Dance, Physical Theatre, Performance, Music & Visuals, Installation, Media Art and Film
Rea Pihlasviita is a multi- and interdisciplinary artist. She started working in the 1980’s as a dancer and dance teacher and has gradually broadened her work to multidisciplinary art making with media art and film.
Recently she has been molding her multidisciplinary artistic practices into methods to enhance creative thinking.
The mission is to integrate artistic thinking into the realm of every day life and cultural society both in reality and in film.
Pioneer work in the frame of art making
Rea Pihlasviita is one of the pioneers of dance video and multi & cross media performances in Finland.
In the early 1990’s she was amongst the few artists that started working with new technologies.
She was working as an in-house artist and a partner in a company that was the first to offer high quality broadcast level video editing facilities in Finland. These facilities provided new possibilities to realise multilayered imagery, which has been one of the recognisable features of her work.
Body Mind Engine
Body is the motor and driving force. It is the key element in her artistic work. Body can be used to guide the mind and enhance experiences, both physical and mental. It is the means to encounter the reality of consciousness.
Lately she has been working on developing methods that let anyone experience similar creative states of mind that artists have at their best moments. The methods help to use one’s body-mind interaction creatively to get the best out of every day life.
Presently she is writing a screenplay on creativity and art making enhancing intuition to expand consciousness to new spheres.
The Works
Video and Film Projects:
VINCENT´S WAVE (2008, 8 min. short film)
– script, directing
– produced by CECC, Spain
TABULA RASA O NO (2006, 10 min. dance video)
– script, dancing, editing, directing
– ordered by Mostra de Video Dansa de Barcelona
– broadcast: TV3, Spain
M3 – MUSEION, MEDIUM, MEMORIA (1999, 30min. art documentary)
– scripting, directing, producing
– co-production: Kiasma, Museum for Contemporary Art in Finland, MTV 3
– broadcast: MTV 3, Finland
MAAILMAN KOSTO (1997, 30 min. short film)
– scripting, performing, directing, editing
– co-production: YLE/FST
– broadcast: YLE/FST
ORGASTIC ORANGE (1995, 25 min. telecommunication short film)
– scripting, performing, directing, editing and producing
– co-production: Gernot Steinweg/KANAL 4 TV, Germany and YLE TV2 and
YLE international co-productions
– broadcast: KANAL 4, Germany and YLE/TV 2
– Special Prize of the Organizers, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany 1995
– Prix du Cinema de Demain, 5e Mondial de la Video, Brussels, Belgium, 1995 – Nomination for the Best Performance Special Award, Banff TV Festival, Canada, 1996
TULENARKAA, 6 VIDEO CLIPS (1994, 6×3 min. video tapes for FST)
– scripting, performing, directing, editing and producing
– broadcast: YLE/FST, 1994
PINK NOISE (1992, 29 min. videotape, part of the European Video Dance Echange Project)
– scripting, performing, directing, editing
– broadcast: Germany, Checoslovakia, Croatia 1993
– Grand Prix at the 5th AV Biennial, Lahti, Finland, 1992
MEIN KAMPF IN MEDIA (1992, 19 min. videotape. Performance reconstruction utilizing video and TV-media)
– scripting, performing, directing, editing, producing
– broadcast: KANAL 4,Germany 1992, YLE TV 1, 1993
– Grand Prix at the 5th AV Biennial, Lahti, Finland, 1992
DINNER WITH ALEXANDRE (1991, 3 min. videotape)
– scripting, performing, directing
– broadcast: KANAL 4,Germany 1992
PATHOLOGICAL INVENTIONS (1991, 10 min. videotape)
– scripting, choreographing, performing, directing
– broadcast: KANAL 4,Germany 1991
VIDEO XII-I (1990, 20 min. dance video, photographed in France)
– scripting, choreographing, performing, directing, editing
Video and Film Projects with other directors:
DER RECORDBEOBACHTER (2012, ARD Degeto Film directed by Karola Hattop)
– production assistant in Finland shoot
ETERNAL ERECTION AT VIRGIN OIL (2009, stereoscopic 3D music film, directed by Arne Eklund)
– producing, assistant director, editor
GARDEN OF ROUSSEAU (2007, art documentary, directed by Roope Ahola)
– producing
– broadcast premier 13.4.2008 / YLE TV 1
SUOMEN SIELUN SOINTEJA (2006, musical series, directed by Arne Eklund)
– scripting, producing
– broadcast premier 14.-16.4.2006 / YLE TV 1
JAZZ AT 5 CORNERS (2002, musical talkshow, directed by Arne Eklund)
– scripting, producing
– broadcasted in summer 2002 / YLE TV 1
JAZZ GOES… (2001, a series of 90 jazzmusic videos, directed by Arne Eklund)
– assistant director, producer
