This year's KuvA Research Days lead us to ponder the preconditions and urgent questions of the human experience. How does artistic thinking meet the dead end of fossil capitalism? What kinds of actor networks should artistic research position itself in? What is the shape of arts discourse if the focus is shifted away from humans? What role do we give to the work and its materiality in experiencing art? Can experimentality offer tools for dealing with extreme phenomena and for building a sustainable future?
The Academy of Fine Arts Research Days are now organized for the fifth time – this year’s dates are 9–11 December 2019 and the venue, as before, is the
Exhibition Laboratory gallery (Merimiehenkatu 36, Helsinki).
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO STREET WORK THE ENTRANCE TO THE GALLERY MIGHT BE FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BLOCK: PURSIMIEHENKATU 29!
The publication I Experience as I Experiment – I Experiment as I Experience (2019) brings together thoughts on the origin of an artwork and on the need for making it. The book is available as a open access publication in the Uniarts Helsinki HELDA depository.
Photo: Denise Ziegler, Bridge I, 2019. Temporary work next to the construction site of the new Academy of Fine Arts Campus building.
Information regarding Denise Zieglers call in the spring of 2019:
Call for artworks & papers for an exhibition and Research Days related program at the KuvA Research Days in December 2019. Deadline 10.3.2019.
