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Open architecture lecture: Jess Myers
14.03.2024
Open architecture lecture: Jess Myers
Architecture and Urban Design
The Open Lecture series of the EKA Faculty of Architecture will take place in the spring of 2024 under the general title Unlearning.
The lecture series aims to engage with values, imaginaries and systems of knowledge that shape the contemporary fields of architecture and urbanism. Unlearning is coordinated by Maroš Krivý, professor of Urban Studies.
According to Gayatri Spivak, for example, unlearning concerns not only what is said, but also what is not said as part of an ideological formation. There is now a broad push to transform design from a practice subservient to elite interests to a comprehensive, interdisciplinary practice capable of responding to a range of social and environmental urgencies. As part of this transformation, the four lectures engage with existing architectural imaginaries while proposing alternative ones.
Jess Myers will be the first to take the stage on March 14 in the EKA hall with the lecture Sound and the Built Environment: Unlearning the Visual Regime
In her lecture, Myers will propose sound studies as a critical framework for urban and architectural analysis. Myers challenges architecture’s exclusive relationship with visual communication and proposes instead a practice of “listening.” Myers will make the case for architects’ ears, for how they can be attuned to the soundscapes of the built environment and how a practice of “listening” might impact the dynamics of power in shared and personal space.
Jess Myers is an urbanist and assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University whose practice includes work as an editor, writer, podcaster, and curator. Her podcast Here There Be Dragons examines the impact of security narratives on urban planning through the eyes of city residents. She holds a BA in Architecture (Princeton University) and a Masters of City Planning (MIT). Her writing can be found in The Architect’s Newspaper, Log, l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Avery Review, The Architectural Review, Places and Dwell.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.
All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
Schedule of the spring lectures:
March 14 at 6 pm Jess Myers (architect, Syracuse University)
April 4 at 6 pm Oulimata Gueye (curator, Pariis)
April 18 at 6 pm Henriette Steiner (architectural historian, Copenhagen University)
May 2 at 6 pm Lara Almárcegui (artist, Rotterdam)
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year. See all the lectures: www.avatudloengud.ee
The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
Open architecture lecture: Jess Myers
Thursday 14 March, 2024
Architecture and Urban Design
The Open Lecture series of the EKA Faculty of Architecture will take place in the spring of 2024 under the general title Unlearning.
The lecture series aims to engage with values, imaginaries and systems of knowledge that shape the contemporary fields of architecture and urbanism. Unlearning is coordinated by Maroš Krivý, professor of Urban Studies.
According to Gayatri Spivak, for example, unlearning concerns not only what is said, but also what is not said as part of an ideological formation. There is now a broad push to transform design from a practice subservient to elite interests to a comprehensive, interdisciplinary practice capable of responding to a range of social and environmental urgencies. As part of this transformation, the four lectures engage with existing architectural imaginaries while proposing alternative ones.
Jess Myers will be the first to take the stage on March 14 in the EKA hall with the lecture Sound and the Built Environment: Unlearning the Visual Regime
In her lecture, Myers will propose sound studies as a critical framework for urban and architectural analysis. Myers challenges architecture’s exclusive relationship with visual communication and proposes instead a practice of “listening.” Myers will make the case for architects’ ears, for how they can be attuned to the soundscapes of the built environment and how a practice of “listening” might impact the dynamics of power in shared and personal space.
Jess Myers is an urbanist and assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University whose practice includes work as an editor, writer, podcaster, and curator. Her podcast Here There Be Dragons examines the impact of security narratives on urban planning through the eyes of city residents. She holds a BA in Architecture (Princeton University) and a Masters of City Planning (MIT). Her writing can be found in The Architect’s Newspaper, Log, l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Avery Review, The Architectural Review, Places and Dwell.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.
All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
Schedule of the spring lectures:
March 14 at 6 pm Jess Myers (architect, Syracuse University)
April 4 at 6 pm Oulimata Gueye (curator, Pariis)
April 18 at 6 pm Henriette Steiner (architectural historian, Copenhagen University)
May 2 at 6 pm Lara Almárcegui (artist, Rotterdam)
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year. See all the lectures: www.avatudloengud.ee
The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
26.02.2024
Portfolio⌁Afternoon for Prospective Students: MA Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art
We warmly invite all MA Contemporary Art applicants and prospective students to the portfolio⌁afternoon!
