reMake
11 Jan 2008 - 11 Jan 2009
reMake
reMAKE 1 Jessika Thörnqvist 11.1.-2.3.
reMAKE 2 Liisa Lounila 7.3.-4.5.
reMAKE 3 Gabriel de la Cruz & Petri Saarikko 9.5.-3.8.
reMAKE 4 Pilvi Takala 8.8.-5.10.
reMAKE 5 Aurora Reinhard 10.10.-11.1.
Is there anything new in contemporary art, or is it simply an update, a remake or a cover version?
reMAKE is a series of five mini exhibitions on show in Room X in honour of Kiasma’s anniversary year. In movie language, the concept of reMAKE is widely understood to refer to a new version of an earlier film. The series portrays works, interventions and projects that put the definition of the relationship between a work of art and a museum into a new light. reMAKE aims to open up the entire presentation environment where a work of art becomes the focus of interpretation.
Marcel Broodthaers’ The Manuscript 1833 (Le Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille), produced in 1974, serves as the signature for the series. The work toys with the idea of a message in a bottle and the concept of a found object; the bottle contains Edgar Allan Poe’s tale “MS. Found in a Bottle” written in 1833. The work sums up the idea of the new life of a work of art as a remake and its transposition from one form of art to another.
A three minute video of people attending a club gig. Instead of the performance on the stage the attention focuses on club goers observing each other. The visual starting point for the work was baroque painter Caravaggio’s group scenes, with dark backgrounds and dramatically illuminated compositions of actors seemingly participating in something divine. As an addition to these the music for the piece was composed to echo Michael Nyman’s minimalistic soundtracks for Peter Greenaways films, to give a feeling of a staged costume drama, but with a hint of Indie rock to keep it connected with the actual happenings on the screen. The music is performed by a small classical chamber orchestra, set up for the piece.
reMAKE 1 Jessika Thörnqvist 11.1.-2.3.
reMAKE 2 Liisa Lounila 7.3.-4.5.
reMAKE 3 Gabriel de la Cruz & Petri Saarikko 9.5.-3.8.
reMAKE 4 Pilvi Takala 8.8.-5.10.
reMAKE 5 Aurora Reinhard 10.10.-11.1.
Is there anything new in contemporary art, or is it simply an update, a remake or a cover version?
reMAKE is a series of five mini exhibitions on show in Room X in honour of Kiasma’s anniversary year. In movie language, the concept of reMAKE is widely understood to refer to a new version of an earlier film. The series portrays works, interventions and projects that put the definition of the relationship between a work of art and a museum into a new light. reMAKE aims to open up the entire presentation environment where a work of art becomes the focus of interpretation.
Marcel Broodthaers’ The Manuscript 1833 (Le Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille), produced in 1974, serves as the signature for the series. The work toys with the idea of a message in a bottle and the concept of a found object; the bottle contains Edgar Allan Poe’s tale “MS. Found in a Bottle” written in 1833. The work sums up the idea of the new life of a work of art as a remake and its transposition from one form of art to another.
A three minute video of people attending a club gig. Instead of the performance on the stage the attention focuses on club goers observing each other. The visual starting point for the work was baroque painter Caravaggio’s group scenes, with dark backgrounds and dramatically illuminated compositions of actors seemingly participating in something divine. As an addition to these the music for the piece was composed to echo Michael Nyman’s minimalistic soundtracks for Peter Greenaways films, to give a feeling of a staged costume drama, but with a hint of Indie rock to keep it connected with the actual happenings on the screen. The music is performed by a small classical chamber orchestra, set up for the piece.