tisdag 11 december 2012

Fresh AiR 4.12

Fresh AiR #1 (program in previous post) went underway on Tuesday 4.12. The seminar focused mainly on Artist Residencies in general together with their profiles, problems, problem strategies, solutions and other basic issues connected to this field of art and cultural practice. The talks was rounded up at the end of the day with a very interesting panel discussion that touched several important questions. However a lot of the topics was, not unexpected, left open without specific answers but then again one day of debate is merely an opening when sometimes complex matters are on the table. 
Therefore the conference was also the first event in a planned continuous series of AiR-related seminars, talks and workshops. Fresh AiR conference #2 is preliminary planned to take place during the autumn 2013.

Sören Lillkung, Head of the Cultural department of Novia University of Applied Science (and Art), opens the Conference. 


Christoph Tannert during his presentation of Künstlerhaus Bethanien
KB is one of the oldest and more established Residency Organisations with a well developed programme. The difference between various residency organisations and their profiles was one of the main topics in this first Fresh AiR edition and also a cause for further discussions.



Alessandra Pomarico of SoundRes talks about their program, profile and way of interacting with the local community. All the talks opened up for either ideas, confirmed thoughts and topics to consider and discuss within the field of international art projects and residency programs.


Ulrika Ferm presents Platform (Vasa). Platform is in terms of location and size comparable to AiR-Jakobstad but the profile is a different one. 


At the end of the day some of the remaining questions and thoughts where discussed. The keynote speakers was joined by Sabina Westerholm of Pro Artibus and Albert Braun (Fine Arts, Novia) who moderated.



torsdag 29 november 2012

Residency Conference 4.12.2012




Welcome on Fresh Air Conference in Rotundan at Campus Allegro on 4.12.2012!
"Why Artist Residencies Matters"

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Program (click to enlarge):





fredag 23 november 2012

Guest Artist Exhibition - Galleri GRO, Jakobstad

Welcome to the opening Tuesday 4.12. 18:00 PM at Gallery GRO, Runebergsgatan 8, Campus Allegro, Jakobstad





fredag 16 november 2012

Klas Eriksson - Artist Talk


Swedish Artist Klas Eriksson Presents his work on Tuesday 20.11. 15.30PM
Lecture room at 4th floor (Allegro C B2 464 / Centria)

Statement:
Klas Eriksson is interested in control, power and limitations. He expresses himself through performance, video and sculpture.
Klas Eriksson’s point of departure is mass-culture, where, employing various strategies, he explores our notions of authenticity, power and artistic expression.
Klas Eriksson has always enjoyed doing his own thing, establishing a communicative immediacy, which is both visually and conceptually innovative.
His works often borrow their expressions from popular culture, subculture and various power structures.
Other sources of inspiration include: Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Vito Acconci, Judy Chicago,Friedrich Nietzsche, Francis Alÿs, Michel Foucault, Kristin Lucas, Mike Smith and Chantal Mouffe.


















(Image stolen from his website)


Todays tip - Nika Oblak & Primož Novak

KUD MREŽA/GALERIJA ALKATRAZ
Ljubljana, 16.11.2012

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak dobitnika nagrade CYNETART /
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak receive CYNETART Award 

Alkatraz Gallery is pleased to announce that Nika Oblak & Primož Novak received the 2012 CYNETART Award
by the Trans-Media-AkademieHellerau in Dresden, for their pneumatic video installation Sisyphus Actions, 

Sisyphus Actions is currently also nominated for the New Technological Art Award 2012 – NTAA 2012 by Liedts-Meesen Foundation, in the frame of Update_4 Biennial at the Zebrastraat in Ghent, Belgium, 

tisdag 6 november 2012

Upcoming: Seminar and exhibition

"Fresh AiR". 
December 4th and 5th.
A seminar about Artists in Residence in general, institutions, phenomena, profiles, ideas and so on. Specially invited keynote speakers.
Place: Lecture room "Rotunda" at Campus Allegro.

Guest artist exhibition.
Five former guest artists from AiR-Nykarleby shows their work at the Gallery GRO, Campus Allegro.
Opening December 4th.

More information about both events will be posted soon. So stay tuned.

tisdag 23 oktober 2012

Csaba Árpád Horváth - Artist Talk

Artist Talk by Csaba Árpád Horváth
At Gallery GRO, Campus Allegro, Runebergsgatan Thursday 1.11. at 15:00





















Free entrance.


