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Contents Non Grata ................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Platform .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 NG Studios............................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Fylkingen ................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Performance Art Union of Latvia .......................................................................................................................................... 10 Skånes Konstförening............................................................................................................................................................ 13 Alytus Art School & Alytus Biennial ...................................................................................................................................... 16 Nyte (ry) ................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 T.E.H.D.A.S. ry ....................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Akt B ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Fluxee Kankaanpää art school Presentaatio communication centre for live art Finland ................................................... 22

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Festivals and events

Non Grata Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and sushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NONGRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from insest. The main point of the group is ethical - it is the image of primitivism, unpersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presenatations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn´t work.

Non Grata organizes a performance art festival Diverse Universe since 2005 which is an offspring of festival Art Non Grata which started in 1998. Diverse Universe is now an Europe wide travelling festival collaborating with numerous different art event organizers in different countries.

Also anual Film & Video Festival and Printmaking In are organized by Non Grata - these festivals are experimental and have goals of merging different mediums and creative approaches in making art.

Representative

Anonymous Boh

Contacts

nongrata@nongrata.ee Suur-Posti 16, Pärnu

Web page

http:/www.nongrata.ee

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Suur-Posti 16

Suur-Posti hall

Name of Organization

Description of organization

Platform Platform is an artist-run initiative founded in the year of 2000. Platform runs a residency programme in Vasa, Finland.

The aim of Platform is to promote, show and be part of producing international contemporary art.

The majority of Platform's exhibitions and projects are results of the residency programme, where artists are invited to produce a project in Vaasa.

Festivals and events

Platform Live MOPE, more info about this festival here, info is not very well updated

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http://platform.fi/2002/mope/default.htm When we do our performance club we usually use Kuntsi, museum of modern arts in Vaasa.

Representative

Peter Rosvik, as an organizer for performance events

Contacts E-mail: peppe@ros-ka.com Mobile: +358 50 541 5749

Web page

www.platform.fi

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OUTSIDE VIEW

INSIDE VIEW

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

NG Studios NG studios is an artst commune and creative platform for alternative point of view. NG Studios consists individual artist studios, gallery space, graphic art centre, resident artist studio and event space.

Festivals and events

NG Studios collaborates with Non Grata in oganizing festivals and other events. Many smaller events are organized randomly by request throughout the year. The gallery helds monthly art exhibitions.

Representative

IG Noir, Ville Karel

Contacts

villekarel@gmail.com Vana-Kalamaja 46, Tallinn, Estonia

Web page

http://performance.ee/ngstudios

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NG STUDIOS HOUSE

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Fylkingen Membership association for radical and experimental art, mostly new music and intermedia. Established in 1933. We have our own venue with year-round program. A web magazine and digital gallery space called Hz and a record label called Fylkingen Records.

Festivals and events Not on a regular basis, but performance art is part of our permanent interest and constant activity.

Representative

Contacts

Web page

Johannes Bergmark (until somebody else is ready to take over)

Fylkingen SÜder Mälarstrand 27 (visit: Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2 across the yard) SE - 118 25 Stockholm Sweden +46 8 845443 intermedia@fylkingen.se Skype: ahodell

http://fylkingen.se

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Ceiling

Floor

Hall (east)

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Hall (south)

Hall (west)

Office (northeast)

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Office (southwest)

Foyer - bar

Name of Organization

Description of organization

Festivals and events

Performance Art Union of Latvia Performance Art Union of Latvia is non- profit organization. We are organizing performance art events in Latvia as well as international projects.

Organisation’s objectives: 1. to organise performance art events in Latvia; 2. to make international collaborations in performance art by organizing and participating in festivals, creative workshops, conferences and other events; 3. to educate Latvian society about performance art; 4. to create performance art archive of Latvia; 5. to publish books, DVDs, catalogues about performance art in Latvia.

Every year in April International Performance festival Diverse Universe in Riga, together with Estonian group Non Grata we participate in project Diverse Universe, moving performance art festival around the Europe. One part always happens in Riga. We

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organized in 2009 in Naïve art museum and 2010 in club Piens.

