KuvA Research Days 2019

KuvA Research Days 2019

Program 9.12.2019 Ohjelma

9:00 Kahvi

9:15 Anita Seppä ja Hanna Johansson: Johdanto päivän teemaan

9:30 Karoliina Lummaa: Peili ja diagrammi - Fossiilisen ajan ihmisen kuva

10:15 Teemu Mäki: Taide ja posthumanismi

11:00 Tauko

11:15 Taina Riikonen: Taide fossiilikapitalismin jälkeen: lahoavan muovin narina

12:00 Lounas (omakustanteinen)

13:00 Terike Haapoja (New York), Lecture via Skype: Beyond Animality

13:45 Anita Seppä ja Hanna Johansson: Yhteenveto – Conclusions

14:00 Kahvi

14:15–18 Minun ilmastotaitoni -työpaja / My Climate Skills Workshop

Ohjelmasta vastaavat/Hosts: Henna Laininen, Alexis Jutras

Program 10.12.2019 Ohjelma

9:00 Denise Ziegler: Welcome, On the Bridge

9:10 SESSION 1

True Colours of Twilight – Twisting Strands of Experiment and Experience in the Fabric of Art and Science, Tuula Närhinen, University researcher, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

Practical Reflections on the Verbalization of Craft Experience, Jan Lütjohann, Teacher, Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

In the Wrong Place, Paul Landon, DFA alumnus of Uniarts Helsinki; Professor, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal

Numbered List on the Infraordinary, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Doctoral student, Aalto University

10:10 Discussion

10:30 Coffee

10:45 SESSION 2

Performing with a Pine Tree Annette Arlander, Visiting researcher, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki; Professor of Performance, Art and Theory, Stockholm University of the Arts Research Centre

Designing the ‘36Q˚ Blue Hour VR’ Mixed-Reality Installation for PQ19 Joris Weijdom, Doctoral student and lecturer, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and Paul Cegys, PhD candidate in the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University

Valinta, Maija Närhinen, Doctoral student, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

L A B - O (U) R A T O R Y, Mika Elo, Professor, Academy of Fine Arts Doctoral Programme, Uniarts Helsinki

11:45 Discussion

12:10 Lunch (not included)

13:10 SESSION 3

What is the Product of These Conversations that you Are Having as Part of your Artistic Research? Matthew Cowan, Doctoral student, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

An Experiment in Letter-Writing, Elina Saloranta, Postdoctoral researcher, CfAR – Centre for Artistic Research, Uniarts Helsinki

History Is Full of Ruse and Cunning , Jack Faber, Doctoral student, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

The Work that Is not Done yet - Artistic Research and Unfinished Issues, Pilvi Porkola, Postdoctoral researcher, Performing Arts Research Centre TUTKE, Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki

Tactile Composition, Marloeke van der Vlugt, Doctoral student, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

14:25 Discussion

14:40 Coffee

14:55 SESSION 4

Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction, Mirka Duijn, Doctoral student, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographic Thinking, Lauren O'Neal, Doctoral student, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

An Endless Searching for Substance, Suzanne Mooney, Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

Art is a Dog, Tanja Kiiveri, Lecturer, Time and Space Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

15:55 Discussion

16:10 Soup for everyone

16:30–17:30 Workshop: Plaiting Paper Stars with Johanna Paalanen

Program 11.12.2019

9:30 Coffee

10:00 Welcome and short introduction, Mireia c. Saladrigues

10:15 Elina Lehtonen: From skeletons to marble, and from marble to dust An introduction to the basics of the rock cycle explains how rocks are formed on Earth in general and what limestone and marble are. Marble can also be found in Vuosaari, Helsinki, and Lehtonen’s presentation will go through how and when the rock was formed, and what kind of volcanic environment Southern Finland was at that time. The abandoned quarry leads Lehtonen to discuss how and why local stones were extracted. In addition, light will be shed on the geology behind Carrara marble.

11:15 Sari Palosaari: Grinding time An introduction to the performativity and temporality of stones by artistic means. The proposal is on view in the gallery space during the day. Palosaari’s proposal opens a frame to the constant event of geological time where the mountains grind into stones, the stones into sand, and the sand into dust. In her installations stones autonomously split during the exhibition due to pressure from within them. The time that it takes for the stone to crack is juxtaposed with the human instant and the viewer’s time within the installation.

12:15 Lunch (not included)

13:15 Mireia c. Saladrigues: We could have turned ourselves into sugar Navigating between history, archive materials, fiction, autobiography and geology, the performative exposition activates some documents and narrations about the hammer blow dealt to Michelangelo’s David. The ongoing project Martellata_14.09.91 presents a dialectical and chrono-material reflection on the iconoclastic act of Piero Cannata by approaching the different voices and perspectives of the incident, which also deal with the materiality of the sculpture.

14:15 Dario Gamboni: About the destruction of art (video lecture) One of the first art historians to take an interest in vandalism explains in a filmed conversation the differences between iconoclasm and vandalism. The fact that artworks can be destroyed, broken or damaged proves that they are things, addressing art from its materialness. Vandalism would be a consequence, not of hate but of veneration, of its misuse produced by an excess of devotion.

15:15 Coffee

15:30 Fernando Dominguez-Rubio: Still life: Ecologies of the modern imagination at the art museum What does it take to sustain the objects through which we build and organize the worlds that we dream and inhabit? The aim of this talk is to answer this question through an approach that takes seriously the seemingly banal fact that objects constantly fall out of place, deteriorate, malfunction, and fall into disrepair. Taking this fact seriously, I argue, requires us to think not in terms of ‘objects’, but ecologically, that is, in terms of the processes and conditions under which certain ‘things’ come to be differentiated and identified as particular kinds of ‘objects’ endowed with particular forms of meaning, value and power. The talk will explore this ecological approach in practice by delving into the rather particular ecology through which a special variety of objects, art objects, are made possible, sustained and imaged at one place: the Museum of Modern Art in New York. If everything goes well, the talk should be an invitation to think about fragility and vulnerability, not as problems to be overcome, but as the inherent conditions of the worlds we dream and inhabit.

16:30–17:00 Final discussion and conclusions

KuvA Research Days 2019 website: https://sites.uniarts.fi/en/web/kuvaresearchdays/tutkimuspaivat-2019