Jaakko Niemelä and Shadowplay. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro
01/02/2012At the IHME Days 22-25 March - joy of collecting and shadowplays
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
18/01/2012See classic science fiction film at IHME Days on 23 March
"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
31/10/2011IHME Project 2012 is Christian Boltanski´s The Heart Archive
The IHME Contemporary Art Festival in March 2012 will give the public a chance to experience French artist Christian Boltanski´s The Heart Archive. In this work Boltanski´s aim is to collect the sounds of human heartbeats for a communal archive on the island of Teshima, Japan. The archive grows each time the project is carried out in a different part of the world. Heartbeat sounds have already been collected in Sweden, France, the UK, Australia, the USA, Korea and elsewhere.
Each installation of The Heart Archive takes the form of a space where recordings are made of human heartbeats. Next year, The Heart Archive will expand the scope of the IHME Contemporary Art Festival to four cities. The project will be staged in Helsinki, Joensuu, Rovaniemi and Vaasa, simultaneously. Heartbeats will be recorded in all of these cities 12.3-1.4.2012.
Read more about the IHME Project 2012