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Today was the last day to send the project proposals to the Open call, however, we did receive so many (and heavy) proposals that Capsula´s server has arrived to it´s limits.
Please, resend your proposal if you got it back, you can also send it to ullacapsula@gmail.com,
and max. 10 MB attachments!!
If you don´t receive any feedback from us this week, please send a message, with no attachments and ask for confirmation for your message.
Sorry for the trouble!!!
A “GOOD” mi
ni-series by Ed Morris on the cultural happenings surrounding COP15:
“I wonder what it would have been like had the museums employed the same resources to do something more radical, such as give the entire space over to one or two artists capable of meaningful transformation, or have Erroll Morris put together a single series of messages from the art world to the people deciding our fate in the Bella Center, or simply shut off all the lights and let people cogitate that: “No more culture, only nature, from now on people.”
Or maybe this just isn’t the right time for the museums. The curators and framers were just doing their job. It’s a big conference, they have to do a big show. But, of course, that was precisely the problem. Meanwhile, I am noticing more and more of these little stickers and messages indicating that inaction might really, truly have its consequences.”
Photos: ©© Windowfarms, Annemie Maes, Ossi Kakko, poster: Ulla Taipale
The ‘Herbologies/Foraging Networks’ programme of events, focused in Helsinki (Finland) and Kurzeme region of Latvia, explores the cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants, within the contemporary context of online networks, open information-sharing, biological and hydroponic technologies.
The traditions of finding and knowing about wild food in the local Nordic environment are slipping away from the current generation. How can one attract their attention: With books, online maps, workshops, mobile-guided tours, open-source information or DNA code? Or learn how to grow them yourself, over the dark winter months? The Pixelache Festival events introduce the different meeting points between the three collaborating partners, include presentations by international artists and Finnish botanical experts; workshops sharing that knowledge with the public in Botanical Garden of Helsinki; a round-table discussion about foraging in the urban context; a manifestation of the ‘WindowFarms’ project by Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray(US) that will be built and exhibited in the Takaikkuna of Kiasma, the Museum of contemporary art of Helsinki.
Following, in a pre-midsummer expedition to rural Rucava in Kurzeme, Western Latvia, SERDE Interdisciplinary Art Group will lead fieldwork to learn about the cultural heritage of Balts using wild plants, and create documents for the younger ‘digital native’ generation. These events are organised as a collaboration between Andrew Paterson (SCO/FI), Ulla Taipale/Capsula (FI/ES) and Signe Pucena/SERDE (LV). The project is supported by KulturKontakt Nord.
Photo:Alex Marttunen
Finnish 12 years old Alex Marttunen has won the first prize in See The Bigger Picture photography competition, launched by National Geographic. The picture of a crab, carrying it´s new house was taken in Thailand.
mc mahedero / zonas verdes photo: ulla taipale
Capsula takes part to the second edition of Global Ecoforum, a meeting point of public and private sector and NGO´s, taking place on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th October in Barcelona. The first day is celebrated in Torre Agbar and the second in Espai Bonnemaison.
Yesterday, spanish artist MariCarmenMªMahedero occupaid a piece of urban soil, denominated as “zona verde” (=green zone) by the catalonian urban regulations and “painted” it green. MariCarmen and Raquel Rennó are invited to talk about their perspective about the urban space and residues on Tuesday 27the October at 15.45 pm in the presentation called Art, thought and green citizenship.
In the following text MariCarmenMªMahedero explains the work (sorry in spanish only):
ZONAS VERDES / MCarmen GªMahedero
Hora y lugar: 27 de Octubre, 14-15 horas, Espai Bonnemaison, proyección en auditorio
Ironía y juego son los puntos de partida del trabajo planteado por MCarmen GªMahedero. Jugar con el espacio, con las palabras y con el entorno en que se ubica la “area preferente. zona verde”
Zonas verdes plantea un espacio público, la calle, como algo realmente común a todos: el que tiene coche y el que no. La “área preferente. zona verde” son áreas urbanas destinadas al aparcamiento de vehículos, creadas para aligerar el tránsito interno en la ciudad y combatir la contaminación. En principio beneficia a los vecinos del barrio que son los “abonados” (no olvidemos que es un servicio de pago) al que el resto de usuarios “no preferentes” tiene acceso por un máximo de 2h a 2,54 €/h. Sin embargo, según urbanismo, “zona verde” son las áreas metropolitanas destinadas a parques y jardines de obligada construcción cada cierto número de habitantes por metro cuadrado.
