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BLACKMARKET experts number 5: Family Lempinen

Five more days to BLACKMARKET! We are now publishing experts every day until the event. BLACKMARKET no 14 presents for the first time whole family as experts: mother, father and daughter from the family Lempinen.

Antti Lempinen (M.Sc.) is mathematician, physician and private researcher who teaches at School of Engineering in Aalto University. He is specialized in nuclear waste disposal quantitative safety assessment, bentonite buffer computer simulations and researching energy politics. He has worked for Posiva Ltd., Government nuclear waste research fund and Greenpeace international.
What we know about deep geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel - and what we do not know

BLACKMARKET – for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge No. 14 now for the first time in Nordic Countries

BLACKMARKET by Hannah Hurtzig (Mobile Academy Berlin) is a performance and an installation with 52 experts in which narrative formats of knowledge mediation will be tried out and presented. BLACKMARKET has been successfully organised all over Europe 13 times before, including Berlin, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Liverpool, Graz, Vienna and Dresden. During this ongoing Turku Capital of Culture year, BLACKMARKET will be experienced for the first time in Scandinavia.

100 conversations about being silent in 4.33 hours

Organised at the Turku Volunteer Fire Department building on 20 October, BLACKMARKET No. 14 speaks of quietness and silence. Finns are often considered as people with a special talent for and experience in keeping quiet. At BLACKMARKET, you can eavesdrop on them talking about quietness and silence.

Aboagora promotes dialogue between the arts and academics

Aboagora symposium starts on Tuesday 16 August. New kind of symposium brings scholarly debates together with the arts and combines artistic expression with scholarly events.

Aboagora – or the Turku marketplace – is a symposium, accessible to all, that promotes dialogue between scientific disciplines and various forms of art, creating fresh dialogue between scientists and artists and bringing the debate to the heart of the city.

Aboagora is an open forum for thoughts and ideas, challenging people to question and break the various barriers between science and art.

Aboagora brings topical scientific discussions to Turku from a variety of fields, creating encounters between science and art.

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.