Improv Sessions XVI: Jaakko Arola, Mirva Mäkinen, Libero Mureddu, and Sade Risku
22.10.2020
Museum of Impossible Forms
Schedule:
19:00 Doors Open
19:30-21:30 Performances by artists Jaakko Arola, Mirva Mäkinen, Libero Mureddu, and Sade Risku
BREAK
21:45 Blind dates for Improvisers
Free entrance
The Museum of Impossible Forms M{if} is excited to announce the new session Improv Sessions, a space for improvisation and experimental music sessions, where seasoned local and international improvisors meet up on the stage of M{if} in Kontula creating unique performances. The event continues with our regular practice of 'Blind Date Jamming', where members of the audience may ask other audience members and/or the invited guests for the opportunity to "jam" or play a short improvised piece together.
For this session, artists Jaakko Arola, Mirva Mäkinen, Libero Mureddu, and Sade Risku come together to create experiments across hybrid rythms of sound, music, dance and body movement.
NOTE! COVID RESTRICTIONS:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 pandemic we can only allow 20 people at the space at one time. Please arrive early to secure your place in the audience! Only attend if you are healthy and have no flu like symptoms.
We will also follow social distancing recommendations inside the space. We ask visitors to wash their hands when entering the space. Wearing a mask is highly recommended. We provide masks and hand sanitizer also at the space.
Thank you for helping us make this a safer event for everyone!
Jaakko Arola
Improviser and a composer interested in a large variety of woodwinds. He plays saxophones, clarinets, flutes and traditional woodwind instruments. As an improviser Arola uses elements of archaic improvisation and drone based material to more modern approaches such as extended techniques and electronic effects combined with acoustic instruments. As a composer Arola is trying to find the balance between pre-composed and real-time composed material.
Mirva Mäkinen
In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and tension. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement.
Libero Mureddu
A versatile musician, during the past twenty years his musical experiences in the European scene have ranged from contemporary and experimental music, to jazz and popular music.
His current artistic practice intersects between free improvisation languages, composition, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, to create innovative, unexpected and challenging performative frameworks.
Sade Risku
I love the meeting point of different art forms. I have many tools and speak a few languages, some better than others, but I use them all with a child like mind, without shame. This world isn’t an easy place to live, but as giving up is not an option, I look around curiously, see beauty, seek connection, spread joy and create with love. Life is constant evolution that creating is taking part of.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a Safer Space. We follow a Safer Space policy to create a welcoming, inclusive, awesome environment.
Events at the Museum of Impossible Forms are completely free and accessible without prior booking.
Museum of Impossible Forms is accessible by lift with thresholds up to 4cm on the way. The toilet has no thresholds but is not spacious enough to meet accessibility standards. The nearest accessible toilet is located at Kontula metro station.
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