Archives: <span>Hankkeet</span>

Chromatic Noise: Mnemopolitics and Autochrome Witnesses

By hetamuurinen

Chromatic Noise: Mnemopolitics and Autochrome Witnesses is a practice-led research on the historicity and materiality of digital image production in an analogue production environment. From early 20th century archival photographs of the Middle East / Minor Asia / Mesopotamian region, AI-generated memory images are created and set into motion, to critically investigate whether those can represent lost or hidden histories and related memories.

Worldmaking with the Aesthetic Apparatus 

By hetamuurinen

The project creates experimental settings that grant the spectator access to the process of imaging. The research develops an artist-led, empiric approach to study the sweeping repercussions that visual technologies may have in orienting the human sensorium and in underpinning our worldview. 

Scenkonst med i lärande (SMIL)

By annaelinamatilainen

A development and research project exploring how the performing arts could be integrated as part of the learning environments of comprehensive schools and pre-primary education. The project is funded by the SKAPA fund of the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.

Gestural philosophy

By hetamuurinen

Luis Guerra’s project explores collective artistic practices as informal devices of intentionless learning, radical democracy, and institutional activism.

PIMDI: A pedagogy of imaginative dialogues

By hetamuurinen

The Erasmus+ strategic partnership developed a pedagogical approach and framework of “imaginative dialogues”. This pedagogy takes the (potential) tension between incompatible differences as a productive and engaging starting point in order to open up a dialogical ‘third space’ between them.

Fine art pedagogies

By hetamuurinen

Magnus Quaife’s project sets out to develop a deeper understanding of how and why artists teach in the ways they do, to share these approaches through various means, and to foster communities of practice.

Pondering with Pines

By hetamuurinen

How to develop ways of recognizing and engaging with the subjectivity of life forms such as trees, which we tend to consider as wholly ‘other’?

Music, War and Peace in Europe 1922−2022

By Johanna Rauhaniemi

War is one of the prominent themes of 20th century music. The project “Music, War and Peace in Europe 1922−2022” wants in the context of the invasion of Ukraine to recall the disastrous consequences of European totalitarianisms as instigators of armed conflicts, genocides such as the Holocaust, and to share with European audiences the idea … Continued

Planthology

By hetamuurinen

Through curating a diversity of disciplinary viewpoints, the goal of Planthology is to foster a broader ecological understanding of plant and human relationships.

Summer Academy for Artistic research (SAAR) 

By hetamuurinen

SAAR provides a supportive setting where artist-researchers from all fields collaborate, present their on-going artistic work, and research and receive feedback from experienced tutors and peers from leading academic art institutions.

Olfactory Cultural Studies

By hetamuurinen

The project organises exploratory workshops on how olfactory phenomena structure people’s everyday life and how they are conceptualised and made meaningful. The workshops are funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS).

Conservatory cultures

By karoliinapirkkanen

Introduction The project aims to investigate how conservatoire music education shapes belongings in terms of nation and gender, during times of growing nationalism and anti-gender movements, in Estonia, Finland and Hungary. Classical music has been understood as an artform displaying and constructing ideas about both nation and gender and is a cultural practice of symbolic … Continued

Fair Sculpture

By 30863

Fair Sculpture encourages and helps empower children and young people, with a focus on young people who have fewer opportunities to engage with different kinds of art and culture.