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Support and hails, gotta try to visit that art gallery & purchase the book.
"Anti-social realism" - I like that. Anything related to "Unpop"?
I can't take credit for coining the term, since I'd expect it's been used. But with google one only finds very little.
I don't think it is connected to Unpop. Also was browsing art hate book, but don't think it's about that either. ( http://www.arthate.com )
When I see the funny pop culture products fooling with political extremes in humorous way, it most of all reminds of the undercurrent of social realism.
I think the key word would be simply to take a look to Social Realism and then the standard definitions of antisocial personality/behavior, and see how it turns intent into something else. Even if everybody feels always uncomfortable to be filed under "massmovement", I'm sure majority of the work can be filed under this in a way or another.
Cocksucking grannies = nice!
total support,though I cant afford jukkas paintings.
some of this shit falls under my favourite artterm inhorealismi. doesnt sound as cool in english, learn to use the finnish word.
See blog updates with collages of Mikko A and one from Siikala.
Each collage of Mikko A belongs to larger series containing from 5 to 30+ collages of specific theme/approach. It will remain to be decided which appears on exhibition.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on November 07, 2011, 09:31:53 AM
See blog updates with collages of Mikko A and one from Siikala.
Really nice! These have a very gloomy mood which suits really well to the subject matter. Very successful collage work...
Will some of these go on sale? Or at least copies? Fuck, I 'd even pay for some xerox's of a few of these. Amazing work all around guys, well done.
I assume some of the stuff will be for sale. I think all collages by each creator are done on board. They are no "paper collages", so especially the bigger ones are probably very heavy and difficult to sell via mail.
I think some of the stuff will make it to the book and therefore easily available.
Oh yea, I forgot that there is a book. I am assuming it is the same book that Pasi mentioned in the interview I did with him on PS?
A collection of all of it in a book is fucking great, however, I think that black & white collage with girl in knee high socks would be perfect framed and stuck on the ceiling above my bed looking down.
series where that belong, includes 2 more, which might be even tastier..
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statement
ANTI-SOCIAL REALISM
No longer should transgressive art be seen as a depiction of injustices and atrocities, where the hidden agenda is equally tame as in social realism. No longer should it be expected to depict life's struggle and hardship including sentimental moral statement, supposedly exposing injustice and therefore awaking empathy and placing the assumed victim in a mystified, heroic role. No longer should transgression be the route to artificial self-empowerment.
Anti-Social Realism answers to the void in field of art, plagued by provocateurs who merely mirror the reality to preach the message of modern humanist politics. Anti-Social Realism answers to the hordes of art activists who swarm in a pigsty of clichés and cheap thrills, only to walk out clean and safe with impotent goals.
Anti-Social Realism exhibits social, sexual and racial injustice, economic hardship, political extremes, antisocial urges and desires. Anti-Social Realism depicts targets and situations with no undercurrent of human rights protest, obvious satire or moralist message. Anti-Social Realism lurks in the dark corners of human mind, accepting and celebrating the abusive and filthy urges and interests. It seeks to present situations of abuse, objectification, degradation, impulsive aggressions and desires beyond the ability to consider well-being, value and emotional damage of real or hypothetical objects in question. It feels no remorse for the subject matter nor apology for the approach.
artists info:
SIIKALA
Siikala reaches for ecstatic nausea with conflicting elements. He utilizes painting techniques by mixing traditional layer painting and the coarse side of popular imagery in the vein of 70's American photo realism. As raw material Siikala uses amateur pornography. He copies the original models quite faithfully favouring strict cuts through human figures as compositional brutality. The same unintentional spirit of mercilessness can be seen in the errors of pixelated digital images that he has used as models. The selected images are tuned up with more or less intuitive elements and references to medical illustration. In his latest works he has included expressive painting style as contrast to realistic details, yet still trying to avoid too much creativity and stylizing as a humanizing factor. As a side-product, there emerges reflections of current trends in the same wretched style as in eurotrash and exploitation cinema. Consequently Siikala labels himself as a trash artist. He also experiences resemblance with extremist noise music.
