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MYCKET collaboration

Posted on December 7, 2020April 27, 2021 by Reconfiguring Territories

Stockholm & Östergötland, founded in 2012 by Mariana Alves Silva, Dr.Katarina Bonnevier and Thérèse Kristiansson. The architecture, art and design practice MYCKET develops artistic research from intersectional perspectives such as anti-racist and queer-feminist theories. A practice informed by the theatrical, the carnivalesque and political activism. Together they rummage through the borderlands of the lives we live, and the environment that surrounds us. They recently inaugurated the participatory and permanent public space for dance and music Kepsen at Råslätt, Sweden (Public Art Agency Sweden, Mix Dancers Academy, Vätterhem, Jönköping municipality & Boverket, 2016-20). Recent work includes; Kämpaoke – the karaoke bar with songs that care, Stockholm Culture Festival, Public Art Agency Sweden 2019), The Grotto of Naiads, transformation of pedestrian tunnel, Haninge (2018), exhibition design Aiming for democratic architecture, Swedish Institute, Architects Sweden (2017-19), the artistic research project The Club Scene, with 13 acts of extensive theatrical performances, ArkDes, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2014-17).

www.mycket.org

Spring School 2021
→ Bесенняя школа 2021
→ Kevadkool 2021
→ Kevätkoulu 2021

(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2021
With Francisco Martínez and Andra Aaloe, Maria Muuk, and MYCKET (Mariana Alves Silva, Katarina Bonnevier and Thérèse Kristiansson)
May 31 – June 6, 2021

(Re)configuring Territories programme continues as a week-long Spring School on May 31 – June 6, 2021. The Spring School consists of three simultaneous workshops mentored by anthropologist Francisco Martínez and urbanist Andra Aaloe, graphic designer, baker and writer Maria Muuk, and architecture, art and design practice MYCKET.

(Re)configuring Territories Talks
→ Доклады на (Пере)осмыслении территорий
→ (Re)configuring Territories vestlusring
→ (Re)configuring Territories -keskustelut

Maria Muuk

Posted on December 7, 2020April 27, 2021 by Reconfiguring Territories

Maria Muuk is a graphic designer and writer based in Tallinn, Estonia, whose main research interest is food. By thinking and making through the lens of food, she explores its semiotic, cultural and affective meanings, as well as ways in which food can be used to facilitate change, find commonalities and digest problematics. Maria has graduated from the Graphic Design department at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA, Tallinn, 2013–2016) as well as the MA programme Critical Studies at the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam, 2017–2019). After moving back to Estonia and working as a pastry chef for half a year, she’s currently building up a multidisciplinary graphic design practice in Tallinn. She has teaching experience in self-initiated (GD Project Space, 2016–2018) as well as art-academic education (EKA, 2019–…), whereas her focus is prevalently on affect theory, writing, love&friendship and feminism, especially in the context of design understood as visual/textual/spatial communication. The dream that keeps her going is moving to the country side to found a communal, mostly self-sustainable farm.

www.mariamuuk.ee

Spring School 2021
→ Bесенняя школа 2021
→ Kevadkool 2021
→ Kevätkoulu 2021

Image for Maria Muuk's Reconfiguring Territories Spring School 2021 Workshop: Obshchenie. The entrance and menu of a culinary shop slash beer bar in Kreenholm, Narva, 2020 — The entrance and menu of a culinary shop slash beer bar in Kreenholm, Narva, 2020

Quotes from Yurchak’s book “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More”

(Re)configuring Territories Talks
→ Доклады на (Пере)осмыслении территорий
→ (Re)configuring Territories vestlusring
→ (Re)configuring Territories -keskustelut

Laura Kuusk

Posted on December 7, 2020May 8, 2022 by Reconfiguring Territories

Laura Kuusk lives and works in Tallinn. Her works (in video, photography and installation) are connected to recycling anthropological visual (found) materials. Her latest works address the identity construction and its’ links to visual intertextual materials. Her latest solo show “Dear algorithm, ” at Tallinn Art Hall gallery was dealing with the identity creation at the age of copy-paste culture, technology and climate change.

