Mäki Teemu

Finland (residence) °1967
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Artist / Writer / Director

(Doctor of Fine Arts, KuT / DFA)

www.teemumaki.com

Born: 1967.

Education: Doctor of Fine Arts 2005, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland.

Work history: Freelancer, except 2008–2013 when I was Professor of Fine Arts in Aalto University.

 

I'm an artist, Doctor of Fine Arts and Professor in Aalto University. I work in the fields of art, philosophy and politics by whatever means necessary. The results are usually some kind of visual art, theater, literature or theory.

 

For me art is the most flexible, versatile and comprehensive form of philosophy and politics.
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Taiteilija / Kirjailija / Ohjaaja

(Kuvataiteen tohtori, KuT)

www.teemumaki.com

Syntynyt: 1967.

Koulutus: Kuvataiteen tohtori (Kuvataideakatemia 2005).

Työhistoria: freelancer, paitsi 2008–2013, jolloin olin Kuvataiteen Professori Aalto-yliopistossa.

 

Olen taiteilija (s.1967 Lapualla), kuvataiteen tohtori (Kuvataideakatemia 2005). Työtäni on taiteen, politiikan ja filosofian parissa milloin milläkin välineellä toilailu. Puuhan tulokset ovat yleensä jonkin sortin kuvataidetta, teatteria, kirjallisuutta tai teoriaa.


Taide on minulle filosofian laajin muoto – se on joustavinta, monipuolisinta ja kokonaisvaltaisinta filosofiaa ja politiikkaa.

research

research expositions

  • A PRACTICAL UTOPIA (2014) author(s): Mäki Teemu published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    A short essay on what is the role of art in society, what is the impact of art on society and what the terms avantgarde and critical art might mean today.
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  • KÄYTÄNNÖLLINEN UTOPIA (2014) author(s): Mäki Teemu published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    A short essay on what is the role of art in society, what is the impact of art on society and what the terms avantgarde and critical art might mean today.
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  • Art and Research Colliding (2014) author(s): Mäki Teemu published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition concerns the relationship between art and research. It focuses on the questions: How can we define knowledge and research in the context of artistic research? What is artistic research? What is its goal? How is it different from other traditions of combining art and research? How should the university system react to and make use of artistic research? What is artistic knowledge and how is it used? How can we justify art as a special, flexible form of research? In what sense is art a philosophical and political practice – not just a way of communicating philosophical and political ideas and reasoning, but an especially powerful and holistic form of philosophy and politics? The first half of the exposition analyses and develops a line of reasoning about these concepts and categories. It also includes an attempt to justify art as philosophy/politics. The second half of the exposition lists the five main traditions of combining art and research and the pros and cons of each of them. The latter half of the exposition, in particular, uses images, videos, and music as examples of these traditions, and in some way as proof of the philosophical/political claim of the exposition. The whole exposition is built concretely from the viewpoint of a practicing artist, looking for insights and ways that could help him and other artists in their artistic work.
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