MARKKULA
Markkula's manifest of intent can be summed up with a few simple words: Hate and Lust. Filth and Violence. His passion to explore primal brute interests crosses over expressions through sound, photography, collages and videos. Markkula's output is perfectly consistent in it's exaggerated anti-art qualities. His technique is savagely atrocious, manipulating the lowest forms of art. Grainy low quality xeroxes, video stills, consumer level digital camera images, internet site print-outs, magazine clippings. Crudely glued, plastered, taped or stapled with very little attention to the qualities appreciated in fine arts. This approach removes substance from the context of eye candy into mere subject matter. His matters of interest are a psychotic mix of sexualized racism, racialized sexuality, sexualized violence, sexualized political extremes. His work operates on the level of exaggerated offenses. It rejects the satire of contemporary, supposedly wacky yet provocative "unpop" art as well as it rejects the whole notion that his work would be anything more than it is: Hate, Lust, Filth and Violence.
ASPA
Aspa seeks to portray urges and interest from a predatory and masculine angle. The majority of his body of work revolves around themes of degradation and abuse spiced with an extensive amount of decay. His work aims to destroy any elements of an actual person's ego or mundane being and transform everything into objects of pure aesthetic value. His work focuses often on the theme of decay. Be it moral decay, the physical condition of portrayed object or its surroundings. And finally also on the technical qualities. Subjects include focus on "unprofessional" human nudity and obscene displays of perversions, which seek to distance sexuality from simulations of pro-creation. The sexuality portrayed always involves a predatory or voyeuristic angle. There is zero attempt to normalize deviancy or seek acceptance for bizarre desires. The Anti-Social aspect of pornography remains exactly the opposite. It loathes the apologetic approach of "sex art activists".
The study of decay also includes dead animals, abandoned industrial sites, discarded waste that once was a sign of advanced civilization, decaying untamed and untouched nature. The texture of decay is of major importance. Instead of perfect balance, the focus is on bleak harmony of contrasts, textures of micro level organic elements of wear, tear and damage. His collages focus not only on the image itself, but most of all on torn edges as well as stained and wrinkled paper textures. His output is almost exclusively black and white or mildly toned. The photography is often raw and sometimes also developed with hand made chemical prints which celebrate the magical spontaneous imperfections. His paintings and illustrations are bluntly naive, seeking nothing else than to portray the idea of a specific act or object obsessing the creator's mind.
Aspa considers himself as a Seer of Decay, who accepts and celebrates the role of a gutter artist and providing conflict of mind. The illusion of a new dawn is so distant, politics often enter only as a side-product and most often as uncomfortably and coldly inhumane as the rest of the work.
All promo material free to re-post/link.
Nice manifestos/presentations. Will be interesting to hear about the response to the exhibition, in art world & media. How underground is the gallery? Performances planned for opening night?
seems like the blog has a good following already. v excited to hold print versions in hand. hope for extra large format.
Quote from: pestdemon on November 17, 2011, 06:20:16 PM
Nice manifestos/presentations. Will be interesting to hear about the response to the exhibition, in art world & media. How underground is the gallery? Performances planned for opening night?
Gallery is small profile, yet in Kallio area of Helsinki, so pretty "central" and easy to get.
Performance plans and such will be reported later on. It will be extensive usage of space. Possibly also video art screened.
Blog has been updated little by little, with works of everybody involved - keep eye for more!
http://urworthit.tumblr.com/
Wow, those two blue pieces are really nice. Those yours Mikko?
I want to see more of Pasi's stuff.
yeah, blue photos are mine.
Do you plan on doing anymore b&w photography like that which was in Exoteric #5? Those kind of reminded me of John Duncan's earlier photography work (Maze, etc) but better.
All my works are basically b/w but when developed with cyanotype (iron salt prints) technique, they appear in blue tones.
Works in Esoteric magazine hardly presents the style of photos. It was like photos being xeroxed, all detail lost in process.
The 3 recent b/w collages are really nice. Who did those? Guessing Mikko...
when you move the mouse pointer on top of image, to lower part, appears grey bar with number etc. Click that and you see the details of work. Who made it, size, technique etc.
Oh yeah, I never click on'em. I like that they look like old photographs.
I think it should be visible from scans, but there are hand made, not computer made. I use pretty much exclusively books and old magazines as source. Usually could be said from 70's to older. Something, that most often could not be said by anybody that he knows where it is taken. None of the material is scanned, but they are photographed from pages, often with slightly altered angles, making optical distortions.
