Johanna Hästö

In November and December Johanna Hästö (Swe) was our guest artist.

Together with a group of students we made a short workshop around the topic of geologic uplift - which locally is rather fast. Fast in this case means appr. 9 mm per year.

The geologic uplift is naturally most obvious along the coast. So we went there to meet with it and experience it during a few hours. What kind of thoughts does it awaken? We started off being completely silent in order to get in touch with the surroundings (and the uplift) rather than each other.

Back in the studio we analysed our experiences and prepared (and did) a short presentation/performance based on thoughts and spontaneous conclusions. 

Time wise the workshop was rather limited, but sometimes that's exactly right on.

Risk Rusk Situation #1

During the Rusk Festival 20-25.11 guest artist Guillermo Galindo (Mexico/USA) did a workshop together with students and local artists. The workshop resulted in a performance - RISK RUSK SITUATION #1 - 25 November. These images are taken during planning and preparing.

Mikki Boxström and Emma Wikberg are testing various sound options of the main "instrument" - a metal fence.

Michele Uccheddu also checks sound possibilities.

Carina Ahlskog and Moa Cederberg.

Annika Mylläri, Christoffer Sundqvist (one of the festivals artistic leaders) and Guillermo Galindo.

Guillermo Galindo.

Sign sound - later to be removed from the performance.

Rehearsal Stage - Poems from Ostrobothnia

This Weekend - in Helsinki - at Esplanadparken - in a Container.

The Fine Arts eduction of Novia participates in The Pop-Up Österbotten event in Helsinki. This is done through cooperation with AiR-Jakobstad and current guest artists Susanne Schär & Peter Spillmann.

In fact, the whole concept was handed over to Susanne and Peter.

During the last months, they have worked with the container project and the result is now to be seen in Helsinki between Thursday 11.6 and Saturday 13.6.

A number of Fine Arts Students, as well as some teachers (see credits below), joined the project.

Se the container in Helsinki and see the film here (link).

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Rehearsal Stage

Poems from Ostrobotnia

with

Maja Andersson . Nicoline Aspvik . Robert Back . Albert Braun . Johan  

Sandås . Marja Seppälä . Emilia Siilasvuo . John Sjöberg . Susanne  

Schär & Peter Spillmann

Concept

Susanne Schär & Peter Spillmann

Cesare Pietroiusti - Galleri Gro until 24.1.2015

Cesare Pietroiusti "An expanded concept of drawing"

Galleri GRO 21.11.2014 - 24.1.2015

Galleri Gro / Campus Allegro - Jakobstad / Pietarsaari

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"An expanded concept of drawing" in process

In Galleri Gro Cesare has worked with a group of students from Fine Art Department/ Novia: Emilia Kannosto, John Sjöberg, Valter Kuni, Anna Holmlund, Niclas Kangas, Eleonora Hagström, Tanja Fagerholm, Nicoline Aspvik, Mikaela Boxström, Michel Ruths, Marja Seppälä, Benjamin Forsell, Kristiina Hallantie. The concept of the workshop "An expanded concept of drawing" is to explore and experiment, through a group work, different options and possibilities for conceiving, producing and distributing drawings: repetitive patterns, preterintentional or random ways of crating images, projective interpretations of shapes, playing with the title and/or the signature and/or the caption of the drawing, imagining alternative ways of distribution and drawings made for senses other than visual, inventing specific obstructions or variations on given themes, playing with the invisible, using words or texts as elements, giving value to mistakes etc.

The first part of the workshop is dedicated to the exploration of these ideas and sharing information on relevant references.  The further discussion will bring us to new possibilities, and after that we will start producing big number of drawings. The drawings, starting from the day of the opening, will be distributed to the public according to modalities that will be decided during the workshop. The opening itself, on the other end, rather than just a moment of exhibition will be a sort of continuation of the workshop that can be joined by interested members of the public.

Thorn live 29.4. 11 AM

Our current Guest Artist rock project Thorn will do a live show at the Schauman Hall in Campus Allegro, Jakobstad.

Mote about the show and the band at:
http://hannahharkeskommer.blogspot.fi/

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

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

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.

http://studio.c3.hu/en/

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.