Exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11

This friday 14.6 we will open our next exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery, Helsinki. Exhibition is titled: Postspatial discoreligion - A sketch for the profound experience of the future

In the world after peak oil the dreams about conquering outer space get dimmer and the continuity of western lifestyle gets more and more improbable.

When the consumercultural production chains break down, our still oily gaze turns to what we have left behind; trash, junk, filth. Where wastelands are future´s treasury, concepts can be excavated with the same lustfulness.

Association of experimental electronics is a group specialized in casual-artistic reuse of electronic waste. We hoard abandoned household electronics and intercollide them by therms of “Circuit bending” and “Hardware hacking.”

In this sketch for the future comprehensions we try to scrable together western culture´s most delicate traditions, such as religion, popular culture, heraldics and electronic art. Our aim is to present a vision of what kind of ritualculture we could have after the great breakdown.

The exhibition is open 14.-30.6. from Wednesdays to Sundays 15-20.

Koelse at Koevoimala 5.6

Koelse will be visiting Koevoimala event tomorrow 5.6. at Powerplant museum in Helsinki. There will be lot's of activities besides us as well, more info in finnish:

Place is  Voimalamuseo Hämeentie 163, time 17.00-22.00

Voimalamuseo

"Miltä tuntuisi järjestää tapahtuma, jolla ei olisi ennalta sovittuja aikatauluja eikä esiintymisjärjestyksiä eikä tarkkaa ohjelmaakaan, vain alkamis- ja päättymisajankohta ja tila, jonne voi lavastaa kaikenlaista sitä mukaa kuin hyvältä tuntuu?" Näin kysyimme itseltämme viime vuonna muotoilija Päivi Raivion kanssa, ja Koevoimala syntyi: Voimalamuseossa Vanhankaupunginlahdella järjestettävä kokeellinen formaatti taidetapahtumalle, jolla ei ole etukäteen sovittua tarkkaa ohjelmaa tai aikataulua. Sen sijaan esiintyjät voivat esiintyä milloin haluavat ja missä haluavat: runoilijat, muusikot, installoijat, projisoijat, performanssitaiteilijat ja muut hörhöt kaikki yhdessä kerrankin. Ensimmäinen Koevoimala oli mittakaavaltaan pienehkö, toisesta suunnitellaan laajempaa. Alun perin suunnittelimme järjestävämme tämän toisen Koevoimalan huhti-toukokuussa, mutta monista käytännön syistä se osoittautui mahdottomaksi. Lisäksi totesimme, että Voimalamuseo on tilana niin haastava (ja siksi juuri mielenkiintoinen), että tapahtumaan olisi hyvä valmistautua harjoittelemalla. Niinpä päätimme järjestää lyhyellä varoitusajalla koe-Koevoimalan! Koevoimala 1.5 järjestetään avoimena jamina, harjoittelutilana ja eräänlaisena tapahtumasimulaationa Voimalamuseolla 5.6. keskiviikkona. Ovet ovat auki 17-22. Tule mukaan hengailemaan, katselemaan, kuuntelemaan ja vaikka esiintymään, jos siltä tuntuu. Muista kuitenkin ottaa rennosti, koska tällä kertaa ei ainakaan olla tosissaan! Esiintyjälistaa päivitetään tapahtuman lähestyessä. Mukana näillä näkymin mahdollisesti mm. Pitches-yhtyeen jäseniä, Linnunlaulupuun jäseniä, kokeellisen elektroniikan seuran Koelsen jäseniä, performanssitaiteilija Jenni, Tanja Tiekso, Helsinki Poetry Connectionin runoilijoita, Janne Nummelan elektroninen improvisaatio, mm. Aavemaa-radiosta ja Youtubesta tuttu Tuukka Salonen, Jani Sipilän videotaidetta, tanssia, valokuvia, Timo Salon livepiirroksia ja paljon muuta.

Wasteland fest

Days are getting longer, summer is coming. Time to start marking the festivals in your calendar. Wasteland Festival in Kouvola has announced its Heppatalli program. Everything from Esa Kotilainen to Tomplex, and of course KOELSE.

And of course the best festival of the year.

So be there.

Disclaimer: heppatalli does not contain any horsemeat, ow will it?

KOELSE on TV

Koelse featured in Finnish TV. Check NEO at yle areena.

Miuusic night

Saturday 9.2 there will be a very special night at Sorbus gallery. We have invited Hur Hur and J.Koho to play some music, we have an extreamyly rare KOELSE installationperformance-show.

So drag your ass to Sorbus, we will start with Hur Hur round six or so.

More info in finnish:





Lauantaina Sorbus-galleriassa tuoretta elävää musiikkia:

 Klo 18 Hur Hur
Hur Hur on hyökkäys ja meditaatio. Musiikki on osaksi improvisoitua osaksi sävellettyä. Keskeinen soitin on hurdy gurdy ja musiikilliset vaikuttimet apokalyptinen folk, shamanistinen punk & drone.