Material is cut/torn/glued/plastered and often hand toned to specific tone. Some pieces are coated with laquer, some remain as they are. They often have this nearly 3D quality compared to what you can sense from small web sample.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 24, 2011, 10:35:21 AM
I think it should be visible from scans, but there are hand made, not computer made. I use pretty much exclusively books and old magazines as source. Usually could be said from 70's to older. Something, that most often could not be said by anybody that he knows where it is taken. None of the material is scanned, but they are photographed from pages, often with slightly altered angles, making optical distortions.
Material is cut/torn/glued/plastered and often hand toned to specific tone. Some pieces are coated with laquer, some remain as they are. They often have this nearly 3D quality compared to what you can sense from small web sample.
Those are really good. Even viewed from the screen they're pretty much in their own league. Just interested if you have some kind of high quality photo printer, or do you shoot on film and develop them the old school way?
oh, about question above, prints are contact prints made from film. But in this case of course the size of film required is very large and they are printed films from digital images. Yet the originally digital image transforms optically & chemically to very eye pleasing results!
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Tomorrow!
Opening Reception and The Release Party of 'Anti Social Realism' -art book on Saturday, February 18, from 6 to 10 pm. Free vodka. Open for everyone. Welcome!
Helsinki, Kaarlenkatu 10.Trams 9 ja 3B, 'Kaarlenkatu' -tram stop (ten minutes from railway station)
The gallery is situated next to a reggae bar Exodus!
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Every day 12:00 to 19:00. Kaarlenkatu 10 Helsinki
Closing party 3.3 w/GRUNT.
Shit, so wish I could go to this....looks like pure filth enjoyment! Will the book be available from Freak Animal?
Quote from: Bondage Culture on February 19, 2012, 06:01:23 PM
Shit, so wish I could go to this....looks like pure filth enjoyment! Will the book be available from Freak Animal?
Distributed internationally after the exhibition by FREAK ANIMAL and FILTH&VIOLENCE.
Two versions:
Limited edition A4(21cm x 30cm) with silkscreened cover
Regular edition A5(14,5cm x 21cm)
100 full color pages.
Is the women in the car and the grandma pictures paintings or photoshoped pictures or something like that?
Quote from: Mattias G on February 20, 2012, 04:21:10 PM
Is the women in the car and the grandma pictures paintings or photoshoped pictures or something like that?
paintings
Quote from: Mattias G on February 20, 2012, 04:21:10 PM
Is the women in the car and the grandma pictures paintings or photoshoped pictures or something like that?
siikalan jukka does paintings. I chatted with him once and he said it takes quite a lot of effort to mix the paint.
whatever time he spends on it clearly pays off as those things look super realistic when they are meant to be that way.
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Quote from: Mattias G on February 20, 2012, 04:21:10 PM
Is the women in the car and the grandma pictures paintings or photoshoped pictures or something like that?
siikalan jukka does paintings. I chatted with him once and he said it takes quite a lot of effort to mix the paint.
whatever time he spends on it clearly pays off as those things look super realistic when they are meant to be that way.
Aha, it´s the same guy that was interviewed in Special Interest a few issues back. I thought it looked familiar. And yes the little i have seen looks very realistic. Would be awesome to see in a exhibition some time.
Any better photos of the closeted woman - face down/cunt up?! Wondering what exactly is the story on that shot...
Is the exhibition located in someone's house?
It's art gallery. Just not from the upper ladder of fine art... heh.. More affordable one.
I was just told journalist of Huvudstadbladet visited exhibition and on cultural pages it will appear in top-3 most interesting exhibitions of this moment. Quite amusing, yet, having seen enough of boooooooring exhibitions, I wouldn't be surprised if more people want to see it.
Woman in closet is doll. That's been fucked more than most real women in their lifetime? For better view of her, check out Pasi's part of Anti-Social Realism book.
Great to hear it is getting a positive reception. I am sure after a million deadbeat art galleries there are around in Helsinki, this MUST be something new and refreshing. Pokes you around a little bit.
You should try and get it to Sweden. See if anyone owning a gallery would even dare to give your stuff any attention. Probably not. Freedom of expression is good & great in art, as long as you do & say the right thing...
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General translation of that? Good or bad review?
she dug it.
Mitä nyt Suomalaisuuden Liiton jäsenenä ymmärsin kermaperseiden kielestä niin yllättävän hyvä arvostelu Höblän tekemäksi. Onnittelut.