ALL - Florian Tuercke

Florian Tuercke - Guest Artist in Nykarleby February 2011 - is currently the guest artist at Platform in Vasa. He's at the moment also working on ALL (Audio Linguistic Laboratory) which takes place at Kuntsi until 28.10.





















tisdag 9 oktober 2012

The first Jakobstad Residency...

We're happy to announce that the residency in Jakobstad and Campus Allegro now is in function - not only theoretically. 
Our first guest artist Csaba Árpád Horváth (Budapest, Hungary) has arrived and is currently installing himself.
His residency is a part of our collaboration with Studio of Young Artists Association in Budapest.

Csaba's main field of work goes towards sculptural medias often with the public space as context resulting in interactivity and sometimes performance related outcome.
He will also have a presentation of of his work here at Campus Allegro and we'll announce time and place as soon as those details ar decided - so more about his work by then.
Csaba will be working here until beginning of November. 







måndag 20 augusti 2012

Soon up and running again

Our residency and connected projects have had a break during the summer. 
During the last weeks we've been installing ourselves at the new Campus Allegro in Jakobstad and it'll be interesting to see the outcome of all the various educations and cultural venues under the same roof.
More later...

onsdag 4 april 2012

Nykarleby Art History No. 2

May 12th,13th 2009.

Together with a group of students from Fine Art, Photography, Film and Design educations (at Novia University of Applied Science) Artist Inga Liljeström created and performed the show "Sparkstötting" at Kulturhuset Scala in Nykarleby.

From the information folder:
Inga Liljeström,(singer/composer who is based in Australia and France) and a group of art students have collaborated to make a happening - a melding of art forms, experimenting with music, film, art, costume, text and dance.

It can be thought of as a cinematic journey exploring the emotional landscapes of a woman, representing the landscapes and isolation and empty spaces of Nykarleby and its surrounds, but the internal landscapes are rich and full, as are the raw emotion of her songs.
The setting at the old Scala theatre and the use of sounds from Nykarleby
everyday life will be used to enhance this feeling.

Together they are hoping to create a show that will allow the audience to be swept up in this little world they have created, while still allowing the
audience a lot of room for their own interpretation.


The show on May 13th was filmed, recorded and later also screened at Vasa City Art Gallery.



Following photos are from the general rehearsal. © Robert Back

Inga, Carolin Koss and Mikael Sten

Sawandi Groskind, Inga, Carolin.

Arne Braun, Sawandi, Inga, Carolin, Mikael, Matilda Enegren


Inga and Carolin.


Created and performed by:
Inga Liljeström. 
Courtney Hodgkin. Vocals, music, costume, performance
Carolin Koss. Vocals, music, costume, performance
Matilda Enegren. Piano, scenography, animation
Sawandi Groskind. Bass, keyboards
Mikael Sten. Accordion
Arne Braun. Guitar
Sara Braun. Coreography, dance
Oscar Hagen. Video projection
Elena Nestorova. Projection
Sandra Heim. Animation, program folder.
Maria Lindborg. Costume
Anders Djupsjöbacka. Light, scenography
Eira Enqvist. Scenography
Joakim Finnholm. Sound mixer
Gieljan Van Goethem. Video. Poster
Aurora Holm. Photo documentation
Julia Ajanko. Photo documentation
Film documentation / production:
Oscar Hagen. Editor
Johan Stolpe. Camera
Kim Viitanen. Camera



onsdag 21 mars 2012

Today's tip - Maja Rohwetter

Maja Rohwetter



Urbane Geometrie
UBR Galerie Ulrike Reinert. Salzburg
Knut Eckstein, Maja Rohwetter und Hein Spellmann
22.3.–5.5.2012


Links:

tisdag 20 mars 2012

Anneli Holmstrom - Artist Talk


Artist Talk by Anneli Holmstrom 
at Novia (Jakobstadsvägen 24, Nykarleby) Wednesday 21.2. 15:30

"Soundtrack to the lived and the Dying" Performance 
Huntly Hairst Live Art Festival 2009.

Anneli Holmström (Edinburgh) has since January worked within the AiR-Programme of Nykarleby.
During autumn she was at the residency at Stundars (Solf) where she started a project called The Retreat which is a series of paintings based on interviews on the same topic - and/or recreation. This project is continued here in Nykarleby.
Recently she has also worked with paintings connected to texts written by author Carita Nyström. This has been exhibited in Vasa and now in Korsnäs.

