TMKM
News and events
The TMKM website has for long needed a place for posting news and events, and from May 2024 this is the new space for this. For older events, these will gradually be added to the website. Madsen is also currently working on a website dedicated to their doctoral research to soon be launched (watch this space for its release later in 2024).
[proximity] sensing in, sensing out
Solo installation at Oksasenkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki
6–29 September 2024
General opening hours:Wed–Fri 12–18
Sat–Sun 12–17
What would happen if the focus were solely on the senses and the ephemerality of gestures and listening as the work of art itself? What if the act of facilitating relation(s) becomes a way to transversally connect to a place, a neighborhood, a city?
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen’s installation at Oksasenkatu 11 is a laboratory where listening and sensing, moving and relating are core focal points. It is an ephemeral entity which is inhabited by lines of gestures, notes and reflections created collaboratively in the space by the artist and the participating audience. The laboratory installation additionally moves in and outside the gallery space, out in the park, to the street. It accommodates every-body, and it focuses on the micro for us to be aware of the macro. By relating to both what is here and what is absent, we learn about the privilege of the space but also about its potentiality for change. The installation is thought to be a transformational and experimental format which holds exchange as a crucial element, and consists of only minor elements to assist this process.
During the laboratory installation, Madsen will facilitate Deep Listening® sessions, geological listening propositions, and other interventions (both scheduled and spontaneously). Additionally, Madsen has invited guest artists to facilitate moments which relate to sensing, affective listening, queer corporeality and other modalities of knowing. These meetings connect to an embodied and embedded posthuman subjectivity which extends into other agencies and modalities of the world.
[proximity] sensing in, sensing out is part of Madsen’s research in environmental affect and how to hold spaces for others, to be facilitating careful gestures as an artistic practice across agencies and abilities. It additionally experiments with how art installations as performative laboratories can move towards a focus on ephemeral relations and exchange.
The guest artists who will facilitate moments in Madsen’s installation will be Sall Lam Toro, as well as a poetic proposition by Matias Loikala will be present in the space (ongoing).
Program for [proximity] sensing in, sensing out:
September 6th, 17.00-22.00: Opening
September 13th, 21.00-21.30: a Collective Rage_Choir, session with guest artist Sall Lam Toro
September 20th, 17.00-19.00: Deep Listening session with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (please sign up on info[at]tmkm[dot]dk)
September 28th, 18.00-20.00: Sound event with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, and TMS (Madsen & Malte Steiner)
Spontaneous listening interventions will additionally take place on days where Madsen is present in the space, and the installation will additionally offer some of Madsen’s listening sessions as mobile units for groups and individuals who are unable to visit the space, and in this way be inclusive to more audiences (please write to the email above). All events are free to attend.
**Information about guest artists and sessions**
Sall Lam Toro: Body Tongues: a Collective Rage_Choir
a witnessing of, and holding of each other’s rage through the somatic (awareness), touch, witnessing, observation, active listening, vocalization, movement, and an unfolding of the various layers that rage contains. I invite the participant(s) as my co-orchestrator negotiating these acts and gestures with one another.
body_hacker aka Sall Lam Toro (1990) is an antidisciplinary multimedia artist and organizer based in Copenhagen working with ecoerotic cosmologies of black queer imagination, refusal, glitches, rituals and transcorporeal embodiment. They are currently finishing an MA in performing arts as critical practice at the malmö theater academy at the university of Lund. They are part of different formed and unformed housing, organizing and artistic queer collectives. Website: www.bodyhacker.love
A poetic proposition by Matias Loikala will also be present in the space, as a gesture and invitation to relate (ongoing). The piece was originally written to be activated by Madsen at their residency at Titanik in Turku (2022).
Matias Loikala is a writer, translator and interdisciplinary artist. Loikala is interested in the intersections of ecology, corporeality, and the miraculous; and in their practice they investigate the various human and non-human othernesses that reach towards each other, and the diffractive impacts these encounters have. They are also fascinated by interdisciplinary gestures, such as combining poetic texts with visual or performative elements, as well as the notion of translating as a form of textual empathy and interdependency.
