Event day at the De Se Attitude exhibition

Performances, screenings and discussion.

The event is included in the prize of the museum ticket or Museum Card, lunch (vegan, gluten-free) and afternoon coffee is also included.

Performances: Mia Wennerstrand and Melanie Jame Wolf: ’WOMAN/DEATH: an augury’, and 'Skin Kin', by Anni Puolakka.
Video screenings: Nicole Widart: 'Chantal Akerman, écrivain cinema’ (1993) and Carolee Schneemann: ’Mysteries of the Pussies’ (1998-2010), together with a talk by Helen Kaplinsky.

The programme is in English.

Join the program using your own transportation by registering via the "Visit the website" link.

A bus transportation will be provided for the event between Helsinki and Pori. Departure from Helsinki at 9:00 a.m., return at 9:30 p.m. The fare is 10 euros. For more information, visit poriartmuseum.fi/en

MIA WENNERSTRAND & MELANIE JAME WOLF

WOMAN/DEATH: an augury is the title of a new play by Mia Wennerstrand and Melanie Jame Wolf. The artists will present a table read of the draft script twice throughout the program. The uneasy pairing of the play's two protagonists, Woman and Death, explores how womanhood and dying might be written and rewritten. Taking its cue from the work of French feminist and author Hélène Cixous, and in particular the question of what an écriture féminine (a term Cixous coined first in 1975 depicting writing of women) might be in 2026, WOMAN/DEATH: an augury is an experiment in feminist collaborative writing practices.

ANNI PUOLAKKA: Skin Kin

ANNI PUOLAKKA has prepared tragicomic works for this exhibition, in which the professions practiced by Puolakka's grandparents – cow's milk and leather production – are in dialogue with the materials, processes and meanings of their own work. Reliefs made of human milk and chocolate, “leather” sculptures made of rubber milk and the performance associated with them draw from Puolakka's trips to the remains of local leather industry: the Friitala factory in Ulvila and the site of Puolakka's grandfather's tannery in Nakkila that went bankrupt in the 1960s.

CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN: Mysteries of the Pussies (1998-2010) and discussion with HELEN KAPLINSKY

The screening of the work by Carolee Schneeman 'Mysteries of the Pussies' and a DISCUSSION where curator and researcher Helen Kaplinsky revisits a performance by Schneeman that was presented in the exhibition ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS in 1998.

In the summer of 1998 North American Feminist artist Carolee Schneemann invited the then Pori Art Museum Librarian Teija Lammi to act as a translator during her performance - Vulva's Morphia - Eternal Pussy.' Beyond a straightforward linguistic adaptation from English to Finnish, Lammi and Schneeman's performances amount to an improvisational duet between a museum worker, an artist, and cultural cosmologies of 'pussies.' Helen Kaplinsky revisits this work through archives and conversations with those involved in its production and commissioning as part of the exhibition 'ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS' which took place at Pori Art Museum and toured internationally between 1998-2000. The groundbreaking group exhibition "address(ed) animals in society, animal communities, cultural images of animals and their meanings, as well as questions regarding animal rights, awareness, and their role in human life." Schneeman's work will be considered in this 1998 context, as well as relations sparked in the De Se - attitude group exhibition decades later.

NICOLE WIDART: CHANTAL AKERMAN, ÉCRIVAIN CINEMA

Duration: 28 minutes
Translation in Finnish: Elina Juopperi

Chantal Akerman talks about her relationship with the writing of her scripts. As far as she is concerned, there is a paradox between the necessity of writing to communicate her projects and her need for silence and improvisation. She talks in particular of the shooting of "Jeanne Dielman", with Delphine Seyrig, where the actress felt frustrated because of the obsessive precision of the script, from which Chantal Akerman did not want to depart. Movie quotes of Chantal Akerman: "Les rendez-vous d'Anna", "L'homme à la valise", "Je, tu, il, elle"

Source of the text: Centre Audiovisuel de Simone De Beauvoir

Kuvatiedot: WOMAN/DEATH: an augury poster (Kaisa Lassinaro), Chantal Akerman, écrivain de cinéma / Nicole Widart, 1993 / Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, spread from the ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS publication; detail of a work: Anni Puolakka.