Performance Apartment

15.08.2013
Urban Festival UIT
Tartu, Estonia
Duration 9 hours
Piret Karro, Kristino Rav, Raul Taremaa, Karl Edgar Tammi

This performance functioned in the liminal state of several transitions:
place/non-place, performance/non-performance, public/private.

The performance took place in the city periphery in an expensive apartment for sale that no one had inhabited before and that did not have any furniture nor interior decor. This futuristic apartment building was a single 7-story building in the middle of a river meadow.

The 9-hour performance was divided into four stages, giving every performer 135 minutes to indulge in the domestic routine of 1) preparing food; 2) reading; 3) practicing bass guitar in a leisurely manner, and 4) carrying through a personal cleaning ritual. This gave the public the uncanny effect of stepping into someone’s home where they were welcomed as guests.

Performance I have no memory of my art

30.03.2012

Ground 5

Skoki, Poland

Duration 20 min

Kristino Rav, Piret Karro

This text-based performance is a context-specific dialogue about conceptual art. The verbal action represents the opinions and judgment of the authors on the current artistic situation in which they find themselves to be placed. I have no memory of my art is a situation where artists have no recollection of original reasons why they had ever been involved with art-making. Thus, artists are trying to relocate their position in the hectic stream of art theory and its concepts by articulating their standpoint that sometimes, it is better to not talk about art at all.

Performance Project Post-Human

13.08.2011

Neo Shamanic Fullmoon Festival Project Human

Palujüri, Estonia

Duration 4 hours (00:00 - 4 AM)

Kristino Rav, Piret Karro, Raul Taremaa

External participator Triinu Soikmets

The post-human situation reflects a shift in an overall flux of communication in the context of high tech future. As direct contact belongs to the past, then present devices such as HTC/ i-Phones are used in order to create an exaggerated scene for a possible future, where mediation and isolation would be the key elements. Artists are packed (together with HTC / i-Phones) inside three separate pods, hanging 1.2 m above the ground. These shells bring out solitude in virtual infiniteness, that is, the prenatal metastasis, where the external reality has not yet been confirmed, having therefore potential to be whichever.

Conversation concerning space traveling and the new futu-human creation is held in skype and projected onto a public screen, where the audience could also interrupt and contact these pods through an operator (external observer) or by using their personal wifi connection and skype account.

Participation performance / journey KLIMA 2011

25.-27.07.2011

KLIMA 2011

South-Estonia

Duration 60 hours

Mike Hentz, Kaisa Eiche, Piret Karro, Terje Toomistu, Kiwa, Martiini,

Urmo Mets, Madis Kats, S. S. Fabrique, Tanel Rander, Siim Tiirik

During 60 hours, a group of 11 people executed pre-stipulated mental and physical exercises in certain locations in South-Estonia. An agreement was signed in the first hour to be cooperative and not leave the group during the journey. Also, each person had to bury their mobile phone or home keys in a box for that period to be able to be 100 % present in the current situation. The aim of the experiment was to create a total synchronization of actions within one group of people, thereby creating a new perception of reality, superior to the rules of the external world.

Photos: Terje Toomistu

Performance Mandala Prisoner

22.07.2011

International Interdisciplinary Cultural Festival Cultural Dust

Patarei Prison, Tallinn, Estonia

Duration 8 hours (10 PM - 6 AM)

Kristino Rav, Raul Taremaa, Piret Karro

Operators Katrin Orav, Elen Arike

The "Mandala Prisoner", being placed in an old prison, stands for monotonous, regular and limited work process. This setting constructs a frame for the legends on Eastern-Europe which are represented through artists own perspectives. However, their diverse cognition, experience and stories are combined into a single mandala, that is, a geometric model of the universe. Moreover, this symbolic image is carried on its place spoon by spoon, thus creating a conditional frame of a machine. The image is built from flour which is also covering their bodies.

Two operators are on the set to record the ritual which was simultaneously projected outside onto a screen. These captures are mostly close-ups. Audience could follow the action through the bars in order to get a complete overview.

Bear performance

9.04.2010

Youth Theater Festival 2010

Tartu, Estonia

Theatrum ex Machina
Piret Karro, Oliver Taul, Martin Teder

When the last play of a youth theater festival had ended, two bear-headed creatures stood up from the last row, continued to the wardrobe, put on their coats, and walked through the town center in a slow pace. They behaved as regular theater audience, carrying on with their daily activities, but receiving more attention from town folk than regular people. The aim of the performance was to bring theater into public space, shifting the border between the stage (conventional space) and regular space.

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Action Hairdresser

16.10.2009

Spontaneous action Hairdresser

art attic, Hugo Treffner Gymnasium

Piret Karro, Triinu Eesmaa, Anastasia Lvova, Kristi Karro

During a 30-minute break between two examinations, a retreat into the art classroom in the attic of a high school takes place. A distribution of actions follow: one places a large piece of brown paper under a chair, sits on the chair; another begins to cut her hair; third begins to draw a human torso on a canvas; fourth takes the position of an observer. After 30 minutes, the group ceases to proceed their actions. One stands up, leaving the cuts of her hair around the chair; places the drawing of a torso on the chair on her place, takes a piece of paper, writes: "INSTALLATION Hairdresser. Open until Wednesday. Authors unknown." The group leaves the room, leaving the spontaneously created installation behind.

Performance Kuldsõlekiri

Kuldsõlekiri / Gold Brooch Pattern

Anna-Maria Saar

18.03.2009

jewelery artists' examination

Estonian Academy of Arts, sculpture department

Tallinn, Estonia

5.05.2011

Bookstore Apollo

Solaris, Tallinn, Estonia

A traditional Estonian brooch pattern was drawn into dry tea on the light table of an overhead projector, which projected the pattern on a model whose neck was covered with gold and on a dark wall behind her, manifesting the pattern in the entirety of the room.