Registration open: Making Artistic Research Public

How to make artistic research public? How do artworks engage with their immediate surroundings, neighbourhoods, and public space? How to bring forth artistic research in its diversity and variety?

The gathering of the European Artistic Research Network (EARN) 27.10–28.10.2022 and the accompanying exhibition engaging with these questions, among others, is organized and hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki.

The onsite venue for the gathering and the exhibition is the Academy of Fine Arts Mylly main building in Helsinki. All presentations can also be followed via Zoom.

The registration for both onsite and online participation has opened for the EARN gathering 27.10–28.10.2022.

Please register here

Read the program (please note that the schedule is in Finnish time)

The gathering consists of workshops offered by the EARN Working Groups, two key-note presentations and the publication events of Expo-Facto: Into the Algorithm of Exhibition (MetropolisM Boooks) co-edited by Henk Slager & Mick Wilson and RUUKKU-journal's thematical issue: Making Artistic Research Public, co-edited by Denise Ziegler, Tero Heikkinen and Saara Hacklin.

Keynote speakers:

Bassam El Baroni is a curator, writer and an associate professor at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University. Through exhibitions, publications and other media, his research most recently engages with financialization in relation to artistic practices, artists’ engagement with infrastructural futures and histories, and new forms of artist-led activism. 

Paul Tiensuu, PhD candidate in law at university of Helsinki, co-creator of the "City as space of rules and dreaming" -project.

Coordinators: Denise Ziegler and Antti Nyyssölä

Contact and further information about the EARN gathering: denise.ziegler@uniarts.fi

Further information about EARN

Photo: Denise Ziegler