KuvA Research Days
During the Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki (KuvA) Research Days the public has an opportunity to participate in discussions about art and research generated by talks and performances by KuvAs Researchers and Doctoral Students as well as guest speakers they have invited.
Programme 12-14.12.2023
This year’s KuvA Research Days examines the diverse contexts of artistic research from the perspectives opened up by three independent program days. The unifying line of thought is a curious and open-minded return to phenomena and skills that have not received the attention they deserve. The KuvA Research Days will be held in December 2023 at the Uniarts Helsinki’s Sörnäinen campus, in the Academy of Fine Arts building Mylly (Sörnäisten rantatie 19, Helsinki). Parts of the Research Days programme can be attended online. The streaming will be on the university´s YouTube channel. The links are published in the programs. Welcome to think together! You will find here a more detailed programme and speakers’ bios for each day.
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KuvA Research Days, Day 1: Romantic irony
At the symposium day, romantic irony makes up the context to discuss artistic means of creating subversive spaces of fiction.
Host: Doctoral Researcher Miklos Gaál, Uniarts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts
Partly streamed on the Uniarts Helsinki YouTube channel (Time zone: UTC +2). Link in program!
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KuvA Research Days, Day 2: Material Matters
Investigations into vernacular and indigenous methods and materials at the Rural Turn. Keynote by Ivan Morison from the UK. Presentations and workshops during the day by Finnish based artists and designers looking for ways to use traditional techniques in tune with the natural world for new ways of making and thinking about art.
Host: Professor Andy Best, Uniarts Helsinki´s Academy of Fine Arts
Partly streamed on the Uniarts Helsinki YouTube channel at 9:15–15 (Time zone: UTC +2). Link in program!
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KuvA Research Days, Day 3: Object Studies
The focus of this day is a strange collection of objects. These objects were sourced from research environments at the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, Uniarts, and the city archives, and represent human-disease-plant relationships from a variety of perspectives. During the morning, a series of short presentations will expand on individual objects, whilst the afternoon’s practical workshop will use curatorship to highlight various connections and intersections within the collection and encourage communication across research fields.
Host: Postdoctoral Researcher Nina Liebenberg, Uniarts Helsinki´s Academy of Fine Arts
Partly streamed on the Uniarts Helsinki YouTube channel at 9:00–13 (Time zone: UTC +2). Link in program!
Contact, KuvA Research Days
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Mika Elo
- Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts
- +358503473969
- mika.elo@uniarts.fi
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Michaela Bränn
- Specialist, Study services Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts
- +358406313553
- michaela.brann@uniarts.fi
Previous KuvA Research Days
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KuvA Research Days 2022
KuvA Research Days engaged with a multiplicity of artistic research contexts through a series of situations that suggest kaleidoscopic relations with each other. The working themes were entaglements and contrasts between exhibition and symposium, artistic process and teaching situation, city spaces of Helsinki and Johannesburg as well as the relations between critical thinking and play.
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KuvA Research Days 2021
The seventh edition of KuvA Research Days shed some light on experiential practices, pedagogical processes, and supposedly intelligent machines. What is at stake in sensory witnessing? How is the pandemic transforming the art school and its pedagogical visions? How are neural networks and deep learning systems shaping artistic thinking?
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KuvA Research Days 2020
The sixth edition of KuvA Research Days addressed a highly complex and heterogeneous set of framing conditions of knowing, learning, thinking and being together. As it happens, the question of framing conditions also affected the event itself.
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KuvA Research Days 2019
In year 2019 KuvA Research Days led us to ponder the preconditions and urgent questions of the human experience. How does artistic thinking meet the dead end of fossil capitalism? What kinds of actor networks should artistic research position itself in?
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KuvA Research Days 2018
This time KuvA Research Days delved into the questions of imagination. Our thinking often starts with individual needs, goals and preferences. We nevertheless live and act in the world together. How can we cultivate empathy and togetherness?
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KuvA Research Days 2017
In year 2017 KuvA Research Days encompasses a rich variety of topical issues as well as presentation, discussion, and working modes. Instead of adding another layer in the discussions on the essence of artistic research, focus was on the collisions and interferences of different ways of framing and articulating decisive moments of artistic practice.
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