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University of the Arts Helsinki was launched in 2013 upon the merging of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Sibelius Academy, and Theatre Academy Helsinki. The university takes part in the development of the Research Catalogue platform for thesis publication, RUUKKU journal and educational uses.
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Recent Issues
Recent Activities
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Episodi vol 6 Introduction
(2019)
author(s): Tero Nauha
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
Episodi is a series published by the Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) pro-gramme in Theatre Academy of the Uniarts Helsinki. This sixth volume of Episodi, 'Signatures' consists of six online expositions by the MA students of the LAPS pro-gramme, Harold Hejazi, Katriina Kettunen, Yuan Mor’O Ocampo, Daniela Pascual Esparza, Olga Spyropoulou and Nicolina Stylianou, where these are reflections on the LAPSody festival that commenced on February 21-23, or individual research. For the first time, Episodi will be published in an online format using the Research Catalogue (RC) publishing platform.
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What colour is Signature?
(2019)
author(s): etherlinna
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
What Colour is Signature? acts as a platform with a score to play and experiment with different compositional structures. The platform aims to create a non-intensive means to enjoy the possible mental representations you may experience when listening to sounds that negotiate the amount of noise and information.
Fluxus and Avant Garde art in 1960s often explored the relation between noise and silence and how it is communicated within a space (during the so called ‘happenings’). Noise (or the source of randomness) shifts the listener’s perception to the non-sense that art often produces, and brings into play the attempt of the mind to focus on the mental representations it is creating. Therefore, the non-sense (noise and silence) in itself acts as a measurement of information.
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Μηspace (mespace) ontology
(2019)
author(s): ©Olga Spyropoulou 2019
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
Disclaimer:
This writing is obscure because my mind is obscure since I fail to grasp “the role of convention in constituting the truth” . Error happens to find a space here.
This exposition performs an instance of anxiety before a definition. A space that appears empty but lacks emptiness, a μηspace (mespace). This space is purely fictional and utterly excessive. A space that is not pointing a way but translates something into existence. This writing aspires to move away from a formulation of theory and towards an exhaustion of thought.
Time is not of the essence to this performance, but its essence is addressed.
This exposition may act as an introduction to the concept of μηspace. I use the research catalogue both as a μηspace and as a space for reflection. This is an exposition that records an intense present, offers various points of entry to texts and exercises performing μηspace. It is a space for exploration and for thinking together.
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Simulacra
(2019)
author(s): Juanito Ocampo
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
Indicated by their Signatures: Nerisa Guevara’s Elegy#8 – The Pacific Ocean with a Post Script of Claude Boudeau’s Chaos.
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Revisiting LAPSody through video and editing
(2019)
author(s): Katriina Kettunen
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This exposition consists of three videos that I have edited, using performance documentation of LAPSody 2019 as my material. I view the process of editing analogous to that of organizing and curating a festival: my signature is in the seams. A postscript describes some of the difficulties in this process.
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Dear _____, Please Imagine my Birthday
(2019)
author(s): Harold Hejazi
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
How much of our sense of identity is filtered through social memory—the memory of others and our own? This is a reflection on a performative birthday which attempted to transplant the artist’s community from Victoria, Canada to Helsinki, Finland. Through the medium of larp, the performance explored the ways in which the self is socially produced and sustained through interaction, memory and community. In so doing, the larp offered a self-portrait in which the story of a self was produced collectively.
