Performing the changing landscape
(2024)
author(s): Alžběta Trojanová
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition refers to arts-based research on simultaneous performative walking and singing practice in a changing environment. The act of walking is put in the context of landscape and singing representing two aspects of relation to the environment – inner and outer landscape. The object of research is traditional and authorial songs and their bodily and sensual interconnection with the process of experiencing landscape. This experience is gained with a group of artists and environmentalists who have over the course of more than a year repetitively walked through the landscape of the natural park Prokop Valley in Prague and its adjacent urban areas. Qualitative research is taken within the project “Walking as a liquid constant in urban space and landscape”. The method of data collection uses mental maps, inspired by the concept of Kevin Lynch, as a means of documentation. The exposition has three parts 1) the opening video essay, 2) Opus caementicium, autoethnographic reflection of the site, where the project takes place, and 3) Fugue of the vanishing world – an essay on the musical aspect of the project. Chapter titles are inspired by musical terminology that has content connotations in the text or mirrors the structuring of text and musical compositions.
ECOGNOSIS: Ecological Awareness in Multimedia Composition
(2022)
author(s): Richard Hughes
published in: KC Research Portal
This paper is concerned with ecological awareness in multimedia composition often with the use of data as a compositional tool. It covers the philosophy of ecological awareness I wish to represent in my work and the aesthetic principles used to portray it. The philosophy is largely based on Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology with influence from other writers and artists. The reader will be guided through my methodologies of multimedia composition (acoustic, electronic and visual), in four different works. The motivation behind this research has come from wanting to engage with environmentalism not just through writing and individual actions but through art and how understanding the importance of perception of the environment can change our behaviour to it.
Methods of Indirection: a trialogue between Patrizia Bach, Howard Eiland, and Luis Berríos-Negrón about Walter Benjamin and translating The Arcades Project
(2020)
author(s): Luis Berríos-Negrón, Patrizia Bach, Howard Eiland
published in: Journal for Artistic Research, Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
Walter Benjamin deemed his Arcades Project [Das Passagen-Werk (Mit Bindestrich und Werk mit Capital W)] “the theatre of all my struggles and all my ideas.” As a vast accumulation of materials, it had become for him a literary laboratory for testing social, critical, and spatial ideas. The co-authors here present an exposition where they look to reactivate that ‘theatre’ to search, test, and draw from each other alternative recursions for their respective practices. Their respective discourses are intersected through a voluntary 'trialogue' that plays between three different roles aiming to diverge from the traditional form of a Q&A. The exchanges gravitate around ‘greenhouse’ as the historiographic display structure to the Arcades, as well as to Global Warming. But, the format also triggers ‘indirections’ urging unforeseen aspects that may further research and revisions of the Arcades. For the authors, such indirections actualise and translate, yet again, other dormant aspects of each others perceptions about Benjamin. Ultimately, joined by the attitude to share and reactivate that ‘theatre-laboratory’ with you—the reader and exposition visitor—the actors look for cues that encourage further procedures of experimentation and reflexion.
Melliferopolis – collaborating with uncontrollable, flying, stinging insects
(2020)
author(s): Christina Stadlbauer
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition explores encounters between humans and insects, in the framework of a long term project around honeybees in urban contexts called Melliferopolis. The interventions proposed by Melliferopolis create shared spaces of encounters for Bees and Humans. The choice to work with these insects in an urban and participatory setting creates situations that are surprising, unpredictable or challenge concepts of "safety". The exposition aims to develop an understanding for risks that arise when collaborating with non human animals, explores reactions to situations that are not entirely controllable and elaborates on notions of safety, hazard and unpredictability within practice based artistic research. As the territory to investigate these questions we look at interventions, performances and installations produced in public spaces in the city of Helsinki in the framework of Melliferopolis since 2012.
WCEH 2024 Craftivist
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Britta Fluevog
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Britta Fluevog, Verena Winiwarter, Anna Svensson & Scott Braun set up a series of craftivist projects, workshops and a makerspace at the world congress of environmental history conference in Oulu, Finland 2024 and this is the documentation of the quilt made through the maker space and a quilting bee workshop.
