Welcome to Oblivia’s seminar Performing Popular Culture – Between Art and Entertainment at Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland 2-4.12 The seminar addresses a critical look at entertainment, popular culture and art today. In a time where the boundaries between art and culture is blurred and where art is enthusiastically considered an instrument both for social and […]
Order of Nature or Matrix of Man? An international symposium at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Friday, October 15th, 2010 Auditorium, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki http://www.kuva.fi/portal/ Organized by Markus Rissanen Images and visualizations are essential not only for contemporary art but also for modern science. In spite of amazing […]
Call for Papers The symposium Between Light and Darkness will take place December 9th and 10th 2010 at the Ateneum Art Museum – Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The focus of the symposium is on religion, mysticism, and subjectivity in Symbolist art and theory, and on the fin-de-siécle relationship between art and science, considering […]
SOCIABILITY AND HUMAN NATURE: An International Symposium 12–14 August, 2010 Helsinki Organized by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), the Finnish Academy Centre of Excellence in Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics and the Department of World Cultures. Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, lecture room, Fabianinkatu 24, 1st floor THURSDAY 12, August 9.30 Welcome, Sami […]
The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2010: ”Culture, Globalization, and International Relations over the next Two Decades” (Berlin, May 23rd – 30th, 2010) Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, I am writing to you to announce the details of the next International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2010. The ICD’s […]
Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki on Thursday 6.5.2010 Coordinators: Elina Saloranta and Kari Yli-Annala Place: Department of Postgraduate Studies (room U113) 10.15 Introduction by Elina Saloranta and Kari Yli-Annala 10.30 – 11.45 Petri Kuljuntausta: On Sound and Its Dimensions in Visual Context 11.45 – 13.15 Lunch break 13.15 – 14.30 Jaana Kokko and Samy Kramer: Politics of […]
Sarah Walters` Wednesday Lecture 21.4. cancelled New date is 28.4. at 4pm Auditorio, Kuvataideakatemia, Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki Sarah Walters kertoo projektistaan Tracing the borders – jossa 35 uransa alussa olevaa taiteilijaa Euroopan eri kaupungeista kaupungeista on tuottanut internetin kautta tekstijulkaisun joka käsittele taiteijakoulutusta, taiteellisen työskentelyn ehtoja ja olosuhteita. Tracing the borders: A collective reaction […]
”April is the cruellest month / lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Menory and desire…” writes poet T.S. Eliot. The savage AAVE moving image festival by the cultural association KAiKU and the Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts will grab the winter-covered roots like a spring rain. ……………….. Audiovisuaalisen taiteen festivaali AAVE – Alternative […]
European Artistic Research Network (EARN) presents Tables of Thought 28 – 29 April 2010 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki Tables of Thought, Helsinki 28-29/4/10, is an exhibition and symposium organised by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and the European Artistic Research Network (EARN). The exhibition takes place in the gallery of […]
28.3.2010 Kevin Kennedy Transidency: “It started when…” at 100° Festival, Sophiensäle, Berlin Two men sit in the Kitchen of Sophiensäle and talk. At first glance, nothing appears unusual about the scene, however when one carefully listens, it emerges that neither man can finish his sentences. Instead, one breaks into giggles or trails off in silence, […]
Dear friend of Arkadia, There is a special meeting at the bookshop Wednesday 17.3 at 6pm! Are you a poet in the broadest sense of the word? Are you interested in further refining and experimenting with how you write, present, and perform your work? Are you looking to establish yourself as a poet? Then would […]
10.2.2010 Carl-Dag Lige St.Tony (Taavi Eelmaa) Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu has recently finished his third feature film “Püha Tõnu kiusamine” (“The Temptation of St. Tony”, Estonia-Sweden-Finland, Homeless Bob Productions, 2009). The black-and-white film had its premiere in October 2009 and has received controversial reception during the last months. As for the script, Õunpuu received the […]