Artist Talk - Patrik Qvist

Wednesday 28.1 at 15:30 PM

Artist Talk by Patrik Qvist (-68), architect studies at City College of New York and Kungliga Tekniska högskolan in Stockholm (MA)

Patrik is currently the guest artist at Platform in Vasa. His work is technically varied and consists - among other things - of construction, installations and painting.

Campus Allegro, Lecture room 138 (next to the entrance at Runebergsgatan 8).

Welcome!

"Sway- the scattered forest of ancient trees: About a year go I started on a new project about trees that have been around for several thousand years. I had come to a point in my work with environmental issues where I wanted to engage in something positive and less gloomy than reports on climate change and found that really old trees could provide an interesting starting point for a discussion on resilience, sustainability and environment. On Wednesday, I will show some of this work, the bulk of which still is in progress; and also talk a little about alternate models of financing an art project and the artist as a tourist."

http://www.patrikqvist.com/

http://www.secondfloormarfa.com/qvist.html

Following images from "Shacks".

Guest Artist - Jane Fawcett - Artist Talk

On thursday 22.1 at 15:30 PM, we have our first Artist Talk of the year when current Residency Artist Jane Fawcett (UK) presents her work.

Campus Allegro, Lecture room 138 (next to the entrance at Runebergsgatan 8).

Welcome!

Anna Łuczak & Sabrina Chou - Artist Talk

Anna Maria Łuczak & Sabrina Chou presents their work on Thursday 4.12. at 15 PM.

The Talk starts at the Museum of Jakobstad (Storgatan 2) and continues in the Lecture room at YH Novia appr. 16 PM (Campus Allegro / lecture room 138 / next to the entrance at Runebergsgatan).

From "Cry Me a River" by Anna Łuczak

From "Microseismograph" by Sabrina Chou.

NON GRATA - Artist Talk

NON GRATA - Artist Talk Wednesday 16.1 at 15.30 PM
Lecture room at 4th floor (Allegro C B2 464 / Centria)

- Academia Non Grata professor Anonymous Boh & Devil Girl visits Novia with a presentation about performance group NON GRATA: ART OF THE INVISIBLES

NON GRATA - "ART OF THE INVISIBLES"

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical - it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the groupmembers. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn't work.

http://www.nongrata.ee/

http://www.performance.ee/
http://www.performance.ee/taje/ 

Intervjuer:

http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/15128441/al-paldrok-of-non-grata-interview

http://lonestarexplosion.org/2012/01/21/non-grata/

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.

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):

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.

Webpage: http://www.klaseriksson.org/

(Image stolen from his website)

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.

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."

http://www.holmstromart.co.uk/

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:

http://www.girilal.com/