Public lecture: Nora Sternfield “Some Thoughts About Learning Together. Strategies of Art Education as Critical Practices of Knowledge Production”

You are cordially invited to a public lecture by Nora Sternfeld, Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University on Tuesday, February 21 at 18.30 at The institute of Art History and Visual Culture (Suur-Kloostri 11, Tallinn)

“Some Thoughts About Learning Together. Strategies of Art Education as Critical Practices of Knowledge Production”

How can we learn something that doesn’t exist yet? On the one hand this sounds paradoxical. But isn’t it on the other hand exactly what radical education is all about? Learning as a political and emancipatory practice has always been understood as a process towards another possibility: as a way to understand the social relations in order to change them; to understand them as they might only be understandable in another world. And maybe by doing so this one might change… As this process of self-transformation is a collective practice we can only learn it together. Following this thoughts the lecture will look at some examples of trafo.K – an office for art, education and critical knowledge production based in Vienna. We will discuss strategies for in-between spaces and contact zones that lay the ground for learning together.

Nora Sternfeld is Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University in Helsinki and co-director of /ecm — Master Program in Exhibition Theory and Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is co-founder of trafo. K, office for art education and critical knowledge production and part of freethought, platform for research, education, and production based in London. In this context she is was one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly 2016.

In cooperation with CuMMA – Studies in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art at Aalto University (https://cummastudies.wordpress.com).

Exhibition of glass students and tutors from three Baltic Art Academies – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ”SAKAUSĒJOT ROBEŽAS / MELTING LIMITS“ and conference of Baltic Glass Artists and Art Historians GLASS ART IN BALTIC CONTEXT: PAST, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS is held in Riga, the main exhibition hall of the Art Academy of Latvia. Organized by the Department of Glass Art of the Art Academy of Latvia, the exhibition will be on view from February 2 to 25, 2017.
The conference, held on February 3, informed the audience about the most current topics in the glass art field in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

What strings architecture, economy, robotics & modernity together? Open Lecture by Jelle Feringa

On February 16th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the Faculty of Architecture will be happy to present Dutch architect Jelle Feringa at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). For the last few years, Feringa has been working on projects that try to harness the full potential of robots in architecture, building up Danish architectural robotics company Odico. In Tallinn, Feringa will talk about the changes that robotics are bringing to architecture and to the cities around us. In the future, what will the role of the architect be? Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

In addition to the open lecture, Feringa will give a small workshop in Tallinn on the following day, focussing on introducing students to the new robot of the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department and testing its capabilities. “This is one of the most important issues of contemporary architecture: how to transfer digital information into physical material without compromising the geometry and spatial structure and yet with obtainable financial and time resources. Using robots is one of the ways to make sure geometrically intricate spaces and shapes can be transferred from digital world into our daily material experiences,” explains Dean of Faculty of Architecture Toomas Tammis.

Jelle is co-founder and CTO at Odico formwork robotics the first factory to specialize in architectural robotics. He is co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research The work of the office is widely exhibited, exhibitions include the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Archilab, Orléans, Barbican Gallery, London Design, Miami/Basel and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Jelle is a PhD candidate at the Hyperbody research group, TU Delft. His efforts in architectural robotics, both industrial and experimental are currently on display at the Zaha Hadid gallery in London, as part of the Meta Utopia exposition.

More about Odico: http://www.odico.dk/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
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This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Johanna.
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This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Celios.
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Sofia Hallik “Born-Digitals”
26.01.-14.02.2017

HOP gallery
Tallinn
Hobusepea 2

You are kindly invited to Sofia Hallik’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” in HOP gallery.

Sofia Hallik (1991) is a jewellery artist and PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Arts (since 2015). In her doctoral thesis “Theomorphic Jewellery Essence by Means of Virtuality and Autonomy” (supervisors prof. Kadri Mälk and Dr. Jaak Tomberg) Sofia focuses on a search of divine form through innovative materials and technologies. What interests her the most is the way суberspace and digital technology influence jewellery.