Monday, 26 February, 15.00–17.00, EKA, room A501
Portfolios will be discussed and questions answered by Mirjam Varik, Sarah Nõmm and Siim Preiman from 2nd year, Elo Vahtrik from 1st year and heads of curriculum Anu Vahtra and Maris Karjatse.
The portfolio⌁afternoon is structured as a set of simultaneous one-on-one sessions in an informal setting, during which participants will get feedback on their work from students and staff, who will share their experiences and give advice on preparing a portfolio and filling in the questionnaire.
Each session lasts 20 minutes, to register please fill in the form here.
- Admissions to MA Contemporary Art are open until 4 March, apply on SAIS (Estonian applicants) or DearmApply (international applicants).
- Information on admissions artun.ee.
Posted by Anu Vahtra — Permalink
Portfolio⌁Afternoon for Prospective Students: MA Contemporary Art
Monday 26 February, 2024
Contemporary Art
We warmly invite all MA Contemporary Art applicants and prospective students to the portfolio⌁afternoon!
Monday, 26 February, 15.00–17.00, EKA, room A501
Portfolios will be discussed and questions answered by Mirjam Varik, Sarah Nõmm and Siim Preiman from 2nd year, Elo Vahtrik from 1st year and heads of curriculum Anu Vahtra and Maris Karjatse.
The portfolio⌁afternoon is structured as a set of simultaneous one-on-one sessions in an informal setting, during which participants will get feedback on their work from students and staff, who will share their experiences and give advice on preparing a portfolio and filling in the questionnaire.
Each session lasts 20 minutes, to register please fill in the form here.
- Admissions to MA Contemporary Art are open until 4 March, apply on SAIS (Estonian applicants) or DearmApply (international applicants).
- Information on admissions artun.ee.
Posted by Anu Vahtra — Permalink
29.02.2024
Book launch: Andres Alver “About Architecture”
Architecture and Urban Design
The book “About Architecture” by architect and professor Andres Alver has been published.
The book presentation will take place on February 29, 2024 at 6 pm in the EKA Gallery.
The book is introduced by the author Andres Alver. EKA Rector Mart Kalm, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Sille Pihlak and President of the Estonian Association of Architects Andro Mänd will speak.
Andres Alver, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, has taught several generations of architects at the EKA Faculty of Architecture since 1985.
The book is on sale at the presentation.
The book has parallel texts in Estonian and English.
Editor: Triin Ojari
Language editor: Aime Kons
Translators: Refiner Translations OÜ
Design: Tiina Alver
Printing house: Omaraamat
ISBN 978-9916-4-2204-5
The publication was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
Book launch: Andres Alver “About Architecture”
Thursday 29 February, 2024
Architecture and Urban Design
The book “About Architecture” by architect and professor Andres Alver has been published.
The book presentation will take place on February 29, 2024 at 6 pm in the EKA Gallery.
The book is introduced by the author Andres Alver. EKA Rector Mart Kalm, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Sille Pihlak and President of the Estonian Association of Architects Andro Mänd will speak.
Andres Alver, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, has taught several generations of architects at the EKA Faculty of Architecture since 1985.
The book is on sale at the presentation.
The book has parallel texts in Estonian and English.
Editor: Triin Ojari
Language editor: Aime Kons
Translators: Refiner Translations OÜ
Design: Tiina Alver
Printing house: Omaraamat
ISBN 978-9916-4-2204-5
The publication was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
04.03.2024 — 05.03.2024
PHD VITAMIN 2024
Doctoral School
On March 4th and 5th, the PhD Vitamin event will once again be hosted at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
PhD Vitamin aims to support and pave the way – and inspire artists with a research approach on their way to doctoral studies. The goal is to introduce artistic research and advise potential candidates for postgraduate studies in planning a doctoral thesis project. In a program consisting of public lectures and one-on-one consultations, artists and experts discuss their approach to artistic research and share individual advice.
This year’s conference will focus on the problem of public space and its art. How can we decide what would be visible to all?
How do ethical challenges, the responsibility of the artist, historical and political issues and the authorship rights intertwine? What are the possibilities for artists to contribute to shaping past-present-future through the political aesthetics of public space? During the ongoing war in Ukraine, questions of what to do with the ‘red monuments’ left in the public space have come to the fore in Estonia. The debate is part of a global discourse that includes the Black Lives Matter movement. It touches on our social environment and tests our ability to ‘be good’.
