Artworks

Ruoholahti

Architect office AJAK: Jarkko Kettunen and Adalbert Aapola: Light pillars
Under the bridge of Ruoholahti , the crossing of Mechelininkatu and Porkkalankatu
Lighting of the pillars under bridge of Ruoholahti.

Painted pillars consist all the colours of spectrum and change the colour depending on which angle you look at them. The artwork has a powerful collective quality that appears especially in the impact of the colours. Total impact of the work creates a feeling of weightlessness.

Suvi Parrilla and children from kindergartens Itämeri, Troolari ja Laivuri: Avaruusviitta 2007
Itämerentori, a lobby of S-Market

Electronic light textile made in co-operation with the children of Ruoholahtis kindergartens. How do children see and experience space? Fingerpainted community artwork.

Suvi Parrilla: Sunset –video (2003)
In a lobby of Helsinki Conservatory, Ruoholahdentori 6, 29.11.-2.12.
Video, 15 min/loop

In the video a simple light of the sunset that reflects from the clouds is a unique documentation of the phenomenon of light in nature. The work explores videos possibility to capture a unique moment that is normally seen only as a part of natures daily routines.

Arno Piroud (FRA): Blue planet
Ruoholahdentori
Light installation, recycled material.

This luminous object is shaped as earth. Nowadays when ecology gets energetically brought up, I use recycling and distortion of use of materials to end in a light, diamond-shaped and poetic work. At the opposite of the materials used. Unfortunately Arno Pirouds artwork has been broken because of the heavy wind.

Kamppi

Raoul Kurvitz (EST): The Smile of My Girlfriend, the Wind
Narinkkatori, 17.-29.11.
Light installation

The wind is invisible. Not always is she around, but sooner or later she would let you know about her presence. She is moody and unpredictable; when she comes, she might bring along pleasure, but also trouble. But one is sure: she will not abandon you ever. Sometimes she smiles. (The object belongs to a series of wind-sculptures by R.K.; the first one was presented in Lyon/Tallinn, 2005/06; the third one is waiting for its turn).

Thanks to Helsinki Energia.

Ada Halonen: 36 Wattia
Metrostations: Hakaniemi, Rautatieasema, Kamppi.
Lighting of the subway platform

HKL changes their old lamps into energy saving new fluorescent lamps in the Hakaniemi, Rautatieasema and Kamppi subway stations. Ada Halonen tests how much power it is possible to get out the new lamps. How much feeling you can create with the new lamps, or can you. Please notice that all the new lamps might not be installed to all the stations by 17.11.2007.

Rautatientori

Joonas Jokiranta: Metropainting
Helsinki City Transport, Customer service of Rautaitentori
Painting in the window

Jii Hutikka, Inka Jurvanen, Emilia Liljeström, Sera Martikainen, Marianne Mäkelin, Mikko Mällinen, Ilona Romunen, Tessa Siira, Andrew Paterson: Jii Hutikka's Clip Karavaani
Kirjasto 10; Sunday 25.11.07 from 17.00-18.30.
Screenings (*See more below)

Kaisaniemi

Kirsi Kaulanen: Our most beautiful menaced plants
Botanic Garden, by the main gate (Unioninkatu)
Polished rustproof steel, LED-light

Greenhouse consists of 44 most beautiful menaced plants of Finland. Kirsi Kaulanen has often used plants as a subject in her works: such as plants organic shapes as a starting-point or ornaments as a structural part of a sculpture. 'Our most beautiful menaced plants' visualises the perishing beauty around us.

7% of the works selling price is donated to The Finnish Association for Nature Concervation to help the protection of menaced nature. Our most beautiful menaced plants is a collection of 25 sculptures.

Sirje Ruohtula, Tiina Makkonen and Jari Kauppinen:
For the child, how was (and the one, that will always be)
Kaisaniemi metro station, end of the platform, 24.11.-16.12.
Installation

Jii Hutikka, Inka Jurvanen, Emilia Liljeström, Sera Martikainen, Marianne Mäkelin, Mikko Mällinen, Ilona Romunen, Tessa Siira, Andrew Paterson: Jii Hutikka's Clip Karavaani
Kaisaniemi Metroasema ‘Opintoputki’, Wednesday 21.11.07 from 18.00-19.30.
Kaisaniemi Metroasema ‘Opintoputki’, Wednesday 28.11.07 from 18.00-19.30.
Screenings (*See more below)

Hakaniemi

The students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences / School of Art and Media: Henna Inkinen, Johanna Havimäki, Tytti Viljanen, Outi Yliviikari, Paula Lehtonen, Jonna Kinnunen and Kaisa Lehtonen. Teacher: Sari Tervaniemi.
Hakaniemi metro station

Light, performance, space and photographic artworks that deal with the daily life of people in a positive and collective way.