Sofia’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” deals with the influence of cyberspace and the use of digital technology in the manipulation of work of art. There is a dematerialization and virtualization of an artwork in general happening in the aftermath of the Digital Revolution, which affects among other things, an art form that is highly physical form of art, namely jewellery. The aim of Sofia’s work is represented in the shameless and conscious adaptation of the conflicting concepts of handwork and machine work. Exactly at the junction of these two concepts there arises something truly attractive that is actually a taste of our reality.

In her new series of works, Sofia creates a dreamlike installation in both real and virtual rooms. Represented jewellery in particular serves as Sofia’s radical approach, allowing the artist to express the idea of Perfection of Virtual.

Sofia has graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with a Master’s degree with cum laude in 2015. Sofia has had three solo exhibitions, the last one took place at HOP gallery in summer 2015; In 2015 Sofia was awarded the Foundation Noor Ehe / Young Estonian Jewellery grant. Her work has been exhibited at international exhibitions, the latter and the most important are “European Prize for Applied Arts 2015” in Belgium, Mons; “Marzee International Graduate Show 2015” in the Netherlands; “ESTONISHING!” exhibition at Thomas Cohn gallery as a part of Munich Jewellery Week 2016 and in Brazil, São Paulo.

We would like to thank: Kadri Mälk, Jaak Tomberg, Maria Valdma, Raiko Suits, Viktorija Domarkaite, Andres Hallik, Margarita Teeääre, EAA Jewellery and Blacksmithing department.

The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

HOP gallery exhibitions are supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

This Thursday, February 2nd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Martin Tamke at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Tamke is Associate Professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. He is pursuing a design-led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialization. 

In addition to giving a lecture, Tamke visits Tallinn to participate in the jury of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB installation programme, which is about to select the winner of the 2017 competition. Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Tamke joined the newly founded research centre CITA in 2006 and shaped its design based research practice. Projects on new design and fabrication for wood and fibre based materials led to a series of research projects and digitally fabricated demonstrators that explore an architectural practice engaged with bespoke materials and behaviour. He initiates and conducts research projects in the emerging field of digital production in building industry and architectural computation. The research connects academic and industrial partners from architecture and engineering, computer and material science and the crafts. Currently he is involved in the Danish funded 4 year Complex Modelling research project and the adapt-r and InnoChain PhD research networks.

CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA investigates how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice.

CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. Using design and practice based research methods, CITA works through the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes. CITA is highly collaborative with both industry and practice creating new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

More about CITA: https://kadk.dk/en/CITA

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department.
Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
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“In a world full of conflicts and jolts, in which humanism is being seriously jeopardized, art is the most precious part of the human being. It is the ideal place for reflection, individual expression, freedom and fundamental questions. It is a ‘yes’ to life, although sometimes a ‘but’ lies behind. More than ever, the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are crucial in the framework of contemporary debates.
Viva Arte Viva is also an exclamation, an expression of the passion for art and for the state of the artist. Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists and for the artists. It deals with the forms they propose, the questions they pose, the practices they develop and the forms of life they choose.
The Exhibition also aims to be an experience, representing an extroversion movement towards the other, towards a common place and towards the most indefinable dimensions, opening the pathways to a neo-humanism.”
Christine Macel,
Curator of 57th Venice Biennale
We welcome you to a group exhibition of masters degree first year painting students of Estonian Academy of Arts. Exhibition consists of two different workshops that took place during the semester.
The title Viva Arte Viva is a reference to Venice biennale of the following year. Every artist took the phrase out of context and found an individual meaning to it.

Participating artists: Leelo-Mai Aunbaum, Tilly Davies, Nieves Felipo, Kelli Gedvil, Martyna Kosiarz, Kristen Rästas, Heidy Tiits, Inga Tsernova, Alo Valge and Katrin Valgemäe.

