DOUBLE RELEASE by Cia Rinne + Maarit Mustonen and Anne Naukkarinen:

SENTENCES

By Cia Rinne

ikkööhäik – I'm ok

by Maarit Mustonen and Anne Naukkarinen:

30.11.2018

Come join us at BLADR for at great evening! Mustonen and Naukkarinen will do a reading based on their book, Cia Rinne will read from "Sentences" and as a special treat writer and critic Solveig Daugaard will hold a short talk about the two publications.

17:30: - Reading by Anne Naukkarinen and Maarit Mustonen
18:00: - Talk by Solveig Daugaard
18:15: - Reading by Cia Rinne

“Sentences” by Cia Rinne, published following her exhibition “Wasting My Grammar” at Forlaget Gestus, 2017, is based on a series shown in connection with the exhibition, and consists of two parts: Cia Rinne’s sentences, monostiches written on a typewriter, and an essay entitled “I am very miserable about sentences”. Referring to their language, double meaning, materiality, characteristics and feelings, the “sentences” apply language to explore and express themselves, thus simultaneously questioning language, and their own purpose. The sentence becomes a material site for discussing itself, pointing to the impossibility of escaping language or of using it objectively. The work is accompanied by Cia's recomposition of sentences taken from the essays “Sentences” and “Sentences and Paragraphs” by Gertrude Stein. Where Stein suggests and explains ‘how to write’ sentences, Rinne plays with the question about what we are writing and how are we reading it.

“ikkööhäik – I’m ok” by Maarit Mustonen and Anne Naukkarinen is a site-specific project with its starting point in the local language that Mustonen and Naukkarinen do not speak, and the publication is a parallel to their performance which took place at Forlaget Gestus this autumn. The book brings together verbal material, artists’ translations and gestures developed for the work.

The verbal material of the work is written by Mustonen in Copenhagen. She has listened people speaking in public spaces and written down what she hears and how she hears it: hils stiine – de baiju omsii – oukei – de ee megafiiert – ikkööhäik ikkööhäik. Naukkarinen, who has background in dance and performance arts, approaches these words as scores: she interprets the words by voice and movements, creates gestures for each utterance. Naukkarinen and Mustonen work with the embodiment of language, its emotions and logics, and the possible spaces created by words. They examine how meaning emerge and sway. Who is the body which moves and talks? What kind of world language creates?

Cia Rinne is a renowned Finish-swedish poet and artist working with the semantic shifts in the intersection between a minimalistic aesthetic and concrete poetry.

Maarit Mustonen and Anne Naukkarinen are Finnish artists based in Helsinki and have collaborated since 2014. Naukkarinen has a background in dance and performance art, Mustonen in working with language and lens-based images. When collaborating, they combine their working methods and knowledge through installations, performances, sound pieces and publications.

This event is supported by:
Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Arts Promotion Center Finland
Nørrebro Lokaludvalg