 Klo 19 J. Koho 
Neljän raajan todistus. Ääntä ja liikettä tyhjästä nyhjäisten.

 klo 20 KOELSE 

Koelse soittaa laidasta laitaan tonttudoomista yksi miljoonasarvishumppaan. Tietenkin itse rakentamillaan kokeellisilla “laitteilla”.




 VAPAAEHTOINEN PÄÄSYMAKSU

Exhibition open at Sorbus till 17.2

Remember to check out our exhibition at Sorbus Gallery Vaasankatu 15 Helsinki.
Open till 17.2.2013 wed to sun.

Videos from last Live Cinema at Aave festival

Waiting for our next Live Cinema set next saturday at Sorbus Gallery, you can check the videos I found from our last gig at Aave Festival, where we had our last Live Cinema event.

Sorbus Gallery

Next, very special Live cinema-experience in the brand new Sorbus Gallery in Vaasankatu 15. Showtime 26.1, two sets one at 17.00 second at 19.00.

After that we will have an exhibition there starting from 1.2.2013.

Lots of other interesting events in Sorbus openingweeks, like Oukkidouppi on 19.1, Dxxxa 25.1 and vinyl-freeks can carve their own records on 20.1.

So check out Sorbus gallery at Vaasankatu.

Merry christmas everyone

Koelse at Brainbashers: 2012 Fest, Tampere, 24.11.

Koelse performs at Brainbashers: 2012 Fest. During afternoon we give a workshop on urban/technological shamanism. Later, a gig.

More info at Kovaydin Vastarinta site.

SISU

Does KOELSE have SISU?

We will find out wed 7.11, when we participate on Dash and Dem:s "Show your sisu" project at Baltic Circle Festival.

Aika / Time: KE / WED 7.11. 19:30
Paikka / Location: Mediakeskus / Media Centre Lume, Hämeentie 135 C
Hinta / Price: 25 / 15 €
Kieli / Language: suomi / Finnish
Kesto / Duration: ~ 1 h 30 min
Lisätiedot / More info

Please arrive to the venue already 19:00 because the show will be filmed.

KOELSE will have a short 3-minute  set in the beginning of  the show.

Video from Evergreen opening

We played in the opening of Maria Dunckers "Evergreen" exhibition in XL-artspace, Tomi edited this video  from the gig.

Wärkfest this weekend

This weekend we will be at Cable Factory participating the Wärkfest

Finissage at Suomesta 25.8

Koelse 101 sequencers finissage with MocTA
Saturday 25th of August from 5 PM to 2 AM.
Potsdamer Straße 91, 10785 Berlin

Koelse 101 Sequencers exhibition at Suomesta Gallery 
is celebrating its finissage on Saturday 25th of August with guest performers. This celebration integrates with MocTA - Museum of contempary Trash Art, during the long night of the museums.

Association of Experimental Electronics (Koelse) has built a trasholicious installation inside Suomesta Gallery using electronics that have dropped out of consumer rotation. A space full of noisy lo-fi disturbance sound mayhem is to be expected. This particular concept is part of Koelse’s 10-year anniversary festivities.

Association of experimental electronics is a group of experimental electronics paramours. They gather old consumer-electronics and transform it into sound producing devices.
Koelse have been roaming around the world’s art-centers, galleries, wastelands and squats since 2002. They build installations, play concerts, teach workshops and party around their waste.

The "Lange Nacht der Museen" (Long Night of the Museums), one of the yearly highlights of the Berlin Culture Summer will again be celebrated in 2012. The first and unique Trash Art Museum, founded in 2008 by the Munich artist ADLER A.F. and known as MocTA, Museum of contemporary Trash Art, will also participate.

The Trash Art Museum shows works of art created from recycable materials from USA/Miami/New York, Switzerland, Austria, Taiwan, Poland, Mexico, Berlin, Passau, Kiel, and Munich. Artists from the International Trash Scene show performances, photographs, collages,videos, painting, Trash-Percussion, and installations.

http://www.koelse.org/
http://koelsedoc.wordpress.com/

SUOMESTA
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art
Potsdamer Straße 91, 10785 Berlin
http://www.suomestagalleria.net/
info@suomestagalleria.net

Museum of contemporary Trash Art: MocTA
The world´s first and only Museum for Trash Art, Potsdamerstr. 91,10785 Berlin,Tel. 0179-6101195, Mocta@diop.de

http://www.lange-nacht-der-museen.de/

Next Copenhagen

Next KOELSE will be heading to Copenhagen, where we will participate both Copenhagen Art Festival and Alt_Cph. We are there from 28.8-2.9. We will be movng around town, so check the schedule to find us:

WEDNESDAY 29th AUGUST

KOELSE PARADE 12.00-16.10

Den Frie 

12.00-12-20

PARADE Den Frie - Charlottenborg

40 min. (via Bredgade)

Charlottenborg 

13.00-13.20 

PARADE Charlottenborg  - Nikolaj

15 min (through Magasin passagen)

Nikolaj  

13.40-14.00

PARADE Nikolaj - Højbro Plads/Gl. Strand 

15 min. (via Gl. Strand and back)

GL. Strand/Højbro Plads

14.15-14.45

PARADE fra Strand/Højbro Plads - Overgaden

30 min. (via Knippels Bro)

Overgaden

15.15-15.30

PARADE Overgaden - Alt Cph

40 min. (via Torvegade - Amager Fælledvej - sundholmsvej)

Alt Cph

16.10-17.30

THURSDAY

Music in and around Copenhagen centre.

