almost entirely from still shots, creates the most extensive mental span and widest motion in the history of SciFi: pure poetry of imagined times and places, which became a realer mirror of its times than 'reality'."
- Peter von Bagh -
The first item in the IHME Days program is always an artwork that is connected to the annual themes. This spring the themes are collecting, archives and memory, and the opening piece is La Jetée (The Runway, 1962, 27 min.), the best known film by French Chris Marker. It is screened in the form of an analogous 35mm copy. Marker (b. 1921) has made an acclaimed career as a documentarist and film essayist.
The IHME Days will take place at the Old Student House in Helsinki during 23-25 March 2012 and the program will be published on 1 February at our website. Besides films, it features discussions, artist commentaries, workshops, music!

Christian Boltanski Ejima island, permanent installation of the Heart Archives, 2010 Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman gallery (Paris/New York) and the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation Photo: Akemi Shiraha