Seminarium I: Renos K. Papadopoulos, The Space of Home

EDITED ON 9 Oct: THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED;

The space of Home: intrapsychic, interpersonal and socio-political dimensions

The sense of home and belonging to a home is one of the most fundamental realities of human beings. What are the complexities that constitute the multifaceted phenomenon and image of home? How do these complexities affect people who have lost their intimate space involuntarily? How can we assist such people when they experience the painful effects of such involuntary dislocation? These are some of the questions that this seminar will address, in a maximum possible interactional exchange with the participants.

Based on Professor Papadopoulos’s own extensive work in the field of involuntary dislocation, which includes not only research and training but also clinical work and activism, this seminar aims to address the complexities, dilemmas and traps that are engendered whenever we deal with any themes related to the image of home in the context of phenomena of involuntary dislocation.

Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is Professor of Analytical Psychology, Director of the ‘Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees’, and member of the ‘Human Rights Centre’ and ‘Transitional Justice Network’, all at the University of Essex and with an honorary appointment at the Tavistock Clinic. He is a clinical psychologist, systemic family therapist and Jungian psychoanalyst, also involved in the training and supervision of these three specialists. As consultant to the United Nations and other organizations, he has been working with refugees, tortured persons and other survivors of political violence and disasters in many countries. Recently he was given Awards by the European Family Therapy Association for his ‘Outstanding contribution to the field of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice’ and by the University of Essex for the ‘Best International Impact Research Project’. He lectures and offers specialist trainings internationally and his writings have been published in 15 languages.

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Shahar Marcus(1971) is an Israeli based artist who primary works in the medium of performance and video art. He is an active artist for over a devade and has exhibited at various art institutions, both in Israel and around the world, including: Tate Modern, The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen Kunsthalle, Moscow Biennale, Poxan Biennale, Moscow Musuem of Modenr Art and other art venuse in Poland, Italy, Germany, Georgia, Japan, USA and Turkey.

http://shaharmarcus.com/

Avi Milgrom (1978) is an artist and a lecturer. His work often addresses the intersection of art and technology – either by the use of digitally processed images and videos, or by applying electrical and mechanical apparatuses to the artwork itself. His work has been exhibited in internationally established galleries all over the world.

http://www.avimilgrom.com/

Find room A200, and come explore the results of the chair design studio that our interior architecture and architecture students take during their first year at EKA.

These are the same chairs that we exhibited at the Helsinki Design Week a few weeks back, and the pop-up exhibition is going to be open only until Friday, so hurry!

Tutors: Ilkka Suppanen and Martin Relander

Join us for the opening of the Young Sculptor Award 2018 exhibition “Prediction and Preservation” on October 3 at 6 pm. This is the first show at the gallery’s new location in the Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7.

The exhibition focuses on the present, or maybe even different quests for the present. The present should be a place where the decisions about the past and the future are born. Therefore, the present itself is the most uncharted and unstable space-time. The future may seem like it has been before—a conventional, predictable and unchanging product of imagination and fiction. The real world is the place where unforeseen events are happening. It presents ethical problems that are more vexing than reminisces of the past or projections for the future. Welcome to the present moment, where the instruments are real space and active time units!

Artists who work with space and object fix their minds on the time dimension and the temporary; they ask how and what we perceive in our current space, and how it will be seen as it changes into the past. How the environment designs the future? How can we design ourselves for being present in the present? How values are created by things that happened or were perceived to happen in this space? Can the space become outdated or postponed?

The 2018 Young Sculptor Award show is the seventh in this series. The main goal of the show and its award is to highlight young sculptors and installation artists, support their creative production and open it to a wider public. Works are accepted to the show through open call for the sculpture and installation students, works have to be produced during the ongoing academic year. The grand prix and the second and third prize are awarded by an international jury. The awards are travels to important art events around the world.

Participating artists: Darja Krasnopevtseva, Izabella Neff, Johannes Luik, Katrin Enni, LAURi, Nele Tiidelepp, Olesja Semenkova, Richard Engel, Valetto Alexandre

Exhibition is organised by installation and sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tutors: Taavi Talve, Taavi Piibemann, Kirke Kangro, Art Allmägi. Technical assistance: Sander Haugas. Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio.

Exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Opening on Friday, September 28 at 6pm

Curators’ tour will take place on September 29 at 5pm (in English)

Curators: Laura Põld, Kati Saarits

Artists: Mona Aghababaee, Katja Beckman, Leesi Erm, Nadia Hebson, Anna Mari Liivrand, Eva Mustonen, Leo Rohlin, Kaisa Sööt ja Koit Randmäe, Mall Tomberg, Helle Videvik

Graphic design: Aadam Kaarma & Sandra Kosorotova

For the first time the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) will host an exhibition presenting works by classic Estonian applied artists in dialogue with material-sensitive and process-based works by a younger generation of artists. one-on-one. on skills brings together tradition-rooted applied art and the increasingly material-centred contemporary art practices. The core of the exhibition is comprised of accomplished works from four classic Estonian applied art figures – Leo Rohlin, Leesi Erm, Helle Videvik and Mall Tomberg. Mona Aghababaee (IR), Katja Beckman (SE), Nadia Hebson (GB), Anna Mari Liivrand (EE), Eva Mustonen (EE), Kaisa Sööt and Koit Randmäe (EE) help explore the skill-based creative methods that have changed, persisted or reappeared in time.

The exhibition reflects on topics such as the possibility of self-contained form in a contemporary art exhibition, craftsmanship in material-based technologies, and the differences in the self positioning of artists working in time-consuming handicraft techniques in the immediate past and contemporary art field. The exhibition brings up questions like how can we best evaluate the part of the work of artists working in manual media that is articulated as tacit knowledge – natural or intuited knowledge? How best can we convey knowledge about skill? What is skill made up of?

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, which will be presented on November 4.

Supporters and cooperation partners: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, British Council Estonia, Estonian Artists’ Association, Akzo Nobel Baltics AS, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design.

Curator: Marika Agu

Artists: Laura Põld, Dre Britton, Ingrid Allik

Graphic design: Aadam Kaarma & Sandra Kosorotova

Three artists – Ingrid Allik, Dre Britton and Laura Põld – display objects inspired by personal life and domestic spaces, calling on viewers to imagine what their biographies might be. The works presented at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) make reference to contemporary sensibilities and ways of living, appearing as traces, which help to reconstruct everyday activities and living environments.

When we google answers to questions like how to build a bonfire, which dog breed best suits your personality, what to eat for dinner or what causes a particular health condition, it seems that every problem has a solution – you just have to know how to ask the question. Coping in the broader cultural and social sense is inevitably everyone’s own free choice and responsibility and is also dictated by the resources found in one’s own immediate environment. The objects on display have been created especially for this exhibition. They attempt to be effective through their usefulness, alas at this they fail. By displaying them in a museum, they are the reference point of something virtual – potential, imaginary – for which reason they are anything but useful.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, which includes documentation by Alan Proosa, pseudo-biographies and graphs depicting the life-line of the participating artists, compiled by artist Camille Laurelli.
The catalogue is presented on November 4.

Supporters and cooperation partners: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Estonian Artists’ Association.

The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Jason Hilgefort, stepping on the stage of the large hall of the new EKA building on 4th of October at 6 pm to talk about the disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure.

Jason’s lecture is titled “Dispersed Infrastructures for New Collective Urban Constellations”. Cities began as a simple collection of individuals sharing common elements. They have slowly evolved to include megageopolitical networks. These systems have been manifested by large, far reaching governmental and corporate built forms. With the emergence of dispersed infrastructural realities (mobiles, drones, etc), we stand at a disruptive moment – where the assumed reliance of human habitat upon top down forms is in question. A new form of interdependent individuality is possible.

Jason studied urban planning and design at The University of Cincinnati and architecture at The University of British Columbia – Vancouver. His work experience ranges from New York (Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn), to Los Angeles (Behnisch Architekten) to Mumbai (Rahul Mehrotra). From 2000 to 2004 he worked with Sustainable Urbanist and innovator Peter Calthorpe. After joining Maxwan A+U in 2007, he was involved in the ongoing projects Moscow A101, Central District Rotterdam, and Barking Riverside in London. Also, Jason lead a series of Maxwan’s competition victories – in Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Hannover, Ostrava, Magdeburg, and Kaunas. During that time won Europan 11 in Vienna. Since then he formed Land+Civilization Compositions for investigating issues ranging from daily objects, to infrastructures, to cultural research. He is also a contributor to uncube magazine with writing on ‘architecture and beyond’.

Land+Civilization Compositions is a Randstad (Netherlands) and Istanbul (Turkey) based office that works and collaborates on issues related to built form, with a portfolio scope from research to design. According to LCC we are living at a time when the connections between the professions, which are engaged in the shaping of built form, are getting stronger and the differences amongst them are blurring. Glocal economic context, and emerging social and environmental issues are leading the way to a new set of priorities. A new generation of ‘urban thinkers’ is emerging and ‘process’ is becoming more prominent than the ‘product’.

The architecture and urban planning department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment. Jason Hilgefort’s lecture is part of the Future Architecture program which introduces and celebrates innovation, experimentation and the ideas of a generation that will design the architecture and build Europe’s cities in the years to come. See: http://futurearchitectureplatform.org.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Johan Tali
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