Höstens föreläsningsserie var givande

Föreläsningsserien på Åbo universitet skapade ett forum för en tvärvetenskaplig diskussion om platsspecifik samtidskonst och Åbo skärgård: På vilket sätt öppnar samtidskonst nya vyer i ställen som den utforskar och där konsten äger rum?

Serien förde samman konstnärer som presenterade sitt konstnärliga arbete och konstforskare som reflekterade bl.a. nyckelfrågor i miljökonst och samhällskonst. Vid sidan av detta förde konsten en tvärvetenskaplig dialog om teman som berör Åbo skärgård. Föreläsningsserien arrangerades av: CAA, Baltic Sea Region Studies, Konsthistoria (Åbo universitet) och Åbo konstakademi.

 

Programme:

Introduction:

Without modifications to the social and material environments, there can be no change in mentalities.

(Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies, 2000, 27)

Philosopher and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari introduced three interacting and interdependent ecological registers and called for an ethical-political approach that brings them together: environmental, social and mental ecology. The sub-sections of the lecture series (ecology, economy and aesthetics/ethics) reflect these three registers. Yet they also aim to show how site-specific contemporary art allows for investigation that weaves the three areas together as well as creates platforms for dialogue where these distinct perspectives (from both science and everyday practices) can meet.

13.9.2010   Introduction to the lecture series & Artist talk

Taru Elfving (artistic director of CAA)

Tea Mäkipää (artist, Weimar, Germany)

  

Ecology:

How has contemporary art responded to the increasing urgency of environmental concerns? Focus on the overlaps of activist and artistic practices, investigation and innovation, in both singular and collective human interactions with nature.

20.9.2010    CAA and site-specificity 

Taru Elfving (artistic director of CAA)

27.9.2010    Introduction to land and environmental art 

Hanna Johansson (art historian, Helsinki University

4.10.2010   Archipelago case study: sustainable fishing

In dialogue Katja Bonnevier (coordinator of the Turku Archipelago Biosphere Reserve) and Arja Lehtimäki (artist and architect, project on local food for CAA)

 

Economy:

Participatory art practices involve communities as well as take part in their production. Focus on social processes and alternative economies that art can initiate and support in close collaboration with different groups of participants and audiences.

11.10.2010  Artist talk

Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (artist, Helsinki)

18.10.2010  Introduction to community art practices

Lea Kantonen (artist and researcher, Academy of Fine Arts,    Helsinki)

1.11.2010    Archipelago case study: sustainable tourism

In dialogue Katriina Siivonen (docent, Futures Research Centre, Turku University) and Platforma 9.81 (architect collective, Croatian archipelago, project on sustainable tourism for CAA)

 

Aesthetics/Ethics:

A shift of emphasis from aesthetics to ethical concerns can be detected in contemporary art, especially in its new media, site-specific and socially engaged forms. Focus on the individual’s aesthetic and ethical choices in the artistic processes.

8.11.2010    Artist talk

Jan-Erik Andersson (artist, Turku)

15.11.2010  Introduction to aesthetics/ethics of artistic research

Antony Fredriksson (researcher, Åbo Akademi, Turku)

22.11.2010  Conclusion: ethics of encounter / art & audience

Taru Elfving (see Introduction)