Website: https://matiasloikala.tumblr.com
[proximity] sensing in, sensing out is kindly support by The Danish Arts Foundation, Council for Visual arts
Activities June-September 2024
Here you will find a list of upcoming event and activities for Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen.
In June 2024, Madsen facilitated a geological listening session at the old mine area "Blå Lagunen" in Gällivare / Malmberget (SE/Sabme) for the local community (thanks to researcher Karin Reisinger for organizing this event). On this trip, Madsen additionally did field-recordings for their doctoral research near the working mine. It's now midsummer but still a lot to do, below are listed some of the future activities:
July 8-10, The 16th Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference in Delft (NL) where Madsen present their paper "The potential of failure and the paradox of the false" - Book of abstracts can be found here: https://www.dgs2024.nl/programme
August 15th, at Nordic Culture Point, Kaisaniemi, Helsinki (FI), Madsen will do the performance textual repetition.
August 19th, Madsen present their paper "A vibrational difference of environmental mourning" at the panel Transdisciplinary Arts Beyond History: Artistic Practices as Laboratories for Rehearsing Grief and Co-existence in a Postnatural World (convened by Erich Berger & Marietta Radomska) as part of The World Congress of Environmental History, in Oulu (FI): https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/wceh2024/p/13618
In September Madsen will have a solo installation at artist run gallery Oksasenkatu 11 in Helsinki (FI), titled "[proximity] sensing in, sensing out" (kindly supported by The Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts). The installation includes guest artist facilitators (a detailed program will be released later).
Additionally, on September 24th, Madsen will do their last preexamined component for their doctoral thesis, a performance which takes place on a rock formation in Pasila, Helsinki (watch this space for more info).
Image is from "Blå Lagunen" in Gällivare / Malmberget (SE) where the geological listening session took place.
Photo by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
Lithic Listening Walk
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen facilitates a geologically informed listening session at Kitchen Lab Tarvo event on Sunday May 26th 2024.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen's listening sessions depart in Madsen's extensive work with listening as a part of their artistic practice and as a certified facilitator of Deep Listening from The Center for Deep Listening, founded by composer Pauline Oliveros.
The listening walk on Tarvo will thus activate tools from this way of working with both physical and aural listening, here extended through Madsen's artistic research in environmental affective relations, proposing an approach to multisensory listening with a specific geological departure-point which activates and considers lithic infrastructures around us.
The session takes place from 14.00-15.30 and is open for everyone regardless of age but will be conducted in English. Note the walk starts from Kitchen Lab Tarvo [See info below].
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Directions:
Villa Tarvo, Ritokallionpolku 8, 00330 Helsinki
https://osm.org/go/0xPJ3z1S6?way=27151921
If you have never visited before, please follow the public light traffic path-way that follows along the south-side of the expressway, turning left to walk up in the small hill, turning left at the top of the hill.
NB: Do not use the private path that leads past the red-roof-topped Villa.
Kitchen Lab Tarvo is in the front-facing room of the dark-grey-roof-topped Villa.
The door is the one facing you first, with porch, and has black Tarvo-heart shape in the door window.
[If you choose to take a taxi/Uber ride, suggest they drop you off at Gallen-Kalla museo car park, Espoo side of Tarvo, or Ridenjoy Wakeboard park on Helsinki side of Tarvo, which is Ritokallionpolku 3, then ask them to drive a little further, or walk the remaining distance].
Accessibility: Villa Tarvo (which hosts Kitchen Lab Tarvo) is 1.9 km from nearest buses & Tram #4. There are Helsinki City Bikes stands in Munkkiniemi (nearest ‘Laajalahden aukio’) and at Tavaspää, Espoo (‘Gallen-Kallela Museo’). Unfortunately Tarvo is not an universality accessible place. There is a 20-25 degree de/in-clining slope to reach and leave the villa. The entrance to the kitchen lab indoors has 7 steps (width 130cm), and a small entrance lobby of 90cm x 90cm, The terrace has 4 steps on side, but is better accessible one side with only 1 half-step.
Kitchen Lab Tarvo:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lithic-listening-104494617
Image credit:
Malte Steiner, taken at Kulturhus Björkboda as a part of Tina Mariane Krogh Madens solo exhibition, (being) a multiplicity, 2023.
