part I

NIGHT ON EARTH: BERLIN 18.4 – 4.5
Physical Beats and Mental Bruises:

Locations:
Schlesiche Strasse, Zero-Gallery , Showroom Gallery, Mizlewskaja, 103 Club, Kunstfabrik, Vorspiel Gallery, San Remo

part II

NIGHT ON EARTH: SHANGHAI 15.5 – 14.6
Spatial Constructions and Time-based Collisions

Locations:
Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA

part III

NIGHT ON EARTH: HELSINKI 22.8 – 14.9

Locations:
Myymälä2, Suvilahti, Tiivistämö & Galleri Bergman

Night On Earth - Connecting Urban Arts Scenes in Berlin, Helsinki and Shanghai is an innovative new
project, which connects together a series of urban arts events in Berlin, Shanghai and Helsinki during the spring and summer of 2008. The idea is to generate creative interaction between artists and public both in each of these locations but also in-between the sites.

This series of intertwined events is an international co-production that is based on the current chance and challenge of building networks between these three growing and rising cities. They are chances and challenges that we seek to activate and evaluate.

The series of events borrows its title from a contemporary film classic, Jim Jarmusch’s film where events are taking place simultaneously in different parts of the world but events which are then poetically and thematically tied together. The task is to connect cultural activists and participants in a fashion that will create new chances for producing works, collaborative efforts, communication and distribution. In each of the three cities Night On Earth events will be presented during a concentrated three-week period of time. There will be exhibitions of contemporary art combined with club nights where DJs and live acts perform in interaction with VJs and visual artists.

There will be a carefully planned and executed interaction between the visual means and the sound landscapes within each city’s contextualized situation. Each location will have its own content-driven specific focus. In Berlin, the focus is more on site-specific works that take place in the cutting edge, which unites the public and the private spheres. In Shanghai, our focus will be on media based works, concentrating on living images done and presented in wide variety of ways. Helsinki will bridge these both approaches while highlighting the results of the whole process.

Night On Earth will function as a platform for a great diversity of urban music and visual art. The festival aims to build closer ties and enhance communication between the urban arts scenes in East Asia and Europe. The aim of the three-part event is to build up and to develop a new type of a network that brings together the artists and producers in these three different scenes and cities. It will be a network based on shared interest and aims of dialogue and collaboration

For more information about Night On Earth contact:

Jani Joenniemi
tel. +358 400 727241
email. jani@myymala2.com

Mika Hannula
tel. +358 400 530828
email. mikajuhanihannula@gmail.com

Tuomas Laitinen
tel. +358 44 0772347
email. tuomas.laitinen@kuva.fi

NIGHT ON EARTH IS SUPPORTED BY

City of Helsinki
Finnish Ministry of Education
Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Goethe Institute, Shanghai & Helsinki
Greater Helsinki Promotion
Finnish Embassy in Beijing
Finnish Embassy in Berlin
Finnish Institute in Berlin
Frame-Fund
LUSES
ESEK
Arts Council of Finland
Music Export Finland
Forum Virium