samedi 13 juillet 2013

Carte Blanche à Charles Pennequin à Dunkerque le 13 juillet, lors du festival Mon Inouïe Symphonie

mercredi 26 juin 2013

the often untrue distinctions between the artificial and the natural

After living his childhood in Stockholm suburbs Peter Rosvik arrived to the Swedish-Finnish countryside Ostrobothnia in 1982. He initially studied to a chef before enrolling at art school in Nykarleby, Finland. Since 1994 his work has been exhibited in Finland, Scandinavia and Europe.



Rosvik has worked in a variety of media, including fine art, video, sound, and installations. Since 2008 he has focused on performance art exploring what he calls "the often untrue distinctions between the artificial and the natural, the accepted and the thoughts beyond". Concepts that underpin cultural construction, such as belonging, marginalization, dialogue and other forms of socio-cultural phenomena appear to fascinate him. Rosvik enjoys the fictions and mutability of the ideas of performed identities. The contrasts and relationships that exist between the natural and constructed worlds suggest to him the potential of combining aesthetic experience and arts based knowledge with on site performances where he himself and the audience cannot control the art experiences generated.

Peter Rosvik

lundi 24 juin 2013

My name is...

My name is Roi Vaara. We know what Roi means and Vaara stands for a mountain typical to the north of Finland. It's also Finnish for danger. What I mean is not fixed, but true. I have visited famous sights like Mount Fuji as a blind man. As a White Man, I have passed by The White House and crossed The Great Wall of China. I have seen abandoned bicycles by the Dead Sea and Hell's Angels on Wall Street. I've bricked up department store show windows and swum across a volcanic lake with a stack of bowler hats burning on my head. I've sold snowballs in winter markets. I've taught people to carry their own legs. I've encouraged people to join the party by carrying a Follow Me! sign in public. Maybe names don't really matter, but there's only one Roi Vaara in the world and that's me. 

Mon nom est Roi Vaara. Nous savons ce Roi veut dire et Vaara correspond à une montagne typique au nord de la Finlande. C'est aussi danger en finois. Ce que je veux dire n'est pas fixé, mais vrai. J'ai visité les sites célèbres comme le mont Fuji en tant qu’aveugle. en tant qu’homme blanc, je suis allé à la Maison Blanche et j’ai traversé la Grande Muraille de Chine. J'ai vu des vélos abandonnés au bord de la mer Morte et les Hells Angels à Wall Street. J'ai murée la vitrine d’un magasin et j’ai traversé à la nage un lac volcanique avec une pile de chapeaux melon brûlant sur la tête. J'ai vendu des boules de neige sur les marchés l'hiver. J'ai enseigné aux gens à porter leurs propres jambes. J'ai encouragé les gens à se joindre à la fête en portant un suivez-moi ! J’ai signé en public. Peut-être que les noms n'ont pas vraiment d'importance, mais il y a un seul Roi Vaara dans le monde et c'est moi.


Follow me / Suivez-moi

    Istanbul 2012


Performance art is based on time and place. It is situational and works on case-by-case. What makes it art is a trickier question. According to narrow definitions of art it's hardly not art at all but life only. It is clear that what we consider as art and further divide into different genres of art, is just a small section of all forms of life and of all possibilities that are involved in life. The appearance of performance art can be considered signifying need to get rip off limiting labellings of art and remanifest connections into more holistic views to indicate life and its conditions. In performance art point of view life is art enough.