Article Queer DIY Film Festival Entzaubert. On the Importance of Queer
Müürileht, summer 2014
Piret Karro
An article reflecting on the queer film festival Entzaubert that took place in Berlin in July 2014, and continuing with discussing the importance of cultural difference and multiplicity of identities in a society.
Showing posts with label Müürileht. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Müürileht. Show all posts
Article Archeological Festival Reminds Us That Everything Is Temporary
Article Archeological Festival Reminds Us That Everything Is Temporary
Müürileht, summer 2014
Piret Karro
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Review of the exhibition Archeological Festival - a 2nd hand history and improbable obsessions in Tartu Art Museum, curated by Maria Arusoo. Describing the dream-like state of the art pieces in the exhibition that bring to mind the perishable nature of everything around us. Everything is temporary, which makes everything matter.
Müürileht, summer 2014
Piret Karro
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Review of the exhibition Archeological Festival - a 2nd hand history and improbable obsessions in Tartu Art Museum, curated by Maria Arusoo. Describing the dream-like state of the art pieces in the exhibition that bring to mind the perishable nature of everything around us. Everything is temporary, which makes everything matter.
Article How To Not Explain Pictures
Article How To Not Explain Pictures
Müürileht, 26.11.2013
Piret Karro
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This article is a response to another review of the theater piece OH MY GOD in Von Krahl theater (Karl Saks, Tanel Rander, Hendrik Kaljujärv) which claimed the piece to be boring and confusing.
In the article, I praise the new genre of theater now emerging in Estonian theater scene called the physical theater, and challenge the audience to not interpret OMG by verbal means, but instead receive it as a pure physical experience.
Instead of trying to find certain themes or subjects the piece might be addressing, I choose to let myself be carried only by the universal and archaic patterns, impulses, movement of tension the actors on stage convey. I would love to see theater heading towards the physical more boldly.
Müürileht, 26.11.2013
Piret Karro
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This article is a response to another review of the theater piece OH MY GOD in Von Krahl theater (Karl Saks, Tanel Rander, Hendrik Kaljujärv) which claimed the piece to be boring and confusing.
In the article, I praise the new genre of theater now emerging in Estonian theater scene called the physical theater, and challenge the audience to not interpret OMG by verbal means, but instead receive it as a pure physical experience.
Instead of trying to find certain themes or subjects the piece might be addressing, I choose to let myself be carried only by the universal and archaic patterns, impulses, movement of tension the actors on stage convey. I would love to see theater heading towards the physical more boldly.
Review of Abakadabra Mister Universum
Review of Ville-Karel Viirelaid's personal exhibition Abakadabra Mister Universum
Müürileht, muurileht.ee 6.03.2013
Piret Karro
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This review questions the statements the artist has made with his exhibition. The artist's aim was to find new aesthetic and conceptual symbols, combinations that are existentially significant. The review analyses the visual material provided in the exhibition hall critically and finds that not all of the artists' goals were met: some of the aboriginal patterns represented in his works still remained as already seen, and did not produce a new existential universe. However, the intention to create a new aesthetic is recognized.
Müürileht, muurileht.ee 6.03.2013
Piret Karro
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This review questions the statements the artist has made with his exhibition. The artist's aim was to find new aesthetic and conceptual symbols, combinations that are existentially significant. The review analyses the visual material provided in the exhibition hall critically and finds that not all of the artists' goals were met: some of the aboriginal patterns represented in his works still remained as already seen, and did not produce a new existential universe. However, the intention to create a new aesthetic is recognized.
Review of Dimanche Rouge #20
Review of experimental performance festival Dimanche Rouge #20 in Tallinn, Estonia
Müürileht, muurileht.ee 19.11.12
Piret Karro
Review
http://dimancherouge.org/
In the article, I analyze 10 performances made in Culture Factory Polymer in Tallinn, Estonia
during the monthly experimental performance festival Dimanche Rouge. I divide the performances into three subjective categories and assess their quality in the context of contemporary performance art. In the review, I express appreciation towards mental presence of the artist in the process of a performance. Also, I question the definition of experimental regarding the festival. Since destruction is often described as experimental in performance art, could it be the new canon? In this case, artists should re-evaluate their definition of the experimental and perhaps seek order instead of chaos.
Müürileht, muurileht.ee 19.11.12
Piret Karro
Review
http://dimancherouge.org/
In the article, I analyze 10 performances made in Culture Factory Polymer in Tallinn, Estonia
during the monthly experimental performance festival Dimanche Rouge. I divide the performances into three subjective categories and assess their quality in the context of contemporary performance art. In the review, I express appreciation towards mental presence of the artist in the process of a performance. Also, I question the definition of experimental regarding the festival. Since destruction is often described as experimental in performance art, could it be the new canon? In this case, artists should re-evaluate their definition of the experimental and perhaps seek order instead of chaos.
Article Idea sower and road worker
Article Idea sower and road worker
Müürileht 15, summer 2011
Piret Karro
The article is based on an interview with the director of Theater NO99, Ene-Liis Semper, and on personal reflections on conceptual art. It begins where the last article in Müürileht had ended - on usefulness in Art. Being tired of art that carries no practical use, art that embodies only abstractions and mindless mind games, I ask - why can't the artist be as useful as a road worker, whose work has material and realistic outcomes? Semper replies that art is useful in any case, even if it is purely abstract, because abstractions carry ideas and ideas change people.
Article What to do with performance art?
Article What to do with performance art?
Müürileht 14, spring 2011
Piret Karro
In the article published in Estonian independent culture magazine Müürileht, the question of usefulness in Art is tackled, focusing on performance art. First, the essence of performance art is tried to be fixated, asking if the discipline could exist without audience, what could be the most minimal performance, and should the artist focus on experience or entertainment. Then, the notion of Experience Art or experience as the purest manifestation of art is brought up, concluding with an appeal to artists to create art that affects people directly, making them give up their (self-)destructive habits, and thereby helping to make the world a better place. The importance of performance art in this context is emphasized.
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