Artists, designers, alumni of EKA and other creative universities, and graduate students interested in artistic research methods are invited to participate.
PROGRAMME
March 4th, Monday, room A501
10:00 -10:30 Coffee and welcome
10:30 -11:15 Victoria Fareld “Responsibility in a Polychronic Present”
11:15 -11:45 Kristina Norman “Looking Back at After-War (2009) During the War”
Lunch break
12:30-13:15 Esther Shalev-Gerz “From the Monument Against Fascism to The Shadow”
13:15-13:45 Gregor Taul “Monumental Trouble”
Coffee break
14.00-14:45 Moderated discussion: Victoria Fareld, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Gregor Taul, Kristina Norman, moderator Kirke Kangro.
March 5th, Tuesday, room A501
10:00-12:00 Individual consultations with Victoria Fareld and Esther Shalev-Gerz
SPEAKERS
Esther Shalev-Gerz, based in Paris, is internationally recognized for her seminal contributions to the field of art in the public realm and her consistent investigation into the construction of memory, history, the natural world, democracy and cultural identities. Her works challenge the notion and practice of portraiture and consider how its qualities may contribute to contemporary discourse about the politics of representation. Her monuments, installations, photography, video and public sculpture are developed through active dialogue, consultation and negotiation with people whose participation provides an emphasis to their individual and collective memories, accounts, opinions and experiences which then become both represented and considered.
Victoria Fareld is professor of intellectual history at Stockholm university in Sweden. Her research revolves around questions of historical guilt, responsibility and historical temporalities.
Gregor Taul is a lecturer, critic and curator. He has studied semiotics at Tartu University and art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is about to defend his PhD thesis on art in public space in the Baltics. He is currently working as a lecturer at the General Theory and Interior Architecture departments at EKA.
Kristina Norman, based in Tallinn, is an artist whose interdisciplinary work includes video installations, sculpture, and projects in the city space, as well as documentaries and performance. She is interested in the issues of collective memory and forgetting, the memorial uses of the public space, but also the subtle sphere of the body politics that transgresses the boundaries between the public and the private. In 2009 she represented Estonia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with a solo project, a multilayered mixed media installation After-War. The project was a study of a conflict around the relocation of a Soviet monument in Tallinn. In 2022 Norman represented Estonia at the 59th Venice Biennial within an ecocritical exhibition Orchidelirium. An Appetite For Abundance. Norman’s experimental film trilogy commissioned for the Pavilion, offers multiple ways to reflect on the legacies of colonialism from a specific Eastern European perspective.
The event will be held in English.
Please registrate through following LINK.
To participate in individual consultation to discuss your PhD proposal, please fill out the FORM. A detailed consultation schedule will be sent to your email after registration. Be quick – the number of participants in consultations is limited!
Additional info: kati.saarits@artun.ee
Posted by Kati Saarits — Permalink
PHD VITAMIN 2024
Monday 04 March, 2024 — Tuesday 05 March, 2024
Doctoral School
On March 4th and 5th, the PhD Vitamin event will once again be hosted at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
PhD Vitamin aims to support and pave the way – and inspire artists with a research approach on their way to doctoral studies. The goal is to introduce artistic research and advise potential candidates for postgraduate studies in planning a doctoral thesis project. In a program consisting of public lectures and one-on-one consultations, artists and experts discuss their approach to artistic research and share individual advice.
This year’s conference will focus on the problem of public space and its art. How can we decide what would be visible to all?
How do ethical challenges, the responsibility of the artist, historical and political issues and the authorship rights intertwine? What are the possibilities for artists to contribute to shaping past-present-future through the political aesthetics of public space? During the ongoing war in Ukraine, questions of what to do with the ‘red monuments’ left in the public space have come to the fore in Estonia. The debate is part of a global discourse that includes the Black Lives Matter movement. It touches on our social environment and tests our ability to ‘be good’.
Artists, designers, alumni of EKA and other creative universities, and graduate students interested in artistic research methods are invited to participate.