You Are Worth It -lopetustapahtuma
3. maaliskuuta 2012
18:00 - 20:30
Kaarlenkatu 10
"GRUNT" + taustavideo
"My Body is A Slimy Drug" -performanssivideo
Domina Fallen Angel ja Slavegirl Janina. Osa II !!!
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quick translation:
"ILLUSTRATED TABOOS
the window is covered with posters and on the door hangs a K-18 sign. an attempt at enticing with mysticism? a necessity, rather. the group exhibition ... is very raw and explicit. the mix of collage, painting and exhibition provokes a feeling of disgust. pornography, war, (sexual) power and most of all violence is present in each work. they still succeed to avoid getting caught up in vain shock value only. it feels real. you sense a rage - in some level the exhibition feels important. it goes all the way in it's portrayal of death and darkness. it's not meaningless imagery trying to claim attention with simple images of sex and death. they are cruel commentaries to things most people try to repress."
More or less. Not only did she dig it, but she understood it as well.
What time will Grunt perform tomorrow?
18:00 open & Silent Abuse abuses
19:00 grunt
20:00 Siikala performance video
then advised to get your ass to La Bas for some Danish noise & pe starting at 21:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4sb5fkAS0U&feature=youtu.be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4sb5fkAS0U&feature=youtu.be)
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Excellent! Shame that's only as close as I can get.
Is there any footage of the performances?
http://purestench.blogspot.com/2012/05/interview-anti-social-realism-mikko.html
A4 limited edition is sold out.
FA & FV still carries couple copies of 1st print of the regular version. I recall I'd have like... 2 copies left.
I got a copy of the regular edition from either Bondage Distro or from a trade with someone in Finland (I don't remember which) and it is definitely worth getting. Great looking book put together really well and all of the pieces are great. If you enjoy this type of thing then I highly suggest it. Nothing beats holding it in your hands, the internet can't replicate that and since some of us can't ever see these exhibits since we live far from Finland this is the best we can get right now. I do hope that maybe a video or some other visual documentation of this work comes out.
The interview I did has been the most popular interview on my site thus far with roughly 70-100 views a day (74 today, it is slowing down from when I first put it up) and a total of 1,264 since I posted it. That's a seriously big number for the amount of time it has been up.
Got a copy of the special edition ,love it, on display with full confidence and pride
The artbook may not count as a very "recent" release, but because I'm insanely in love with this work of art, I took the liberty of reviewing it:
http://thanaticmanifestations.blogspot.de/2013/08/review-anti-social-realism-artbook-aspa.html (http://thanaticmanifestations.blogspot.de/2013/08/review-anti-social-realism-artbook-aspa.html)
Hope you guys, especially the persons involved, approve.
Siikala is end of week going for 2 months in Japan. I guess he takes some prints with him, but no exact plans for exhibitions... but I'm sure he'd appreciate any advice of underground / obscure galleries in Tokyo & Osaka.
I send you a PM Mikko. Jukka mentioned Japan earlier, but I thought he was going on a vacation/research trip or something.
Are any copies of the book still available? I tried to order one a while ago but no one got back to me on shipping to the US.
Quote from: simulacrum on September 22, 2013, 04:18:21 PM
Are any copies of the book still available? I tried to order one a while ago but no one got back to me on shipping to the US.
Filth and Violence are still selling copies, check their site out.
Maybe Where Frost Reign still has some copies?
Quote from: tisbor on September 22, 2013, 05:47:37 PM
Maybe Where Frost Reign still has some copies?
Pasi still have some copies I think. WFR copies are sold out. I might restock in the future.
Edit: Forgot ... have some original artwork by Jukka Siikala. Three drawings/mix media. Swing by the distro to take a look (under March 2013 in archive section): http://wherefrostreignhangar.tumblr.com/ (http://wherefrostreignhangar.tumblr.com/)
For interested parties:
You Are Worth It
Exhibition pamphlet. PDF dwnlwd.
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I also have still hundreds of those as originals. Anyone want those with orders or even multiple copies to distribute, just remind me!
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I also have still hundreds of those as originals. Anyone want those with orders or even multiple copies to distribute, just remind me!
awesome
Also, there are bunch postcards printed with some collages / photos related to this book/exhibition and also other photos (rotten animals etc). They are available in my store in Lahti (www.sarvilevyt.fi), but those who order and remind about them, I may throw things into orders as well.