KuvA Research Club Evening
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the KuvA Research Club Evening! We invite all staff members, all doctoral students and alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts as well as all interested in artistic research to join and see, listen to, and share what colleagues are working on right now. The event on Monday 4.4.2022 at 16:30–18:00 is held in English. Coordinators of the event are Elina Saloranta and Denise Ziegler.
The venue for the Club is the Academy of Fine Arts, Mylly main building, Sörnäisten rantatie 19, Helsinki. In Mylly the space is the kitchen space K243, on the 2. Floor.
How to get there: Enter from the main entrance of Mylly, take the main staircase to the 2. Floor, turn right and walk to the end of the right-hand side corner, on the left-hand side of the elevator there is a small staircase, enter from glass door, enter to K23 from white door on your right.
You can also join in online, on zoom. Please ask for zoom link via e-mail from Denise Ziegler, at the address: denise.ziegler@uniarts.fi
Presenters of this Research Club Evening 4.4.2022 are Pavel Rotts and Lea Kantonen who moderates a discussion between Mari Martin, Minna Heikinaho and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo.
There will be some hot vegan soup from 16:15 on. If possible, please bring your own spoon and plate.
Pavel Rotts – born in Petrozavodsk, Russia (1982) and currently based in Helsinki – is an artist working with a variety of techniques and forms, such as conceptual art, performance, sound art, experimental music, installation and moving image. Pavel holds a BFA from the University of Arts Helsinki, and previously studied at St.Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, graduating from Pro Arte Institute in 2008. In his work, Rotts explores collective and personal memories, historical trauma, and the legacy of the Soviet system in contemporary culture. Pavel is co-founder of the SASHAPASHA artist duo together with artist Sasha Rotts.
Climbing a Memory project
The tragic outbreak of the war started by the Russian invasion of Ukraine is dramatically changing our attitude towards memory. The principles of how we used to work with traumatic memories of the past will never be the same. Many places in Helsinki still bear traces of World War II – wounds left by bombshells on the granite of city walls. The act of climbing in my project was a way of understanding. I filled the craters in Helsinki with resin, the same resin that is in use for the mass production of climbing holds for indoor sport climbing. But today the old traces of war are becoming hot again. One can burn a finger by touching it.
Read more about the project here
Lea Kantonen, Mari Martin, Minna Heikinaho and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo:
In late 2021, the CERADA Research Centre of the University of the Arts Helsinki published a collection of articles, Yhteisötaiteen etiikka: Tilaa toiselle, arvoa arvaamattomalle (Ethics of Socially Engaged Art: Giving Space for the Other, Giving Value to the Unpredictable), edited by Lea Kantonen and Sari Karttunen. In the collection, 21 authors outline ethical issues in participatory and socially engaged art. Many of the authors of the book are artist-researchers and work in different constellations of collaboration with other artists and researchers. At the Research Club Lea Kantonen discusses the ethics of multidisciplinary collaboration with three writers of the anthology: Mari Martin, Minna Heikinaho and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo.
Read the book online in the University´s Taju publication archive
Lea Kantonen is professor of artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki
Artist-researcher Mari Martin, Visiting Researcher at CfAR, Centre for Artistic Research, University of the Arts Helsinki:
“Research rarely takes into account the interplay of a multidisciplinary group of artists in which everyone has a common interest but a different understanding of the theme and different ways to work.”
Doctoral student Minna Heikinaho, Academy of Fine Arts:
“In participatory processes, interacting with each other and being exposed to strangers – to the unknown – changes us, and at the same time, we change the stranger and the unknown.”
Doctor and anthropologist Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki:
“It’s weird to think we’d have bouncing shells around us. Rather we’re wrapped in something deeply human with gaps and wounds. That’s why and in that way, we can work together and build relationships – in the end, really, indefinitely.”
In a KuvA Research Club Evening one can present a work in progress or works or writings that are just finished or bring fragments of thoughts or works or treasures from the archives. The format can be e.g., moving image, speech, images, a demo.
