AIRA are: Liisa Ikonen, Maiju Loukola, Marko Karo, Susanna Helke and Harri Laakso



Temporary sanatorium */ inviteur: Liisa Ikonen


Liisa Ikonen will focus on parallel realities by taking other worlds as her starting point.  Her other world is just the world that is distorted or obscured by the real world`s norms and distances.


She is going to build a physical object or space - Temporary Sanatorium - and develop and keep it up by the method of caring building. The Sanatorium is a clear and barren space, a speaking object and a research tool that invites people to temporary dwelling and call out their own forgotten worlds, worlds they long for, or worlds that have been forbitten.


In other words, the Temporary Sanatorium is a meeting point for absence or hidden worlds.  It is a progressive process providing experiential knowledge about the phenomena of consolation and medication and the method of caring building. It is also a disruptive process, disturbing normative thinking and artificial borders and distances.


Temporary Sanatorium aims to be a living medical-poetical operation and a performative experiment but also a discursive space for the porous border of reality and its parallells, the borders of normality and abnormality - or seeing and non-seeing.




polychronic perspectives regarding cultures of violence

/ inviteur: Marko Karo

adaptations inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s novella and Nicolas Roeg’s film Don’t Look Now (inviteur: Harri Laakso)

hysterical documentary and documentary fantasies (inviteur: Susanna Helke)

FOAMING EXERCISES provoked by Sebastian Brandt’s The Ship of Fools (1876) and Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy III: Foams, a plural spherology

/inviteur: Maiju Loukola


Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff)

I BELIEVE IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN A SECRET AGENDA,

 TO WORK WITHIN THE OPERATION OF SUBTERFUGE AND MISDIRECTION…

 WHAT IF WE COULD ORGANIZE AROUND THOSE WHO WERE HEREDICS, REBELS, DISSIDENTS, ATHEISTS, ORPHANS, AND NOMADS?

 WHAT WOULD THE PROPOSAL OF ART LOOK LIKE?

Brandt Sebastian. The Ship of Fools, trans. Alexander Barclay. Edinburgh: William Paterson 1876, 8. (Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint of Brandt’s book)

 

The final volume of Peter Sloterdijk’s spatial trilogy Spheres I-III[1] is called Foams. The book is described “a phenomenology of spatial plurality”. Inspired by the notion of polyspherical spatiality and its relation to our being in the world and its imaginality, I will open a try-out scene for "practicing (with) foam". These exercises aim at manifesting different ways of polyspherical spatiality, and the possible effects this "bubbly existence" trial will launch and produce.

 

Sloterdijk's foam contemplations stem from his attempt of sketching "an onto-anthropology which takes into account the metaphorical imagery and visual thinking that shape the contemporary human coming-into-the-world." Sloterdijk’s spherology can be seen as an effort to produce such thought images that can make us see and navigate in the world images of which the (contemporary) world itself is made. (See Jongen, Marc 2018. "On Anthropospheres and Aphrogrammes. Peter Sloterdijk's Thought Images of the Monstrous.") God is in the bubbles?

 

Foam manifests a continuation of multi-chamber spaces that are separated by a thin layer of membrane. Each space exerts pressure on the next space, that surrounds it. Just like the foam produced by soap, the small bubbles join, and form larger bubbles – aiming towards a more stabilised space, where the pressure from the outside and the inside are in equilibrium.

 

The micro spaces of the foam are worlds of places that are isolated and fragile. Each space, each microsphere, can ignore its neighbours only to a certain extent – they are immune of nature, but at the same time they are dependant on the spaces that surround them.

 

Foams                                                                         THERE

 

Republic of spaces                                                     IS  AIR

 

Interconnected workshops                                     IN UNEXPECTED

 

Nested simultaneous stages                                      PLACES

 

 
 
LINK TO SPRING 2019 READING CIRCLE  AT AALTO ARTS:
 


[1] Sloterdijk’s Spheres [Sphären] comprises of the following volumes: Vol. 1: Bubbles is described as a phenomenology of intimacy, Vol. 2: Globes a phenomenlogy of globalization, and Vol. 3: Foams of spatial pluralism. The originals in German are written in 1998, 1999 and 2004.