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Kaats, Külli
1975 Tallinn, lives in Tallinn (Estonia)

venue: museo San Telmo

In Kulli Kaats's video, Avifauna (2004), human language is replaced by the chirping and twittering (or in Estonian, kirking and kooing) of birds. Trained as an orchestral conductor, Kaats is committed to a meticulous research of the language of birds. Her complex notations that result in cacophonous musical scores evolve as experimental mimetic studies designed to gauge human behaviour against the patterns of bird communication, migration and nesting.Endlessly rewriting a personal and yet foreign language, Kaats´ work is enveloped in an obscure and enigmatic light.

curriculum:

Education
Estonian Academy of Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, M.A. 2000-2003.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera,
Milan, Italy, 2002-2003.

Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Fine Arts (B.A. 2000) 1995-2000.

Estonian Academy of Music, Conducting Department, 1993-1996; 2000-2002
(B.A. 2002).

Selected individual exhibitions
The Catalogue of Birds. Galerii Tuviputka, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 2003.

Avifauna, Tallinn City Gallery, 2002.

Selected group exhibitions
My Fatherland is My Love. Artists House, Tartu (Estonia), 2004.

Breath (Estonian video art). Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2002.

Experiments and Classic, Fideo & Vilm Festival. Pärnu (Estonia), 2002.

12th Tallinn Print Triennial [conditionally existing][conditionally non-existing]. Tallinn, 2001.

Online Auction. The Graduates. ArtLink@Sothebys.com, International Young Art 2001.

Gooseflesh. Video- and performance art festival, Rakvere (Estonia), 2001.

Exhibition of Estonian Art, Artists House, Tartu (Estonia), 2000.

Kiriküüt. Video and film festival, Viljandi (Estonia), 2000.

Your Hidden Life: Estonian Printmaking. Tallinn Art Hall, 1999.

Church 2000. GAADS / Church 24 h.
Muhu island (Estonia), 1999.

Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn, 1999.

Media Non Grata. Enter Internet café, Tallinn, 1999.

In Touch. Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 1998.

Collected Relations. Gallery of the National Library, Tallinn, 1998.

Video art
Blueblackwhite, 2004.

Pigeon, Crow, Seagull, 2003.

The Eye, 2002.

What the Women Want I, II (with Elisabeth Salmin), 2001.

Among the Bird Population III: Choir, 2001.

Among the Bird Population II: The Ward, 2000.

Among the Bird Population I, 2000.

Zefiir Roosa (Pink Zephyr), 2000.

Behave in Cave, 1999.

…, 1999

Emergency Stop, 1999.

Performances
Spring, performance/installation, Tallinn, Tartu (Estonia), 2004.

Tuttpütt Présente (with M. A. students of Interdisciplinary Arts from the Estonian Academy of Arts). Rummu prison (Estonia), 2003.

The Catalogue of Birds. Artistic research in Estonia and Italy, 2002-2003.

Double / Multiple Works. Artistic research (with DIADA laboratorio and Nuova Icona, Italia), Tallinn Children Hospital, 2002.

Man is the Architect of the Universe of Morals (with M.A. students of Interdisciplinary Arts). Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 2001.

Birth / Don’t Teach Me How To Live, Help Me Financially (with M. A. students of Interdisciplinary Arts). Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, 1999.

A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A (with Kristin Kalamees & Katri Sipiläinen).
Lone Twin Art Academy, Turku (Finland), 1999.

In the Birds Choir (with students of Estonian Academy of Arts). Muhu island (Estonia), 1999.

Behave in Cave (with Kristin Kalamees, Ly Lestberg & Allan Tõnissoo). Muhu island (Estonia), 1999.

Composition (in music)
Prelude in F, 2001.

External Identification Guide of Estonian Birds. Choir cycle, first performed on May 16, 2001, Teachers Seminar, Tartu (Estonia), 2001.

Little Princess. Cycle of piano pieces, first performed on October 20, 2000, the House of Brotherhood of Blackheads, Tallinn, 2000.

Music in print
External Identification Guide of Estonian Birds. Choir cycle, Edition 49, 2004.

Little Princess, Cycle of piano pieces, Piano Pieces 2000, Estonian Music
Foundation, 2000.

 
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