We are here again: the second issue of ICE HOLE – Live Art Journal! In Sara Parathine’s video Scarabée the performer is moving across the dunes and pushing a frame of the image. It seems like she is trying to do something impossible; to be inside of the image but to...
Performances for camera Seeing a beautiful still image with a girl lying in the sand in something that looks like dunes in the desert reminded me of some performances for camera on the dunes of Maspalomas at Christmas time 2007 and inspired me to return to an old text...
What are the aesthetic consequences of seeing a performance on a festival? Do we view a performance differently when the same event hosts performances that share the same theme? And is it different to see a performance at a festival where the audience is more...
Excerpts from the live action/ intervention “Quid pro quo” by Christina Georgiou Description of action: The artist is carrying her mother while walking towards Ledra Palace crossing point, in an endeavor to cross the border of Nicosia. This action is an...
Hello World! Greetings from Finland, from Ice Hole! We, the artists of Reality Research Center, have been working on a print magazine titled Esitys (fin. performance) for eight years now. Esitys was created to expand the scope of art journalism in Finland and to...
“What are little girls made of? What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of.” When I was a child, people would repeat that nursery rhyme over and over again. I wished so hard that I would have been –...
My artistic collaboration with plants, which has continued for almost ten years now, has redefined my relationship with artistic ‘materials’, my own body and those of others. This collaboration has not only challenged my way of thinking, but also the way I...
Year of the Snake – Swinging is the last part in a series of twelve one-year projects performed for the camera on the same island off Helsinki, exploring the question how to perform landscape today. The series called Animal Years (2002-2014) is based on the Chinese...
We invited three artists to make one-minute video with a BANANA. Eeva-Mari Haikala: Banana Begins with B Tomasz Szrama: Minotaur Essi Kausalainen: One Minute with a...