She has studied at Annecy Higher Art School (DSRA, 2014), Estonian Academy of Arts (MA in photography, 2008) and Tartu University (BA in semiotics and cultural theory, 2005). She has done exchange studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III University (2003). Kuusk works as an assistant professor in Estonian Academy of Arts since 2015. During the last two years she has been studying environmental technology at Tallinn University of Applied Sciences. In 2020-2021 she was a researcher at MOBERC30 “EUROREPAIR: Europeanisation through repair” research project at Ida-Virumaa by Francisco Martínez at Tallinn University.

At NART program and Reconfiguring Territories program I hope to be an agent of activation for the issue of natural and cultural territory changing through the consequences of war and climate change. The connecting element in my project will be water.

https://laurakuusk.com/

Josh Plough

Posted on December 7, 2020December 10, 2020 by Reconfiguring Territories

Josh Plough (UK/PL) is a writer, artist-editor and curator. His areas of intrigue include the sordid world of design, its curation and evaluation and the webs of folklore, identity and futures. He received his MA in Design Curating and Writing from the Design Academy Eindhoven; and cut his teeth at Onomatopee Projects where he worked for three years as an editor and city curator. The latter being a job title that allowed him to open up the artistic and design practice of the white cube and introduce it into city hall, district council meetings, local protest groups and archives.

Currently he is based in Warsaw where he has founded the cultural NGO Ziemniaki i (Potatoes and). The aim of which is to work out how we can embed design research and practice into local and governmental structures. As well as researching Slavic myths, folklores and traditions and placing them in the constellation of nationalism, the internet and creativity.

Josh will be part of the organizing team for (Re)configuring Territories Live Action Role-play in 2021.

varialambo

Posted on December 7, 2020October 12, 2022 by Reconfiguring Territories

As a duo varialambo (Varia Sjöström, visual artist, musician and performer Hatz Lambo, visual artist, poet and performer) we formed in Berlin in 2018. 2019 we moved to Helsinki and were invited to the Festival Today Is Our Tomorrow. 2020 we have been invited to curate and facilitate an 8 months long Performance LAB program at Museum of Impossible Forms Helsinki and the Festival NOTHING TO LOSE. Last August we unveiled The Chainsaw Man, an immersive performance made for an online livestream format and supported by the KONE home residency grant. In September 2020 we launched our art and poetry book The Itching Triangle at PUBLICS, Helsinki. 2021 we will exhibit our new work Narrating WAR / HABITAT 1 in collaboration with Ali Akbar Mehta, and open Partners in Crime I-X our solo exhibition at Myymälä2 Helsinki.

„We like the idea of social fantasy. We like the state of over exhaustion and lasting plays. The repetition of given narratives is one of the last dinosaurs on earth. It’s time to bury it with dignity but fast.“

varialambo’s CV here.

Residency 2022
→ Pезиденция 2022
→ Residentuur 2022
→ Residenssi 2022

The right to the night

How could a violent free world look like? Is a violent free society even possible? When does violence begin and what do we perceive as such And how can art contribute to a safer, more social environment? During our residency in Narva we want to focus on public space, control and women. Many indications point to the existence of a global system which, from the absence of suitable outdoor places for women for certain kind of practices to the narration of news, demands women, and single women in particular, to spends as little time as possible outside home or any closed and controlled place of professional activity. Perhaps more importantly, the use of public space and its apprenticeship, especially at night, remain different for men and for women. How to explain that contemporary space is so little investigated, even though it is perhaps one of the last bastions of a manifest inequality of use between men and women, to the extent of an even inequality of possibilities of use, of which both are active and passive producers?

News
→ Новости
→ Uudised
→ Uutiset

НА КОЗЕ НЕ ПОДЪЕДЕШЬ (YOU CAN’T GET THERE ON A GOAT)

The exhibition ‘НА КОЗЕ НЕ ПОДЪЕДЕШЬ (YOU CAN’T GET THERE ON A GOAT)’ exhibition debuts two site-specific spatial gallery interventions by recent NART Artists-in -Residents Andrea Stanislav (US) and varialambo (Varia Sjöström, Hatz Lambo) (FI/DE). The two solo projects link to transfigure NART’s gallery spaces through a physicality of visual poetics and theatre, informed by dreams, experiences, performances, and unexpected events which took place at NART on the Estonian-Russian border in the Summer of 2022. Both artists reflect upon the sight of Narva as a contextualised charged corridor or ‘Zona’, where language, exile, history, neighbourliness, rapprochement, diplomacy and cyclical memories shift into immersive environments of light, sound, sculpture and moving image.

