Tämä kesä oli hankkeellemme vaikeaa murroksen ja muutoksen aikaa, jossa kipuilimme ja etsimme reittiä jotakin uutta kohti. Venäjän hyökkäyssota yllätti ja järkytti koko työryhmäämme. Lopulta se hajotti alkuperäisen suomalais-venäläisen työskentelytiimimme – ei eriävien mielipiteiden vuoksi, vaan siksi ettei yhteistyön jatkaminen ollut enää pakotteista johtuen käytännössä mahdollista. Yhteisen työskentelymme keskiössä on aina ollut ihmisten kohtaaminen jaContinue reading “Nilkuttaen eteenpäin”
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Brought By the Wind
Toni Rissanen, one of the visitors of the Kalamaja Art Hub – a community art space we were hosting in Varjakka this Summer – wrote this poem inspired by the sites and sounds of Warjakka. Pictured here is the poem in Finnish and English written in our guest book and also subtitling John Collingswood‘s videoContinue reading “Brought By the Wind”
Curls, Textures and Colours of Varjakka
Paying the tribute to the beautiful celebration of community-based art we were most lucky to have last week in Kalamaja Art Hub in the Varjakka bay, Oulu, Northern Finland, we are publishing the images of the exhibition we held there for two happy and inspiring weeks. The abstract images of the textures, objects and natureContinue reading “Curls, Textures and Colours of Varjakka”
EXHIBITION in Arkhangelsk
A vegetable bed in the gallery. Audience were planting radishes and watering them during the exhibition. Our fist summer in the project ended up with the exhibition “Дача – это тело” in the Museum of Artistic Exploration of the Arctic and held by the Center for Social Innovations: CSI Arkhangelsk.It started on August,20th and dueContinue reading “EXHIBITION in Arkhangelsk”
“Keho On Dacha” Zine
From 3 to 30 July, an exhibition of artistic samizdat (self-publications) is open in the gallery of the Center for Social Innovations in Arkhangelsk. It presents a collection of zines from various creative projects and artists based in Arkhangelsk. This event was an excellent occasion for the creation of the first issue of our zineContinue reading ““Keho On Dacha” Zine”