SAR Announcement: KuVa Research Day 2017

Our annual event KuvA Research Days will take place December 11–13th 2017, at the Exhibition Laboratory gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The Doctoral Programme at the Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki has organized this annual artistic research event since 2015. During the KuvA Research Days, you will have an opportunity to participate in discussions concerning topical issues of artistic research. This year the multifaceted program includes talks, panel discussions, workshops, and project presentations by international researchers and artists.

PROGRAM

Monday 11.12.2017
Practices of notation – practices of reflection (16:30-21)
Host: Professor Alex Arteaga, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

This proposal offers a framework for the inquiry into a certain concept of notation and the specificities of and the mutual relationships between two varieties of practice: practices of notation and practices of reflection. Notation here is understood as the production of artifacts configured by signs generated and organized in correlation with ongoing events. On this basis, practices of notation are conceived as systematized varieties of aesthetic action performed in different media (e.g. graphic, video, audio, body movement) simultaneously and in immediate contact with the events to be notated. In contrast, practices of reflection are thought to be systematized forms of action that address recurrently the artifacts generated through practices of notation, producing second-order artifacts that might function as hermeneutic tools in relation to the products of notation and, therefore, to the notated events.These topics will be investigated here in relation to a specific research object: the agency of particular components of a situation that enable the emergence of the situation’s atmosphere.

Introductory lecture on practices of notation and practices of reflection:
Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer
Presentation of the results of the field research
Open-ended discussion with all participants

Tuesday 12.12.2017 (9:30-12)
Revisiting Utopias of Access
Host: Professor Mika Elo, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

This half-day research event revisits the artistic research of the Academy of Fine Arts Doctoral Students presented at the Research Pavilion in Venice in the context of 57th Biennale during summer 2017. The event consists of a series of project presentations and a book launch related to the Research Pavilion: Futures of Artistic Research. At the Intersection of Utopia, Academia and Power edited by Jan Kaila, Anita Seppä and Henk Slager. The book is a collection of essays, which brings into focus and explains the actual significance and future possibilities of the experimental critiques that are emerging across the field of artistic research. There will also be an launching of a new page in the artisticresearch.fi site. The page is a portal that collects current activity in Finnish artistic research, using automated feeds.

Tuesday 12.12.2017 (13:00-19.30)
The gift of seeing
Host: Professor Lea Kantonen, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

The Wixarika people living on the Western Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico have a rich tradition of non-official and unofficial art education dating back to pre-colonial times. Today many Wixarika communities are also founding their official self-governed institutions such as schools and museums and using digital technology in art pedagogy. How does a Wixarika teacher see an art students' quest for seeing? We explore this theme during the half-day event that includes keynotes, workshops, performances, and a screening, as well as dialogues between keynote guests and audience.

Wednesday 13.12.2017 (9:00-18)
Collisions. The contemporary in artistic research
Host: Michael Schwab, Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki

What is the relationship of artistic research to contemporary art? Can it help to further artistic practices interested in resisting the flow of our times, or is it complicit in making art available now not only as material object but also as object of knowledge? Keynote speakers Jacob Lund, Paul O’Neill, Elizabeth Fisher and Knut Ebeling explore the theme of this whole day seminar from various angels. There will also be a panel discussion with Hami Bahadori, Sezgin Boynik, Minna Henriksson, Marianne Niemelä and Elina Suoyrjö; chaired by Michael Schwab.

Michaela Bränn
*Research Coordinator
The Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki
tel: + 358 40 631 3553