Microtonal Music Studios presents In Conversation with Timo Tuhkanen, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, and Linda Sormin

Sunday 09.05.2024
Starting at 17.30
Myymälä2 gallery
Uudenmaankatu 23 F

More details to come.

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and editor working with language in a variety of ways. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, fusing her poetic practice with sound, film, drawing and installation to explore the materiality of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. Her work also explores somatic and improvisatory aspects of performance as a collective practice. Her art & poetry book The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons Press) was recently published, and since 2013 she co-edits diSONARE, an experimental press from Mexico City.

She has exhibited & performed at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Pequod Co. (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); The Poetry Project (NYC); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others.

Linda Sormin
Canadian artist Linda Sormin explores upheaval, migration, change, and her Indonesian-Thai-Chinese diasporic experience through clay and mixed media installations. Sormin was awarded a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship (New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts), and a Canada Council grant (2021-22). She lives and works in New York City, and is associate professor of studio art at New York University. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, Sormin immigrated to Ontario, Canada with her family at the age of five. She exhibits her work internationally, including the mixed media installations “Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea” in Hokusai: Inspiration and Influences” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA (2023), “Stream” in Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Sculpture, Performance and the Possibilities of Clay at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2021-23), and Expanded Forms, her first solo exhibition at Messums, Wiltshire, UK (2022). Recent art residencies include the European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands (2021, 2023), and CSULB Center for Contemporary Ceramics in Long Beach, California (2022). Sormin’s ceramic sculptures are included in private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada, and
CLAY Ceramic Museum of Denmark, Middelfart, Denmark.

Dr Timo S. Tuhkanen
Dr Timo S. Tuhkanen (b. 1983) is an artist-composer, curator, and writer, whose work intersects between contemporary art, music, and research into the cultural and historical aspects of touch. Their work is concerned with designing and creating direct actions and socio-political interventions as an artistic practice through collective intelligence, relational aesthetics, and operational realism, and their subject matters often adapt inside an occupied environment of urban landscapes, digital platforms, and hydrosocial-spaces. Tuhkanen likes to describe their work as lived-through narrative fiction and mythopoetics, and they are interested in the psychological conflict between what is imaginable and what is realistically achievable and how this conflict materialises in the resources we construct. Tuhkanen received their BA and MMus from Brunel University of West London where their work focused on algorithmic music and non-narrative stage craft, focusing on opera. They received their PhD from the University of Leeds where their research focused on the aesthetics of touch in the philosophy and practice of musical composition. As well as currently being the director of the artist-run gallery Myymälä2 in Helsinki, they are an Affiliate Researcher of the Department of Musicology at the University of Turku, an artistic-researcher in the Atlas Project at Angewadnt University of Arts, Crafts, and Design Vienna and has been, among others visiting researcher at IRCAM Sound Music Movement Interaction lab and visiting lecturer at University of the Arts Helsinki and the Sibelius Academy.

Image:
Letters to Unknown Letters, 2023.
Sound sculpture, poem, installation.
Vernacular Institute, Mexico City.
Photo: Aimée Suárez Netzahualcóyotl