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Welcome to Narva varialambo!

varialambo is currently at the Reconfiguring Territories research residency in Narva. At the beginning of their residency, we discussed Narva’s first impressions, getting to know new places and the plans they have for Narva.

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Ksenia Kaverina

Posted on December 7, 2020December 17, 2020 by Reconfiguring Territories

Ksenia Kaverina was born in 1988 in Saint Petersburg (Russia), and lives in Helsinki (Finland). Her background is in linguistics, French philology, curating, and management. She has worked as a curator with the Aalto University campus programs, collaborated with Design Museum Helsinki, and has been part of artistic and curatorial projects in Finland and internationally. Currently, she is doctoral candidate at the School of Art, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, where she previously completed Master’s studies in curating. Her areas of interest, that brought her to (Re)configuring Territories, include languages, cities, borderlines, and translation. She is joining the project as a curator and archivist, to support and make it public especially in the final stages.

Tommi Vasko

Posted on December 7, 2020April 27, 2021 by Reconfiguring Territories

Tommi Vasko is a Helsinki based graphic designer and -researcher who writes theoretical and fictional texts about design practises of the near future and about visual phenomena rising between emerging information technologies and ecological thinking. Tommi approaches his practice as an interdisciplinary collaborative process in which philosophical reflection and everyday maintenance labour relate to experimental ways of organizing design education, approaching technology as well as making images, videos and texts.

(Re)configuring Territories Talks
→ Доклады на (Пере)осмыслении территорий
→ (Re)configuring Territories vestlusring
→ (Re)configuring Territories -keskustelut

Ann Mirjam Vaikla

Posted on December 7, 2020March 25, 2022 by Reconfiguring Territories

Ann Mirjam Vaikla (b. 1990, Tallinn) was the director of Narva Art Residency (NART) 2017–2021. She is an alumni of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (Norway) and Novia University of Applied Sciences (Finland). Based in Tallinn and Narva, her practice lies in the intersection of performing and visual arts. She is currently a CEC ArtsLink International Fellow and enrolled at the long-term residency programme of Triangle Arts Association (NYC) and Grand Central Art Center (CA) wherein she is researching the role and potential of ‘social sculpture’ as an intertwinement of one’s’ artistic vision in dialogue with community engagement. In her research she is drawing inspiration from her experience of leading, since 2017, NART – working mostly on curatorial projects in the field of contemporary arts focused on collaborative and collective art practices that includes community involvement. She is one of the commissioned artists for the VII Artishok Biennial (Kai Art Center, Tallinn) wherein she is working on a generational story of growing up in the midst of Soviet relics as a response to a curatorial proposal “Copy”.

Kaisa Karvinen

Posted on December 7, 2020April 27, 2021 by Reconfiguring Territories

Kaisa Karvinen (b.1988, Joensuu) is a Helsinki-based architect and writer interested in the intersections of performativity, public space and collective unlearning. Kaisa’s practice consists of different forms of constructing and writing, usually in multidisciplinary groups.

Kaisa has worked in the field of architecture in different roles from theoretical research to city planning and carried out spatial design work in museum and theatre contexts. Over the last couple of years, her practice has been moving towards something more horizontal and collective, feminist and research-based, performative and speculative. In 2019, Kaisa co-edited the book Borrowing Positions – Role-playing design and architecture with Ott Kagovere and Tommi Vasko. Kaisa is currently working as a spatial designer, organizer of Trojan Horse events and curator of the (Re)configuring Territories research programme.

(Re)configuring Territories Talks
→ Доклады на (Пере)осмыслении территорий
→ (Re)configuring Territories vestlusring
→ (Re)configuring Territories -keskustelut