Wear and Tear kerää arkistoa ihmisille tärkeistä esineistä ja asioista, jotka ovat ehkä jo parhaat päivänsä nähneet, mutta niitä vielä säilytetään. Esineiden käyttö ja niiden kuluva ja hajoava materiaali jättävät jälkiä, joilla on painoarvoa muistoissamme. Millainen henkinen perintö tavaroihimme latautuu, ja millaisia intiimejä yksilöllisiä eleitä ja tekoja niissä kaikuu sittenkin kun olemme jo poissa?
Työpajoihin tuodaan oma tärkeä esine tai fyysinen asia, jota lähestytään eri näkökulmista, sen herättämiä muistoja, aistimuksia ja jälkiä pohtien. Esinettä piirretään, äänitetään, sen kanssa työskennellään kehollisesti ja se valokuvataan.
Työpajoissa muodostuneesta aineistosta rakentuu muistojen, jälkien ja kulumisen arkisto, joka jatkaa elämäänsä projektin kahdessa seuraavassa osassa Hangö Teaterträff ja ANTI -festivaaleilla. Esinettä ei luovuteta projektille vaan sen saa pitää itsellään työpajan jälkeen.
Wear and Tear on osa Kulkue-hanketta. Kulkue on kolmen merkittävän taidefestivaalin yhteistyöhanke. ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio), Hangö Teaterträff (Hanko) jaBaltic Circle -festivaali (Helsinki) toteuttavat poikkeuksellisen laajan kotimaisten yhteistuotantojen sarjan sekä kiertuetoimintaa niiden ympärillä. Hankkeen keskeisenä tavoitteena on edistää festivaalien saavutettavuutta ja pidentää teosten elinkaarta. Hankkeen rahoittaa Suomen kulttuurirahasto.
DRAWING GROUND – DRAWING PRACTICES TO SUPPORT EARTH
Friday 29th September – Sunday 1st October 2023
Dear everyone, The Next Thinking Through Drawing symposium is near. Welcome to draw together, listen to a variety of talks, and share thoughts about drawing from all around the globe.
Engaging drawing as fertile ground for research, reflection, and advocacy for the environment.
Live local drawing workshops around the world, recorded drawing workshops, artist talks, interviews with Drawers, presentations, and collaborative drawing sessions.
Sticking with our successful hybrid model, the symposium will encompass local in-person workshops, as well as online workshops, presentations, and discussion forums. In-person workshops will be streamed live when possible, and recorded.
Purchase tickets soon and read more information about the event at:
Millaisia asioita sinä toivoisit ihmisten jakavan tulevaisuudessa? Millaisena haluaisit nähdä kotikaupunkisi tuolloin? Mitä jakaminen tarkoittaa sinulle?
Taitelijat Anna-Maria Väisänen ja Emma Fält kutsuvat sinut osallistumaan taide-esitykseen. Teoksessa kävelemme kaupungin keskustassa noin 20 minuutin ajan ja teemme havaintoja ympäristöstä. Lopuksi piirrämme yhdessä unelmien kaupunkia ja keskustelemme siitä. Aiempaa kokemusta tai tietoa ei tarvita.
Mukaan mahtuu neljä ensimmäiseksi ilmoittautunutta, 4 osallistujaa/tulevaisuuskävely.
as part of the group exhibition Dimensions of a Line
9.9.2023 -14.4.2024
Dimensions of a Line
9.9.2023 – 14.4.2024
Leo Ackley | Jouni Airaksinen | Gösta Armfelt | Juhana Blomstedt | Sebastian Craig & Barry Sykes | Jacob Dahlgren| Emma Fält & Iida Valkonen | Kristján Guðmundsson | Katriina Haikala | Jussi Heikkilä | Hannaleena Heiska | IC-98 | Tiina Kivinen | Silja Rantanen | Tuomo Rosenlund | Stiina Saaristo | Eeva Tiisala | Markus Tuormaa
How do artists work with the line, where does its shape settle as a simple pencil and charcoal drawing or as a spatial installation. The variations of the line can be seen in the collective exhibition at the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art. Both Finnish and international contemporary artists – 18 artists and artist groups – present the line as part of their artistic work.
Charcoal, one of the chemical elements, is a classic material used by many artists. In the exhibition, the charcoal drawing can be seen in different forms. Leo Ackley‘s dynamic, organic drawing line produces new variations of the female figure, and Juhana Blomstedt‘s Genesis series represents an angular geometric figurative language. Jouni Airaksinen refers to art history in his spatial work This is not a Charcoal Drawing II. Contemporary artists also have a surprising choice of materials; when one draws with hair and the other with coat hangers, another can produce a line with a skate on the ice.
