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Date Time Event Description Location
Saturday 21 April 2012

18:00 Janne Särkelä opening Sound Art Gallery Akusmata
Sunday 22 - Saturday 28 April 2012

12:00-14:00 Janne Särkelä live installation Sound Art Gallery Akusmata
Wednesday
25 April 2012
13:00 Alastair MacLennan durational performance starts in front of Kiasma
13:15 press conference
Performance of Concept: Ulysses. Talk by Leevi Lehto
seminar room of Kiasma
14:15 the opening of the Biennale and the release of
Pekka Luhta's essay on performance art criticism
14:30 The opening finishes
14:45 Alastair MacLennan finishes in front of Kiasma
15:00 Concept of Performance Part I discussion starts seminar room of Kiasma
Artur Tajber: Theses for Performance introductionary speeches, 2 x 20 min
Irma Optimist: The Performance Spaces
16:30 Concept of Performance Part I discussion concludes
18:00 Pilvari Pirtola videos Kattilahalli
18:30 Nastja Säde Rönkko durational performance starts
19:00 Kimmo Modig performances
19:30 Anneli Nygren Esitystaiteen keskus
20:00 Maanalainen seurakunta laulaa
20:45 Tomasz Szrama Kattilahalli
21:30 Timo Viialainen
22:00 Alexander Rishaug sound performances
22:45 Black to Comm
23:30 Pilvari Pirtola videos
24:00 end of program
Thursday
26 April 2012
14:00 Shannon Cochrane durational performances start outdoors city spaces
József Juhász
Artur Tajber
14:15 1st series of
video performances and documents
introduction seminar room of Kiasma
14:30 Kaarina Ormio lecture performance.
15:00 photo slideshow repeats all day
15:45 Helinä Hukkataival performance starts Galleria Jangva and outdoors city space
16:30 Shannon Cochrane durational performances finish in front of Kiasma
József Juhász
Artur Tajber
16:45 Helinä Hukkataival performance going on
17:10 performance concludes Kiasma Theatre
17:45 Wen Yau performances
18:20 Mimosa Pale & Jukka Rusanen
19:00-20:00 "Diddleiddle addleaddle ooddleooddle. Hissss." Performance in Concert
Sanna Hakkola, folk harp "Sirens", based on Ulysses by James Joyce
Leevi Lehto, voice
Adachi Tomomi sound and instruments
20:00 Panu Tyhtilä performances Kattilahalli
20:30 Peter Rosvik
21:00 Messianic Research Centre for Visual Ethics Esitystaiteen Keskus
21:45 Pink Twins sound performances Kattilahalli
22:30 Ö
23:15 Ikihevonen
24:00 end of program
Friday
27 April 2012
14:00 Stein Henningsen durational performance starts in front of Kiasma
14:15 2nd series of
video performances and documents
seminar room of Kiasma
Messianic Research Centre for Visual Ethics presentation
14:30 1st screening
15:00- repeats all day
15:30-16:15 Ornic'Art performance Vapaa Taidetila
16:30-17:00 Stein Henningsen finishes in front of Kiasma
17:00 Shannon Cochrane performances Kiasma Theatre
17:50 József Juhász
18:00 Shinji Kanki conducting Anders Bergman, Egle Oddo, Gregoire Rousseau, Jarkko Räsänen, Kresimir Popovic, Meeri Virpi and Sirpa Jokinen sound performance starts lobby of Kiasma
18.30 Tari Ito performances Kiasma Theatre
19:15 Irma Optimist
19:45 Shinji Kanki ensemble sound performance going on lobby of Kiasma
20:00-20:45 electro-recitative sound and buto concert Kiasma Theatre
Noises of Russia & New Orthodox Line sound
butoh.name dance
21:00 Shinji Kanki ensemble sound performance concludes, exit Kiasma lobby of Kiasma
21:00 Marko Timlin sound performance Ylioppilasteatteri
21:30 Nihil Interit (Eino Santanen, Silja Järventausta, Jukka Viikilä, Marko Niemi, Miia Toivonen, Teemu Manninen, Sirpa Kyyrönen and Lassi Hyvärinen) non-stop action poetry
Jaakko Autio sound improvisation collage
22:30 Steve Vanoni performance
23:15 Zenial sound performance
24:00 end of program
Saturday
28 April 2012
10:00-12:00 Alastair MacLennan lecture seminar room of Kiasma
13:00 3rd series of
video performances and documents
Eeva-Mari Haikala presentation
13:15 first screening
super 8 films
13:45- repeats all day
14:00 Artur Tajber performance Kiasma Theatre
15:00-16:50 Adachi Tomoni nonstop
action poetry
Jaap Blonk
Leevi Lehto
Eiríkur Örn Norddahl
Cia Rinne
17:00 Shinji Kanki conducting students of Taidekoulu Maa collective street sound performance city space from Kiasma to Kauppatori
19:00 Rasmus Hedlund and
Tuomo Väänänen
sound performance Galleria Augusta, Suomenlinna
19:30 Juha Forss performances
20:15 Stein Henningsen
21:00 Ornic'Art
21:45 Pöyhönen//Petterson sound performances
22:30 Gunk
23:15 Jukka Hautamäki
24:00 end of program
Sunday
29 April 2012
02:00 last ferry from Suomenlinna
before 12:00
and after
transport to Harakka island from Kaivopuisto (by Café Ursula)
12:00- "DIS/Orientations" workshop facilitated by John W. Fail,
John Grzinich and Sari TM Kivinen.
workshop Harakka main building, library, 2nd floor
13:00- Pilvari Pirtola sound/video installation Kasematti I

Kasematti IV
Janne Särkelä sound installation
14:00 FixC video screening Harakka main building, auditorium, 2nd floor
14:30 FixC & Otzir Godot cinema live
15:00 Thierry Madiot seven hour sound massage sessions start Lennätin
15:00 Tuomo Rainio Performance with selfmade instruments Harakka main building, auditorium, 2nd floor
16:00 Tanja Koistila performance in artists' studio Harakka main building, basement
16:30 Concept of Performance Part II discussion Harakka main building, auditorium, 2nd floor
17:00 dinner, biennale concludes.

Otzir Godot RE-TURNINGS FOR HIT
(Sound Spaces for Searooms)
Harakka main building, dining room, 2nd foor
18:30 Anna Mari Räsänen performance Path of Poems
19:00 sauna, piano music and sound massage, camp fire, barbeque
23:00 end of program




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