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Recent Issues
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2023. 2023
Uniarts Helsinki 2023 Publications
Recent Activities
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Kadonnut isoäiti
(2024)
author(s): Jaakko Ruuska
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
KADONNUT ISOÄITI (2017–2023) -tutkielma on osa Jaakko Ruuskan kuvataiteen tohtorin opinnäytettä (2017–2024). Linkki tohtorin opinnäytteen johdantoon löytyy tämän julkaisun ensimmäiseltä sivulta.
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IRTIKYTKETYISSÄ TILOISSA – poissaolevan kosketuksia katveessa
(2024)
author(s): Jaakko Ruuska
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
Jaakko Ruuska:
IRTIKYTKETYISSÄ TILOISSA – POISSAOLEVAN KOSKETUKSIA KATVEESSA
Kuvataiteen tohtorin opinnäyte
Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemia, 2024
© Taideyliopisto ja kirjoittaja
ISBN 978-952-353-447-6
IRTIKYTKETYISSÄ TILOISSA – POISSAOLEVAN KOSKETUKSIA KATVEESSA muodostuu kolmesta taiteellisesta tutkimuksesta. Niissä tutkin kuljeskeluun perustuvien kokeellisten tutkimusmenetelmien avulla sitä, miten tilan kokemuksellisuuteen vaikuttaa sen taustalla olleen järjestyksen hajoaminen.
DISCONNECTED SPACE – CONTACTS WITH THE ABSENT IN THE BLIND SPOT is a doctoral thesis in Fine Arts, written in Finnish. The thesis is about the experiential phenomenon of space, which could be referred to as an off-connection in English. The thesis consists of three essays. The introduction in English is also included in the first page of the Thesis.
I FRIKOPPLADE RUM – DET FRÅNVARANDES BERÖRING I SKUGGAN Temat för det finskspråkiga lärdomsprov för doktorsexamen i bildkonst är en upplevelse av rumsliga fenomen, som på svenska kunde kallas frikoppling. Avhandlingen omfattar tre studier som observerar hur det det frånvarande och frånvaron ingår i en förnimbar upplevelse.Inledning på svenska finns också på uppsatsens första sida.
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IRTIKYTKETTY KAUPUNKI
(2024)
author(s): Jaakko Ruuska
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
IRTIKYTKETTY KAUPUNKI (2020–2023) -tutkielma on osa Jaakko Ruuskan kuvataiteen tohtorin opinnäytettä (2017-2024). Linkki tohtorin opinnäytteen johdantoon löytyy tämän julkaisun ensimmäiseltä sivulta.
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Elisenvaara-Pieksämäki - hajonnut kone
(2024)
author(s): Jaakko Ruuska
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
ELISENVAARA–PIEKSÄMÄKI –HAJONNUT KONE (2017–2021) -tutkielma on osa Jaakko Ruuskan kuvataiteen tohtorin opinnäytettä (2017-2024). Linkki tohtorin opinnäytteen johdanto-lukuun löytyy tämän julkaisun ensimmäiseltä sivulta.
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How to stay alive?
(2023)
author(s): Man Huen Christy Ma
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This research exposition is part of my MA research in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research in Theater Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and Goethe University. The other part is the artistic work “how are we still alive here? what about there?” consisting of a performance and exhibition which took place in Studio 1, Theater Academy in February 2023. The research is a response as well as an investigation on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on contemporary dance, how it affects my corporeality and my creative process in consideration to changes in spectatorship in the mediatized post-pandemic society. The literature review is an exploration of how different disciplines of knowledge intersect with my artistic practice, this exposition is best to be viewed along the artistic part for a better understanding.
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NEPTUNE PROJECT: Transforming Personal Narrative Into Political Statement in an Autobiographical Play
(2023)
author(s): Vera Boitcova
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This thesis explores the ways in which personal narratives in dramaturgy can be read as political statements on the example of creating and staging my autobiographical queer play Neptune over the course of two years (March 2021-March 2023). My research questions include:
- What circumstances can evoke a creative desire to transform personal into political through art mediums? To what extent performance art can be effective as a tool to convey political messages?
- How to convey political messages through personal narratives in dramaturgy\playwriting? What makes a narrative political and what can be defined as a political narrative? What does ‘being political’ mean specifically for a queer artist\dramaturge?
- What methodology, aesthetical, directorial and acting choices can be made to further enhance and underline political message of a documentary narrative, specifically in queer context?
These questions will be examined in a detailed account of writing my own autobiographical play Neptune in the year of war and strengthening of oppression in Russia, and subsequent staging of this play. My play had three distinct layers: meta-level (where the narrator talked about her recent political experiences in the year 2022), memory level (subjective memories of a lost love), and fictional level (different characters acting in thematically-relevant vignettes). Therefore, I want my thesis to be reflective of the same structure: it will have three main chapters - Meta, Memory, and Fiction – with the overall reflection at the end.
Overall aim of this thesis is to trace the process of creating an autobiographical play from its creative conception (and reasons behind it) to turning it into a theatre production, and by doing so, to examine if it succeeded in its initial goal of conveying a certain political message, and if so, how this result was achieved.