Tutors: Jaan Toomik and Vladimir Dubossarsky.

Opening on the 21st of December at 6pm in ARS project room (Pärnu mnt 154). Entry through the court.
Performance schedule:
18:00 Tilly Davies (“Withdraw”)
19:00 Alo Valge and guest artist Fideelia-Signe Roots (“VANN. BATHTUB. 浴缸”)
21:30 Inga Tsernova and Tilly Davies (“Painting Project 1”)
Exhibition remains open until 30th of December at 12-18.
Exhibition is closed on 24th and 25th of December.

Supported by Estonian Artists’ Association.

Kaarel Kurismaa, prof Raul Keller, Mari-Liis Rebane and Karl Saks TIMER

Art Hall Gallery
16 December 2016 – 15 January 2017

You are invited to the exhibition opening on Thursday, 15 December at 6 p.m!

At this exhibition, there are quite a few timers that tick, hum, sing or otherwise sound the time, along with four artists of various ages that measure different temporal and spatial experiences. Not that any of them are demented by youth, or infirmed by age but none of them plays their role in society in a dignified or safe way, or by dismissing challenges.

It could be said that the precondition for the existence of all four is a maximum state of openness, self-consciously keeping themselves in the developmental stage of a student rather than a professional artist. The intensity of their feelers, the purity of emotion and thought are much greater values for them than certified knowledge. In summary the four of them, despite their age differences, have achieved quite a bit: word, sound, film, dance, installation and fine art. And they have considered and held many occupations, such as caregiver, volunteer, producer, designer, instructor and musician. This all despite the belief “… that art as we know it, is over, finished. … But why worry if you can continue and go on from here. Simply take a step out into the unknown.”… (Andres Lõo, Fantoomplatvorm. Paranoia Publishing Ltd pp 35).

Raul Keller (1973) focuses primarily on site-specific sound installations, sound performance, musical improvisation, and radiophonic experiments (Andreas Trossek). He passionately indicates the limitations of physical space compared to acoustical space (Ragne Nukk) and seems somehow large and benevolent when moving toward the light making and world-creating sound, while actually hiding in the shadows.

Mari-Liis Rebane (1988) is adept at many means of self-expression, she strives to transcend genre, style and medium, by creating post-internet art counterparts to sound. Using the third person, she says the following about her video-sound installation, which is based on the rhythm of fingering prayer beads: “The author uses the motif of counting beads as a means of concentration based initially on religious cognition, which creates a hypnotic space around itself and plays with time mythology.” She seems to be somewhat complicated; she exudes restlessness and talent.

Karl Saks (1984) is an artist who does not draw a line between the crazy world and the gestures that precisely define it. He is one of the performers on the contemporary dance stage that has the most interesting bodily expression, although he himself says that “movement doesn’t engender anything in me — no good feelings at any emotional level. The only emotional bonus of movement is that it initiates thinking, and one’s thought activity and process change when one discovers oneself moving.” He is extremely sensitive; someone that accepts responsibility and resounds only as much as the situation requires.

Kaarel Kurismaa (1939) works with immobile and mobile, silent and vocal sculptural objects. He is rightly considered to be the pioneer of Estonian kinetic and sound art. In addition, he writes short stories with dislocated evolvement that excite reader´s fantasy.. His enjoyment of the quiet ticking of small machines, which somewhat shyly but persistently confirms to the world “I love you!”, unexpectedly radiate warmth and trust.

We thank: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Ministry of Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn Department of Culture, Veinisõber, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Hello Upan, Revo Koplus, Mari Kurismaa, Taavet Jansen, Madlen Hirtentreu.

Tallinn Art Hall gallery
16 December 2016 – 15 January 2017
Freedom Square 8
Wednesday–Sunday, 12pm–6pm, free admission
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Press release by:
Tamara Luuk
tamara@kunstihoone.ee