Remi Vesala - showroom #2: hot minds
showroom is curator Remi Vesala's experimentation with different forms of moving image presentation and presence, where content sometimes seeps out beyond the boundaries of the screen. Now in its second edition, the showroom's themes are desire, challenge and critical embodied thinking. The evening's works will reflect on the intersection of these themes, including how we might reimagine the rights of trans & queer people.
The evening will feature a selection of moving image works by Frances Arpaio, Karolina Kucia, Wet Mess and Inari Sandell, as well as a performance by Rakel Jylhä-Vuorio and Mia Wennerstrand. There will also be an artwork kolya kotovilta.
Programme (not order of presentation):
Rakel Jylhä-Vuorio & Mia Wennerstrand
I Can't Make These Rights Sound Right But That's Alright is a performance which removes the nation-state imagining trans rights. On stage, we'll think of rights that are neither grounded in nor justified within the frameworks of law. Instead, these rights are based on the materialist knowledge of trans feminine lives. We ask: who granted you the right to be trans?
Frances Arpaia: ATrans with a Movie Camera (2018)
A non-narrative cine-essay that collaboratively explores the potentials of trans-feminine representation in film.
Karolina Kucia: We Bites Us (2023)
Common... Public... Private... Bodily fluids and body parts seem to have life on their own, rebellious, foreign and unwilling. A group wanders through a monstrous shape-shifting reality; in the grey zone in between life and death, the present and the future, the human, cannibal and cyborg existence.
Inari Sandell: On Butterfly Logic (2024)
The film examines butterflies' moving patterns, societal norms of neurotypicality, and the psychiatric interventions and histories concerning autism.
A butterfly's flying pattern might not make sense to human observer, but its' "erratic" logic keeps the creature safe from predators. The film presents the butterfly as a symbol of resistance to normative cognitive and bodily standards, and suggests we look at diverging manners of movement and thinking as their own logical system; worthy, queer, and intelligent.
Wet Mess: A Bodiless Thing (2022)
Horny for confusion, more chaos, more unknown than known, our mannerisms maximised by a thousand. The ego, the bodiless thing, the crotch grapping, rubbing its quivering flesh against the rough surfaces of the city scape.
ABodiless Thing takes us on a muscle fuelled carb killing search for belonging, which makes us question to what extent our material existence determines who we think we are and how we fit into the world. Can we really be that horny, sweaty, binary defying, rificulously camp person beyond our flesh suits? Cum join the escape and get ready for this transcendental mess.
kolya kotov: side hustle, 2024
Event image and artwork in space .
BIO:
Remi Vesala is a Helsinki-based freelance curator. Vesala takes situations and places as the starting points for their curational work, aiming to make space for complexity, theory and emotions.
Vesala is the founder of the curator-driven art space Lou. Vesala also works with experimental short film, often in collaboration with artist Jade Kallio. Their films have been screened at rencontres internationales paris/berlin, Kasseler Dokfest and Tampere Film Festival, among others.
Photo: kolya kotov
SCHEDULE
7.2.2025 at 19.00
LOCATION
Parvisali, Text House Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki
TIME
2h
LANGUAGE
English
AGE RECOMMENDATION
18+
NOTES
Programme contains flashing lights, nudity and sexual content
ACCESSIBILITY
The language of the event is English. Only some of the works will have English subtitles.
PRICE
10-40€
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