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Riikka Talvitie: A Finnish composer

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Finnish contemporary composer, oboist and music pedagogue Riikka Talvitie is an artist greatly influenced by her audience. She believes that the audience and community have an impact so important that there is a need for new notions of authorship and agency in music. Her compositions are brought into practice in performances, and so the discussion of the community’s role in collaboration is relevant. As a...

September 6, 2018

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artistic process, interviews, music, women in art
Stephanie A Lindquist about philosophy of plants and art

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Stephanie A Lindquist is a New York based artist and photographer, whose photo collages gather ideas of plants with world-wide origins. Her works bring forth anscestral memories from diasporic places, and create meaning mapping our global existence as travelers and settlers. Food has always played enormous role in peoples adaptation to new places, creating and sustaining cultures. Art can have as much to...

June 23, 2018

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african art, artistic process, interviews, scandinavian, sustainability, women in art
Anne Raudaskoski on Ethica and the holistic approach

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Anne Raudaskoski is a Finnish enterpreneur who wishes to create new connection to nature. Her approach can change the game of sustainability. With a background in dance, she has faith on the power of the arts: “Arts provide a holistic approach to existence, and this is what we need to change the current linear system. Human beings are part of the nature; nature...

March 1, 2018

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design, fashion, interviews, lifestyle, sustainability
Eyes as Big as Plates arrives in Brooklyn

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“Eyes as Big as Plates” is an ongoing collaborative photographic project between the Finnish-Norwegian artist duo Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. This unique collaboration is now presented as a solo exhibition in New York City at the Brooklyn based Chimney Gallery. In the exhibition, 12 photographs are installed in the gallery space so that they form a visual unity in a column-like formation. This way...

January 20, 2018

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artistic process, interviews, scandinavian, women in art
Sirkku Ketola: The artistic process of performing Paula

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Finnish artist Sirkku Ketola had her performance project A Body Called Paula at the NARS Foundation Gallery in Brooklyn in November. In Finnish the word paula means a ribbon, something to tie or to be enchanted with. It is also a synonym for a trap. Globally Paula is known as a female name, originating from the Greek word ‘Paulus’, which means small. In her...

December 21, 2017

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artistic process, fine and contemporary art, interviews, performance&dance, women in art
Members Only: Flo Kasearu at the Performa 17

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Ernest Hemingway once said, “In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found”. This is also true about New York, where more than a few community members share their Estonian House, New Yorgi Eesti Maja. The New York Estonian Educational Society was founded in 1929. As a great coincidence, and as a brilliant and thoughtful part of the Performa 17 biennial,...

November 30, 2017

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interviews, lifestyle, Performa, performance&dance, women in art
Laura Anderson Barbata on Julia Pastrana

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The Eye of the Beholder: Julia Pastrana’s Long Journey Home is a new book edited by Laura Anderson Barbata and Donna Wingate. The essay collection sheds light on the life of historic sensation, Mexican international performer Julia Pastrana, expanding the story from anthropological and art historical perspectives. The book can also be viewed as a personal story of discovery. Artist and writer Laura Anderson Barbata remembers her own...

November 28, 2017

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interviews, performance&dance, women in art
An Ho’s recent paintings

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A 90-year old Chinese artist An Ho finds inspiration from nature and its serene beauty. Still a steady brush in her hand, she invents nature with her visionary approach. The landscapes seem like in many Chinese classical paintings, where the vision engages in the detail. Stillness of a landscape is poetic, without rush forward, yet bearing undertones of memories and dreamlike solitude. The artist...

September 18, 2017

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asian art, fine and contemporary art, women in art
Bildmuseet poses strong perspectives in Umeå

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A tree blossoms, meadow is green, horizon is filled with stillness, which is almost touchable. The rich video footage by Jumana Emil Abboud narrates without noise. Palestinian artist, who lives and works in Jerusalem, uses video and audio to add into other mediums of storytelling. For her exhibition in Bildmuseet, The Horse, The Bird, The Tree and The Stone, the artist has added murals, and...

September 9, 2017

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fine and contemporary art, scandinavian, women in art
Designer Margrethe Odgaard about process and color

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Danish designer Margrethe Odgaard’s exhibition was on view at the Design Museum in Helsinki during this summer. An introduction to her work put the creative aspect of design in focus. Odgaard’s study of color and the cultural signification of it is very relevant and timely for innovative design conversation, in which we are looking for perspectives that see beyond the pure form. It feels timely to give...

August 23, 2017

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design, scandinavian, sustainability