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x-op festival, “Time and Technique”

john — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:07:08 +0000

The X-OP festival ‘Time and Technique’ was held in Abrantes and Tomar Portugal from April 30th to May 7th and was hosted by Instituto Politecnico de Tomar. MoKS members were part of 2 events and 1 research project.

After Curatorial Dinner exhibition

The artistic project ‘After curatorial dinner’ was conceived by Petra Kapš during her one month x-op residency in MOKS. She researched the artistic production of a number of artists (Riho Kall, John Grzinich, Evelyn Müürsepp, Toomas Thetloff, Patrick McGinley, Erkki Luuk, Anna Hints) through dinner conducted as a social ritual. The exhibition contained works that were produced in connection to the process of her residency.

MUTOPIA 6

The 6th edition of MUTOPIA was held during the event and was led by Tero Nauha and John Grzinich. While the group was fairly small the effort was of the participants was highly focused and concentrated. Most of the workshop took place in the public spaces around Tomar and focused on two locations in particular, the monument outside the courthouse (in the middle of a parking lot) and the main gardens under the castle. Below is a short video compilation that randomly composites some of the sound, movement and text exercises.

Click here to view the embedded video.

X-OP Maçao, Mutopia workshop

john — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:24:32 +0000

The most recent meeting of X-OP took place in Maçao Portugal and was hosted by Instituto Politecnico de Tomar. On the first day, April 27th there was a seminar featuring X-OP partners or guests invited by them. On the following 3 days, the Mutopia workshop was held. This workshop is a collaboration between Tero Nauha of MAA art school in Finland and John Grzinich of MOKS which started in 2008 at AVAMAA. Also joining the workshop from Estonia was Taavi Tatsi of Worldfilm and 3 students of ethnography/anthropology, Piibe Kolka, Jaanika Jaanits and Birgit Rosenberg. 5 students from Art Shool MAA and 7 students from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Porto. Special thanks to the participants for their time and energy and to Goncalo and Judith for their organizational efforts.

photos by John Grzinich

eesti -> portugal exhibition

john — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:07:27 +0000

Exhibition of six MoKS/Binaural related artists at Galeria Santa Clara Coimbra, Portugal