Gallery Augusta exhibition
Like a collective open studio, the exhibition in Gallery Augusta continues the conversations and collaborations fostered at the Research Pavilion #5 residencies.
The exhibition allows insight into ongoing artistic research projects that share a commitment to sustaining critically situated indeterminacy and working away from extractive practices in relation to their fields of enquiry. The participant practices approach their media and methods as tools to attune and attend to the myriad land and water bodies they are nested within — lingering with urgency on the porous, charged borderlines that haunt the present in all its untenable dichotomies.
At the heart of the Research Pavilion in 2023 have been residencies, which offered space and time for experimentation, thought and dialogue detached from the everyday frameworks and habitual patterns of practice. The focus has been on the potential of residencies as fertile grounds and temporal refuges for unexpected encounters and engagements unpredefined by pressures of production. Drawing together practices from diverse artistic and research disciplines in the expanded field of contemporary art, the residencies allowed for a moment of undisciplined enquiry and attentive unknowing foundational for collectivity.
The exhibition consists of both earlier works and novel works-in-progress, all part of longer term explorations by the artist-researchers in residence. The three residencies had slightly different emphases, which also inform the works and their presentation here. At HIAP, Vincent Roumagnac invited a number of guests to contribute to their evolving research project. The residencies at Kallio-Kuninkaala were dedicated to the continuation and recalibration of collective work of The Fiction Group and The Walking Festival of Sound, and initiation of a new collaboration between Sara Bédard-Goulet and Damien Beyrouthy. Saari Residence provided a singular space-time for cross-pollination between the resonant practices of Sara Blosseville, Toni Brell, Camila Flores-Fernández, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Neill Lin, Elena Mazzi, Hannah Rowan, Agata Ruchlewicz-Dzianach, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Noora Sandgren, and Angeliki Tzortzakaki.
Following the ethos of the residencies and the presented projects, the exhibition has been assembled site-sensitively using salvaged, foraged and borrowed resources and technologies. As a momentary coming together, it aims to leave a minimal material trace while nurturing trajectories of ongoing research and myriad conversations, collaborations, and perhaps even conspirations to come.
General tours of the exhibition
There will be tours of the exhibition on Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th at 13:00 and 16:00 on both days.
The Research Pavilion conveys the idea of the entanglement of the arts with the current multitude of overwhelming challenges through the discipline of artistic research
As such, artistic thinking is intrinsically characterized by pluralism and the capacity to create connections, giving art and artistic research a substantial potential for making a stand within the current circumstances.
The Research Pavilion #5 seeks to identify and reinforce underexposed areas of artistic research through collaborative processes and develop the ideas and agencies that emerge from therein.
The tours will be in English only.
Artists
Sara Bédard-Goulet, Damien Beyrouthy, Elena Bisena, Sara Blosseville, Toni Brell, Nicky Coutts, Camila Flores-Fernández, Adam Kaasa, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Neill Lin, Elena Mazzi, Hannah Rowan, Agata Ruchlewicz-Dzianach, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Noora Sandgren, Tim Shaw, Jaceks Smolicki, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Jessica Wiesner, and Vincent Roumagnac with Océane Bruel, Outi Condit, Laurent Joly, Simo Kellokumpu, Aurélie Pétrel and Sophie Rodrigues.
The exhibition curated by Taru Elfving has been realised in partnership with Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) and Saari Residence.
The exhibition allows insight into ongoing artistic research projects that share a commitment to sustaining critically situated indeterminacy and working away from extractive practices in relation to their fields of enquiry. The participant practices approach their media and methods as tools to attune and attend to the myriad land and water bodies they are nested within — lingering with urgency on the porous, charged borderlines that haunt the present in all its untenable dichotomies.
At the heart of the Research Pavilion in 2023 have been residencies, which offered space and time for experimentation, thought and dialogue detached from the everyday frameworks and habitual patterns of practice. The focus has been on the potential of residencies as fertile grounds and temporal refuges for unexpected encounters and engagements unpredefined by pressures of production. Drawing together practices from diverse artistic and research disciplines in the expanded field of contemporary art, the residencies allowed for a moment of undisciplined enquiry and attentive unknowing foundational for collectivity.
The exhibition consists of both earlier works and novel works-in-progress, all part of longer term explorations by the artist-researchers in residence. The three residencies had slightly different emphases, which also inform the works and their presentation here. At HIAP, Vincent Roumagnac invited a number of guests to contribute to their evolving research project. The residencies at Kallio-Kuninkaala were dedicated to the continuation and recalibration of collective work of The Fiction Group and The Walking Festival of Sound, and initiation of a new collaboration between Sara Bédard-Goulet and Damien Beyrouthy. Saari Residence provided a singular space-time for cross-pollination between the resonant practices of Sara Blosseville, Toni Brell, Camila Flores-Fernández, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Neill Lin, Elena Mazzi, Hannah Rowan, Agata Ruchlewicz-Dzianach, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Noora Sandgren, and Angeliki Tzortzakaki.
Following the ethos of the residencies and the presented projects, the exhibition has been assembled site-sensitively using salvaged, foraged and borrowed resources and technologies. As a momentary coming together, it aims to leave a minimal material trace while nurturing trajectories of ongoing research and myriad conversations, collaborations, and perhaps even conspirations to come.
General tours of the exhibition
There will be tours of the exhibition on Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th at 13:00 and 16:00 on both days.
The Research Pavilion conveys the idea of the entanglement of the arts with the current multitude of overwhelming challenges through the discipline of artistic research
As such, artistic thinking is intrinsically characterized by pluralism and the capacity to create connections, giving art and artistic research a substantial potential for making a stand within the current circumstances.
The Research Pavilion #5 seeks to identify and reinforce underexposed areas of artistic research through collaborative processes and develop the ideas and agencies that emerge from therein.
The tours will be in English only.
Artists
Sara Bédard-Goulet, Damien Beyrouthy, Elena Bisena, Sara Blosseville, Toni Brell, Nicky Coutts, Camila Flores-Fernández, Adam Kaasa, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Neill Lin, Elena Mazzi, Hannah Rowan, Agata Ruchlewicz-Dzianach, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Noora Sandgren, Tim Shaw, Jaceks Smolicki, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Jessica Wiesner, and Vincent Roumagnac with Océane Bruel, Outi Condit, Laurent Joly, Simo Kellokumpu, Aurélie Pétrel and Sophie Rodrigues.
The exhibition curated by Taru Elfving has been realised in partnership with Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) and Saari Residence.