mari martin

www.marimartin.net
download cv
Finland (citizenship) °1965
research interests: performance, collaboration, artistic processes, environment, senses, interaction, encountering, urban space, artistic research, dialogue
affiliation: Visiting researcher in the Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR) / University of the Arts Helsinki
en

 

I am a live-artist and researcher, whose background is in theater, dance and art 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. Of all this, I constantly filter my way of thinking about art and existence.

 

In 2014, I defended my dissertation (in the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki) on an autobiographical performance. I am currently working as a visiting researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki. I study the relationship of the human being to urban environments and the importance of art in that relationship.

 

www.marimartin.net

 

 

research

research expositions

  • Sense Exercises / Aistiharjoituksia (last edited: 2019) author(s): Ajauksia group This exposition is in progress.
    The Working Diary of Sense Excercises
     open exposition comments (0)
  • 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.
     open exposition comments (0)