AYUMI MATSUZAKA invites citizens to TIME BANK treasure-hunting and cooking session to create 40 jar objects.

Time Bank is displayed at Nordea Bank Valtakatu office 24.8. - 15.9.2010. Thereafter, the project will continue in cooperation with the Rauma Herring Market on Sunday 9.19.2010.

Matsuzaka has collected the first jam-making incredients and preserved with inhabitants in/around of Rauma. Thereafter, bottles are displayed at Nordea bank, where the audience are invited to participate in the community project by selecting her/his favorite jam jar and writing an unfinished wish or idea what a person has veen thinking about for a long time.

Wish written to a card will be placed on the side of the jar, so that only the author knows content of it. Others see only the name of the wisher. Participants will receive a jar of their choice at the Rauma Herring Market event on 19^th September.  After the bottle is opened at home and a person begins to eat preserved jams, a wish or hope starts to be realized. The intensive material of jar will support the realization a lot. When the jar will become empty again, the artist wishes the idea would be completed too.

Thanks to Masku Kalustetalo Oy.

Ayumi Matsuzaka is Japanese artist, living and working in Berlin, Germany. Currently she has Residency Program at RAUMARS and stays until the end of September.  In 2008 Matsuzaka made a similar project Deposit at Puutikkala in collaboration with Finnish artist Piia Salmi.

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Summer news:

Fly Over clothes and Matsunags's paperlacecuttings from the workshop of the Angel Parade are exhibited at Poselli on 31st July at 12-15.

Unfortunately Angel Parade has to be CANCELLED on Saturday 31st July at 14.00.

Part of the partisipants joined the worshops were elsewhere from Finland and are not present on Saturday, part are travelling with their familier away from Rauma for the weekend. There is not enough partisipants to the parade itself.

For Fly Over -fashion brand fine clothes were designed and done during the week.

Angel’s Parade

Japanese Mizuho Matsunaga has genarated an idea of an Angels’s Parade. She will instruct workshops where fashion label Fly Over will be created. Workshops will culminate to a fashion show and a parade in an Old Rauma during Rauma Lace Week on 31st of July. Come an design your own clothes!

Fabric and paper will be used to make  the clothes. Clothes will not be done with modelling patterns, but with imaginative experimentation. For decorations you can use ribbons and papercut. There is no age limit, but you need to have a lot of imagination and be able to use a sewing machine. 

Workshops will be held during the Rauma Lace Week at Poselli small hall, Nortamonkatu 12, Rauma.

Sunday 25th July at 12.00 - 16.00

Tuesday 27th July at 9.30 - 12.30 

Wednesday 28th July at 11.00 - 18.00

Thursday 29th July at 10.00 – 16.00 

Friday 30th July at 10.00 – 12.00

Saturday 31^st July Angel’s Parade at 14.00 

The Parade starts from Poselli and goes along Kuninkaankatu to the market place to be continued from Kauppakatu back to Poselli. If it rains the happening will be at Poselli, starting at 14.00.

You can attend the workshops on one day or for a whole week depending how you get your costume ready. Worshops are free of charge. Last participating on Thursday, Friday is for finishing the works. More information, Raumars tel 050 3317465.

Mizuho Matsunaga descripes the project:

”At the Angel’s Parade the well-known Rauma lace will be carried to the paradise, where it is used to decorate the angel’s clothes.  In this fashion-show project a paper-cut technique will be used. The paper-cut silhouettes are a metaphor for the Rauma lace. 

Let’s make your own clothes using laces from paper-cut in an atelier of a new fashion label “Fly Over”. You can make any kinds of clothes here. Fly Over’s clothes make your dream reality. You can do anything you want to try and you can be anyone who you want to be. 

Then you become a supermodel! Let’s take a photo like in the fashion-magazine and learn the cat-walking! At the last we make a fashion-parade in the Rauma lace Week.

Clothes are symbols of cultural and social identities, but modern fashion is crossing any kind of borders. I hope that, using a fashion, you’ll take off your social roles in the daily life, and will find a new existence hidden in yourself. I invite to this workshop anyone who interested in fashion, and especially kids from every cultural background. Using their traditional clothes and the Rauma lace as a decoration will become a cultural collaboration. And also I expect that this workshop brings some new ideas for the application with Rauma lace.”

http://angelparade.wordpress.com

Supporting Matsunaga's projects

SUMMER EXHIBITIONS 24TH JULY - 1ST AUGUST 2010:

Sweet Landscape - Makea maisema. 

MIZUHO MATSUNAGA EXHIBITION during Rauma Lace Week at exhibition space Kerttu Pruutmestarska, Townhall courtyard, Kanalinranta 3. 

Opening on Saturday 24th July at 14.00. Welcome! Exhibition opening hours Sat-Sun 10-15 Mon- Thu 10-18 Fri 10-22 (Black Lace Night)

A Fishing Net for Snowflakes - Lumihiutaleverkko

GIULIA FIPPI & Emelia children lace course, Raumanmeri 8th grades and Normaalikoulu 2nd grade pupils. 

