Research Catalogue

My video "Mitä ajattelu kutsuu?" exposed here, audiovisually mimics, translates, challenges and transposes Martin Heidegger's essay "Was heißt Denken?". A compilation of passages of Heidegger's essay, which I have translated into Finnish for this purpose, makes up the voice-over accompanying the images in the video. The exposition also includes these passages in Finnish and German writing. The visual language of the video, in turn, edges Heidegger's pondering out of its focus by turning itself towards a series of questions deriving from the margins and lacunae of the essay. In its own peculiar way, the video is a call for thinking. Further, a text, entitled "conversation" in the menu, addresses some aspects of Heidegger's essay as if seen through the video. The conversation revolves around the questions of language and translation. Its form reflects the density and multifaceted character of the audiovisual material. Finally, "epilogue" attempts at unfolding a question concerning "intelligent design" that arises from the material. Here, my main point of reference is Jean-Luc Nancy's notion of struction.

In this exposition I present a cluster of works with regard to their subtle interconnections, often not consciously constructed or intended in any particular ways at the time of their conception. The afterlife of these works, however, enact aesthetic intra-actions of their ensemble. Shedding light on some parts of this cavernous network of pressing matters I make an attempt of explicating the ways in which artistic thinking might get "diffracted" into many part-processes that are both divergent and entangled. In the course of my presentation, I try to be sensitive towards the fact that these strings of thinking are distributed in a complex manner across the divide of sensibility and intelligibility. In terms of the chosen approach this implies avoiding the use of discursive explanations as the main medium of explication. This "method", if it can be formalized as one, involves priorizing the material circumstances of particular articulations, both verbal and non-verbal, over content-oriented gestures of translation.

In this Lektio-series RUUKKU publishes selected introductory talks given by the doctoral candidates in the public examination of their doctoral thesis in artistic research.

Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemian Tutkimuspäivillä 7.-9.12.2020 kokoonnutiin keskustelemaan taiteellisen tutkimuksen ajankohtaisista kysymyksistä. Tähän expositioon kootaan kolmipäiväisen tapahtuman dokumentaatiot. At KuvA Research Days 7-9 Dec 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki we incited discussions concerning topical issues of artistic research. In this exposition we will collect the documentations of the three-day event.

The exposition presents two installations—Mitä uutta kivistä?/Anything new about stones? (2017) and LAB-O(U)RATORY (2019)—and enfolds them in a series of repetitive gestures that stage their methodical entanglement. Both of the installations explore and articulate the research potential of expanded writing. At stake is the ecology of attention in a setting that thematises the co-existence of different modes of articulation, interlinked spatial and temporal arrangements as well as their associative mechanisms. What happens when a spatial constellation is presented on a medially formatted time line? How to focus one’s attention in an associatively saturated literary space? Rather than attaching itself to an already existing theoretical framework or meta-discussions on artistic research, the exposition aims at explicating a singular artistic framework and its constellated structure.

Postdigital Epistemologies of the Photographic Image (PEPI 2019-2022) is a multidisciplinary research consortium funded by the Academy of Findland. The consortium combines psychology (Helsinki University) , visual studies (Tampere Univesity) and artistic research (Uniarts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts). This exposition dcuments the research activities of the part-project at Uniarts Helsinki.

This exposition presents the working materials of a series of notations that were conducted in the frame of the Cross Disciplinary Symposum workshop 19–25 September 2022. The symposium was part of Alex Arteaga's and Nikolaaus Gansterer's research project Contingnet Agencies. A text based on these notes will be published in “Contingent Agencies. Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres” (Hatje Cantz, 2025), edited by Arteaga and Gansterer.

International Conference on Artistic Research Helsinki 28 & 29 April 2017 Printable versions of the Conference Programme and the Book of Abstracts are now online.

This exposition collects together the exhibitions and works presented in the Research Pavilion 2017. The Research Pavilion constitutes a high level critical platform that produces a significant addition to the 57th Venice Biennale by showcasing how universities and academies function today as genuine critical laboratories within contemporary art.