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the KuvA Research Club Evening! We invite all staff members, all doctoral students and alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts as well as all interested in artistic research to join and see, listen to, and share what colleagues are working on right now. The event on Monday 4.4.2022 at 16:30–18:00 is held in English. Coordinators of the event are Elina Saloranta and Denise Ziegler.
The venue for the Club is the Academy of Fine Arts, Mylly main building, Sörnäisten rantatie 19, Helsinki. In Mylly the space is the kitchen space K243, on the 2. Floor.
How to get there: Enter from the main entrance of Mylly, take the main staircase to the 2. Floor, turn right and walk to the end of the right-hand side corner, on the left-hand side of the elevator there is a small staircase, enter from glass door, enter to K23 from white door on your right.
You can also join in online, on zoom. Please ask for zoom link via e-mail from Denise Ziegler, at the address: denise.ziegler@uniarts.fi
Presenters of this Research Club Evening 4.4.2022 are Pavel Rotts and Lea Kantonen who moderates a discussion between Mari Martin, Minna Heikinaho and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo.
There will be some hot vegan soup from 16:15 on. If possible, please bring your own spoon and plate.
Pavel Rotts – born in Petrozavodsk, Russia (1982) and currently based in Helsinki – is an artist working with a variety of techniques and forms, such as conceptual art, performance, sound art, experimental music, installation and moving image. Pavel holds a BFA from the University of Arts Helsinki, and previously studied at St.Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, graduating from Pro Arte Institute in 2008. In his work, Rotts explores collective and personal memories, historical trauma, and the legacy of the Soviet system in contemporary culture. Pavel is co-founder of the SASHAPASHA artist duo together with artist Sasha Rotts.
Climbing a Memory project
The tragic outbreak of the war started by the Russian invasion of Ukraine is dramatically changing our attitude towards memory. The principles of how we used to work with traumatic memories of the past will never be the same. Many places in Helsinki still bear traces of World War II – wounds left by bombshells on the granite of city walls. The act of climbing in my project was a way of understanding. I filled the craters in Helsinki with resin, the same resin that is in use for the mass production of climbing holds for indoor sport climbing. But today the old traces of war are becoming hot again. One can burn a finger by touching it.
Read more about the project here
Lea Kantonen, Mari Martin, Minna Heikinaho and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo:
In late 2021, the CERADA Research Centre of the University of the Arts Helsinki published a collection of articles, Yhteisötaiteen etiikka: Tilaa toiselle, arvoa arvaamattomalle (Ethics of Socially Engaged Art: Giving Space for the Other, Giving Value to the Unpredictable), edited by Lea Kantonen and Sari Karttunen. In the collection, 21 authors outline ethical issues in participatory and socially engaged art. Many of the authors of the book are artist-researchers and work in different constellations of collaboration with other artists and researchers. At the Research Club Lea Kantonen discusses the ethics of multidisciplinary collaboration with three writers of the anthology: Mari Martin, Minna Heikinaho and Marja-Liisa Honkasalo.
Read the book online in the University´s Taju publication archive
Lea Kantonen is professor of artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki
Artist-researcher Mari Martin, Visiting Researcher at CfAR, Centre for Artistic Research, University of the Arts Helsinki:
“Research rarely takes into account the interplay of a multidisciplinary group of artists in which everyone has a common interest but a different understanding of the theme and different ways to work.”
Doctoral student Minna Heikinaho, Academy of Fine Arts:
“In participatory processes, interacting with each other and being exposed to strangers – to the unknown – changes us, and at the same time, we change the stranger and the unknown.”
Doctor and anthropologist Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki:
“It’s weird to think we’d have bouncing shells around us. Rather we’re wrapped in something deeply human with gaps and wounds. That’s why and in that way, we can work together and build relationships – in the end, really, indefinitely.”
In a KuvA Research Club Evening one can present a work in progress or works or writings that are just finished or bring fragments of thoughts or works or treasures from the archives. The format can be e.g., moving image, speech, images, a demo.