PROGRAMME
March 4th, Monday, room A501
10:00 -10:30 Coffee and welcome
10:30 -11:15 Victoria Fareld “Responsibility in a Polychronic Present”
11:15 -11:45 Kristina Norman “Looking Back at After-War (2009) During the War”
Lunch break
12:30-13:15 Esther Shalev-Gerz “From the Monument Against Fascism to The Shadow”
13:15-13:45 Gregor Taul “Monumental Trouble”
Coffee break
14.00-14:45 Moderated discussion: Victoria Fareld, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Gregor Taul, Kristina Norman, moderator Kirke Kangro.
March 5th, Tuesday, room A501
10:00-12:00 Individual consultations with Victoria Fareld and Esther Shalev-Gerz
SPEAKERS
Esther Shalev-Gerz, based in Paris, is internationally recognized for her seminal contributions to the field of art in the public realm and her consistent investigation into the construction of memory, history, the natural world, democracy and cultural identities. Her works challenge the notion and practice of portraiture and consider how its qualities may contribute to contemporary discourse about the politics of representation. Her monuments, installations, photography, video and public sculpture are developed through active dialogue, consultation and negotiation with people whose participation provides an emphasis to their individual and collective memories, accounts, opinions and experiences which then become both represented and considered.
Victoria Fareld is professor of intellectual history at Stockholm university in Sweden. Her research revolves around questions of historical guilt, responsibility and historical temporalities.
Gregor Taul is a lecturer, critic and curator. He has studied semiotics at Tartu University and art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is about to defend his PhD thesis on art in public space in the Baltics. He is currently working as a lecturer at the General Theory and Interior Architecture departments at EKA.
Kristina Norman, based in Tallinn, is an artist whose interdisciplinary work includes video installations, sculpture, and projects in the city space, as well as documentaries and performance. She is interested in the issues of collective memory and forgetting, the memorial uses of the public space, but also the subtle sphere of the body politics that transgresses the boundaries between the public and the private. In 2009 she represented Estonia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with a solo project, a multilayered mixed media installation After-War. The project was a study of a conflict around the relocation of a Soviet monument in Tallinn. In 2022 Norman represented Estonia at the 59th Venice Biennial within an ecocritical exhibition Orchidelirium. An Appetite For Abundance. Norman’s experimental film trilogy commissioned for the Pavilion, offers multiple ways to reflect on the legacies of colonialism from a specific Eastern European perspective.
The event will be held in English.
Please registrate through following LINK.
To participate in individual consultation to discuss your PhD proposal, please fill out the FORM. A detailed consultation schedule will be sent to your email after registration. Be quick – the number of participants in consultations is limited!
Additional info: kati.saarits@artun.ee
Posted by Kati Saarits — Permalink
19.02.2024 — 23.02.2024
EKA Mental Health Vitamins Week
Student Council
19.02-23.02
During the Mental Health Vitamins Week, the Student Council focuses on the mental well-being of students and faculty members. Every day, the Student Council offers students opportunities to express their emotions, boost their health, and engage in liberating movement. Learn more by exploring the weekly schedule below! The week takes place in the Rauaniidi building, and all events are free for students.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
EKA Mental Health Vitamins Week
Monday 19 February, 2024 — Friday 23 February, 2024
Student Council
19.02-23.02
During the Mental Health Vitamins Week, the Student Council focuses on the mental well-being of students and faculty members. Every day, the Student Council offers students opportunities to express their emotions, boost their health, and engage in liberating movement. Learn more by exploring the weekly schedule below! The week takes place in the Rauaniidi building, and all events are free for students.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
21.02.2024
EKA info-hour
We will hold the EKA information session, where the main results and conclusions of the self-evaluation report for institutional accreditation will be presented. The info-hour will take place on Wednesday, 21 February, at 15:00 in the EKA auditorium (A-101). It will be conducted in Estonian. This is a great opportunity to understand the current state and future directions of the academy.
Institutional accreditation evaluates the academy’s overall management, work organisation, teaching and research activities, and the quality of the study and research environment, its compliance with both legislation and EKA’s vision and development plan.
Posted by Kristiina Krabi — Permalink
EKA info-hour
Wednesday 21 February, 2024
We will hold the EKA information session, where the main results and conclusions of the self-evaluation report for institutional accreditation will be presented. The info-hour will take place on Wednesday, 21 February, at 15:00 in the EKA auditorium (A-101). It will be conducted in Estonian. This is a great opportunity to understand the current state and future directions of the academy.
