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have been invited to be part of the forthcoming Research Pavilion in the
context of the Venice Biennale 2019, as part of a research ‘cell’ developed by
Alex Arteaga entitled Through Phenomena Themselves: Exploring new possibilities
of mutual enhancement between artistic and phenomenological research practices.
About
the Research Pavilion
The Research Pavilion is an ongoing
project created and hosted by the University of the Arts Helsinki. Research
Pavilion #3 is created in cooperation with the Louise and Göran Ehrnrooth
Foundation and international partner institutions: Aalto University, Valand
Academy of Arts at the University of Gothenburg, University of Applied Arts Vienna,
and Interlab Hongik University Seoul.
Research Pavilion #3 is a meeting place, a
catalyst of emerging co-operations, and a generator of new artistic thinking.
It brings together a multitude of topical practices of artistic research in a
jointly agreed form. The participating researchers – operating in six different
research cells – will display various modes of creative thinking in parallel
processes of exhibiting, performing, exposing, discussing, and articulating
material encounters and related forms of critical reflection. Working from such
multifaceted attitudes and atmospheres, Research Pavilion #3 is clearly
impelled by the debate on current predicaments in our so-called posthuman era.
Those predicaments involve the state of the ecological disequilibrium, the
relational approach to forms of agency, the development of trans-disciplinary
and transversal discourses, and last but not least the exploration of novel
practices of criticism and narrativity in neo-materialistic propositions.
Spurred on by a general ecologization of
thinking, Research Pavilion #3 will set the agenda for ethicopolitical
statements on the level of shared practices. In our current decade, we suffer
from a loss of common orientation, a common world, a common planet if you will.
We have to think again about the world, since we desperately need another
system of coordinates, another distribution of metaphors and sensitivities, as
well as novel fictions and imaginaries to address configurations of the present
and to restate speculations about directions in the future. The above
observations challenge artistic research to articulate idiosyncratic modes of
representation and reflection addressing the present global environmental
crisis while taking historical responsibilities into account and creating
provoking interconnections between research practices and their environments –
in short: to articulate research ecologies. When the two concepts of research
and ecology are linked – or rather, placed as two focal points in an ellipse –
their contours and conditions could become decisive for the current state and
direction of the artistic research discourse. Research Pavilion #3 not only
calls attention to urgent ecological themes, but also explicitly claims a
particular role for artistic research in dealing with the topical and pressing
issues outlined above. Research Pavilion #3 deploys the ways of questioning and
working specific to artistic research as well as its particular ecologies of
practice. Therefore, it takes the form of a process-oriented Lab for testing
and negotiating topical forms of material and social agency.
The
Research Pavilion is an ongoing project created and hosted by Uniarts Helsinki.
Research Pavilion #3 is created in cooperation with the Louise and Göran
Ehrnrooth Foundation and international partner institutions. The main partners
are Aalto University, Valand Academy of Arts at the University of Gothenburg,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Interlab Hongik University Seoul, and Taipei
National University of the Arts.
Research
cells and Switchboard
The
Research Pavilion #3 project proceeds towards the high season in Venice through
a series of research cell assemblies in September 2018, November 2018, and
February 2019. A group of international experts – Esa Kirkkopelto, Sunjung Kim,
Ellen J Røed, Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger and Giaco Schiesser – have been invited
to facilitate this self-reflective and collaborative process. Due to its
decisive role in articulating interconnections between the Research Cells, this
group of experts is called the Switchboard.
Research
cells in the Research Pavilion project
Astopia
Cemetry
Archipelago: On the imaginaries of human and non-human death
Disruptive
Processes + Artistic Intelligence Research Alternator AIRA
Shelters
Territories
:: Dialects
Through
Phenomena Themselves: Exploring new possibilities of mutual enhancement between
artistic and phenomenological research practices
Traces
from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil & Insects among Us
Read
more at www.researchpavilion.fi