Workshop and Seminar in Environmental
Art
1st - 12th September 2003
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Lume Media Centre
Helsinki, Kirkkonummi, Sipoo, Tuusula, Finland
  
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The Environmental Art unit of the Department of Art at the University of Art and Design Helsinki will organise an event focusing on environmental art in September 2003. The event is titled Fermentation and will consist of three week-long workshops and a two-day seminar and accompanying events. "Fermentation" alludes to the transformation taking place in areas around big city centres. All over the world such areas are losing, through the migration of population and restructuring of economic life, their agrarian character without actually growing into cities. Neither are they suburbs - their particular new identity has not yet fully emerged. Another feature of these areas is that they are used for transit from the city centre to the countryside proper. They do not invite one to stay. These intermediate areas, squeezed between city and countryside, have not attracted the interest of artists. Artists have traditionally preferred the city or the wilderness as a site for their art works and happenings. Fermentation is looking for means offered by environmental art to deal with these rapidly changing, emergent intermediate areas. The seminar will also discuss fermentation as a metaphor and how well it describes other contemporary issues, such as the fusion of mass media and the encounter of different languages and cultures. Fermentation is meant for artists
interested in environmental art as well as environmental planners,
designers, researchers, administrators and students.
The aim is to further the interaction of these different groups
particularly through art. Can art function as a stimulus of environmental
discourse and as an instrument of environmental design and reshaping? The seminar will take place during 11th and 12th September 2003 in the Sampo-auditorium of the Lume Media Centre at Hämeentie 135C, Helsinki. The seminar will be conducted in English and Finnish. It is possible to participate separately in either the workshops or the seminar. The workshops are meant only for students, but their results will be exhibited to the seminar participants. Advance registration
to be made to Project Secretary Inka Finell at the address above
- or here. It is also possible to register
for the seminar daily during the workshops. Final date for workshop
registration is June 27th 2003. Markku Hakuri |