Institutional accreditation evaluates the academy’s overall management, work organisation, teaching and research activities, and the quality of the study and research environment, its compliance with both legislation and EKA’s vision and development plan.
Posted by Kristiina Krabi — Permalink
07.03.2024 — 31.03.2024
“Gentle Gestures of Self” at EKA Gallery 7.–31.03.2024
Gallery
GENTLE GESTURES OF SELF
7.–31.03.2024
Opening: 7.03. at 6 pm
Participating artists: Andre Joosep Arming, Annamaari Hyttinen, Cloe Jancis, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Taavi Rekkaro, Johanna Saikkonen, Marleen Suvi, Elo Vahtrik
Curator: Kaisa Maasik
The group exhibition “Gentle Gestures of Self” brings together a selection of contemporary self-portraits. The paintings and photographs primarily depict the faces and hands of the artists, pointing at the emotions brought out by their facial expressions and gestures.
Culturally, hands are attributed with a great expressive power: in addition to conveying mood, depicting hands in specific positions can communicate deep feelings and meanings. Anthropologist Ethel J. Alpenfels has said: “Hands point or lead or command; hands cry out in agony or lie quietly sleeping; hands have moods, character, and, in a wider sense, their own particular beauty.”
The exhibition stems from a curatorial perspective focusing on relationships, inner experiences and moods. It approaches hands’ special ability and vulnerability to convey all emotions, even those that people have learned to control in facial expressions.
Opening drinks from Põhjala Brewery.
EKA Gallery
Kotzebue 1, Tallinn
Open Tue–Sun 12–18, free entry
More info:
eka.galerii@artun.ee
Posted by Kaisa Maasik — Permalink
“Gentle Gestures of Self” at EKA Gallery 7.–31.03.2024
Thursday 07 March, 2024 — Sunday 31 March, 2024
Gallery
GENTLE GESTURES OF SELF
7.–31.03.2024
Opening: 7.03. at 6 pm
Participating artists: Andre Joosep Arming, Annamaari Hyttinen, Cloe Jancis, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Taavi Rekkaro, Johanna Saikkonen, Marleen Suvi, Elo Vahtrik
Curator: Kaisa Maasik
The group exhibition “Gentle Gestures of Self” brings together a selection of contemporary self-portraits. The paintings and photographs primarily depict the faces and hands of the artists, pointing at the emotions brought out by their facial expressions and gestures.
Culturally, hands are attributed with a great expressive power: in addition to conveying mood, depicting hands in specific positions can communicate deep feelings and meanings. Anthropologist Ethel J. Alpenfels has said: “Hands point or lead or command; hands cry out in agony or lie quietly sleeping; hands have moods, character, and, in a wider sense, their own particular beauty.”
The exhibition stems from a curatorial perspective focusing on relationships, inner experiences and moods. It approaches hands’ special ability and vulnerability to convey all emotions, even those that people have learned to control in facial expressions.
Opening drinks from Põhjala Brewery.
EKA Gallery
Kotzebue 1, Tallinn
Open Tue–Sun 12–18, free entry
More info:
eka.galerii@artun.ee
Posted by Kaisa Maasik — Permalink
13.02.2024
Night of the Anthropocene: EKA art and design MA students at Vent Space
Contemporary Art
17.30–18.00
Performative gathering “ “
Yuko Kinouchi, Tea Lemberpuu, Jane Muts, Maria Elise Remme, Jake Rhys Shepherd, Elo Vahtrik
We warmly invite you to slow down with us through a guided participatory gathering.
We were searching for a pause, stillness. So we ran through forests, we slept in caves, we followed the waters. Everything to escape the noise man has created. The rumor about the man-made room for silence reached our ears. We met John. He told us that after a while all you hear is the blood running within you. Heartbeat and all the sounds we were made of. There are things we can’t turn off.
In “ “ we ask you to join us to slow down, pause, and turn the attention within.
P.S. We ask you to leave your shoes and phone outside the room on arrival.
18.00–19.30
Workshop “Leaf Pounding”
Chloé Geinoz, Sven-Aleksander Mantsik, Vitor Pascal, Liza Tsindelian
The ‘Leaf pounding’ (this is the name of the technique of hammering plants onto paper or fabric in order to print them on it) project is a printing workshop using ecological and sustainable materials.