Tytti Viljanen: View
Drawings

Laura Paavilainen: Ghostpain
Print

Sari Tervaniemi: Friends
Print

Kaisa Kirsikka: Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy
Painting

Paula Lehtonen: National Twister
Installation

Henna Inkinen: Back to Basics
Print

Jii Hutikka, Inka Jurvanen, Emilia Liljeström, Sera Martikainen, Marianne Mäkelin, Mikko Mällinen, Ilona Romunen, Tessa Siira, Andrew Paterson: Jii Hutikka's Clip Karavaani
Hämeentie 4 (inbetween UFF and Metro Kebab); Friday 23.11.07 from 19.00-20.30.
Screenings (*See more below)

Sörnäinen

Henriikka Kivelä and Samu Nyholm: Bermuda triangle
Vaasanaukio

Light installation

Maija Saksman and Terhi Järvinen: Lighten-up!
Inhabitants of 'Sällikoti' have chosen their favourite spots near the metro station, and they have lightened them up.
Installation

Herttoniemi

Antti Pussinen: Dance to the sound of the underground
Fence of metro between the stations Herttoniemi and Siilitie
60 paintings, UV lighting, installation on the fence

Using a private car in the cities is mad!

By walking, biking, and travelling with public transport one becomes a part of living city and can observe the dynamics that keep city alive and interesting.

In this work the artist creates an animation in the spirit of old flip book animation. Several pictures will be attached to the sheltering fence beside metro tracks so that a passenger can see the animation through the window while the train passes by the pictures.

Itäkeskus

Ulla-Maija Alanen: Sinä Olet (You are)
Itäkeskus subway station, 26.11.2007 – 31.3.2008
4 m x 2,6 m video projection on a painted Gyproc Gek surface
Dance performance "Yllätyksiä" by Annika Sarvela and Raisa Vennamo 29.11. and 3.12.

Ulla-Maija Alanen takes pictures of people passing by, and projects their silhouettes to Gyproc Gek surface. Silhouettes form a playful entity together with bypassers shadows and artworks verbal message. Performance shows non-stop from dusk till dawn (in the opening hours of metro). Duration: 4 minutes. Dance performance by Annika Sarvela and Raisa Vennamo in the opening ceremony and twice later on..

This work is commissioned as a part of Helsinki metro's 25th anniversary. Ulla-Maija Alanen: Architect, Visual artist; Sound: actors Terhi Panula and Jukka-Pekka Palo; Composition: Sari Vuori; Partners: Helsinki City Transport, Saint-Gobain/ Gyproc Ltd, the Public Works Department, City of Helsinki Culture Office, Culture centre Stoa, AVEK, Tikkurila Ltd and Lasipalatsi Film and media centre.

Kontula

Association of experimental electronics: Bulb matrix
Media centre Kontupiste, display window
Keinulaudankuja 4 B.
An electromechanical installation, recycled material.

Association of experimental electronics has produced an electromechanical light work made of recycled material. The work consists of sequencers of old slot machines. Sequencers control a bulb matrix made of old "sähköpääkeskus." The aim is to bring light both to those who suffer of darkness and to those who are bored with the supriselessness of the digital technology.

Rastila

Residents of Rastila: Sailing in to the darkness
Roof of Meri-Rastilan tie 14 B
Light installation

Suburb of Meri-Rastila located in eastern Helsinki – as well as thousands of other Finnish suburbs – will be overwhelmed by darkness. Lighted sail on the roof of Meri-Rastilan tie 14 B shows that Meri-Rastila isn’t totally hibernating. The sail that symbolizes Clubhouse Fokka invites every one to inhabitant room to meet others and share together the dark times of year.

Vuosaari

Victor Vieillard ja Sara de Gouy (FRA): Mirages
Mustankivenpuisto park, 17.11.
Video installation

Our installation occures on street lamps on urban city. We project lightning shadows as mirages. This shadow’s lights are totally disconnect from reality and refer to the comic strips’ or cartoon world in order to add a funny tone to a functional situation as lighting city.

Variable stations

Production team: Jii Hutikka, Inka Jurvanen, Emilia Liljeström, Sera Martikainen, Marianne Mäkelin, Mikko Mällinen, Ilona Romunen, Tessa Siira, Andrew Paterson: Jii Hutikka’s Clip Karavaani

Jii Hutikka's Clip Karavaani is an almost-zero-cost ‘micro-cinema’ in hybrid public space: We will be lighting up a ‘Roll-down-Fold-out’ screen for movie-clips somewhere at a Helsinki Metro station near you!

Like any good mobile entertainment, our ‘Clip Karavaani’ will borrow a little bit of city space. We invite you to our nomadic series during Valon Voimat 2007 Festival of ‘One Night-Only Stands’. We take advantage of a playful range of marginal, popular and subcultural movie-clips, via popular online media platforms or ‘P2P’ resources. NB/ We encourge clip-movie suggestions in dialogue with local audience tastes and interest. Watch out for the ‘Video Slams’: Bring along a little online enlightenment! We are on the move.

Catch us in advance for more details: http://clipkaravaani.info

The 'Clip Karavaani' project emerges from the 'Self-organising and Networking MAA' course at Taidekoulu MAA.