The title of the exhibition is a spontaneous absurdity generated by Aldar “Psaiko” Talviste, a well-known mad genius of Tartu. The site-specific perception of texts decontextualizes non-Estonian artists and artworks to the psychogeographic context of Tartu. A variation of continuum is an impossibility because all variations should exhaustively be embodied in it. Therefore, the two words mark an unimaginable that, nevertheless, refers to crossing all limits. In order to understand it we must turn to light.
Tatsuru Arai´s audiovisual installation THERMO exhibited on the first floor of Gallery Pallas focuses on the human ability to perceive “Thermo” from an audio and visual sense. Human beings can evoke memories and physical phenomena through different visual and auditory stimulation. As an example, it is hypothesized that we recognize a heat sensation from the energy of the petals collapsing.
Basement floor of the Gallery Pallas exhibits installations by Paola Medina Querini and Maria Paz aka Exotikdot. Tatsuru Arai and Exotikdot will be performing also at TAVA2021 Xperimental concert on October 29th at Tartu Aparaaditehas, Hall of Love.
Curator: Kiwa. Graphic designer: Margus Tamm
NB! Exhibition „Variation of Contnuum“ at the Gallery Pallas will be opened during TAVA2021 27.-30.10 exclusively from 10:00-22:00.
Tatsuru Arai is a composer and sound/graphic-programmer who lives and works in Berlin. He has studied music in Japan and Germany. His main artistic theme is to integrate classical compositions to new technology, as “Trans-Ages-Music”, and to present the fundamental physical nature of the universe in the form of perceptional experiences, that could say aesthetics of “geometric structure”.
He has worked and performed at international Art/Music Festival/,Kinetica Art Festival (London UK)Tunisia Fashion week(Tunis Tunisia),Sajeta – Art & Music Festival(Slovenia)B-Seite Festival (Mannheim Germany),Flow Festival (Helsinki Finland) Signal Festival 2017 (Cagliari Italy), intermediale Festival (Legnica Poland), CTM Transmediale festival (Berlin Germany), Klankvorm (Rotterdam Netherlands), MADATAC Festival (Madrid Spain), MAteraINtermedia festival (Matera Italy), Sonic Acts fetival (Amsterdam Netherlands), Gogbot Festival (Enschend Netherlands), Generate!_lab Festival (Tübingen Germany)
http://www.tatsuruarai.com/
Maria Paz is an artist, composer and designer born in Bogota, Colombia in 1981. Exotikdot is her artistic pseudonym as well as the name of her solo-electronics band. She grew up and lived in the capital until the age of 19, when she moved to Europe for her studies. She obtained a BA and MA at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, was a guest student at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, and obtained an MFA in Experience Design at Konstfack in Stockholm,as well as she a post-graduate in Lighting Design at IED (Barcelona).
Her nomadic lifestyle as well as her interdisciplinary approach has deeply influenced her practice. She has participated in several collective and solo exhibitions and festivals in Belgium, France, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, Estonia and Colombia, including the Tokyo Experimental Festival, Sound Art and Performance (Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan), Norberg Festival(Norberg, Sweden), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and at Art institutions like Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Atelier 340 Muzeum (Brussels, Belgium).
Paola Medina Querini (Panamá, 1989) is an architect and a multidisciplinary artist specialised in lighting design who mixes colors, reflections and textures in immersive experiences to evoke human senses. During 2019, she participated in Hack the Light Up – Torre Agbar from Protopixel and an urban light installation “Entremurs” for the Llum Light Festival BCN.
Paola received a Postgraduate in Architecture Lighting Design from the Instituto Europeo di Disegno, Barcelona in 2019 and a Master in a Project Management for Interior Architecture from La Salle Ramon Llull University, Barcelona in 2018.
Supporters: Tartu Linnavalitsus, Eesti Kultuurkapital, EAS, Tartu Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kultuuriministeerium
Golden sponsors: Hektor Light, Topledshop/Inestra
Sponsors: Silman, Osram, Bartheime, LedsC4, Meyer, Reggiani, iGuzzini, Intiled, E&T Valgus, Eventcenter, Eventech, Elektrilevi, Stockholm Lighting, Digital Sputnik, Elektrilevi,
Partners: LUCI Assotsiatsioon, IALD, EVDA, Tartu2024, Eesti Kunstnike Liit, Eesti Arhitektide Liit, EKA, Tartu Kunstikool, Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas, Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Teaduskeskus AHHAA, Tartu Tantsuakadeemia, Alexela Loomemaja, Messiproff, Kunst ja Pärimus, Tartu Jaani Kirik, Gold Security Group OÜ, Teleprint, Typa, Aparaaditehas, Galerii Kogo, tARTu, Alles Oder Licht, Loodusturism, Peipsi Tee, EVA (Eesti Valgus Agentuur), Arhitektuurikool, Festival Afekt, TalTech, Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool, Viljandi kultuuriakadeemia, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tasku keskus, Tartu Mart Reiniku kool, Coop, Selver.
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