TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

maanantai, maaliskuu 29, 2004

11:04 AM
Posted by jodi rose

MUU Gallery,
Nervanderinkatu 10,
00100 Helsinki
www.muu.fi

Just arrived back from Stockholm on the Viking Line ferry, many hours of entertainment roaming from the night club bar with fabulous floor to ceiling windows looking out the back of the ship, subjected ourselves to the buffet again, checked out the lame disco and eventually settled on a cabin party which took place in the hall. Being a bunch of media artists, we got the audiovisuals set up, dimmed the lights, and had fun until a ship's officer came and told us off for breaking all the rules, and we had to go back in the cabins.
Sunday in Stockholm is a little blurry, after the gig at Club Fylkingen on Saturday night, very minimal yet still cosy space, with a separate room for performances and drinking, the weather matrix was absolutely sublime, can't wait to see and hear it again this week. Visited the Moderna Museet, which has just been re-opened and saw a great selection of modern art - lots of duchamp, and picassio, some leger and picabia, matisse, you name it. Staying on the red boat hostel was cool, just around the corner from sauna gallery, and up the road from fylinkgen, shopped on gastogatan with sanna, beautiful swedish desingy things everywhere. Bought a pair of knitted wrists, which I'm totally in love with - and match the pointy had Ben is wearing perfectly.
Today is the start of Locative Media workshop, lots of new people arriving and I think probably my best option for a quick trip to Porvoo to record the bridge there. If I can find it! The rest of the week is going to be spent hanging out at the railway station - just talking to andrew about that, what were you thinking??!! Decided that for me location is as much about escape as it is being at a specific point, and I will start getting onto all the trains to see where they go. At least see a few stops more of Finland that way. Have also become addicted to the salty licorice, salniak - dammit should have bought more at the tax free on the ship. Also some of that great caramel filled licorice that we had for dinner on friday night at Sauna exhibition opening, dinner was mashed potato with ketchup at 1am for me, and an enormous plate of kebab for sanna, frank, and tuomo.
Saturday afternoon presentations at CRAC were a great opportunity to catch up in a little more depth with what people are doing - tuomo's www.needweb.org will give you everything you want, and the kick ass kung fu is fantastic, and mikko's earlier project www.animaatiokone.net is great fun - you get to make and animate your own characters in an arcade game style kiosk. very cool. Also met the lovely Peter from Barcelona with aether architecture, www.aether.hu which I can't quite visualise, but will know more when the installation is up. Now, back to the location and some media...... what am I doing again?