body slam / ihu ramm
Sound artist / designer for an exhibition + performance. In collaboration with Keithy Kuuspu and Liisa Saaremäel
ARS Art Factory, Projectspace, Tallinn
2022
Body slam/ihu ramm" is both an exhibition and a performance. While the installation lives independent during the day, on five selected evenings the performers' bodies and soundscape activate the space turning the exhibition into a performance. Two women, uninterested in achieving security neither on stage nor in the social sphere, explore the relationship between material and body, giving fragility a form. Bodies and clay - simultaneously fragile and strong by nature - are placed in a space of dialogue, where experience recreates itself in interaction, materiality carries a question, and an executed act becomes an artwork. Opportunities arise for collision, accident, and the constant construction and deconstruction of the material. There is a system, there is chance, there is mechanics, there is text and sound in fragments and order. The unexpected produces fragility.
Fragile, fragile, strong. The clay, the human body and the presence of a performer. Resisting weight but not a slam.
Fragile, fragile, strong. The clay, the human body and the presence of a performer. Resisting weight but not a slam.
False Falling / Läbi kukkumine
Sound artist / designer for a performance
Telliskivi Roheline saal, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL), Tallinn
2021
- * Nominee for the annual Estonian Theatre Awards 2021, Dance award
" The metal frame feels cold, under my palm. My right hand touches the lower pole and I press it to find the right grip. The left follows, just one level higher. I blink my eyes open, but somehow I fail at / If the clouds moved, the beam of light would blind me. I touch my nose instead. I can no longer balance on the edge of this structure, weak as a thought only living in / The task was to climb up and look at them in the eyes. From here, everything seems small but big simultaneously. I taste the grey dust moving in the air – I don’t even know what it is – what is it?/ I was thinking about this exercise. Am I doing it right? Am I saying what I am thinking or am I thinking only because I need to speak my / The extremely loud sound has made my head silent. There is nothing to hear here. I’m here, all done. I guess it’s over. Game / The metal frame feels cold, under my palm "
Surrounded by a landscape of fragile plaster and stiff metal structures, 5 delicate bodies perform cycles of gestures on the border between functionality and uselessness. By placing/fitting themselves inside these constructions that at times allude to an absurd gym, or perhaps an oversized playground, the performers constantly search for the ephemeral moment that precedes exhaustion and success, and test the (im)possibility of reaching the ultimate goal. A game of building and failing expectations, a play between tangible and invisible realities.
“False falling” is a performance that stretches time. Through daring and listening, it looks at the similarities and gaps between mental and physical endurance, embraces failure and wonders between its possible/multiple definitions.
*photos by Alan Proosa
Liminal Phase
solo audio-visual spectacle
ARS Projectspace, Tallinn
2018
This project focuses mainly on two phenomenons: liminality and chaos. Both subjects are considered as mental affects of ambiguity and disorientation that occur in the middle of witnessing a particular state (such as in concert, theatre, art exhibition): when participants no longer hold their pre-conceptual prejudice but have not yet begun the transition to the position they’ll hold when the experience is complete.
*photos by Lauri Suurväli
Killer Image: Shifting Modes of Desire
duo-solo exhibition with Laivi
Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2017
The exhibition's installation consisted of two industrial cargo boxes, that had sound sources mounted inside of them. The wooden containers functioned as acoustic sound-boxes for the audio sources mounted inside.
The sound installation piece’s task is to function as a buffer, between the material and conceptual approach. Realizing divine ideas in mundane, physical space: creating identifiable associations between the perceived idea and the conquered space. The liminality, or threshold as a quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle of witnessing when participants no longer hold their pre-conceptual prejudice but have not yet begun the transition to the position they will hold when the experience is complete. During the visitor's state of presence, one stands at the threshold between their previous way of structuring their identity, social world and a being in time, and a new way which the experience establishes. These machinations hold key properties to altered perceptions to enhance our everyday routines.
The sound installation piece’s task is to function as a buffer, between the material and conceptual approach. Realizing divine ideas in mundane, physical space: creating identifiable associations between the perceived idea and the conquered space. The liminality, or threshold as a quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle of witnessing when participants no longer hold their pre-conceptual prejudice but have not yet begun the transition to the position they will hold when the experience is complete. During the visitor's state of presence, one stands at the threshold between their previous way of structuring their identity, social world and a being in time, and a new way which the experience establishes. These machinations hold key properties to altered perceptions to enhance our everyday routines.
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When I Was a Girl & Life Was Yet Ahead
live sound design for artist Laivi's installative fashion performance
ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2017
The framework of the sonic output places elements of dreary feedback-heavy, deep sinking ambiance in a vaguely dreamlikeyet spatially
active industrial hall.
The framework of the sonic output places elements of dreary feedback-heavy, deep sinking ambiance in a vaguely dreamlikeyet spatially
active industrial hall.
The ethereal voice of the narrator leads the path through dense layers of steely drone sound fields. Dreaming of secure times through naïve enthusiasm, regaining that innocence ... pure joy
*photos by Alan Proosa
Substraat II
sound design for audio-visual performance "Substraat II" (collaboration with Hannes Aasamets and Arolin Raudva)
Theatre NO99, Tallinn
2016
Substraat II from Mihkel Maripuu on Vimeo.
Poor Girl / Too Cool
sound design for artist Laivi's exhibition
Tartu Art Museum
2016
A courious space filled with exquisitley subtile yet raw aesthetics. Profound examination of body, age, gender, ubiquitous virtual space and the unavoidable present continious. An experimental synthesis of perceptual implementation over the lessons learned.
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The Night Your Mate Danced Like a Tree
sound design for Laura Põld's exhibition
Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2014
Successive 4 x 4 traditional dance floor rhythmic motive carries out the basic functionality of congruent infinity. Hypnotic mood shifts gently from pulsing anxiety to a gentler lucidity. Propulsive techno derivates conduct the excursion through the overtly presented relation between material and invisible qualities.
photos by Anu Vahtra
photos by Anu Vahtra