Every year in September – participating in Survival Kit , Festival of Contemporary art in Riga. In 2010 we participated with action Apartment, performance event, where 45 artists from 7 countries made performances for one week in private apartment.

Every second month – Apartment performance event in private apartment in Riga with participation of 3-5 artists every evening.

Bigger International projects – like Nordic and Baltic performance art ship Friend_Ship in 2010 with 12 participants from 6 countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). Ship was on the sea for 10 days sealing from Riga to Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Klaipeda. In the harbors of all these cities artists made performances.

Solo performances by international performance artists in club Piens or during Apartment performance events – Tara Pattenden (Finland), Annika B. Lewis (Denmark).

Representative

Zane Matule, Gatis Vectirāns

Zane Matule: performancester@gmail.com Contacts Gatis Vectirāns: gatis.vectirans@gmail.com ; +371 26149180

Web page

www.performance.lv

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Skånes Konstförening Skånes Konstförening was formed in 1904 by artist and has ever since played an active and important role in the region's art scene over the years.

Contemporary art today seems both regionally and internationally, Skånes Konstförening shows Nordic and international contemporary art and invite international artists to the art scene in Skåne. All for an increased exchange of experiences, ideas and networking.

We are more than 100 years but still burns for pleasure and interest to spread the art of Skåne and the art life in Skåne to the rest of the world.

Festivals and events

Skånes Konstförening organizes approximately eight exhibitions in the gallery every year. And we also running a stage for live and crossover art "Skånes scene for live and crossover art ' is a space connected to the gallery and our aim is to highlight the performing arts in all its forms, performance, music, theater, cinema, exhibitions, screenings and more. Mainly we are interested in small, experimental groups / acts.

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Representative

Contacts

Skånes Konstförening Board: Malin Josefin Forssell- art educator, Anna Sandberg- art critic, Malin Svensson- artist / musician, Marthe Aune Eriksen- artist, Morgan Schagerberg- artist, Rickard Daun- artist / musician, Per Brunskog- artist / art critic, Marthe Aune Eriksen- artist, Aron Fleming Falk- artist/musician.

Skånes Konstförening, scene for live and crossoverart Bragegatan 15, 214 30 Malmö, SWEDEN phone +46 40-103380, E-mail: info@skaneskonst.se Morgan Schagerberg, mschagerberg@gmail.com, +46 73 0677271 Aron Fleming Falk, aronfleming@gmail.com +46 70 440 87 50

Web page

www.skaneskonst.se

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Skane building

Plans of space

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Festivals and events

Alytus Art School & Alytus Biennial Alytus Art School is 4 year art school for teanagers who attent the school additionally as complementary to the secondary school. there was a network of such schools in the Soviet times, but at the moment of capitalist development it was left for the individual rotting down. Alytus Art School was the only school in Lithuania to proceed into the way of experiments and performance. since 1993 the were organized outdoor events based on performance and sometimes on political direct action - joint political and artistic approach was developed through from the very beginning. at 2005 the tradition obtained the title of Alytus Biennial.

The project Alytus Biennial is a logic continuation of numerous international experimental art festivals and events held in southern Lithuanian town Alytus since 1993. So far the essential element for the town is an absence of any artistic infrastructure (no galleries, art museums, nor even some exhibition hall in the city hosting 70 000 inhabitants – sic! - and even no any promises from the municipal authorities) the events were held directly in the streets and other urbanist common places. The essential element for any of those activities was political-artistic behavior and problematic.

As a clearly defined event under the name of Alytus Biennial the event appeared in 2005. The basic idea for it was to continue experimental art tradition directly in the urban spaces of the town. So far it took the title “Beware!Politics!” it really stood somewhere in-between of arts and politics. The biennial also clamed for debienalization of arts and society so to respond to increasing number of various biennials appeared as art-value in itself. The communal approach of the artists community was taken as a highest value of the event to continue the development further.

The biennial of 2007 was given to youth with a task simply to demystify it’s importance an so to trap the sacred name of it.