The world has been recorded by drawing, and the history of the representational line is long. The image of the city has been documented in site-specific commissioned works and imaginary memories – Gösta Armfelt‘s lithograph from the 1870s as a curiosity. How do you remember a city you once visited or how someone else describes a city you have never been to. Visual answers to these considerations can be found in the works collected in the exhibition.
A person and its image take shape as drawings from self-irony to inner worlds. The line bends into many shapes on a two-dimensional surface. In her performative project, Katriina Haikala has drawn the image of a woman forgotten in art history. The encounter-based drawing performance has continued since 2017, for example in Oslo, Paris and New York. In Hannaleena Heiska‘s Camourflage series, on the other hand, the shape hides from view. The series also presents the artist’s three-dimensional works. Stiina Saaristo‘s monumental drawings of female figures have taken on new three-dimensional forms in recent years.
The concept of the exhibition also makes the line spatial. It can run wild in the space and take shape as a three-dimensional installation. The work of the Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren, known for his playfulness and stripes, invites the viewer immersively inside the work, into a physical experience.
IC-98‘s Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons), which represented Finland at the Venice Biennale in 2015, will be the first domestic public performance at the art museum. The drawing animation of the artist duo brings together the subtlety of line combined with the exploratory side of contemporary digital drawing.
The exhibition was produced by Vaasa City Museums and it comprises of numerous loans from art museums and rarely seen private collections. Katriina Haikala Social Portrait – Women Only and Tuomo Rosenlund, who has documented Vaasa and the disappearance of silos from the city’s landscape, are doing special site-specific projects for Vaasa. The exhibition has been curated by the chef of exhibitions Maaria Salo. The national Art Testers has selected the exhibition for its 2023–2024 program.
Emma Fält & Iida Valkoinen, RINK, 2022. In collaboration with Mancianti, Saarinen & NoU Ringette SM. Photo: Kim Saarinen, 2022.
Welcome to Ground – time and space for deep reflection, listening, and grounding.
Thinking through Drawing summer residency in Niemelä house, with artists Angela Brew and Emma Fält
July 23rd-30th 2023
Nerohvirta Village, Iisalmi, Finland
Please join us in our Finnish lakeside studio to explore our personal and collective creative paths and to build a supportive community of practice.
Together we will create a practical book for artists and educators, with our insights and advice on how to open doors and unlock drawers.
Please send us a short statement, max 100 words, outlining why you would like to attend the residency.
Costs will be kept to a minimum, to cover expenses. £350, excluding accommodation. You have the option of booking a bedroom with us in the studio house or finding your own local accommodation.
Drawing Ground Drawing practices to support Earth Friday 29th September – Sunday 1st October 2023
PLEASE KEEP THESE DATES FREE – tickets available soon
THE CALL FOR TTD 2023:
We invite workshop and presentation proposals that engage drawing as fertile ground for research, reflection and advocacy for the environment. We encourage creative interpretations and approaches. All submissions are welcome and will be considered. Are you interested in running a live drawing workshop in your locality? Do you want to record a drawing workshop that you or another person run? Do you have a Drawer you would like to interview? Do you want to make a presentation – a research paper or another? Sticking with our successful hybrid model, the symposium will encompass local in-person workshops, as well as online workshops, presentations, and discussion forums. In-person workshops will be streamed live when possible, and recorded.
Please send an initial 100-word proposal to brewdrawing@gmail.com by May 15th 2023. Please include your website and/or relevant social media links.
We look forward to hearing from you!The TtD Boardthinkingthroughdrawing.org
Thinking through Drawing has consistently produced, published, and presented original drawing research and curriculum. It has hosted various courses and workshops as well as six international symposia, in collaboration with Columbia University, University of the Arts London, Indiana University Southeast, SUNY New Paltz, Loughborough University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
I am happy to travel to Kemi to participate in a seminar about art, cities and urban planning this week. I am going to share thoughts (and of course some dreams) about Shared Futures – a project that this year reaches its 4 years age! We have worked together with Anna Maria Väisänen, Roberto Fusco and 60+ people as well as many visitors who were walking with us in Kuopio and Mikkeli. Little did we know when we started planning on listening walks in the city, drawing dialogues and drawing sound experiments with invited guests. We feel that it is a good moment to share with other art practitioners as well as architects and the audience what we have learned and what are our hopes and dreams about living areas in the future.
