IHME Project 2012 Christian Boltanski’s The Heart Archive
THE PUBLIC CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT IN HELSINKI, JOENSUU, ROVANIEMI AND VAASA
The IHME Contemporary Art Festival in March 2012 will give the public a chance to experience French artist Christian Boltanski’s The Heart Archive. This is a project begun in 2005, commissioned by the Benesse Art Site Naoshima. In this work Boltanski’s aim is to collect the sounds of human heartbeats for a communal archive on the island of Teshima, Japan. The project is gathering around it a global community linked together by the heart archive. The archive grows each time the project is carried out in a different part of the world. Heartbeat sounds have already been collected in Sweden, France, the UK, Australia, the USA, Korea and elsewhere. Each installation of The Heart Archive
takes the form of a space where recordings are made of human heartbeats.
Next year, The Heart Archive will expand the scope of the IHME Contemporary Art Festival to four cities. The project will be staged in Helsinki, Joensuu, Rovaniemi and Vaasa, simultaneously. Heartbeats will be recorded in all of these cities 12.3-1.4.2012. The sites chosen for the project are libraries: Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki, Joensuu Regional Library, Rovaniemi City Library and Vaasa City Library.
The Heart Archive will be a central feature of the IHME 2012 Contemporary Art Festival, together with The IHME Days to be held in Helsinki 23-25.3.2012. Entry to Festival events is free to the public.
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DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS ABOUT THE IHME FESTIVALS 2009-2011
The first IHME publications document the 2009-11 festivals. The core of each publication is the year’s IHME Project and the discussion about it on the IHME Days. The publications recall to mind a clay cube, a song at a station, and the world’s longest film:
2009 Antony Gormley: Clay and the Collective Body
2010 Susan Philipsz: When Day Closes
2011 Superflex: Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki).
The IHME publications can be viewed online and printed out at: www.issuu.com. Publications are in Finnish and English.
Press releases and press images:
www.ihmeproductions.fi > Media
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Further information: IHME Contemporary Art Festival
Executive Director Paula Toppila, tel +358 (0)45 124 0096, paula.toppila@proartefoundation.fi
Communications and Marketing Mari Alijoki, tel +358 (0)50 592 4070, mari.alijoki@proartefoundation.fi
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