The concept and the context of archipelago connect research across the disciplines. The topics of the symposium range from the archipelago as a geopolitical concept and a context of heightened ecological changes to a research into different modes of public space in the European archipelagos.
The invited speakers and panelists not only present existing material but the symposium also has commissioned new research. It provides, furthermore, a space for critical reflection, synthesis and continuation of the research processes informing the art works and the CAA exhibition as a whole.
New commissioned research:
Territorial Agency / Ann-Sofi Rönnskog & John Palmesino
Architects and urbanists, Architectural Association, London UK
Platforma 9.81 / Miranda Veljacic & Dinko Peracic
Collective of architects, theorists and designers, Split Croatia
SPEAKERS
FRI 26.8.
Territorial Agency / Ann-Sofi Rönnskog & John Palmesino (Architects and urbanists, London UK; Architectural Association)
Platforma 9.81 / Miranda Veljacic & Dinko Peracic
(Collective of architects, theorists and designers, Split Croatia)
Elin Wikström
(Artist, Gothenburg Sweden; Umeå University)
Kimmo Lapintie
(Prof. of Urban & Regional Planning, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
Florian Schneider
(Filmmaker,media artist & activist, Munich/Brussels)
Erkki Leppäkoski
(Prof. Emeritus, Environmental & Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)
Ulla Taipale
(Curator, Curated Expeditions to the Baltic Sea/ Capsula, Turku, Finland)
Linda Lindfors
(Communications Manager, Baltic Sea Action Group, Helsinki, Finland)
Taru Elfving
(Artistic Director CAA, Turku Archipelago Finland)
SAT 27.8.
Alfredo Jaar
(Artist, New York USA)
Renée Green
(Artist, New York USA; San Francisco Art Institute, USA)
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
(Artists, Vilnius Lithuania; MIT, Boston, USA)
Ilona Hongisto
(Film theorist, Turku University, Finland)
SUN 28.8.
Jan Verwoert
(Critic & writer, Berlin)
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
(Artists, Vilnius Lithuania; MIT, Boston USA)
Maria Hirvi-Ijäs
(Theorist & critic, Helsinki Finland)
Tomas Träskman
(Curator, Helsinki Finland)
BIOGRAPHIES
Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the de Appel curatorial programme and the Ha’Midrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous, MIT Press/Afterall Books 2006 and the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want, Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute 2010. He plays bass and sings in La Stampa (Staatsakt/Berlin).
More information on the other speakers on CAA website (artists):
www.contemporaryartarchipelago.fi
