The fourth week of Everwhatgallery, Utopia

Utopia, a perfect society, good place and also no-place.

Everwhatgallery's last theme brings a lot of questions regarding our lives. We always pursue perfection and good things. But what can be perfect? it depends on us.

Everwhatgallery is indeed a good place. Everyone who visited the gallery never forget to say "This is a nice place".  For some of us, the basement of Uusiseurahuone can be Utopia. There are people, discussion, talks, music, art, light, darkness, sadness, happiness and etc.

The first performer of the week, Anssi Laiho brought interesting sounds to the gallery. Could the sounds be the sound of Utopia? The fmiliar sounds, maybe Utopia is around us?

 

Everwhatgallery also got a lot of new works by Antti Ylönen and Antti Tenetz

 

 

 

 

Joose Mikkonen's animal songs also can be sounds of Utopia.

Children also come and express their art in Everwhatgallery.

 

and listen children's music by Soiva Siili.

A lot more fun things are waiting for the last week in Everwhatgallery!

Oulun Taiteiden Yö, Oulu art night in Everwhatgallery

 What an exciting day, art everywhere in Oulu.

In front of Everwhatgallery, our artists, Niko-Petteri Niva, Niels Leenders, Jussi Pylkäs,Jenna Kemilä were drawing on the street with chalks.

 

The first performer Surasit played his rough sounded guitar with singing

After his performance ended, everyone went outside to see KEKSI Kollektiiv's street dance inspired by jungle. Everyone stopped and enjoyed the moment with Keksis. 

People stayed to listen Julian Owusu's spoken word with poems.

 The last performance was Rites for the Digital Shaman by Tanja Råman and John Collingswood.

"The Digital Shaman emerges into an underground cave in central Oulu. Fusing contemporary dance with responsive projection and a live generated soundtrack, TaikaBox creates a unique and powerful experience, shifting ancient energy into the digital age. This performance installation is part of an ongoing research project into ancient mysticism and improvised ritual enhanced with cutting-edge technology, and will be broadcast live via Periscope. See taikabox.com for more details."

(http://www.everwhatgallery.com/)

For one hour, it continued.

The smoke kept spewing and mysterious music repeated with her dance.

Yes, It really looked some kind of ritual, which was hard to know.

But the light behind, was beautiful with windblown leaves in the forest background. 

For this one hour, I don't know where I was. 

Tanja, dressed up like an animal, was dancing for rites. Slowly and repeatedly.

One point, the forest light disappeared and the digital age came. 

The music also changed, with more mechanical sound. 

It was another kind of beauty, different from the nature, but still beautiful. 

The hundreds of beams lightened the dancer, and an indescribable scene was made.

As the one appreciator said, it was really "mahtava"

I don't really know how to explain,

but my one hour passed with strange feeling that I have never experienced.

Everwhatgallery third week, Hypothesis

Everwhatgallery started its third week with the theme "Hypothesis". 

Artists from Oulu Game Lap also started new drawings for the new theme. 

and Aura Sinervo came to perform first for the week. 

 

 It was her third performance with another last one waiting to be performed on this Friday. Unfortunately, I missed previous two performances of her
 and just heard that she eats.
She was covered with white and orange color of plastic bags.

She put her blocked eyeglasses on and threw off her orange slippers. 

She seemed to enter another world. 

Her hand, with plastic gloves, was holding an orange paprika. 

She started cutting the paprika in pieces and took out two pincettes. 

She looked like she is experimenting the paprika in laboratory.

She tasted one and munched the others. 

The smell of the fresh paprika spread over the room. 

She wanted to show how she was experimenting the paprika to everyone in the room.

I was sure that she really enjoyed eating and it looked very tasty. 

Her intentional movements made more sounds on top of bubble wrap. 

When she finished eating, she took her glasses off.

And she looked different person. Normal one. A person who is not eating a paprika.

I and my friend were wondering, what on earth does she mean by it?

Why food? why eating? why no comments? why the plastics?

Our head were filled with question marks.

We know that sometimes it tells more when one doesn't say anything.

But we really want to listen your voice, Aura!

Probably on Friday, will she say something?