Participants
- Published on Friday, 06 June 2014 08:44
David Muñoz Alcántara
Aalto University
David Muoz (MX, 1979). Visual artist, architect and designer based in Helsinki and Mexico City. Graduated from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of Aalto University in Finland (2012), and from the National University of México, UNAM (2003). He is the founder of the artistic research platform NAES, Nomad Agency-Archive of Emergent Studies. His artwork takes the form of critical and punctual interventions, playing with different levels of transparencies by confronting layers of truths, myths and realities; his research encounters an exploration on the modes that the social memory crystallizes into material facts, as common imaginary sets constituted by a historical memory in confrontation with social and political forms of identification, mediation and prevention. Muoz' has shown his work in Estonia, Finland, Korea, Mexico, Paraguay, and USA.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: NAES/ Nomad Agency-Archive of Emergent Studies project focus on stressing radical and critical cultural content by actualizing contemporary and trans-historic strategies of artistic practice (agency-archive) merged with complex and non-linear theoretical synthesis. The methodological process complement the contemporary pedagogical turn towards multi-layered connective forms of knowledge conception, assimilation, and distribution. Understood as a research-based cultural practice, the aim is to facilitate a nomad platform for propitiating cross-disciplinary emergent art strategies: creative transversality, resilience, and strategies of dissent. The outcome of NAES practice-led artistic research aims to function as a reflective organ for cultural (self)critique and as an archive of social dissident knowledge. NAES focus areas are articulated through an exploration of ‛transparency’ and ‛governance’ discourses as subjects and conceptual connections, bridging art with environmental social sciences.
Jon Irigoyen
Aalto University
Jon Irigoyen is an independent curator, artist, organizer and cultural agitator born in Bilbao, Spain, and currently based in Helsinki. He was a founding member of the experimental contemporary dance collective Liikë in Barcelona. He has been on the Board of Helsinki’s Pixelache Festival Since 2009 http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/
Jon Irigoyen growed up in the dirty, punk, post-industrial city of Bilbao. In the last 14 years has lived in different European cities: Madrid, Bristol, Barcelona, being currently based between Helsinki and Barcelona. His research interests and projects span the intersecting relationships between artist and spectator; the interaction between public and urban space; the perception of reality; as well as concepts such as autonomy, resistance and memory. Irigoyen has devised and implemented projects, exhibitions and workshops in Finland, Spain, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Colombia, Russia, Berlin, Peru and elsewhere. Nowdays he holds his Phd in Art at Aalto University with the supervision of Finnish philosopher Juha Varto.
Tiina Nevanperä
Aalto University
My name is Tiina Nevanperä and I am currently completing my doctorate at the Aalto-university, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. My art-based research addresses the issue of incompleteness. The completeness of artwork is always already lost at the very moment when one thinks one recognizes it. Incompleteness does not name an attained state but an active situation, an experience that I consider as one of the most constitutive experiences of my art making. As I understand it, incompleteness, which results in creativeness becomes identified with a conception of sensibility. Venturing into the notion of sensibility I explore incompleteness from the aspects of materiality, emotion and experience.
Pablo Mollenhauer
Westminster University
My name is Pablo Mollenhauer and I am an artist filmmaker based in London. I am currently completing a PhD at the University of Westminster. My practice-based research explores real-time screen-based interactivity as a relational space. The study deals theoretically with the communal experience of interactive structures by focusing on the audience’s exploration of “interactive mechanisms” and the use of “tactics” as creative acts of resistance, change and appropriation of the artwork’s strategies to produce a space of communion and social awareness. The project takes the specific case of the multi-cultural landscape of southern Chile and its elusive persistence into the postcolonial present and attempts to construct a metaphorical interactive structure out of it within the projection space.
Paula Gortazar
Westminster University
Paula Gortázar is artist-photographer and doctoral researcher currently completing a PhD at the University of Westminster in London, where she explores the evolution of nonconformist photography in post-communist Eastern Europe. Moving between the conceptual and the documentary, her photographic practice explores different aspects of politics and capitalism. Alongside her artistic and research practice, she has worked as a visiting lecturer for different Universities in the UK and Spain and often participates as a guest speaker at a variety of photography events and seminars.
