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What's happening in the Uniarts Helsinki's blogs right now.
What's happening in the Uniarts Helsinki's blogs right now.
Interested in taking up cycling in Helsinki? Student ambassador Rong is here to advise you.
Taiteilija-tutkijan henkilökohtainen kehitys voi toimia relevanttina tiedon lähteenä, kun hän samalla tunnistaa historiallisen paikantuneisuutensa sekä oman taiteenalan jatkumossa että yhteiskunnassa, kirjoittaa Teatterikorkeakoulun tutkimuksesta vastaava varadekaani Laura Gröndahl. Teksti on osa blogisarjaa, jossa asiantuntijamme pohtivat taiteellisen tutkimuksen ulottuvuuksia ja olemusta.
Student ambassador Homa interviews Daniel Malpica, Dash Che and Gesa Piper, reflecting on “The Leap”, an event held in February 2024.
Student ambassador Rong reflects on Boost Your Future, a networking event for foreign-born art professionals in Finland.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are integral to advancing societal progress by tackling challenges, providing solutions, and offering guidance to policymakers. By fostering research and education, HEIs nurture democratic principles, combat discrimination, and promote equality, thereby mitigating polarization, writes university researcher Kai Lehikoinen who shares his comments presented at the panel organised as part of the EU’s Research & Innovation Week.
In “Spill the T,” student ambassador Estrellx conducts an experimental interview between two alumni of the MA in Choreography program who graduated in different years, Karoliina Loimaala and Satu Herrala, in order to create a wide and layered temporal topography for prospective applicants to dig into…
In the Week Against Racism 2024 (18.3.-24.3.), student ambassador Haiyun Yu interviews Laura Valoma, second-year master’s student in Arts Management, Society and Creative Entrepreneurship at Uniarts.
In the Week Against Racism 2024 (18.3.-24.3.), student ambassador Haiyun Yu interviews Lilja Lehmuskallio, doctoral researcher in Arts Management at Uniarts.
Art has the potential to play a significant role in aiding our transition to a more responsible relationship with the Earth. To substantiate this claim, we must conduct research, specifically artistic research, to define how art can drive this essential transformation, writes Associate Professor Raisa Foster as a part of a blog series where experts in artistic research delve into the essence of artistic research.
What are studios like at the Academy of Fine Arts? What is the meaning of studios?
The Summer Academy for Artistic research will bring together doctoral researchers and supervisors for an intense and stimulating week in August in Finland.
Elina Viljanen pohtii kirjoituksessaan avoimen vastarinnan sijaan ääneenlausumatonta (implisiittistä) vastarintaa. Millaista oli elättää itsensä ajattelijana stalinistisessa yhteiskunnassa, jossa valtiovalta käytti systemaattista väkivaltaa toisinajattelijoita kohtaan? Kirjoituksen taustalla on Aleksei Navalnyin kuolema, ja teemaansa Viljanen havainnollistaa venäläisen musiikintutkijan Boris Asafjevin tapauksella.
Professori Otso Aavanranta aloittaa asiantuntijoidemme blogikirjoitussarjan taiteellisen tutkimuksen olemuksesta.
In this lecture, Haapoja will discuss key concepts of Marxist theory in the light of scholarship that attempts to include nonhuman animals in left political theory.
The Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts CARPA8 took place at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki between August 24–26, 2023. CARPA8 inquired into what happens to artistic research when it takes a dramaturgical twist.
As an educator, doctoral candidate Erlikh continually noticed a lack of dance opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities in the United States.
This session focuses on the artistic practice of Matti Aikio, whose work explores the counterpositions of Western modernity vis-à-vis Sámi’s worldview and relationship with time and nature.
Leena Kela writes about her travels around Finland visiting sites of environmental damage by extraction.
Siew Ching Ang explores the pig as a site of extraction, infrastructure and territorial flow.
A collection of my favourite libraries in Helsinki.
A collection of my most favourite cafes.
The ”Gender and musicianship in North(-)/Eastern Europe” symposium, organised by Uniarts Helsinki and Research Association Suoni, will take place on February 12–13, 2024. It is the fourth conference in a series of yearly symposia on gender studies in music, which started during the COVID pandemic online. The chair of the symposium Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik tells that the current symposium focuses on questions of gender, power hierarchies, and intersectionality within the geographical context of Northern, Eastern, and North-Eastern areas of Europe.
On November 20 and 21, 2023, a symposium Perspectives on Music in Times of War and a series of concerts on the topic Music in Times of War gathered around 40 participants from five different countries. The events were organised by Uniarts History Forum and Sibelius Academy under the supervision of Dr Anne Piirainen. Read Amaury du Closel`s (Forum Voix Etouffées) blog post about the project now extented until 30 June, 2024.
Doctoral project of Livia Schweizer
Katso videokooste lokakuussa järjestetystä tapahtumasta.
See video of the event that was organised in October 2023.
The international alumni interview series continues with an interview with Yoko Takeda, by student ambassador Christy Ma.