Skrivande som konstnärlig forskning 2

Om skrivande i en tid av polykriser

Seminariet är flerspråkigt. Det strävar att öppna förbindelser emellan språk och att uppfatta ord som en mångfald av tolkningar. Skrivande inom konstnärlig forskning ses som en efterforskande praktik som experimenterar med strukturering, verbalisering, och överföring i samband med att iakttagelser omskrivs till text. Seminariet behandlar hållbarhet och ekologisk problematik i skrivande.

Program

Torsdagen den 9 oktober

16–17:30 Screening och samtal

•  Dua Abbas Rizvi
  videoverket Even the two wide worlds, 2025
• Eddie Choo Wen Yi
  single-channel videoverket Rewound Trading Legacies, 2025

17:45–20 Om skrivande som konstnärlig forskning: presentationer och samtal

• Emma Kihl, Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
• Elisabeth Hjorth, HDK-Valand, Göteborgs universitet
• Paneldiskussion med Kihl, Hjorth, Antti Salminen och Lena Séraphin

Paneldiskussion till 19:15.

Fredagen den 10 oktober

16–18:15 Föreläsningar och samtal

• Emma Kihl: Artistic Writing Pedagogies – Thinking with an Ecology of Practices
• Karoliina Lummaa: Finnish forest poetics – Suomalaista metsäpoetiikkaa

De två föreläsningarna följs av ett samtal med Kihl, Lummaa, Olli Pyyhtinen och Taru Elfving.

18:30–20 Diskussioner i grupp med Pia Korhonen, Susanna Laaksonen och Lena Séraphin.

Seminariets deltagare bildar grupper, som deltar i tematiska samtal om hållbarhet, resiliens och skrivande, verbalisering (kielentäminen) och situerat/platsspecifikt skrivande.

Personpresentationer

Eddie Choo Wen Yi

Eddie Choo Wen Yi is a multidisciplinary artist from Malaysia, based in Finland, completing an MFA at Uniarts Helsinki. Working in moving image and archives, they explore personal and collective histories, power dynamics, and social structures. Individual and collective practices, including lumbung radio and Station of Commons, are central. Their research, Rewound Trading Legacies, received the Finnish Art Society’s Young Artist Grant in 2023.

Read more at eddiechoowenyi.com

Taru Elfving

Taru Elfving is a curator and writer focused on nurturing undisciplinary and site-sensitive enquiries at the intersections of ecological, feminist and decolonial practices. As director of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago she leads a research residency on the island of Seili in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute, University of Turku. She is also a curatorial researcher in the transdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (SOS) at Åbo Akademi University. She has published internationally and co-edited publications such as Contemporary Artist Residencies (Valiz 2019).

Elisabeth Hjorth

Elisabeth Hjorth is a writer and professor in Literary Composition at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Her literary and academic practice focuses on female autobiography, language/power, neurodiversity and autistic poetics. She holds a PhD in Ethics from Uppsala University. 2021- 2023 she was the project leader for the interdisciplinary research project ”Autistic Writing: Reclaiming Reloading Another Mother Tongue”, financed by the Swedish Research Council. Her latest book is Mutant (Glänta, 2021).

Read more at Elisabeth Hjorth’s homepage.

Emma Kihl

Emma Kihl is Senior Lecturer in Writing at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She teaches writing and art history and initiated the post-master’s course Feral Writing (2025). She has a PhD in Comparative Literature, and her work explores ecocriticism, literary practice, and collaboration across research, pedagogy, and art.

Pia Korhonen

Pia Korhonen (M.A. in Writing, 2025) is a writer whose work moves through expansive and elemental environments. Her texts explore landscapes shaped and dominated by wind, mountains, glaciers, and snow, as well as other-than-human forms of life. She primarily works with the fragment, the poem, and the lyrical essay.

Karoliina Lummaa

PhD Karoliina Lummaa is currently affiliated with the BIOS Research Unit, Helsinki, Finland. Lummaa’s long-time research topics include nonhuman artistic agency and cultural dimensions of environmental change and sustainability transitions. Lummaa’s background is in literary studies and her publications include monographs, articles and edited anthologies on Finnish literature, posthumanism and the environmental humanities.

Olli Pyyhtinen

Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at Tampere University. His work is philosophically oriented and entangled with art and addresses issues such as waste, multispecies relations and gift. Pyyhtinen has contributed to the relational and posthumanist turn in the social sciences and currently also studies creative writing at the Kriittinen Korkeakoulu.

Read more about Olli Pyyhtinen at his profile page.

Dua Abbas Rizvi

Dua Abbas Rizvi is a visual artist with a background in literature and art journalism. She works with both found and original media, and fragments of her own writing, to reflect on themes of memory, subjectivity, and the ambivalence of language.

Read more at duaabbasrizvi.com

Registrering

Registreringen är öppen till och med den 8 oktober 2025.

Writing as Artistic Research 1

Detta evenemang är den andra delen i en seminarieserie, vars första del hölls på Puistokatu 4 i januari 2025. Deltagande i detta andra seminarium kräver inte närvaro vid evenemanget i januari.
Läs mer om seminariet i januari.