La OMS recomienda que las ciudades dispongan, como mínimo, de diez a quince metros cuadrados de áreas verdes por habitante. Las zonas verdes y los espacios libres constituyen un sistema en la ordenación urbanística y son indispensables para proteger y mejorar la calidad de vida y conseguir el bienestar urbano
A raíz del aumento de plazas de parking con categoría de “area preferente. zona verde” MCarmen GªMahedero subraya el hecho de utilizar las mismas dos palabras zona verde, para definir dos realidades muy diferentes, la existente: áreas urbanas destinadas al aparcamiento de vehículos y, la declarada por urbanismo: áreas metropolitanas destinadas a parques y jardines de obligada construcción cada cierto número de habitantes por metro cuadrado. Asfalto, alquitrán y pintura luminiscente; ¿zona verde?
Bajo esta perspectiva, la artista ocupará durante varias horas la superficie de un vehículo, 15m2 de parking, con césped, registrando todo lo que ocurra en dicho tiempo y quedando totalmente expuesta a cualquier tipo de intervención por parte de urbanismo.
Raquel Rennó will present her investigation about “Waste materials used as informational and innovational potential”, which aims to comprehend the generation and usage modes of residues in urban spaces through the relations among language systems, understood as cultural elements.
The different manner in which informational and residual objects can be appropriated requires an intense ability of adaptation as well as the creation of a new language system. The appropriation of information, spaces and objects that appear randomly is related to the adaptability of an individual or group, although this adaptability is sometimes the result of an emergency and extreme deprivation.
MCarmen García Mahedero (Badajoz, 1980)
Desde que obtuvo su licenciatura en Bellas Artes en 2003, ha participado en exposiciones individuales y colectivas, encuentros de artistas europeos y festivales artísticos en España, Portugal, Polonia y Austria. Ha realizado proyectos artísticos centrados en las relaciones que mantenemos con la naturaleza gracias a becas como “Ayudas a la creación Francisco Zurbarán” de la Junta de Extremadura, con la que edita el libro Pintando Naturaleza, y “beca para Talleres Internacionales de Paisajismo Blanca” (Blanca, Murcia 2009). Participó en la primera edición de Global EcoForum con una intervención artística llamada “En la ciudad”, realizada en el patio de Espai Bonnemaison el octubre 2008.
Raquel Rennó (Brazil, 1972)
Digital art researcher at CNPQ (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development, Brazil), member of the Institut Català D´Antropologia (ICA, Barcelona) and the Scientific Comitee of FILE (Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, Brazil). Holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics. Has been working since 2001 in digital art projects with artists from Spain and France and presented pieces at ZKM, ACM Multimedia, BIACS (Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla), Matadero Madrid among other art centres. Has published a book in 2006 intitled “Do Mármore ao Vidro – mercados públicos e supermercados, curva e reta sobre a cidade” analising the urban space as a medium and has presented papers and projects at UCSD (University of California, San Diego), Plymouth University, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Sussex University. Currently is part of ZZZINC, a cultural association for cultural innovation and research in Barcelona, Spain.
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This cross-disciplinary Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea invites Finnish and Estonian artists to study and to marvel at the Baltic Sea, its natural phenomena and their personal relationship to the changing environs. Project proposals will be accepted until 21 December 2009. The project will be part of Turku’s programme for the European Capital of Culture year in 2011.
The planning and realization of the project are in the hands of Capsula and Bioart Society Finland.
the full english text below!
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Poikkitaiteellinen Tutkimusmatka Itämerellä kutsuu Suomen ja Viron taiteen tekijöitä ihmettelemään ja tutkimaan Itämerta, siihen liittyviä luonnonilmiöitä ja omaa suhdettaan muuttuvaan mereen. Taidetta ja tiedettä yhdistäviä projektiehdotuksia otetaan vastaan 21. joulukuuta saakka. Haun tuloksena valitut taideprojektit toteutetaan vuonna 2010 ja esitetään Turku2011-kulttuuripääkaupunkivuoden ohjelmassa.
Hankkeen suunnittelusta ja toteutuksesta vastaavat Capsula ja Suomen biotaiteen seura ry.