– broadcasted 4.6.-1.9.2001 / YLE TV 1
I MORGON, IGEN (2000, musicdocumentary 40 min., directed by Arne Eklund)
– scripting, producing
– broadcast premier: 31.12.2000 / YLE FST
LOS AMANTES DEL CIRCULO POLAR (1998, feature film, directed by Julio Medem)
– 2nd production executive of the Finnish shoot
Media Art Performances & Installations
RINNERADIO DES I BEL (1997, non stop video installation for concert)
– concept, editing, directing
– premier at Helsingin Juhlaviikot, Huvilateltta
AGENTS OF SIRIUS (1996, 45 min. telematic live concert)
– concept, performing, directing
– premier at Telegalleria, Helsinki
CYBER CUBE (1996, 30 min., live media performance in a cube)
– concept, performing, directing, realisation
– live interactive videophone connection to the Medienkunsttage in Mainz
– premier at Kuopio Art Museum
EX AFRICA (1996, videoconcert, directed by Walter Verdin)
– performing
– premier at Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
RED 3.0 (1995, 50 min. stage media performance)
– concept, performing, directing, realisation
– premier at Helsinki Festival, Helsinki City Theatre
TALKING PAINTING (1994, telematic interactive installation)
– concept, performing
– premier at 1st triennial of Finnish Contemporary Art, Arthall Helsinki, 1994
– ISEA 94, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, 1994
– ISDN Global- event /Sonera 1995
PINK NOISE #2 (1993, 50 min. stage media performance)
– performing, choreographing, editing, directing, realisation
– premier at Suomenlinna Dance Festival
RED (1993, 55 min. stage media performance)
– performing, choreographing, concept, directing, realisation
– premier at Theatre des Amandiers, Paris 1993
– performances: Kuopio Dance and Music Festival 1993, The Opening of the Theatre Academy light and sound department Tampere 1993, Euro Szene Leipzig Festival, Germany 1993
MEIN KAMPF (1991, 45 min. audiovisual dance performance)
– performing, concept, directing
– performances in Porvoo and Helsinki and at the Institute Finlandais, Paris 1993
4 bis PATHOLOGICAL INVENTIONS (1991, 55 min. dance and media performance)
– performing, concept, directing
– performances: Premier in Helsinki, Dancin´Visuals Festival Copenhagen 1991, ´Finnice`-mois de la photographie in Nice 1991, International Video Festival in Århus 1991, Porvoo 1991, Theatre des Amandiers ´Place à la danse contemporaine à Paris`1992, ´150 years of photography in Finland`at Kerava Art Museum 1992
4 bis (1990, 40 min. audiovisual dance performance)
– performing, concept, directing
– performed at AV-biennial in Lahti 1990
UNA PALLA DI FERRO (1990, 20 min. media and dance performance)
– performing, concept, directing
– performed at Lahti Art Museum 1990
CIRCU (1990, 50 min. multimedia dance performance)
– performing, concept, directing
– performed in Lahti, Kuopio, Helsinki 1990
ROPE (1989, 9 min. videotape and performance)
– performing
– Billnäs international art exhibition 1989
AWARDS:
– GRAND PRIX AT THE 5TH AV BIENNIAL IN LAHTI 1992
for ´Pink Noise`and ´Mein Kampf in Media`, Finland
– SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE ORGANIZERS, OBERHAUSEN KURZFILMTAGE 1995
for ´Orgastic Orange`, Germany
– PRIX DU CINEMA DE DEMAIN, 5e MONDIAL DE LA VIDEO 1995
for ´Orgastic Orange`, Brussels, Belgium
– ANNUAL PRIZE FOR PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN ARTS 1995
Regional Council of the Helsinki Area, Finland
– BANFF TELEVISION FESTIVAL IN CANADA 1996
nomination for Best Performance Special Award for ´Orgastic Orange`
– ARTIST STIPENDIUM 1997- 2001
Arts Council of Finland
STUDIES:
Film
– Centre d´Estudis Cinematogràphics de Catalunya
(directing, film history, script writing 2005-2008)
– UIAH complementary education: digital cinema and script writing 2009
Dance and theatre
– Mime Centre Helsinki by Adam Darius (theatre, improvisation, mime, dance, 1996)
– Masaki Iwana, white Butoh (several courses in Helsinki & Paris 1990-91)
– Theatre academy dance department Helsinki (danceteacher education 1987-90)
– Forum Du Mouvement, lÉcole Superieure du Spectacle, Paris (dance, theatre, singing in 1987)
– Centre de Dance de Paris (several courses on ballet in 1985-87)
– RAD (Royal Academy of Dancing) Education Syllabus 1 & 2 (1985)
– Porvoon Musiikkiopisto (singing 1979-82)
– private schools in Finland (classical ballet, jazz, modern dance, physical expression)
Other
– Ekspressiivisen taideterapian menetelmäkoulutus, Ihmissuhdetyö ry (2014)
– Classes of Harmonic singing & Voice yoga in Barcelona (2003-05)
– Hermoratahierojakoulutus (Chinese trad. massage for the nervous system,2003-04)
– Snellman-korkeakoulu (antroposophy, arts, 1982-83)