Anneli works mainly with painting, performance and sculpture. Often with projects that contains more than one of those specific techniques/"genres".

From her website:

"In a modern world brimming with objects made to fulfill a specific function, my research takes me to question how 'function' or 'purpose' might be applied when considering human subjects. What are we made for? How to live? How to love? How to find home? and so on. Through art making, I seek to ultimately create an archive of works that explore these aspects of the purpose seeking self.  

Just as there are countless ways to tell the same story, I like to experiment using different approaches of media, blending sculpture, film and performance into one art form. Through this process, I hope to compare the potentials and limitations of different art medias when documenting personal and collective history."


tisdag 13 mars 2012

Today's Tip - Hidde van Schie

Hidde van Schie

Everything must change. 2011
Mixed paint on canvas. 190 x 170 cm

Silent wars & broken chords & painting in the rain
Galerie 10, Utrecht
23.3 - 6.5. 2012

Links:

torsdag 8 mars 2012

Al Dente II - Secondi Piatti

We've had a break in updating this blog for a while due to various other things going on.

One of them is the following exhibition which I'll take the opportunity to advertise.

http://proartibus.fi/sve/utstallningar/kommande/#article-2370-12837-al-dente-ii-secondi-piatti

måndag 20 februari 2012

Preparing for the Post-Apocalyptic Times

Former Novia Fine Arts students Tuuli Toivola, Ninni Wager and Kika Wikman prepares for post-apocalyptic times at the Stúdió Galéria in Budapest.
Together they form the Artists Group Airbakers (more info below).

The Stúdió Galéria is the gallery space run by Studio of Young Artists Association in Budapest - which is also one of our partner organisations for artist exchanges.




From their - Airbakers' - Facebook page:


Airbakers is an artist group founded in 2010 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

The exhibition “Preparing for the Post-apocalyptic times” consists of videoworks,
sculptor and zine installed together as an abstract narrative.
The works are looking behind the surfaces of friendship and the essence of collaboration.

The first realized experiment was the conclusion of our conversations. That installation was coming from the idea of privatization, to take a tiny piece of land and changing it - by literally turning it upside down. The root layer of this object became the base of a float, with the crown of the trees transformed partly to roots, and at the same time: an underwater forest. This dream-like dadaist transport device was the starting point of the following collaborative drawing series, video works, and more ideas connected to it.
The exhibition is a result of a more than one year deconstruction of patterns and finding out possibilities outside of the given.

fredag 17 februari 2012

Girilal Baars - Artist Talk.


Artist Talk by Girilal Baars 
at Novia (Jakobstadsvägen 24, Nykarleby) Wednesday 22.2. 15:30


Photo by Jeanette Hägglund


Girilal Baars is a musician, singer and composer. He works mainly with contemporary experimetal music/composition/"sound-making" but also with traditional folk music from various cultures.
Equipment-wise he works with an array of instruments from traditional ones via objects to electronical alternatives.
An important ingredient in his work is also language and how different languages relate to each other.
Girilal is at the moment (January - February 2012) Guest Artist at the Platform residency in Vasa and we're very glad that we have the opportunity to have him in Nykarleby for this Artist Talk.

More info on his website:

torsdag 16 februari 2012

Demonstration for Nothing

Friday 17.3 it's time to join the Demonstration for Nothing.

More information on Archiv des nichts:
http://www.archiv-des-nichts.de/englisch/news.htm

onsdag 15 februari 2012

Nykarleby Art History No. 1

Audio Installation by Florian Tuercke in February 2011


More about the installation: http://www.urban-audio.org/nykarleby.html

Current Guest Artist

Anneli Holmström.


Anneli came to the Nykarleby Residency in January and will work here through out the spring.
One of her current projects is called The Retreat which was started at an earlier residency in Stundars, Solf. She is currently having an exhibition at the City Library in Vasa.

Anneli will have an upcoming open presentation - an Artist Talk - at Novia University of Applied Science in Nykarleby. Date and time is to be announced later on.





From the Archive. No. 1

Anyday apart from Thursday. 




An exhibition in Vasa Konsthall (City Art Gallery) April 2002 with: 

Victoria Goodman

Tony Stallard

Jürgen Winderl

Martijn van Berkum





Jürgen Winderl. Table Tennis






Tony Stallard. Angel.




Victoria Goodman.



Martijn van Berkum