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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.
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  What's it like? (2019) author(s): Daniela Pascual published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  I don’t know when a thesis begins, but I hope it ends somewhere. For Episodi, I've prepared "What’s it like?" – a juxtaposition of plans, thoughts, desires, and concerns. I suspect you will find contradictions I might not be aware of, and there are many choices left to make. Indeed, while I hope this exposition will help me throughout my thesis, I'm not trying to come to terms with my shortcomings, at least not yet.
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  PERFORMED REALNESS: On Participatory Art and its Ethics (2018) author(s): Johanna Lecklin published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  In my study, Performed Realness: On participatory Art and its Ethics, I address questions stemming from my artistic practice and concerning participatory art, the split between documentary and fiction, performed realness, the ethics of the abovementioned, and authorship. I discuss these topics in dialogue with other artists’ artworks and with theories. Nevertheless, my intent is not to execute a comprehensive study on works, that have the same traits as mine. Works with moving image, my own and other artists’, which leave me to wonder and perplex me were a starting point of my research. – Is this true? Are these people performing or are they just being themselves in front of the camera? Can one be in front of the camera without performing?
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  Intersecting travelogues: Wandering through practices and archaeologies of space, place and image. (2017) author(s): Paul Landon published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  This exposition presents the moving image elements of the doctoral thesis Intersecting travelogues: Wandering through practices and archaeologies of space, place and image. The text of the thesis is built around an artistic practice that explores architectural and urban space, an exploration that is translated into time based images installed within and responding to interior architectural exhibition spaces. The space of the city and its architectures are scrutinised through their seemingly insignificant details: abandoned or underused buildings, older model cars, deserted streets, details that resonate as markers of changing and forgetting. The work reconsiders recent concepts of media history and archaeology and relates them to specific questions raised by contemporary artistic practice:  to the architectures and spaces of audio-visual presentation, to an archaeology of the city, to the mobile spectator of minimal art and installation practices as it engages with the redeployment of urban space through projection technologies, text and image. It promotes the activities of a corporeal, wandering subject that engages with the spaces of media as sites of forgetting and recall.   The text is structured as a collection of wanderings that are organised into six chapters each presenting experiences of different places visited and the ensuing reflections that these visits spawned. To wander, in the ways in which it is presented in this work, engages with a fragmentary process of seeking out and coming across sites and subjects of enquiry. To paraphrase Walter Benjamin, urban wandering entails the use of haptic perception and awareness of the city’s intrinsic details in order to lose oneself in it. Wandering informs and structures the text in terms of instances of arriving in unknown and distant locations as well as of getting lost in a familiar city.
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  Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja / Genre pictures and experiments in writing (2017) author(s): Elina Saloranta published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  GENRE PICTURES AND EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING is a doctoral thesis in article form of the interaction between image, word and sound. It consists of five essays, which have been published or otherwise made accessible to the public in various forums for artistic research, plus a total of seven videoworks. The last of these videos is a wordless epilogue. The thesis also includes an introduction in the form of a letter.
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