Collaborative work at Townhall entrance, Kanalinranta 3. 

Summer exhibitions in collaboration with Rauma city culture sercives.

    

Mizuho Matsunaga

Picnic in the Heaven

Workshop in Otanlahti (near the Maauimala pool) Sunday 18th July at 10.00 - 

In the workshop, we make our own picnic carpet and then have a picnic together. People cut their original patterns on the carpet. The patterns are their own images about paradise or their hopes for their life. End of the workshop we will have a picnic together. Sharing the meals will bring the people in Rauma together for the multidimensional relationships with their neighbors, the visitors, and the art. People are angels sitting down in their own paradise and become flowers in Rauma like floating see roses on a lake.

Please, bring some food with you, also some sushi availabe.

More information contact Mizuho tel 0440959545

 

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Office of International Cooperation OIC - Ron Saunders, Mackenzie Bristow & Rauma citizens 

Repositioning Nostalgia - An Emigration of Dormant Sentiments

Uudelleen sijoitettu nostalgia - Uinuvien tunteiden maastamuutto

Welcome to a skiff launch to Saharanta beach (Purjehtijankatu, Rauma) 

Saturday 12th June at 1 pm. 

Ron Saunders and Mackenzie Bristow came to Raumars to investigate identity and nostalgia through a number of events and activities. Coined as the Office of International Cooperation (OIC), the collective attempts to create situations, interventions, and environments where the audience becomes both participant and creator. While in Rauma, they spearheaded two community projects, a live video feed from their studio in Rauma during the Bushwick Open Studios, Time Bandits 3 exhibition, in Brooklyn, New York, and an event at Syvärauma Bay culminating in a display at the Rauma Art Museum during the Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010 - What's Up Sea? exhibition.

In April OIC visited Syvärauma school's 6th grade class, where members of Nortamo Seor, an organization dedicated to preserving the Rauma Language and texts written by H.J. Nortamo, joined them. Pulling from their interdisciplinary background, Bristow is a linguist, the OIC became interested in how mutually intelligible the old and current languages are. The children listened to the stories spoken in the old language and worked with OIC to create both drawings and watercolors. 

In May, the OIC held open studio hours in Old Rauma and invited the public to draw an object that was closely related to their identity. When participants arrived, they were asked ”If you had to leave Finland, what object would you take with you?”. Simultaneously, the OIC visited the homes of several international residents in both Rauma and Helsinki to document objects that they had brought with them to Finland. 

In an old skiff modified by the OIC these drawings, memories and Rauma dialect stories will get to their maiden voyage. As the OIC laid out the drawings they realized that they represented a group of people that they did not want to leave behind. Although OICs first plan was to investigate the identity and nostalgia of the community, the topic had been turned inward. The OIC decided to help the emigration by mounting the drawings into an old boat fitted with a new motor. Since neither Saunders nor Bristow had ever used a boat, they used the recordings of the old Rauma Language (which has a long maritime history) they collected from community members as a good luck charm to guide the boat. 

Artists will be present at the Biennale Balticum press conference on 11^th June at 1 pm. 

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Time Bandits 3. Rauma - New York

Office of International Cooperation OIC: Time Bandits 3. You are invited to the Office of International Cooperation's live New York Show event.

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010

Time: 19:00-23:00

Location:  Office of International Cooperation

Address: Erkinkatu 12, Rauma Finland

Agenda:

1) Relax

2) Arrive at your leisure

3) Drink and draw*

In cooperation with Brooklyn based art collective 'Pioneers of Inspiration' we will be holding a conference call (video feed via Skype) during the opening of 'Time Bandits 3' at the Bushwick Open Spaces. By attending our meeting you will have a chance to actively participate in an exhibition and interact with other artists or art-minded people.  The meeting comes highly recommended by the Office of International Cooperation. For additional information visit www.ronlsaunders.blogspot.com.

Sincerely,

OIC

Ron Saunders

Mackenzie Bristow

We need you help!

We are two artists from the United States at the Raumars Artist Residency. Our names are Ron and Mackenzie. Our topic is identity and nostalgia.  We want to interview and take photos for two projects.

IDENTITY

What object is important to you? 

Who:  international people and Finns

What object did you bring with you when you moved to Finland / you would move from Finland?  

NOSTALGIA

Do you have a favorite story?

Who: Rauma language speakers

We want to record a childhood story or a favorite Finnish folktale spoken in the Rauma language

Please call us at 044 0959545 or email ronnielsaunders@yahoo.com

You can also bring your story or object to our OPEN STUDIO at Kauppakatu 26. 

May 19th - 20th at 3 to 7 pm.

May 26th - 27th at 3 to 7 pm.

WELCOME!

www.ronlsaunders.blogspot.com

Ron Saunders, prictures from "Collaborative collages project":

SNOW MOUND Welcome to Keskuspuisto/Central Park at Valtakatu on Saturday 13th February at 11.00-16.00 to build a collective Snow Mound with artists Benjamin Crotty and Nour Mobarak. Bring your own shovel! Happening will be documented and later shown on Portland (Oregon, USA) TV.