OFF THE WALL is an audiovisual exhibition presented as special programming for Aavistus Festival 2024. The works selected as part of this exhibition is curated in addition to Aavistus festival focussing on "screened" works as opposed to the other performance based presentations taking place during the festival. It is intended to support emerging artists in the field of new media exploring new longer format visualizations.The screening will feature works by 10+ international artists touching on the main festival theme of "at the points of interconnections".
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Ado-Kin Collective (MX & IT)
We are a multidisciplinary group that has been working on transmedia creative projects for a decade. Located between Italy and Mexico, we collaborate consistently to create narratives that integrate our ongoing independent research with various disciplines and expressive tools. In our practice, we embrace posthuman methodologies.
Daria Craciun (ROU)
Daria has recently graduated from the Tampere University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Media and Arts (Fine Art). Crăciun’s primary mediums are photography and moving images. She draws inspiration from the surrealism movement, focusing on the unconscious and subconscious. Her works have been exhibited at the Nuori Taide event, the Ääniaalto Festival at Vapaan Taiteen Tila, and most recently at the Tampere Photo Festival, Lapinlahden Lähde and Galleria Toinen Silmä in Helsinki.
Elina Zazulia (RU)Elina is an interdisciplinary artist (based in Colombia) , working with digital technologies, space, and movement. She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design in Russia, specializing in Architectural Environment Design. Elina has also worked as a designer and VJ, creating installations and visual effects in real time for electronic music events. Currently engaged in both independent individual projects and collaborations, she explores the extensive artistic potentials of media. Within her practice, Elina navigates two distinct but interconnected directions. Firstly, she dives into the realm of audiovisual monumental abstractions, aiming to elicit not just visual or auditory responses but also tactile sensations and profound kinesthetic experiences in her audience. In her second area of focus, Elina embarks on interdisciplinary research, delving into posthuman identity and examining humanity's relationship with the environment.
Eloise Jenninger (FR)
Eloise is a French-German Film Director, Animator and Screenwriter currently based in London. She graduated from the National Film and Television School (England) in Directing Animation. Her latest film The Last Garden was BAFTA-nominated. Taking inspiration from her scientific background in Ecology, Eloise is driven to use animation to explore the complex relationship between humans and nature, as well as the impact of climate change on the world. In her upcoming projects, she aims to reinterpret myths while also experimenting with gaming, virtual reality, AI, VJ art, and documentary filmmaking.
Ho Hsin-Yuan (VD)
Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2001, and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Hsin-Yuan Ho is currently pursuing studies in the Graduate Institute of New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. Ho has a strong interest in creating sound installations and is fascinated by minimalist lines and geometric shapes. Her work primarily focuses on mechanical and sound installations, as well as audio-visual art. Currently exploring a variety of objects to create intriguing dynamic and auditory experiences.
Lù Chen (SG)
Lù is a designer and new media artist currently based in Helsinki. Through both research and practice, Lù examines and challenges binaries like "native/foreign," "public/personal," "West/non-West," "masculine/feminine," "human/non-human," "artistic/engineering" - so as to investigate the possibility of creating just and polyphonic futures together.
Otto Andelin & Pekka Kokkonen
Experimenting with generative forms, lost and decaying media, broken and disfigured data, feedback loops and everyday surroundings in order to restructure and rearrange pre-existing things to something new, or creating something out of nothing by allowing the machines process the signals indefinitely with minimal human intervention.
Tianjun Li (Timjune) (CHN)
Also known as Timjune, Tianjun Li is a Helsinki-based interdisciplinary visual artist and musician specializing in photography, voice, and performance. Timjune’s work reimagines the narratives of the human-nature relationship within contemporary contexts—from belonging, immigration to deforestation. Born with synesthesia, he perceives images through sound. His voice, spanning more than four octaves, evokes natural movements and social landscapes, transcending both gender and the divide between humans and nature. By reconstructing images, sounds, and conducting vocal experiments, he transforms photographic art into multi-sensory installations and performances. His work creates surreal, fablelike utopias rooted in harsh realities, highlighting the parallel trajectories between individuals, communities, and the ever-changing natural environment in the Anthropocene era.
Valentina Gelain (IT)
Valentina is an interdisciplinary artists based in Ostrobothnia, Finland. She graduated in Visual Arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Art, in Milan. In recent years, the artist has explored video art and in general a multidisciplinary approach to research and practice, leading her to work with photography, performance, installation, poetry and so on. She is a member of Artists' Association MUU, and was ranked second among the top 10 finalists in the last edition of the Exibart Prize. Since 2018, Gelain has worked with peer Bekim Hasaj and now the artists have strengthened their collaboration as a duo. Their research draws from the rural and natural environment, interacting deeply with its elements. Investigating the land's forms and physicality, or penetrate symbolism that can be traced back to human beings. The upcoming projects carry forward the research between artist, nature and art making in rural areas.
Victoria Fofanova (RU)
Victoria is a Russian Karelia-based artist residing in Tampere. With a lifelong curiosity about nature, art, and animal psychology, she has studied each field individually to synthesize them into her work. Drawing on her previous experiences and knowledge, she conveys ideas through her art, creating visual projects that explore the intricate connections between these subjects.
