ALERT LIVE ART FESTIVAL is an international living exhibition of analogue film and video installations intertwined with a live art programme.

January 26. – February 11. 2023. 

The exhibition is open
Tue-Fri 14:00-19:00
Sat-Sun 12:00-17:00

Events start 19:00
- except 4.2. 17:00.

All events are free of charge.

During two weeks of ALA-festival artists will perform in the context of Expanded Cinema, Performance Art, Audio Art and Improvised Music. The programme includes Finnish and trans-cultural artists from Finland/Canada, /Netherlands, /Italy, /Japan, /Poland, /Mexico and /Russia, as well as artists from abroad: Taiwan, Switzerland, USA, Italy and Greece. The exhibition of video and film installations can be visited during gallery opening hours.

The Alert Live Art Festival will host THE AIR WE SHARE 2.0 an ongoing live art event. A round table discussion will close the festival with a theme “LIVE ART CONDITION”.

The festival is produced by Catalysti ry and organised by Marek Pluciennik. The ALERT LIVE ART FESTIVAL was possible with the kind support of Kone Foundation and Art Promotion Centre Finland.

Artists using analogue Super8, 16mm and 35mm film in their live cinema performances:
Natalia Koziel-Kalliomäki (POL/FIN), Lasse Vairio (FIN), Andrea Saggiomo (IT), Seppo Renvall (FIN), Scott Elliot (in absentia)(CAN), Marek Pluciennik (CAN/POL).

Performance artists:
Chang Yun-Chen (TWN), Diana Soria (MX), Josef Ka (RUS), Amanda Hunt(US), Tina Jeranko (SI), Tomasz Szrama (FIN/POL), Markus Lerviks (FIN), Willem Wilhelmus (FIN/NL), Roi Vaara (FIN), Timo Viialainen (FIN)

Video/sound art artists:
Roberto Fusco (FIN/IT), Andrea Mancianti (IT/FIN), Marloes van Son (NL/FIN), Alex van Giersbergen (NL/FIN), Jan Schacher (CH), Arvid van der Rijt (NL/FIN)

Sound art:
Paola Livorsi (FIN/IT), Mario Gabola (IT), Tom de Testa (IT), Seppo Renvall (FIN), Pedro Perelman (CL/FIN), Arto Huhtala (FIN), Gaelle Cavalieri (IT), Shinji Kanki (JP/FIN)

Music:
Maija Saksman (FIN), Otzir Godot (FIN), Virginia Genta (IT), David Vanzan (IT)

Spoken word artists:
Jan Soppela (FIN), Daniel Malpica (MX/FIN), Tomasz Gromadka (POL)

Performative artists:
Anastasia Trizna, actor (FIN), Matteo Fantoni, physical theatre actor (IT), Giorgio Convertito, dancer (IT/FIN)