Colloquium on Artistic Research in the Performing Arts CARPA
One of the very few international biennial academic conferences on artistic research focusing specifically on the performing arts.
CARPA9: Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies – sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world
The 2025 CARPA conference explores pedagogical approaches to, in, and for performance making in a climate changed world. The ninth colloquium will be arranged by the Performing Arts Research Centre, together with master’s programmes of the Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, and the Performance + Ecology Research Lab of the Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) of Griffith University, Australia. It will be organised in Helsinki in 28-30 August 2025.
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CARPA9: Registration
Link to the registration form.
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CARPA 9 conference: Day 1
The theme for the ninth international conference on artistic research is Ecological design and performance pedagogies: sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world. The invited keynote speakers are Dr. Raisa Foster and Dylan Van Den Berg. From this page you will also find the vision statement.
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Carpa 9 conference: Day 2
Programme for Thursday 28 August 2025.
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Carpa 9 conference: Day 3
Programme for Friday 29 August 2025.
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Carpa 9 conference: Day 4
Programme for Saturday 30 August 2025.
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CARPA9 Conference committee
Hanna Järvinen (Chair), Liisa Ikonen, Linda Hassall, Tanja Beer, Natalie Lazaroo, Raisa Kilpeläinen, Tuomas Fränti, Eeva Anttila, Riku Saastamoinen and Tomi Humalisto. Conference practical management: Riitta Pasanen-Willberg.
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For Uniarts Helsinki conference attendees
Find information about us and our venues, as well as how to move around in Helsinki and where to visit. List of accommodation with possible special offers will be updated later.
Contact
Please direct any queries: teak.carpa@uniarts.fi.
Past conferences
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Carpa8
The eighth CARPA conference in 2023 centered on dramaturgy. The event combined embodied artistic practice with timely conceptualisation and theorisation to enquire what happens to artistic research when it takes a dramaturgical twist.
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Carpa7
The theme of the 7th edition of the CARPA conference was elastic writing. Due to covid-19 it was arranged fully online in 2021.
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Proceedings
Previous CARPA conference proceedings are available at the online publication series Nivel.