Nina Mangalanayagam
Westminster University
Nina Mangalanayagam is a visual artist working with still and moving image. She has a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art and is currently doing a PhD by practice at University of Westminster. Her research contributes to a re-reading of hybridity in photographic art, where the Hybrid is involved in a complicated struggle between its histories as both coloniser and colonised. This originates from a frustration of not finding artworks resonating with her own personal experience of having conflicting narratives, being a mix between a white and a black parent. Her practice attempts to make visual work on this experience, without falling into a metalanguage of hybridity.
Nina has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, which in the last year has included shows at the Colombo Biennale, Sri Lanka, and at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
www.ninamanga.com
Jūratė Landsbergytė-Becher
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Commenced Studentship in December 2010
Research title: The Archetype of Self and its Expression in the New Lithuanian Organ Music
My research is focused of the phenomenon of archetype in music, particular of archetype of Self. This is going from philosophical works by C.G. Jung, his scientist response of ancient orient culture and psychology of the depths. Archetype belongs to several paradigms and music as well, it reaches in to archaic, myth, philosophy and religion. Drama of Self includes the processes of architecture, sculpture, pyramids and temples, going from idea of light as sacredness. It works in new organ music by Baltic composers as so called resurrection dramaturgy. The process has own sound-graphical structure and is going beyond music spheres. My artistic practice is to perform this organ music of self, particularly using the visual media.
Akvilė Anglickaitė
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Commenced studentship in October 2012
Research title: Uncertainty in Contemporary Culture. Phenomenon of Photography
My research is focused on exploration of the phenomenon of uncertainty. As this term (or the notion) belongs to several paradigms - philosophy, sociology, art, etc. - I’m interested in connecting them through photography and its discourse. This connection should expose the photography’s influence to the imagination of the society, or on more granular level - self-perception of the individual. My artistic practice covers photography and moving image media.
Darius Žiūra
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Commenced studentship in October 2012
Research title: Existential Art Practice
In my work I am exploring relations between personal experience and artistic expression. This can be seen as a territory of borderlands between reality and representation, between art and life, containing gaps, shifts and errors, occurring while trying to convert individual experience into language of visual art and text.
Žygimantas Augustinas
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Commenced studentship in October 2013
Research title: Picture Demand: Portrait / Image / the Real
My current research is focused on self-portraiture as ethical tool in representation of other people. Human society has a demand of pictures of historically important persons, some of whom did not leave any reliable pictures of themselves. How can one find the appearance of them being truly honest? I investigate the anthropological methods of face reconstruction and the impact of "human factor" on any created and perceived human image. Can "true subjectivity" be more trustworthy than "dubious objectivity"?
Eglė Ulčickaitė
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Commenced studentship in October 2013
Research title: Parallel Encyclopedia: the Multiplicity of Reality in Culture of Memory and Contemporary Art
My current research is focused on developing the concept of perception of multiple realities simultaneously that is to say perceiving the present in the background of the past(s). I am also researching the field of everyday life or, in other words, commonplaces in order to develop a critical understanding of the field so as to analyze artistic practices that transform images we see everyday by cutting them out of the original context. My practice mainly includes drawing and painting as well as writing and photography.
Alanna Lynch
Valand Academy, Gothenburg University
Alanna Lynch is an artist from Montreal, Canada currently studying at Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden. With a background in fibres and material practice as well as and studies in psychology and information sciences, her current research interests lie in the area of performance. Specifically she is examining the effects of privileging the body as a source of knowledge, investigating gut feelings, provoking visceral responses by manipulating material qualities and the politics around the sense of smell.
Kanchan Burathoki
Valand Academy, Gothenburg University
Kanchan Burathoki (1985) is a Nepali visual artist pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. She completed her BA degree from Mount Holyoke College, USA in 2009. She previously worked as a journalist for Republica National English Daily in Nepal, where she wrote and coordinated the content of the Arts section of the newspaper. Her artistic practice currently engages with her personal experiences and memories of being raised by a single mother in her hometown Kathmandu. Using sewing, text and narratives, she retraces and questions the stigma and frustrations she faced and continues to face in a patriarchal community.