Our workshop is based on the different practices of the people in the group. It was important for us that everyone’s personal artistic touch could be found in the project: Liza uses second-hand materials, Chloé uses plants a lot, Vitor and Sven have a practice linked to printing techniques and critical text.
18.00–19.30
Installation “I Like Earth and Earth Likes Me”
Eleftheria Kofidou, Jana Mätas, Caroline Pajusaar, KitKit Para, Kadri Vahar, Edgar Volkov
The vertebral column is the main supporting structure of the body and mind, as the nerve cells within the spinal cord carry all the signals that are required to sustain the organism. These interlinked systems – all connected with our spine – control our every activity; our waking, dreaming, and sleeping and our stability depends on their successful collaboration. Our tired bones are only resting when lying on this soil, yet the Earth’s skin is becoming more and more occupied. What would become of our body landscapes after all? Our artificial remains shall be Earth’s new spine.
18.00–19.30
“Can I speak to the manager? It’s about the anthropocene”
Yvette Bathgate, Mihhail Boitsov, Katariina Kesküla, Merilin Põldsam, Kristi Vendelin
Collectively we explore interconnection through the process of binding; artworks, papers and text. A short manifesto style text, alongside five artworks will bind our individual expressions together and will be presented in installation and hand bound booklet formats.
The works have been made as part of the “Art in the Age of the Anthropocene” course for the EKA Contemporary Art and Design & Crafts MA students (supervisors Sandra Kossorotova, Linda Kaljundi).
Posted by Anu Vahtra — Permalink
Night of the Anthropocene: EKA art and design MA students at Vent Space
Tuesday 13 February, 2024
Contemporary Art
17.30–18.00
Performative gathering “ “
Yuko Kinouchi, Tea Lemberpuu, Jane Muts, Maria Elise Remme, Jake Rhys Shepherd, Elo Vahtrik
We warmly invite you to slow down with us through a guided participatory gathering.
We were searching for a pause, stillness. So we ran through forests, we slept in caves, we followed the waters. Everything to escape the noise man has created. The rumor about the man-made room for silence reached our ears. We met John. He told us that after a while all you hear is the blood running within you. Heartbeat and all the sounds we were made of. There are things we can’t turn off.
In “ “ we ask you to join us to slow down, pause, and turn the attention within.
P.S. We ask you to leave your shoes and phone outside the room on arrival.
18.00–19.30
Workshop “Leaf Pounding”
Chloé Geinoz, Sven-Aleksander Mantsik, Vitor Pascal, Liza Tsindelian
The ‘Leaf pounding’ (this is the name of the technique of hammering plants onto paper or fabric in order to print them on it) project is a printing workshop using ecological and sustainable materials.
Our workshop is based on the different practices of the people in the group. It was important for us that everyone’s personal artistic touch could be found in the project: Liza uses second-hand materials, Chloé uses plants a lot, Vitor and Sven have a practice linked to printing techniques and critical text.
18.00–19.30
Installation “I Like Earth and Earth Likes Me”
Eleftheria Kofidou, Jana Mätas, Caroline Pajusaar, KitKit Para, Kadri Vahar, Edgar Volkov
The vertebral column is the main supporting structure of the body and mind, as the nerve cells within the spinal cord carry all the signals that are required to sustain the organism. These interlinked systems – all connected with our spine – control our every activity; our waking, dreaming, and sleeping and our stability depends on their successful collaboration. Our tired bones are only resting when lying on this soil, yet the Earth’s skin is becoming more and more occupied. What would become of our body landscapes after all? Our artificial remains shall be Earth’s new spine.
18.00–19.30
“Can I speak to the manager? It’s about the anthropocene”
Yvette Bathgate, Mihhail Boitsov, Katariina Kesküla, Merilin Põldsam, Kristi Vendelin
Collectively we explore interconnection through the process of binding; artworks, papers and text. A short manifesto style text, alongside five artworks will bind our individual expressions together and will be presented in installation and hand bound booklet formats.
The works have been made as part of the “Art in the Age of the Anthropocene” course for the EKA Contemporary Art and Design & Crafts MA students (supervisors Sandra Kossorotova, Linda Kaljundi).
