Artistic Research

Professori Leena Rouhiainen kirjoittaa taiteellisen tutkimuksen ja yhteiskunnallisen vaikuttavuuden suhteesta tekstissään, joka perustuu hänen puheelleen Uudenmaan kulttuurifoorumi -tilaisuudessa Musiikkitalolla 24. syyskuuta 2024.

This year’s Summer Academy for Artistic research focuses on sharing of methods – methods of sharing.

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.

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.

The Summer Academy for Artistic research will bring together doctoral researchers and supervisors for an intense and stimulating week in August in Finland.

Professori Otso Aavanranta aloittaa asiantuntijoidemme blogikirjoitussarjan taiteellisen tutkimuksen olemuksesta.

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.

Nora Rinteen teksti työpajasta Tutkimuspaviljongissa.

SAAR 2023 takes place at Raulandsakademiet in Telemark, Norway, on 12-19 August 2023

Interviewing doctoral candidate Jamie MacDonald, whose background is in performance, stand-up comedy, theatre and larp.

Summer Academy for Artistic Research (SAAR) is a joint Nordic project between the partner countries Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

Elena Mazzi asks how posthuman visualities can bring to light the deep environmental, social, political and economic changes that are currently affecting the Arctic regions. Mazzi is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Noora Sandgren tutkii maasuhteita erilaisten kehojen yhteisaineenvaihduntaan keskittyen. Hän on yksi viidennen Tutkimuspaviljongin residenssitaiteilijoista.

Hannah Rowan’s and Anastasia (A) Khodyreva’s research and material practices look at the phase change in matter, particularly ice and other water phases, to think about how slipperiness relates to durational, relational, and response-able practice of togetherness. The duo are artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Neill Lin asks what is an eco-feminist approach towards the architecture of water. What are alternative stories of water in trans-national cultural bodies? What space can water inspire? Lin is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Camila Flores Fernandez’s work was born out of her anthropological research and collective art creation with Afroperuvian women peasant (field) workers of the community of El Carmen, Chincha, Southern coastal Peru. “Obreras” is a work-in-process meant to be an artistic installation composed of spoken words, written words and audiovisual footage. Flores Fernandez is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Agata Ruchlewicz Dzianach asks at which point, as humans, we have forgotten that we are part of nature. For this purpose, she will create a haptic archive where the textures of the human skin and the fragments of the natural environment are juxtaposed and mixed losing their origins. Ruchlewicz Dzianach is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Toni Brell and Angeliki Tzortzakaki will tell stories of socio-geo-ecological entanglements through the fictionalised setting of a night boat, inspired by the multilayered history of the Finlandia cruise ship that between 1975 and 1988 sailed around the Baltic Sea under different identities. Wrapped into the format of a ghost sea-vessel story, they will research and speak about the changing landscapes and scenarios that we are haunted by due to a perennial planetary crisis. Brell and Tzortzakaki are artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Sara Blosseville’s project is about retracing the material history of her female elders through sculpture. It explores the idea of our shared kind as a fertile humus, including the other species and the materiality surrounding us in generational heritage, which make us and the future world, as much as other humans. Blosseville is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Bárbara Sánchez Barroso wants to tell a new evolutionary story, in which emerging, more profound relationships with animals and other more-than-human entities could be established. Barroso is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

Sara Bédard-Goulet and Damien Beyrouthy’s project builds on epistemological and artistic practices to propose different situations to puzzle over a set of images from the internet that have no apparent relationship between them. These situations allow for discussions on current challenges through discussing the images, thus creating relational knowledge that reflect a plurality of perspectives. Bédard-Goulet and Beyrouthy are two of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5 .

The Fiction Group – Adam Kaasa, Nicky Coutts and Jessica Wiesner – writes to prompts as its art fiction method. There will be two devices to navigate the week in Kallio-Kuninkala as generative research in progress: the impulses of punctuation and of weather. The members of the Fiction Group are artists-in-residence in Research Pavilion #5.

The transdisciplinary event by the artists Jacek Smolicki, Tim Shaw and Elena Biserna explores the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. Smolicki, Shaw and Biserna are artists-in-residence in Research Pavilion #5.

Mammu Rankanen tutkii ammattitanssijoista koostuvan työryhmänsä kanssa, miten ulkoinen tila vaikuttaa sisäisen tilan kokemukseen ja hetkessä muotoutuvaan tanssiin. Rankanen ja työryhmä työskentelevät Tutkimuspaviljonki #5:n residenssissä.

Vincent Roumagnac’s project aims at scenographically exploring the troubles of the – climatic, technological, affective – contemporary collective condition of “submersion”, and at generating a poetic understanding of the phenomena, and – hopefully – a collective solace through art and research. Roumagnac is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

“Of Various Tongues” is a longform experimental sound work that Nyokabi Kariũki uses to explore the complexities of post-colonial African identity. “Colonialism and its aftermath have created a generation of us who have had to reconcile with hybrid, and in some way, fragmented, identities,” she writes. Kariũki is one of the artists-in-residence of Research Pavilion #5.

A Q&A with doctoral candidate Klaus Maunuksela, whose artistic background is in dramaturgy, playwriting and literature.

Choreographer Juli Reinartz’ research focuses on how disorientation allows us to relate to bodies differently.