archipelago | Turku 2011

Exhibition in the Turku Archipelago presented in the USA

Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) was invited to The Armory Show in New York and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge in March 2012.

At the annual art fair Armory Show artistic director Taru Elfving presented the CAA exhibition project, realized as part of the Turku 2011 program.

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Archipelago Logic - Towards Sustainable Futures

CAA is organising the symposium together with the Archipelago Institute of Åbo Akademi University in Turku on the 26th - 28th Aug 2011.

Archipelago Logic symposium focuses on the potential of contemporary art as an active force in multidisciplinary approaches to urgencies such as those presented by the complex ecological issues of the Baltic Sea, know as the "most polluted sea in the world".

The speakers include Prof. Irit Rogoff and critic Jan Verwoert alongside the artists Alfredo Jaar, Renée Green, Elin Wikström, Territorial Agency / John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Platforma 9.81, and Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, who present their new projects commissioned by CAA.

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Sonic Seascape Terrace in Koroinen, overlooking Aura River.

One more week to visit the Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea -exhibition

The Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea exhibition in Turku, Finland, consists of five new artworks which form a trail flagged with seagull-signs starting from Aurajoki, going through Koroinen, the centre of Turku, and ending on Ruissalo Island.

The Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea project got started in 2009 as an open call, directed at artists living in Estonia and Finland. Works submitted by Antti Laitinen, Mia Mäkelä, Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski & Hanna Haaslahti, Teemu Takatalo & Tommi Taipale and Tomi Paasonen & Tiago da Cruz were chosen from 70 proposals.

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Welcome to the opening of the CAA exhibtion!

The official opening of the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) is held at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström on Saturday 18th June 2011.

CAA brings to Turku Archipelago over 20 new art works by international and local artists. The exhibition is the largest contemporary art project in the Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture programme.

Free bus transport is organized between Turku and Korpoström. The art works along the route will be introduced. The bus leaves from Turku at 11am, from outside the Orthodox church by the Turku market square. Return from Korpoström leaves at 6pm.

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Attend a plant swap & help rescue endangered sea grass!

This invitation is for you who live in the Turku Archipelago. You are invited to participate by sending in cuttings from houseplants by post. In exchange of the cuttings you will receive a souvenir from the project. For each donated houseplant cutting a patch of sea grass will be transplanted at the bottom of the archipelago sea.

The aim of the project is to shed light on a biotope in danger of extinction, the

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Follow the process of CAA exhibition!

In the CAA blog now a collection of stories from the past year of the artists' first encounters with the Turku archipelago, research trips together with the navy, the pilots or fishermen, etc.

During the Spring the blog follows the production of various new art works, from short films to local food.

The Contemporary Art Arhipelago blog

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(Aesth)ethics: Encounters with nature

Fri 5.8.2011 at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström

What is the value of the landscape? How is nature today encountered as sacred? What is the freedom associated with it? What is untouched nature? How do the responsibilities and potential, both as individuals and as a community, entwine in our relation to it?

Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) discussions

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Archipelago Science Fiction Blog

What do you fear or hope for, or what would be the most surprising thing that could happen? Archipelago Science Fiction is a new work by the artists Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson for the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA).

The artists collected future visions from the archipelago residents and organised three workshops for the locals in Korpo, Utö and Houtskär in January 2011. The scenarios are now being turned into scripts for short films in the blog: http://contemporaryartarchipelago.fi/scifi/

During Spring 2011 we will film the fantasies with the locals as actors. The films will capture scenarios that combine the thoughts, fear and wishes of many archipelago residents. The first filming will take place in May.

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155 DAYS TO THE OPENING IN THE ARCHIPELAGO

Welcome to explore Turku archipelago with new contemporary art works as your guides this summer, from Saturday 18th June! 155 days to go to the opening of the Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) exhibition, which will spread across the isles from Ruissalo to Utö, along the roads and marine routes.

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Archipelago Science Fiction

Archipelago Science Fiction is a new work by the artists Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson for the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA).

Questionnaire (please fill in by 6.1.2010): http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/caa/

As noone can tell how things will really be in a hundred years, there are no boundaries set for your imagination!

Welcome to the workshops:

Fri 7.1.2011 at 12-17 Korpo, hotel Nestor