The event is organised by Piste Kollektiivi a collective of artists and art educators who share a passion to do art in relation to their community. Cross-art Collective Piste produces high-quality and distinctive contemporary circus, dance and theatre performances and applied art projects.
Our feet were listening to Karakallio in pleasant spring weather with students from the local secondary school.
Thank you to everyone who participated last week in the Listening Positions – workshops. Now I am much wiser about the area and its specialities. Many of the public spaces around here are important to the people of the area. The common wish seems to be that much of what is now understood as Karakallio would stay the same at least when it comes to suburban forests. Also, it was decided together that pizza, heavy metal and suburban forests as well as friends will not disappear from here for at least 100 years! People will say goodbye soon to their shopping mall, but the memories seem to be vivid!
A student created a pain curve about how it is to be without their mobile phone during the workshops.
The participants were listening in many different ways and together we shared thoughts on what is it that we hear and how that affects us. We also did some drawn sketches about our feelings and tried to map what we pay attention to. In the end, everyone did a little imagining exercise about what Karakallio will become 100 years from now in their personal utopia.
Now I am working towards a new sound art piece, the third and final part of the project. Stay tuned!
Blindwalks with friends and the listening drawings looking at the environment. Photos: Hanna Häkkä 2023
Kuunteluasentoja on tilaustyö, joka valmistuu keväällä 2023 Karakallioon, Espooseen
Julkisen taiteen teos sisältää kolme osaa:
Kirje Karakallion asukkaille
Työpajat Karakalliossa 15.4.2023
Ääniteos, joka on sijoitetaan alueen lähiömetsään keväällä 2023
Teoksessa keskeistä on pohtia, millaiset asiat vaikuttavat kokemukseen ympäristöstä. Kolmiosainen teos kutsuu mukaan kokeilemaan ehdottamiani kuunteluasentoja ja asemia, sekä löytämään omia.
Listening Positions is a commissioned work that will be completed in the spring of 2023 in Karakallio, Espoo
The work consists of three parts:
A letter to the residents of Karakallio
Workshops in Karakallio in 15/04/2023
A sound art piece, that will be placed in the suburban forest of the area
The focus of the work is to think about what kinds of things affect the experience of the environment. This work invites you to try different listening positions suggested as well as find your own.
Imagining Future Bodies on esitys, jossa yli 60-vuotiaista kuopiolaisista koostuva osallistujajoukko jakaa yleisölle kokemuksellista matkaansa tulevaisuuden Kuopioon. Imagining Future Bodies -esitys oli osa ANTI-festivaalin ohjelmistoa viime syksynä. Tänä keväänä esitys saa uuden muodon ja yleisön, kun teos vierailee kuopiolaisissa palvelukeskuksissa. Esiintyjät ovat tutkineet kaupunkitilaa ja elinympäristöjään sekä näihin liittyviä tulevaisuuden unelmia ja tarpeita. Työssä keskeistä on ollut syvällinen ja radikaali kuunteleminen, yhteiskuvittelu ja moniaistisen lähestymistavan hyödyntäminen. Palvelukeskuskiertueella ryhmä tuo näkyväksi erilaisia tulevaisuuden materiaaleja, äänimaailmoja, kehollisia maisemia ja ympäristöjä. Esitykset toteutetaan yhteistyössä Kuopion kaupungin kanssa. Tervetuloa!
Esitykset to 16.3 klo 12 Suokadun toimintakeskus, liikuntasalima
27.3. klo 11.30 Melankadun toimintakeskus, monitoimitilake
29.3. klo 11.30 Alava-talo, salima
8.5. klo 11.30 Puijonlaakson toimintakeskus, liikuntasalipe
12.5. klo 10 Leväsen toimintakeskus, liikuntasali
Shared Futures: Imagining Future Bodies on tour at service centers
Imagining Future Bodies is a performance in which a group of participants consisting of people from Kuopio over 60 years of age share their experiential journey to the future of Kuopio with the audience.
Imagining Future Bodiespremiered at ANTI Festival 2022 and now the working group will go on tour at local service centers.
The performers have explored the urban space and their habitats, as well as their dreams and hopes of the future. Deep and radical listening, co-imagining and utilizing a multi-sensory approach have been central to the work. On the service center tour, the group brings different future materials, sound worlds, bodily landscapes and environments to light.
Emma Fält - drawing out loud 