AVAA lehdistötiedote (2.10.2009)
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Det tvärkonstnärliga projektet Forskningsresa på Östersjön bjuder in konstnärer från Finland och Estland för att förundras över och utforska Östersjön och dess naturfenomen samt sitt eget förhållande till ett hav i förändring. Projektförslag tas emot fram till den 21 december. Projektet är en del av programmet i Europas kulturhuvudstad Åbo år 2011.
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Erialadevaheline Uurimisreis Läänemerel kutsub Soome ja Eesti kunstiinimesi imetlema ja uurima Läänemerd, sellega seotud loodusnähtusi ja oma isiklikku suhet muutuva merega. Kunsti ja teadust ühendavate projektide taotlusi võetakse vastu kuni 21. detsembrini. Konkursi tulemusel välja valitud kunstiprojektid teostatakse 2010. aastal ning neid tutvustatakse Turu 2011. aasta kultuuripealinna programmi raames.
Projektide eest vastutavad Capsula ja Suomen biotaiteen seura ry.
Eclipse Happening 4th June, 2009, Helsinki The “Eclipse Happening” is the “finissage” event of the “Expedition to the Total Eclipse” exhibition on view at Kiasma Mediatheque until June 7th, and of the Pixelache season before the summer break. It consists of presentations focusing on eclipses and space traveling and a workshop in Kiasma Theatre, and of an urban expedition, culminating in the evening with an event in Kaivopuisto around the URSA observatory.
Keywords : Siberia, astronomy, eclipses, space traveling, geese, moon walk, weightlessness.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis by Ursa Observatory in Helsinki with a Moon Goose
Preliminary programme:
- 15.00 – 16.00: Presentations focusing on eclipses and space traveling by Professor Tapio Markkanen (Observatory of the University of Helsinki) & artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE) / Kiasma Theatre
- 16.00 – 17.00: Moon Walk workshop for humans and moon geese, with leading moon walker Milla Koistinen / Kiasma Theatre
- 17.00 – 18.30: Urban Expedition / from Kiasma to URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto
- 18.30 – 22.00: Happy Eclipse gathering with Russian snacks and music, moonwalking, telescope observations (only until 21.00), video projections in URSA’s portable planetarium / URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto
All the events of the Eclipse Happening are free of charge. The number of places for the moon walk workshop is limited. If you want to participate, please send an email tomoonwalk@pixelache.ac before June 2. The Eclipse Happening is organised by Capsula and Pixelache With kind support of : Opetusministeriö, Goethe Institut, HIAP, URSA, Kiasma Theatre.
The event forms part of the activities of the International Year of Astronomy.
The three new artworks by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Mireia C. Saladrigues and Tommi Taipale who participated the first Curated Expedition of Capsula last summer, will be shown in Kiasma, Contemporary Art Museum of Helsinki. The exhibition will be opened on 6th March, 2008 and will be shown until the 7th June.
The show is part of Pixelache09 activities and had received support fromHIAP, AVEK, Finnish Art Council, Kiasma Mediatheque, Ramon Llull Institute and Goethe Institute.
We make art not money – blog is featuring the Curated Expedition in an article where Regine Debatty interviews Ulla Taipale about the expedition and in the Expedition blog more information of the project can be found.
The most complete description of the tree is both myth and botany.
Gregory Bateson
Eco-innovation and sustainability are often used in terms of something tangible and measurable, but can also go together with art and creativity. The artistic interventions of the first Global Eco-Forum are determined by limited time and space of the generous programme of the day. Yet, during these interventions the mind can rest and become recharged, as it does when one walks through a park or on a lake´s shore.
In her artistic work mcarmen gªmahedero reveals almost invisible secrets and details of the manipulated urban nature. Her new performance, En la Ciudad “In the City”, exhibits the personal space between of us and other human beings, and, perhaps other living beings, such as trees and plants? Through Pintando Naturaleza, “Painting Nature” , another of mcarmen´s works, shown in the auditorio, she subtly observes the changes of light and shadow and their visual effects on our environment.
The audiovisual performance of SOLU and Arbol is characterised by a great complicity and sinergy between of the two artists. The image and sound is combined, in flexible and fluid forms. The homage to the natural landscapes, digitalized and processed by SOLU, is repeated in the musical composition of Arbol. “Shiatsu for ears and eyes” – as SOLU describes the performance called Naturology, which vibrates positive energy, revitalising the public, through the images, melodies and organic movements, bringing to an end the intensive conference day.
Global EcoForum is organised by Eco-Union.
solu&arbol _ naturology