Posted by Anu Vahtra — Permalink
26.02.2024 — 28.02.2024
International wooden construction conference Forum Wood Building Baltic 2024
Architecture and Urban Design
Forum Wood Building Baltic
26 February – 28 February 2024
Tallinn, Estonia
https://www.forum-woodbaltic.com/
We invite you to participate in the Forum Wood Building Baltic 2024 to be held on February 27 and 28 in Tallinn, Estonia. This year we have more than 40 speakers from 15 countries.
There is also an opportunity to participate in the thematic excursions on February 26th. Forum Wood Building Baltic is the main conference for architecture and engineering topics of wooden buildings in the Baltic region. The overarching theme of Forum Wood Building Baltic 2024 is integrated design where different disciplines come together with their own possibilities and limitations to cooperate and push the boundaries of innovation in timber construction.
The main technical topics will be:
- introduction to the second generation of Eurocode 5 (by the authors of different parts)
- design for manufacturing and assembly
- building physics of wooden houses
- energy performance, fire safety etc.
The conference is a part of the international organization Forum Holzbau. Local hosts are Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University of Technology.
Registration to the conference can be easily done here: https://www.forum-woodbaltic.com
The gala dinner on February 27th is included in all tickets.
Posted by Anna Tommingas — Permalink
International wooden construction conference Forum Wood Building Baltic 2024
Monday 26 February, 2024 — Wednesday 28 February, 2024
Architecture and Urban Design
Forum Wood Building Baltic
26 February – 28 February 2024
Tallinn, Estonia
https://www.forum-woodbaltic.com/
We invite you to participate in the Forum Wood Building Baltic 2024 to be held on February 27 and 28 in Tallinn, Estonia. This year we have more than 40 speakers from 15 countries.
There is also an opportunity to participate in the thematic excursions on February 26th. Forum Wood Building Baltic is the main conference for architecture and engineering topics of wooden buildings in the Baltic region. The overarching theme of Forum Wood Building Baltic 2024 is integrated design where different disciplines come together with their own possibilities and limitations to cooperate and push the boundaries of innovation in timber construction.
The main technical topics will be:
- introduction to the second generation of Eurocode 5 (by the authors of different parts)
- design for manufacturing and assembly
- building physics of wooden houses
- energy performance, fire safety etc.
The conference is a part of the international organization Forum Holzbau. Local hosts are Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University of Technology.
Registration to the conference can be easily done here: https://www.forum-woodbaltic.com
The gala dinner on February 27th is included in all tickets.
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29.02.2024 — 04.03.2024
Course “Following Loss” at EKA Gallery 29.02.–04.03.2024
Gallery
Erasmus Blended Intensive Course “Following Loss”
29.02.–04.03.2024
The five-day course will draw upon key themes of physical and metaphysical loss, remembering, and rebuilding. We will introduce many interdisciplinary modes and methods of exploring these themes so that students may find their own resonances and pathways to stimulate work and creative practice back in their studios and in their lives.
“Following Loss” will place students in direct connection to some of the contemporary histories and realities of two countries, one previously colonized—Estonia—and the other colonized and currently engaged in a full-scale invasion—Ukraine. They are among other countries that live everyday with intimate memories of agonizing absence and the grinding sense of daily loss on a massive scale.
The course was conducted by Rebecca Duclos and David Ross
Aditional speakers part of the course: Alisa Alexandrova, Olha Maciupa, Natasha Ozub, Bozhena Pelenska, Gregor Taul
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Course “Following Loss” at EKA Gallery 29.02.–04.03.2024
Thursday 29 February, 2024 — Monday 04 March, 2024
Gallery
Erasmus Blended Intensive Course “Following Loss”
29.02.–04.03.2024
The five-day course will draw upon key themes of physical and metaphysical loss, remembering, and rebuilding. We will introduce many interdisciplinary modes and methods of exploring these themes so that students may find their own resonances and pathways to stimulate work and creative practice back in their studios and in their lives.
“Following Loss” will place students in direct connection to some of the contemporary histories and realities of two countries, one previously colonized—Estonia—and the other colonized and currently engaged in a full-scale invasion—Ukraine. They are among other countries that live everyday with intimate memories of agonizing absence and the grinding sense of daily loss on a massive scale.
The course was conducted by Rebecca Duclos and David Ross
Aditional speakers part of the course: Alisa Alexandrova, Olha Maciupa, Natasha Ozub, Bozhena Pelenska, Gregor Taul
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