Thursday 24th May at 9.00 – 13.00
Networking and presentations:
- Henna-Riikka Halonen (video artist / PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, www.hennariikkahalonen.me.uk): “New Artistic Agency / Antagonistic Art”
Whose voice is it anyway?
Apparent uncertainty of the documentary practice has fuelled artists to seek modes of ‘fictionalized’ realities that prompt self-awareness and analysis, rather than claim ‘objective’ truth. Many of contemporary artists seek to create scenarios that partly rely on existing social or political realities, or actively enter that reality to generate work. However, the pertinent question, perhaps, is what kind of social, political or personal reality is being proposed? When working with people, are artists in fact inevitably casting them into the role of the other, hence denying them their “original” voice?
Starting with the acknowledgement that there is very often some sort of dramaturgy involved in any encounter, this presentation brings these questions to the fore, dealing with questions such as whose voice is it anyway?
I will show some of my previous works that investigate subjectivity and speaking through the other, exploring fiction, interference, and the notion of disinterested outsider as artistic strategies.
- Ann Albritton (PhD, Art Historian, Ringling College of Art & Design, www.ringling.edu): “Art and Globalization”
- Akseli Virtanen / FAB (Future Art Base of Aalto University): “Art & Economy -related projects of FAB, including Kafkamachine & Robin Hood Investment Fund”
- Oron Catts (Artist, Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts)
Contact: Prof. Teemu Mäki, Aalto ARTS teemu.maki@aalto.fi
