Riikka Makikoskela

Finland (residence) °1975
en

Doctor of Arts, Sculptor and Visual Arts Teacher, www.riikkamakikoskela.fi 

 

Riikka Mäkikoskela’s sculptures and installations have been exhibited in a number of happenings, galleries and museums both in Finland and abroad. Additionally, she is doing practice-led and artistic research from the point of view of a practitioner, emphasizing working by hand, materiality, and movement. By making art and portraying the process in writing, she studies the experiential events where the sculptor's material body confronts the active working material. Her aim is to clarify how phenomena are identified in sensory, material, and bodily experiences and how thinking is intertwined with this activity. Through this, Mäkikoskela is developing artistic thinking. She is also interested in the methodology of artistic research and how it can be applied transdisciplinary.

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  • Experience of Resistance -The Potential of Materiality and Spatiality in Artistic Research (2015) author(s): Riikka Makikoskela published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    The working title of my doctoral research is Relation Between Idea, Means and End in Three-dimensional Art Making. By making art, I study how a three-dimensional artwork evolves. I employ a phenomenological research approach in my practice-led, artistic research. In this exposition, I present one of the case studies of my dissertation, a sculpture called From A Container to A Room for A Female Elk (2011, porcelain, glazed stoneware, rutile and Ikea table, 70 x 50 x 50 cm). I describe in detail the process of creating this artwork, for it discloses the potential of materiality and spatiality in artistic research: the experience of resistance (Biesta 2012). This phenomenon occurs in my art practice, and I study it from within the same activity. While pursuing three-dimensional artworks, I move both the materials and my own body. In my research, I analyze this aspect of three-dimensional art practice through the phenomenological theory of embodiment. In order to stay close to the experiential, I integrate academic research with the art practice. Only the confrontation with the evolving artwork may reveal the material resistance in this art practice.
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