So far they did not succeed to destroy the biennial as the symbol of “serious culture” – next step was Art Strike Biennial.: to cease any artistic activity related to mimicking of Vilnius European Cultural Capital and/or any establishment in Lithuania in 2009. Establishment got pierced and Biennial turned into an activity to not produce arts every second the year.

Late August 2011 we'll continue on a tradition to not to do arts and will held the world congress of DAMTP (Data Miners & Travalleurs Psychique). it's planned to lead towards the general strike in 2012 accomplishing it with creative experience and psychic liberation of humanity. Also supports whatsoever attempt to destroy any biennial event, any cultural capital celebration and also we aim to support general art strike as well.

Representative

Redas Dirzys, director of Alytus Art School

Contacts

redas_dirzys@yahoo.com

Web page

www.alytusbiennial.com

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Alytus Art School (outside)

Alytus Art School (inside)

Alytus Biennial 2007

Art Strike Biennial 2009

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Festivals and events

Representative

Contacts

Nyte (ry) NYTE is a artist association founded in 1987 to promote young artists. NYTE is running Gallery 3h+k which is a non-profit gallery in the center of Pori, a town in west coast of Finland with population of around 80.000. NYTE gets its funding from public funds and the town of Pori.

Throughout the year there is art exhibitions and different kind of Performance events, live music clubs and experimental video screenings at the gallery. The main events are annual two-day Perf -festival in May and Porin Juhlaviikot , Pori Festival in December. Porin Juhlaviikot is a loose concept of live art and screenings during two weeks. Both festivals take place in the gallery 3h+k. Perf is organized together with artist association T.E.H.D.A.S. ry from the year 2005. One of our main goals is to think new ways to operate with the gallery concept. When it comes to us we like to think that there`s nothing that can`t be done in our space.

Jussi Matilainen, Simo Saarikoski, Pauli Hirtolahti

galleria3hk@mail.com maaherrankatu 32 28100 pori

Web page

http://nyte.arkku.net

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3H+K Gallery

Inside the gallery

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Name of Organization

T.E.H.D.A.S. ry

Description of organization

T.E.H.D.A.S. ry is a non-profit organisation. Our aim is to produce high quality performance events in Finland and internationally. Our mission is to support young artists who are interested to work in the field of community art and give chances to perform to the one ones who are interested in performing arts.

Festivals and events

Perf -international performance festival in every year, last weekend on may. Location is Gallery 3h+k in the center of Pori, Finland. Two days of performance, experimental music, or anything we find interesting.

Perfo! -performance club events in Tampere,Finland. 5 times a year club event in culture restaurant telakka with performance, art videos and live music.

Representative

Simo Saarikoski, Antti Pedrozo

Contacts

Maaherrankatu 32, 28100, Pori - Finland Simo Saarikoski rysty@tehdasry.fi +358407401415

Web page

http://www.tehdasry.fi

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T.E.H.D.A.S. Ry says: RELAX

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Festivals and events

Akt B Membership organization for time based art and performance in Bergen. To promote these art forms and initiate events and activity.

We have specialized on art swap events between artist groups in cooperation with various institutions in Bergen. This takes place about every year. Also we run the outdoor festival (in rural landscape) Between Sea and Sky, every third year.

Representative

Kurt Johannessen, Robert Alda, Rita Marhaug

Contacts

rita.marhaug@khib.no kurtjo@c2i.net robert.alda@broadpark.no

Web page

www.aktb.no

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Between sky and the sea 2008 (Melati Suryodarmo)

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Name of Organization

Description of organization

Fluxee Kankaanp채채 art school Presentaatio communication centre for live art Finland Fluxee is a venue for contemporary arts, mostly performance in Turku, Finland. Established 2003, 4 events/ year Kankaanp채채 art school is a University of applied sciences, a 4 year Live art course.

Presentaatio communication centre for live art Finland is an organisation working with performance art communications and art poliics

Festivals and events Allyear round, different sorts of performances and experimental arts.

Representative

Aapo Korkeaoja

Contacts Phone: +358(41)5362642

Web page

fluxee.net, presentaatio.org, aapokorkeaoja.net

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Fluxee 30.01. 2010

Kankanp채채 Art School

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