Generation 2020 Performances
Sun Aug 16th & Thu Aug 20th 2020
At Bio Rex, free entry
Artworks
Mikko KMikko Kauppila: My Horse Queer
Sunday Aug 16th, at 2 pm. At Bio Rex. Free entry. 200 first to arrive are admitted. (the artwork is shown as part of the Youtube stream on Thursday aug 20th)
I’m interested in gender and its bodily possibilities in dramatic art. I study queer stage tactics,
and my proposal for carrying this out is the perverted being. My Horse Queer participates in outlining the perverted being. The being is both political fiction and lived reality. It is not a man, white, middle-class; the perverted being is a dispersing crowd.
Mikko Kauppila (s.1995)
My Horse Queer, 2018
performing arts
30 min
Sara-Maria Pirhonen & Sara-Maria Pirhonen & Nenna Tyni: Moment 2.0
Sunday Aug 16th, at noon & 3 pm. The artwork roams in the museum. Entry to the exhibition with the museum ticket.
Clowns are characters that are impertinent and forthright, they say uncomfortable things out loud without caring about the consequences. They work against learned and established approaches. In the exhibition the artists have put the forthnight nature of clowns on a collision course with our daily lives.
Sara-Maria Pirhonen & Nenna Tyni (b.1994 & 1995)
Moment 2.0, 2020
clownery performance
duration TBA
costumes and makeup: Riina Nieminen
Veera Huppunen & Lotta Ilonen: Home
Thursday Aug 20th, at 6–5.45 pm at Bio Rex. Free entry. 200 first to arrive are admitted. Live stream on Amos Rex’s Youtube Channel.
Our work is like a two-headed goat. One head is constantly aiming for the woods, the other aims high, level with the roofs. The conflict between these heads has produced a corpse. There are ribs, lungs, a nervous system and at least one ear. It’s not mute, just lacking in confidence; it’s an anarchic, questioning, and humorously sneering conflict. The heads make a pact, one picks up a violin and the other a pile of papers, and then the goat enters the stage.
Veera Huppunen & Lotta Ilonen (s. 2001)
Home, 2019
poetic soundscape
15 min
musicians: Darja Gustafsson, violin, Julie Svacinová, viola, Eero-Pekka Salervo, cello, Miro von Konow, drums
Riku Koponen: Be by yourself, be calm, don’t fear
Thursday Aug 20th, at 6–5.45 pm at Bio Rex. Free entry. 200 first to arrive are admitted. Live stream on Amos Rex’s Youtube Channel.
Riku Koponen (b.2000)
You’re in your own thoughts, no worries, take your time, 2000
Performance art
15 min
dancers: Henrik Björklund, Tiia Fredriksson, Riku Koponen
sound: Onerva Järvenpää
Oskari Kymäläinen: Dave is misbehaving & Study of Movement 2
Thursday Aug 20th, at 6–5.45 pm at Bio Rex. Free entry. 200 first to arrive are admitted. Live stream on Amos Rex’s Youtube Channel.
With my works for this exhibition, I seek to illustrate everyday emotions and emotional states from my world. I’ve tried to approach the different themes from more or less personal viewpoints. If viewers can use the work to reflect on their own world, it has
been a success.
Oskari Kymäläinen (s. 1999)
Dave is misbehaving
dance piece
4min
dancers: Oskari Kymäläinen & Isabella Nevanlinna
music: a scene from the film Space Odyssey
Study of Movement 2
dance piece
9 min
dancers: Isabella Nevanlinna, Heini Hermunen, Elle Turunen, Anna Skibjuk
music: René Aubry: Replay, Heinali: II
Birit Haarla: Cradle
Thursday Aug 20th, at 6–5.45 pm at Bio Rex. Free entry. 200 first to arrive are admitted. Live stream on Amos Rex’s Youtube Channel.
My name is Čiske Jovsset Biret Hánsa Outi Biret. I am a student at P.A.R.T.S. – Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels. In the carefreeness, timelessness and lulling motherly care of The Cradle rests a radical softness. The work is an awakening from a catnap: states of sleep and wakefulness are intertwined. The work encourages the viewer to share this intimate experience and explore how it could redefine our relationship with other people.
Birit Haarla (s.2000)
Cradle, 2019
dance piece
8 min
dancers: Katja Haarla, Isabella Nevanlinna, Aino Louhivaara, Sofia Ruija
music: Alban Berg: 3 Pieces for Orchestra op. 6:3 March, Zbigniev Preisner: Finale
Generation 2020
Generation 2020 presents the works of over 80 artists aged 15–23, selected from an open call that received over 1,600 work proposals.
Generation 2020 is a fascinating peek into the minds and art of an emerging generation of artists. Amos Rex’s exhibition Generation 2020 presented works by over 80 artists aged 15–23. The diversity of the artists is apparent in the exhibition that shows artworks selected through an open call from over 1 600 proposals. The 150+ artworks of the exhibition take us through subjects, such as sexual identity, climate change, technology and future, well-being, craftmanship and visual arts traditions as well as social and personal memory.