Curated Expeditions

Curated Expeditions is dedicated to observing and experiencing fascinating earthly phenomena through artistic investigation. In parallel, Capsula wants to revive leisurely traveling experiences, which have been cast aside by the frantic pace of modern day life. Walking, bob-sleighing, swimming, hitchhiking, rowing, sailing, trains and submarines all personify the Capsula Philosophy of Voyage. The project is an initiative of  Ulla Taipale.

New web site for Capsula Curated Expeditions.

nº1 Expedition to the Total Eclipse

The first Curated Expedition was realised during the summer 2008 to marvel and study the total solar eclipse, that took place in a vast aerea from Canadá to China on 1st August. Three artists, Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE), Mireia C. Saladrigues(ES/CAT)  and Tommi Taipale(FI) took part. More information of the Expedition to the total Eclipse  here:

Public presentations and exhibitions of works of the 1st Curated Expedition:

22nd August 08 / Institute for Russia and Eastern Europe, Helsinki // Night of Arts /// Presentation by Tommi and Ulla Taipale

6th March – 6th June 09 / Kiasma Mediatheque, Helsinki // Exhibition Expedition to the Total Eclipse

4th April 09 / Pixelache Festival // Art, Science and Ecology -seminar / Presentation of Curated Expedition by Ulla Taipale

4th June 09 / Eclipse Happening // Kiasma Theatre and URSA observatory, Helsinki

15th August 09 / Symposium of Art and Renewable Technologies, Aizpute, Latvia // Presentation of Curated Expedition by Ulla Taipale

21st August 09 / Institute for Russia and Eastern Europe, Helsinki // Night of Arts /// Exhibition of Journey to the Eclipse  by Tommi Taipale

10th -15th November 09 / 26th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany /// “The Moon Goose Experiment – a bio-poetic investigation”, the MGE by Agnes Meyer-Brandis as a  documentation screening

12th November – 13th December 09 / Sala Municunill, EspaiDos // Exhibition Zoolar Eclipse by Mireia C. Saladrigues

5-7th January, 2010 / Transmediale.10. // Video screening The Moon Goose Experiment / a bio-poetic investigation by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, location:  Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

24-26th September, 2010 / Video Dumbo Festival, Brooklyn, New York // Video screening The Moon Goose Experiment / a bio-poetic investigation by Agnes Meyer-Brandis,

nº2 Expedition to the Baltic Sea

This open call for art/science projects welcomes Finnish and Estonian artists to study and marvel at the Baltic Sea, during cross-disciplinary expeditions by sea-travel. The selected proposals will be realised in 2010, and presented during the year 2011 in European Capitals of Culture, Turku and Tallinn. The project is a collaboration in between of Capsula and Finnish Bioart Society.

Open call for projects 1.10. – 21.12.2009

We received 70 proposals, from which 5 were from estonian and 65 from finnish artists/groups of artists.

In the beginning of February the jury (director of the Turku University Research Institute of Archipelago Sea, prof. FT Ilppo Vuorinen, visual artist Terike Haapoja, artist-curator Juha Huuskonen and curator-producer Ulla Taipale) gathered together to choose the projects to be realised.

The selection of projects and artists  is:

**Kaarnavene/ Bark Boat by Antti Laitinen

**Pelastusalus Silakka / Rescue Boat Baltic Herring crew: Teemu Takatalo, Tommi Taipale, Ossi Kakko, Riku Ritvanen

**Green Matters by Mia Mäkelä

**Sonic Seascape Terrace by Hanna Haaslahti & Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski

**Vol.at.ilit.y by  Tomi Paasonen & Tiago Da Cruz

More information about the projects in www.capsulaexpeditions.com