On Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of March, Mad Houses stage is taken over by two challengingly thrilling performances.
B Funeral is a homage for dada, for the celebration of 100 years of dada!
B Funeral is based on the video ”Death in the swimming pool”. It shows a death of a bee, in a swimming pool in Bratislava, Slovakia. Juha Valkeapää and Jovanka Trbojevic accompany the happening with a musical improvisation.
The Ceremonial Master, Juha Valkeapää, is occasionally reciting Dadaistic poetry in German and occasionally doing some archaic and ordinary actions in a very limited space --actions such as ironing a shirt, brushing a suit, peeling potatoes and lemons, removing dust etc. He is also using his vocal abilities to communicate. Sometimes he is “singing” in canon with the bee on the video. The Ceremonial Master is childish and playful, irrational and full of positive energy, in the best style of dada heritage.
The Life Energy, Petri Kekoni, makes occasional movements in a very limited space, with the help of dices and aleatoric techniques. He appears and disappears as if with a touch of magic. In a way, with the dice, the Ceremonial Master is controlling this character, but generally speaking, the Life Energy is free and wild, compulsive and repetitive, but always different. It shifts the energy of the dying bee to a human dimension.
Young Dionysos (Part III - IV) tarjoilee kärsimyksen katarttisen kokemuksen
Young Dionysos (Part III - IV) - a most unconventional piano concertto combines Sándor Vály's piano with Sunny Seppä's loops and samplers. The combo does not offer entertainment but rather a cathartic experience, that is an inevitable phase when creating new art work. The concert is part of a larger audiovisual piece, that combines music, sculpture, dance and performance. Young Dionysos is about authority, madness, breaking the boundaries, unpredictability, scandals, depth, ecstasy, and sexuality. In this concert it comes out as sound, noise and music.
The series is also on display during this spring in a related exhibition in Titanik Gallery, Turku and Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere during the Biennale.
"The piano is one of the most perfect instruments. That is why I need to use this particular instrument to express myself. The destruction is illusive. Destroying the object does not equal with ruining the idea. With every hit on the key, a sound is born - produced by the Life Energy, forming music out of noises. Without the human the instrument is mearly an object, only the human can through oneself give it transcendence. The energies that are flowing are given form by the human. Every stroke on the key is equal to tearing apart tabus, to unite the life that has been split into half. When we step over the border of our rapture, the nature of our questions is altered and we can phrase them in new ways. We are no longer alone or feel loneliness". - Sándor Vály
Sándor Vály (born 1968) is an artist from Budapest, Hungary, living and working in Finland. He is a member of the Finnish Painters Society and has among other awards been noted with the Finnish Cricitcs Association award in 2000. His extensive art is in the collections of Helsinkis City Museum Kemi Art Museum, Pori Art Museum and in Lönnström Art Museum in Raumaa.
B Funeral
Time: Thu 3rd & Fri 4th March 7pm
Director & composer: Jovanka Trbojevic
On stage: Petri Kekoni & Juha Valkeapää
Language: -
Length: n. 45min
Young Dionysos
Time: Thu 3rd & Fri 4th March 8pm
Piano: Sándor Vály
Loops, sampler, programming: Sunny Seppä
Language: -
Length: n. 45min
Mad House Helsinki, Tiivistämö, Suvilahti (Kaasutehtaankatu 1, building 5)
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Double night for 15/10€.