Priss Niinikoski
The artwork is exhibited in the White studio on the 1st floor of the Mylly building. Performances in the White studio on Friday 3 May at 5 pm and on Saturday 18 May at 3 pm.
Introduction
Sonic mediations foregrounds the reciprocity of identities and the technological systems that both form and are formed by the human. These restrictions, which are resisted by the bodies’ unpredictable, undefined sound and presence, are measured by apparatuses embedded with curated agencies and affordances. Crafting technologies through the feminine histories of documenting information and measuring time in textiles creates a contradiction between the precise and the imprecise. The body performs with the system in instability, mediating without a common language, in negotiation with the space through sound and presence.
The project is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Greta och Alfred Runebergs Stiftelse.
About the artist
Priss Niinikoski studies the element of risk when operating tools and systems. By positioning the body within technologies, she observes interactions and companionships evolving through material engagements. The tool extends the maker, facilitating their collaboration with the material. Through structured environments exploring various materialities of information, Niinikoski examines how frictions and marks can serve as a form of communication. She embraces tinkering and uncertainty, the risks that bodies pose in systems, in order to create new patterns of expression. She’s working actively across textiles, sonic, and digital materialities.
Priss Niinikoski: Sonic mediations
At the opening Friday 3 May at 5 pm
Saturday 18 May at 3 pm
In the White studio on the 1st floor of Mylly. Duration approximately 20 minutes.
How does an apparatus measure and mediate information through its materiality and structures? And how does the body situate itself among them? Sonic mediations is a sound installation and performance in which the agency of textiles is activated by the orientation of the body in the space. Introducing the body into the system creates unpredictable variables between the precise and the imprecise. The body performs with the system in instability, mediating without a common language, in negotiation with the space through sound and presence.