mari martin

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Finland °1965
research interests: performance, collaboration, artistic processes, environment, senses, interaction, encountering, urban space, artistic research, ecology, artistic dialogue, anti-racism, transcorporeality, performing arts, virtuality, materiality, body, participatory installation, post doc research, public urban space, city, human, non-human, teacher of thatre art, multidisciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity, cooperation
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I am a theatre artist, live-artist, researcher and pedagogue, whose background is in theater, dance and theatre pedagogy. I have always worked in the performing arts in different positions, in different professional roles: as a director, an actor, a choreographer, a dancer, a teacher, a researcher. 

 

In 2014, I defended my dissertation (in the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki) on an autobiographical performance.

 

In the post doc research project In Dialogue with the Urban Environment (2014-2022) I have made art in public outdoor spaces of cities together with fellow artists and artist-researchers as well as other participants, asking how the artist and art can relate to hte urban environment. My point of view has been that of a performer, and my underlying need has been to dig into the common level of artistic work, into how art is created together. I forst studied commonality of action as dialogue, and that led to an understanding of dialogicity as a matter between humans and also between humans and non-humans. This in turn led to an interest in studying the interaction of humans with their environment also and above all as a material thing.       

 

 

Latest publication on artistic research:

 

Coming up in 2025: an article about working with dead wood material. 

 

Martin, Mari 2021. Aina uudesti syntyvä hetkellinen yhteisö. - Taiteilija-tutkijan tempoilu institutionaalisessa tutkimuskehyksessä. (An Ever-Re-Emerging Momentary Community - Struggle of the Artist-Researcher in the Institutional Research Framework.) In Lea Kantonen & Sari Karttunen (eds.) Yhteisötaiteen etiikka. Tilaa toiselle, arvoa arvaamattomalle. (The Ethics of Community Art - Space Another, Appreciation for the Unpredictable.) Taideyliopisto. (University of the Arts Helsinki.) (PDF) (Peer-reviewed research article in Finnish.) https://urn.fi/URN:978-952-353-038-6

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Sense Exercises / Aistiharjoituksia (last edited: 2019) author(s): Ajauksia group This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    The Working Diary of Sense Excercises
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  • Sensory excursion as a site of encounter (2020) author(s): mari martin published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    In this exposition I discuss a human’s relationship with the environment, in terms of sensation and encounter. I describe my artistic practice implemented with the artist group Ajauksia, as a member of it. We, as a group, explore various sensory encounters with the environment through sensory exercises and, to that end, organize sensory excursions in different urban environments. We participated in the Research Pavilion # 3 (RP #3), coordinated by the University of the Arts Helsinki in the context of the Venice Biennale. Here I describe the work of Ajauksia within the project, from my perspective. I join in the theme of this Ruukku publication, ecologies of practice, by describing how we developed sustainable modes of artistic research in and through processes of collaborating, performing and discussing. Now, after the project, I reflect on the ideas, experiences and opportunities for interaction with different parties. I focus in particular on the two very different environments where we worked, the Kontula suburb of Helsinki and the island of Giudecca, Venice, where Research Pavilion #3 was located.
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