Towards Revolutionary Gardening
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): RUUKKU Voices: Palimama
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
In this exposition I will focus in the long term environmental and community art work with the Cloud Garden that channels on the way to the eventual discoveries finally together with the Biomimetixc2. The Cloud Garden is a site-specific, minuscule, 1 square meter space beneath my studio on Harakka Island, on the front of Helsinki.
The methods the project include artistic and biological metamorphoses, and they have been implemented in performance and environmental art works.
This suggests that amalgamation of floral and faunal appearances is highly potential source for biomimicry enabling us towards true revolutionary gardening.
*Mer än Food Court*
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): alafifi faten
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Mer än Food Court är ett konstnärligt forskningsprojekt om Kista FoodCourt.
De Huvuda frågorna jag ställde mig under ” Mer än Food Court ” projekt har varit : Hur kan Kista FoodCourt vara en lämplig visuell lärandemiljö ? Hur kan Kista FoodCourt svara om hållbarhet, tillgänglighet och delaktighet frågor
Mitt huvudmål from ” Mer än Food Court ” projekt var att lyfta fram Kista FoodCourt som en miljöform och viktig modern del av kista planering som belyser mötet av ekonomiska, kulturella, politiska, konstnärliga och lärning frågor .
Access to Landscape
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Niran Baibulat
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition presents and documents the work Access to Landscape exhibited in Research Pavilion, Venice, 2017.
I use a metaphor as a starting point: to scrutinise a landscape as a base for writing. I use my body as a writing tool. The work is referring to my family history, to a small minority group in Finland. It is about reflecting a community inside the society where the cultural identity is laid and reconstructed through a language of ancestors.It emphasises a language, which is absorbed by vicinity of social relations. By transcribing the letter on the snowy landscape I use public space as a kind of archive, restoring and presenting inscription.
Time is pressed at least in a double way: first it is an old document as a starting point and then a snowy surface indicating temporality and challenging the notion of oblivion.
This paper is concerned with ecological awareness in multimedia composition often with the use of data as a compositional tool. It covers the philosophy of ecological awareness I wish to represent in my work and the aesthetic principles used to portray it. The philosophy is largely based on Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology with influence from other writers and artists. The reader will be guided through my methodologies of multimedia composition (acoustic, electronic and visual), in four different works. The motivation behind this research has come from wanting to engage with environmentalism not just through writing and individual actions but through art and how understanding the importance of perception of the environment can change our behaviour to it.open exposition comments (0)
Britta Fluevog, Verena Winiwarter, Anna Svensson & Scott Braun set up a series of craftivist projects, workshops and a makerspace at the world congress of environmental history conference in Oulu, Finland 2024 and this is the documentation of the quilt made through the maker space and a quilting bee workshop.open exposition comments (0)
In this exposition I will focus in the long term environmental and community art work with the Cloud Garden that channels on the way to the eventual discoveries finally together with the Biomimetixc2. The Cloud Garden is a site-specific, minuscule, 1 square meter space beneath my studio on Harakka Island, on the front of Helsinki. The methods the project include artistic and biological metamorphoses, and they have been implemented in performance and environmental art works. This suggests that amalgamation of floral and faunal appearances is highly potential source for biomimicry enabling us towards true revolutionary gardening.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition presents and documents the work Access to Landscape exhibited in Research Pavilion, Venice, 2017. I use a metaphor as a starting point: to scrutinise a landscape as a base for writing. I use my body as a writing tool. The work is referring to my family history, to a small minority group in Finland. It is about reflecting a community inside the society where the cultural identity is laid and reconstructed through a language of ancestors.It emphasises a language, which is absorbed by vicinity of social relations. By transcribing the letter on the snowy landscape I use public space as a kind of archive, restoring and presenting inscription. Time is pressed at least in a double way: first it is an old document as a starting point and then a snowy surface indicating temporality and challenging the notion of oblivion.open exposition comments (0)