Meeting Point: One of contemporary art’s most characteristic features has been the attempt to take art out of the art institutions and into life and society, so as to create points of contact and networks on a neutral plane, using unconventional forms. With our site-related project we have consciously tried to go in the opposite direction, to bring life/society into a new space for contemporary art in Vaasa.

The Meeting Point Project is divided into two parts. One starts with a series of concrete events, in which participants and visitors play, or can play, an active roll. This part is concentrated and limited in time. The other part is the temporary exhibition in Platform’s gallery space. The results of the work, which arise out of discussions, lectures, documentation, transformations and so on, become physical material in the project room. In the gallery the office landscape meets neo-expressionism.

Meeting Point is thus intended to break the ordinary pattern of one-off visits to exhibitions, and instead to focus on conversation, lectures, actions and more. Here, FinnFemFel has the role of consultant rather than producer, thus acting as a kind of filter. The events we organise are informal and simple, and are devoted to exchanges of ideas and to the possibility of producing new or unexpected connections. They take on their own visual shape, so that content and form complement each another. The boundaries between the different areas become fluid.

The primary goal is to bring together people from various areas of art, knowledge and society, and establish contacts between people who live in the town and those who are visiting. During the project, Meeting Point will use various media - the daily press, radio/ TV, the internet and so on.