FRIDAY

14-17: Workshop at Alt Cph with following concert

SATURDAY

Intimate concert at TBA café in Copenhagen centre

Koelse (FIN) is a group of experimental electronics enthusiasts. They gather old consumer-electronics and transform them into sound producing devices. With these devices they play concerts, build installations and walk the streets in an inviting fashion to let people join and play with them

This year Alt_Cph and Copenhagen Art festival collaborate on a project with Koelse at it’s core.

Kolese will be part of both the program at Alt_Cph and Copenhagen Art Festival using their DIY instruments and Mobile Units to join the two art events in an interactive musical and artistic project. Throughout their stay, Kolese will have a stand at the fair, where you can come see them work on their projects.

Their first project will be a music parade where they will be walking with their DIY instruments through the city with pick-up points at each of the five contemporary art centers behind Copenhagen Art Festival, ending up at the fair to play an opening concert. The musical parade will start at Den Frie Kunsthal Wednesday at 12.00 o’clock and go on to Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Gl. Strand and Højbro Plads and then on to Overgaden before walking to Alt_CPH on Amager. Check for full parade info here: LINK (linkes til planen ovenfor m googlemaps)

Thursday they will walk in and around Copenhagen centre and play at makeshift places.

Friday they have an open workshop at the Alt_Cph art fair from 14.00-17.00 in collaboration with Ben, Rør & Stampes (DK) a project space who likewise enjoy making DIY instruments, This workshop will end in a concert at the fair.

Saturday Kolese will set up shop in one of Copenhagen’s lionized bars where they unfold their instruments in an intimate concert.

Koelse’s projects have been seen and heard around Europe on festivals, museums, galleries and alternative art spaces since 2002.

Last week in Berlin

Still one week to see our exhibition in Berlin. So drop by at Suomesta Gallery Potsdamer Straße 91.

Getting ready for the wasteland festival

We are now preparing ourself for the wasteland festival next week. We suggest you do the same.

Wasteland festival, Kouvola 20-22.7.2012

Suomesta Gallery, Berlin 4 - 25 Aug

Suomesta Gallery 4 - 25 Aug: Association of Experimental Electronics and Mikko Lipiäinen
Exhibition opening 4 Aug at 18



101 Sequencers


About the artist


Association of experimental electronics is a group of experimental electronics paramours.
They gather old consumer-electronics and transform it into sound producing devices.
Koelse have been roaming around the world’s art-centers, galleries, wastelands and squats since 2002. They build installations, play concerts, teach workshops and party around their waste.  

www.koelse.org
http://koelsedoc.wordpress.com/

For the exhibition Koelse builds a trasholicious installation using electronics that have dropped out of consumer rotation. A space full of noisy lo-fi disturbance sound mayhem is to be expected. This particular consept is part of Koelses 10-year anniversary festivities.


There's an Invisible Place far away


About the artist:

Mikko Lipiäinen is an artist/activist who operates in the intersection of media, performance and socially engaged art. He is interested in the cross-pollination of the concepts and practices between online and non-online worlds. In his art practice he wants to have a role of a participator/facilitator and seldom works as individual. In his recent works he has focused on the online worlds’ effect on activist identities.

In this minimalistic video installation artist Mikko Lipiäinen meditates on the 21st century's encyclopedic knowledge production and its effect on netizens' worldview by dramatizing the editing process of Wikipedia article 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch'.

Encyclopedic knowledge is an essential component in modern man's worldview. Since Encyclopédie was published during the later half of 18th century a vast collection of verified facts produced by experts of knowledge invaded the grounds of earlier forms of storytelling, thus allowing the producers of new kind of universal common knowledge - the encyclopedians - to control the worldview of the masses around the globe.

Wikipedia phenomenon continues Enlightment’s encyclopedia project aiming to make us all encyclopedians, the producers of commonly accepted truths. More interestingly, as a byproduct it also makes the battle between the multitude of non-established truths and The Established Truth visible in a very effective way.

Potsdamer Straße 91, 10785 Berlin
www.suomestagalleria.netinfo@suomestagalleria.net

Openinghours: Tu–Sa 1-6pm

Koelse documentary now online

Documentary film about KOELSE by Jari Kykkänen has now its own website. Go ther and watch the 33min documentary online, enjoy.

Olohuone Turku

Next we will visit Turku at the Olohuone festival. Our piece is titled "Touch me" and it concists of our DIY musical instruments and a special touch sensitive mat where audience can play our instruments by touching each other

 We do not exactly know yet where we will be, but we will drop by at opening club on wednesday at Kirjakahvila.

After that we will be out there in the city somewhere every day till saturday. You can ask about our whereabouts from the infopoint, (formerly known as kulma 2011) at the Läntinen Rantakatu in the Kristiinankatu end. We will also be at the ending club at the Cafe Aula