Part V: Liminal languages
Staging | Fictioning | Ritualising
Skene + graphein – Liisa Ikonen, Maiju Loukola, Ivana Momcilovic
Incantations: invoking the ecological era – Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes
Acting Repeating - Filippo Romanello
Jens - Cordula Daus
Neoglyphics – [M]Dudeck
Impulsive incantations: re-voicing the migraine body – Mariske Broeckmeyer
Points of view. Politics of Perspective in the Age of Post-Truth, 19 June
Palazzo Badoer, aula Tafuri, Calle della Lacca, San Polo 2468 Venezia.
A seminar created and hosted by Emmanuel Alloa and Francesco Zucconi
and discussants Francesco Bergamo and Angela Mengoni,
members of the Research Pavilion #3 research cell
“Through Phenomena Themselves”.
Insect Karaoke
9 May
The audience is invited to listen to sounds produced by insects and to imitate and interpret them using contact microphones and DIY instruments of kitchenware. A playful happening facilitated by Tuula Närhinen, Tytti Arola, Esa Kirkkopelto and Otso Lähdeoja.
TRACES FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE: INSECTS AMONG US
TERRITORIES :: DIALECTS
Presentation of Contingent Agencies -project, 10 May
Alex Arteaga & Nikolaus Gansterer.
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES
Part II: Three parallel workshops
(different loctions)
1) Sensory experiences in urban space with Ajauksia group
2) Walking the line with Andrew Bronw and Katja Hock
3) Tepmorary Agora + Where Dir Art Go / Get Lost! with Anni Laakso + akcg
Part III: Affinities and activations - reading, listening, translating
(different locations)
Re-Wording with Lena Séraphin and collabotators
Interlude: reading on reading with Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin
Associated thoughts on line - Danica Maier
Silent questions - Ellen Reynolds
Flux Us Now - Dorothee Richter and Ronald Kolb
By Chance – playing, experiencing, finding, transating with Viviana Gonzales
Material Encounters 20-21 August
WORKING WITH SOIL, TERRITORIES::DIALECTS, CEMETERY ARCHIPELAGO
Part I: Working with Soil: Audience engagement workshop with clay; presentation by Jussi Reinikainen(Finnish Environmental Institute SYKE)
Part 3: Cemetery Archipelago: “Island – Sea –Island: Archipelagic Enquiries”
with Mick Wilson, Sarah Barazoni, Noel Fitzpatrick and Paulo Vignola.
Including institutions themselves
11 May
A public morning session as a contribution of the exchange in the research cell “Through Phenomena Themselves”, proposing and inquiry into research practices developed in two fields — artistic research and phenomenology. Panel conversation involving Alex Arteaga, Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus, Nikolaus Gansterer, Margarete Jahrmann, Ralo Mayer, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Charlotta Ruth, Katarina Šoškić.
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES
MA students from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki visiting Biennale Urbana on Lido.
22 May
Climate Change, Globalization and the Art World, 22 May
A gathering with the aim to to discuss and analyse the city of Venice and its fragile ecological history, the system of the international art world and mega-shows like the Venice Biennale and to search for new and sustainable ways to work as an artist today in this context.
Talks by Leonardo Caffo and Andrea Curtoni.
Temproary Agora
3, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14 June
An on-going collective construction of a sculptural space
with Anni Laakso.
Lectures on not-knowing 13, 14 and 15 June
Three lectures exploring whether and how lecturing can constitute a phenomenological research practice
Lectures by Juha Himanka and Alex Arteaga.
Tick variations 15 June
A series of bodily research arrangements exploring the world of ticks based on Jacob von Uexküll's theory of Umwelt. Cenveiced and facilitated by Esa Kirkkopelto.
Briefing the participants and fine tuning the exercises.
Part IV: Inquisite words + Threshold writing || Bordering | Betweening | Hyphening
The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice - Katja Hilevaara, Emily Orley, Emma Cocker, Peter Jaeger, Tracy Mackenna, Brigid McLeer, P. A. Skantze, Susannah Thompson, G. D. White
Making text - Patricia Ellis and Cedar Lewisohn
Part IV: Inquisite words + Threshold writing || Bordering | Betweening | Hyphening
The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice - Katja Hilevaara, Emily Orley, Emma Cocker, Peter Jaeger, Tracy Mackenna, Brigid McLeer, P. A. Skantze, Susannah Thompson, G. D. White
Making text - Patricia Ellis and Cedar Lewisohn
Part VI: Phenomenological + artistic writing
Language-based practices as research practices with Alex Arteaga, Emmanuea Alloa, Juha Himanka, Jaana Parviainen and Esa Kirkkopelto
Part VII: Language based practices + artistic research
Special interest group meeting
with Alexander Damianisch
Part VIII: At the limits of language | Blurry words + Ludic images || Relaying | Repeating | Remembering
Astray letters – Katarina Šoškić
Unearthing: the tower, the echo, the prison - Ralo Mayer
Don't look now – On images between words and sounds - Harri Laakso
Closing reflection with Charlotta Ruth
Part 2: Distance measuring devices and sonic sculptures
(Otso Lähdeoja and Matyou Galea in a dialogue)
26 – 31 August
The 5th Nida Doctoral School: ‘Fight The Power 2019/1989: We, the Ungovernable’
The Nida Doctoral School (NDS) was held at the Lithuanian Pavilion, the Research Pavilion and additional environments in Venice. Entitled ‘Fight The Power’, this year’s Nida Doctoral School was energized by the 30th anniversary of Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ and its opening credit sequence soundtrack-ed by Public Enemy. Convinced by the radical potentialities of research-as-praxis, NDS utilised this 30th anniversary to ask: what does it mean to do the right thing?
Foaming Exercise 9 & 10 May
A performative installation by Maiju Loukola and Paul Cegys, using the term foam as both noun and verb (foaming) in order to explore foam-like spatial formations at the intersection of physical, imaginary and virtual space, as well as in terms of space as socio-political construct.
AIRA
Research Practices on Place
organised by Alex Arteaga and Charlotta Ruth, 13 May
A joint event introducing and initiatng a dialogue between different forms of inquiry on places, spaces and environments through three formats – lectures, workshops, and life research. Focus on three topics: awareness/perception, notation/registration, narratives/gestures. Contributions by: Alex Arteaga, Nikolaus Gansterer, Esa Kirkkopelto, Tuomas Laitinen, Hongjohn Lin, Hsu Ming Han, Charlotta Ruth, Jaakko Ruuska, Katarina Šoškić.
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES and Taipei National University of the Arts
Convocation June 16–18
Convocation – a call to come together, a gathering of expanded language-based practices. Weaving between artistic research and phenomenological approaches,
this three-day event will include open workshops, live research, collective writing/reading exercises, and performative lectures.
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES & DISRUPTIVE PROCESSES & AIRA
Part I: On Convocation
Framing with Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin
Categoric Agora with Juha Himanka
Come il lavoro / Piacere il lvoro (Like work) with Rob Flint
Part 4: Cemetery Archipelago: “Cemetery Figures and Necropolitical Imaginaries”
with Siobhán Doyle and Mick Wilson
24 August, Assembly of Journals with book launch: Lucy Cotter's Reclaiming Artistic Research
A collegial assembly focusing on shared interests, challenges, and possible forms of future cooperation of journals in the area of arts and visual culture. Among the participants were representatives of Journal for Artistic Research, RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research, Journal of Visual Culture and MaHKUscript – Journal of Fine Art Research.
