Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

For Etoiles Polaires 07, Finnish media artist Juha Huuskonen will set up a video and installation trail (you can read more about him under FrictiesSalon).

TERIKE HAAPOJA – Community / Mind over Matter over Mind / Atlantis
(Domzaal & Dansstudio)

The trail will mainly focus on the work of Terike Haapoja, who will bring along 3 works to Vooruit. This Finnish media artist has a strange fascination for the beginning and the end of animal and human life. Her work is characterized by its strongly meditative atmosphere. In Community she projects infrared images of cooling animal corpses. Her second work, Mind over Matter, shows human embryos in all sizes and shapes in 3D. Atlantis, her third work, will give us a look inside the womb in images and sound.

JUHA VALKEAPÄÄ
(Production space Dansstudio)

Juha Valkeapää’s work balances on the fine line between installation and performance art. He asks the unsuspecting visitor a couple of questions about various subjects. With this material he then makes sound portraits, turning your voice into a true work of art!

PIXELACHE SCREENING
(Brugzaal)

The Pixelache screening will be showing video art that playfully mixes technology and media. The works are a part of Pixelache, the international festival for electronic art and subcultures. Various artists from this international network will be bringing along work to Etoiles Polaires 07:

• Terror, Iraq, Weapons by Mike Nourse (US)
• Match the movie by Geert Mul (NL)
• Max Payne Cheats Only by JODI (NL)
• Escape Vehicle no. 6 by Simon Faithfull (UK)
• and some smaller works by Kristian Simolin (FI): Benchwarmers United, 3 Installations: Happiness, way, online; Steven Dixon (SE): Channelling II; Helen Evans & Heiko Hansen (DE/UK/FR): Toy Emissions: My friends all drive Porsches; Abhishek Hazra (IN): Dweposit & Liisa Lounila (FI): Flirt