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MOC at Äkkigalleria

23/9/2019

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Mechanics of Conformity (MOC Collective)
Rosamaría Bolom, Edwina Goldstone, Sepideh Raha, Arlene Tucker
Video screening and discussion in and around the topic of hair
Hosted by Äkkigalleria, Väinönkatu 32, Jyväskylä
October 5, 2019 from 13:30-16:00

Welcome to participate in an intimate conversation with MOC, where we can listen, share and learn about each other’s experiences related to hair. Your thoughts contribute to a deeper understanding of our collective and individual histories. Only through dialogue can discoveries be made.

How do we look at ourselves?
How do they look at us?
How do others look at each other?

MOC investigates the excess, absence, cutting, covering, growing, coloring and grooming of hair as both the materialization of individuality and of conformity. As an artistic medium and mediator of meaning, hair can communicate a sense of self relating to the internal and the external others. From this perspective, it can either uphold or upset conventional distinctions between divisions of gender, race, region and religion. These issues around hair can epitomize a global yet subjective social and personal significance.

MOC Collective consists of Rosamaría Bolom, Edwina Goldstone, Sepideh Raha, and Arlene Tucker. We explore concepts of identity, relationships, perceptions, liberation and otherness through hair. Ask a person about their hair, and they just might tell you the story of their life. MOC has been working around the subject of hair since 2017.

This event is organised in collaboration with Anna Ruth and Äkkigalleria, also is supported by Taiteen Edistämiskeskus. The discussion and screening is open to everybody and to all ages. The main language of the event will be conducted in English. There is the possibility for Finnish translation and, of course, freedom to express oneself in Finnish is encouraged.

Video lineup:

The Story of Hair Tree & Intertwined
By Arlene Tucker 2019

The Story of Hair Tree & Intertwined shows the process of how these two projects were developed and created. Intertwined looks at how family members relate to each other despite their shared DNA. Here, the concept of family also extends to individuals welcomed by choice. This piece is a continuation of Arlene Tucker’s Hair Tree (2017), which gathered family members scattered over four continents by collecting cuttings of their hair. Moving back in time, she attempts to comb through memories to understand where and how knots are formed. Tucker hopes this will further open dialogue about family and with family.

Watching Me, Watching You, Watching Me
By Edwina Goldstone 2018

Watching Me, Watching You, Watching Me, follows the metamorphosis of an image through many stages as it follows the twists and turns of the artist’s decision-making and memory process as she recalls and connects past & present conversations about ‘Hair’, with all the ambivalent, contradictory ideas and mixed feelings that are attached to it. Added together as an animated sequence the drawings form a peculiar imaginative narrative that never remains constant but grows and morphs with thought and time.

Me recuerdo a mi misma // I remember my self // Muistan itseni
By Rosamaría Bolom 2019

Year 2017, Mechanics of Conformity Collaboration lead me to a deeper reflection about how norms and values are introjected into our behavior since our childhood. A series of images came to me. I could remember three efficient rituals whose normative beliefs affect behavior. Me recuerdo a mi misma // I remember my self // Muistan itseni, is a “mask and a ritual for a society that judges us and teaches us how to behave ourselves from childhood to old age not to be punished, excluded accepted”.

Entangled – ME & HAIR
By Sepideh Rahaa 2018

Entangled – ME & HAIR is an ongoing project where I address my memories and experiences in relation to hair, where hair plays a meaningful role in my daily life interactions with people in society. It brings up questions such as how do we connect and disconnect from each other in relation to our looking, and how one can overcome the mechanism of conformity in everyday life. I used a series of life memories and experiences conveying the core concept through performing art, poetry and video.
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Thank you to our supporters Äkkigalleria and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike).
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Puhutaan hiuksista! Let's talk about hair!

25/2/2019

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LET'S TALK ABOUT HAIR
2nd of March from 12-16:00, Cultural Center Vuotalo


The spring process exhibition of the Vuosaari House, “Mitä me tolle sun tukalle tehdään” (‘What are we going to do with your hair’) discusses hair and the identity questions linked to hair. 

A Let’s talk about hair! afternoon will also be held as a part of the spring exhibition, featuring films and discussion about hair. 

Both Finnish and international artists that have incorporated hair and identity in their works in one way or another have been invited to take part in this dialogue. The artists of Mechanics of Conformity will take part in the event: Rosamaria Bolom, Edwina Goldstone, Sepideh Rahaa and Arlene Tucker as well as Afro-Brazilian researcher and journalist Silvana Bahia. An artist meeting with Caroline Suinner will also be held earlier during the day. 

