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Wavelings was recorded at Wäinö Aaltosen museum as a part of the New Performance Turku festival 2017. The band consisted of 18 artists who were taught to use synthesisers during a two hour workshop. Members were divided into two group and trained to recognise the sounds different synths produce. Songs Hear – Redo, Ou-Ou, How can you eat juice? (my personal favorite) were recorded during these small group sessions. Songs Mister Noa Moa, Play echo and One for the parents were recorded during a 30min gig were all of the musicians played together for the first time. The audience consisted of art lovers and the parents of the band members. Special thanks to Ida Martikainen, Leena Kela & Christopher Hewitt, Anni Välimäki (NPTurku) and Susanna Hujala (WAM).

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“Contemporary art” a form of human expression which people born early in the 1900 believed to portray the time we live in better form then any form of expression which predates 1970.

Performance art is similar to acting on stage but instead of playing a role according to a script the artist follows the concrete rules of the surrounding world and infrastructure. For example the artist can try to fix a broken coffee machine. The act of fixing a coffee machine can be a vague gesture as an artwork. But of course the artist can choose to fix something more interesting, like a broken heart. The artist might fail to fix the broken heart but this doesn’t mean that s/he has failed to produce an artwork. As a result of the failure we will learn that art cannot (or can) mend broken hearts. Performance art produces artistic information about the world and the value of the artwork is in the questions it poses.

“We need to kill Arabs,” declared one woman with a big laugh. She added that Israel must “kick out the Arabs.”

Shocking summary on a video detailing Israeli & Palestine conflict by Ben Norton.

How subversive artists made thrift shopping cool (2017) Jennifer Le Zotte