Event

Echoes – exposure and synchrony at the Oodi library

Kaikuja – Ekon – Echoes is an artistic project crystallising the multi-year collaboration between Helsinki’s Central Library Oodi and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike). Echoes finds its peak in the exhibition Faith is a Blindspot of Permanence by visual artist Niko Luoma, to be presented 6–30 October in Oodi’s Kuutio space. Summing up the whole project, the publication Kaikuja – Ekon – Echoes will be released at the closing event at Oodi on 27 October. The publication serves to showcase the wide variety of makers and their works who have contributed to the multi-year project.
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Event information

Event date

Thu 6.10.2022 at 08.00 — Sun 30.10.2022 at 20.00

Venue

Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Töölönlahdenkatu 4, Helsinki – Finland

Event type

Public event

The varied series of exhibitions, workshops, performances, and lectures has over the course of three years brought together experts from different fields in an unprejudiced manner, and presented multidisciplinary artistic experiences to the wider public. Echoes is a condensation extracted from a technology/arts project that has placed emphasis on novel combinations of expertise, along with new openings in the fields of media art, animation, and interactive art.

Faith is a Blindspot of Permanence 

Niko Luoma

Working Group

Soundscape: Timo Lassy

Technical implementation: Teemu Nurmelin and Sami Hagelberg

Curator: Aura Seikkula

Using camera, light, and film as his materials, Niko Luoma’s working process is analogue. Luoma constructs his pieces with several overlapping exposures on one frame and one film. He claims that technically, his work happens inside of the camera, rather than behind or in front of it. Here, the exposure becomes content and the process becomes manifested in images. 

For Oodi’s Kuutio space, Luoma creates a completely new work, a constant flow of these manifested images that capture the speed of seeing, the speed of hearing and the speed of existing in a space. 

Faith is a Blindspot of Permanence is a collaborative creation, where the surrounding soundscape by saxophonist and composer Timo Lassy creates a persistent dialogue. 

“Nowness and the limits of memory can be the broader concepts of the piece. It aims to maintain the viewer’s focus on the present moment by variating and repeating simple but specific forms and colours randomly renewing themselves without specific end. The soundtrack by Timo Lassy is the improvised result of this experience that constantly refreshes its reflection to the visual composition without synchronisation. My approach was to write a piece that can be both consumed as a visual and auditory experience of now”, says Luoma.

Helsinki Central Library Oodi

Töölönlahdenkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki – Finland

[email protected]

+358 9 310 85000

Opening hours: Mon-Fri 8am - 10pm, Sat-Sun 10am - 8pm 

Inquiries

Sanna Huttunen

Specialised Librarian, Helsinki Central Library Oodi, sanna.m.huttunen(a)hel.fi, Tel. +358 40 186 3042  

Annika Dahlsten

Regional Artist, The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), annika.dahlsten(a)taike.fi, Tel. +358 29 533 0907

Main organiser: Central Library Oodi and Arts Promotion Centre Taike