Language English, Portuguese, Finnish

PROGRAM
12.00-12.45 Silvana Bahia’s introduction & movie KBELA (Vuosali)
12.45-14.00 Mechanics of Conformity collective’s video art
14.00-15.00 Discussion (Vuosali)
15.00-15.45 Meet and greet Caroline Suinner (Galleria)
16.00-17.30 Movie: Good Hair (Vuosali)

To read more about the event and venue, please click here.
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Puhutaan hiuksista!
la 2.3. klo 12-16, Kulttuurikeskus Vuotalo

Vuotalon kevään prosessinäyttely ”Mitä me tolle sun tukalle tehdään?” käsittelee hiuksia ja siihen liittyviä identiteettikysymyksiä. Osana kevään näyttelyä järjestetään myös Puhutaan hiuksista! -tapahtuma, jossa puhutaan tietysti hiuksista. Päivän päättää Chris Rockin tähdittämä Good Hair –dokumenttielokuva.

Dialogiin on kutsuttu taiteilijoita, jotka ovat käsitelleet tavalla tai toisella hiuksia ja identiteettiä töissään Suomessa ja Suomen ulkopuolella. Mukana ovat Mechanics of Conformity -kollektiivin taiteilijat: Rosamaria Bolom, Edwina Goldstone, Sepideh Rahaa ja Arlene Tucker sekä afrobrasilialainen tutkija ja toimittaja Silvana Bahia. Osana tapahtumaa on myös kevään prosessinäyttelyn taiteilijan Caroline Suinnerin taiteilijatapaaminen.

Tapahtuma järjestetään yhteistyössä Mechanics of Conformityn ja Koneen säätiön rahoittaman ARMA (Anti-Racism Media Activist Alliance) – hankkeen kanssa.

Tapahtuman kielet: englanti, portugali, suomi.

Vapaa pääsy!

OHJELMA
12.00-12.45 Silvana Bahian alustus ja KBELA –elokuva (Vuosali)
12.45-14.00 Mechanics of Conformity -kollektiivin videoteokset (Vuosali)
14.00-15.00 Keskustelu (Vuosali)
15.00-15.45 Caroline Suinnerin taiteilijatapaaminen (Galleria)
16.00-17.30 Good Hair –elokuva (Vuosali)

12.00-12.45 Silvana Bahia & KBELA –elokuva (Vuosali)
Silvana Bahia on afrobrasilialainen tutkija, toimittaja, elokuvantekijä ja aktivisti. Hän on keväällä 2019 Koneen säätiön residenssivieraana osana säätiön rahoittamaa ARMA-hanketta. Olabin tavoitteena on demokratisoida teknologiaa ja lisätä teknologia-alan sukupuolista ja etnistä monimuotoisuutta. Puhutaan hiuksista! -tapahtumassa hän alustaa Yasmin Thaynán lyhytelokuvan KBELA, joka on visuaalisesti vaikuttava elokuva ja oodi afrobrasilialaisten naisten hiuksille. Kieli: englanti ja portugali.

13.00-14.45 Mechanics of Conformity -kollektiivin alustus ja videoteokset (Vuosali)
MOC –taiteilijakollektiivin taiteilijat Rosamaria Bolom, Edwina Goldstone, Sepideh Rahaa ja Arlene Tucker ovat teoksissaan tutkineet hiuksia - niiden runsautta, puuttumista, leikkaamista, kasvattamista, värjäämistä ja hoitamista niin yksilöllisyyden kuin yhdenmukaisuuden ilmentymänä. Puhutaan hiuksista -tapahtumassa katsotaan kollektiivin videoteokset, jonka jälkeen keskustellaan keskustelu. Kieli: englanti.

15.00-15.45 Caroline Suinnerin taiteilijatapaaminen (Galleria)
Caroline Suinner on Vuotalon kevään prosessinäyttelyn “Mitä me tälle sun tukalle tehdään“ -taiteilija. Näyttelyssä Suinner kokoaa yhteen ulkonäköön ja hiuksiin liittyviä kokemuksia Itä-Helsingissä. Puhutaan hiuksista –tapahtumassa on mahdollista tavata tutustua kevään aikana rakentuvaan näyttelyyn ja tavata taiteilija Caroline Suinner. Kieli englanti ja suomi.

Näyttely Vuotalon galleriassa: 26.1.-25.5.2019, vapaa pääsy.

16.00-17.30 Good Hair –elokuva (Vuosali)
Dokumenttielokuvassa näyttelijä Chris Rock tutkii afroamerikkalaisia kauneusihanteita ja käsitettä Good hair, jolla afro-amerikkalaisessa kulttuurissa viitataan pehmeisiin, helppohoitoisiin ja tavoiteltuihin afrohiuksiin. Kesto. 96 min. Kieli: englanti.

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