City is sound, city is quicksand – voicing imaginaries and dissonances

About the event

During the event City is sound, city is quicksand – voicing imaginaries and dissonances the Hietsu pavilion and its surroundings are an exhibition, an event-space, a city council meeting space, a performance space, a symposium space, a sounding space, a multi-vocal space.

City is sound, city is quicksand – voicing imaginaries and dissonances is the third and final art and research event organized by the City as Space of Rules and Dreaming research project enabled by Kone Foundation.

Registration

Programme

Tuesday 21.5.

11:00–13:30 Workshop Wandering soundscapes by Jaakko Ruuska, featuring Brigitta Stone-Johnson, BJ Engelbrecht

14:00–14:30 Performance Sirpa Jokinen, Places, sounds, words

15:00–17:30 Guest Artist’s performance by Danae Theodoridou, One Three Some – An Attempt for Devising a Democratic Assembly

17:00–19:00 Performance by Timo Tähkänen, Little Mermaid

18:00– Opening with artworks

feat. Anita Szentesi’s continuous workshop The Land and I

Wednesday 22.5.

9:00–11:00 Workshop Get Hooked by Marloeke van der Vlugt

11:00–13:00 Performance by Timo Tähkänen, Little Mermaid

11:45–12:30 Sound installation by Playgroup: Jill Richards, BJ Engelbrecht & Jurgen Meekel, intoduced by Jaakko Ruuska

13:30–16:00 Panel discussion
Artistic research and city space: ”How will we live together?”, chaired by Stefan Winter.
Panelists: Heidi Hänninen, Lauri Jäntti, Danae Theodoridou, Anita Szentesi, Alexander Damianisch, Paul Tiensuu + via zoom: Prince Massingham, Neo Monyamane, Mocke Jansen van Veuren & Rashid the Magician

16:30–18:00 Soundings, talks 1
Eerika Jalasaho, smelling space and time (talk)
Jan-Erik Andersson, A Leaf and a Hexagon – Viruses for Change (talk)
Andy Best, OBJEKTI – art as an actor for social empowerment (talk)

18:30– Evening by the beach w Playgroup
feat. Taivalsaari Protectorate

Thursday 23.5.

9:00–10:45 Soundings, talks 2
Otso Aavanranta, Unité sonore mobile (sound performance, followed by discussion)
Samedha Arora, Assent Listening of Dissent: A listener in a political environment; Helsinki Protests for Gaza Ceasefire in 2023- 2024 (talk)
Alex Arteaga, Exploring signlesness. An essay on the proto-phenomenal city (extended reading)

11:00–13:00 WITS interventions
by Anita Szentesi, Zen Marie, Brigitta Stone-Johnson

14:00–15:00 Guest artist’s lecture-performance, Shubhangi Singh, Rest/Unrest

15:30–17:00 Round table City as Space of Rules and Dreaming:
Henna Halonen, Aino Hirvola, Maiju Loukola, Jaakko Ruuska, Tanja Tiekso, Paul Tiensuu

17:15–18:00 On publishing

Zen Marie, Brigitta Stone-Johnson, ellipses [–] journal

Halonen-Loukola-Tiekso, RUUKKU Studies in Artistic Research theme issue cfp launch

Participating artists / researchers

Stefan Winter 
Elisa Villota
Marloeke van der Vlugt
Mocke Jansen van Veuren
Timo Tähkänen
Paul Tiensuu
Tanja Tiekso
Danae Theodoridou
Anita Szentesi
Brigitta Stone-Johnson
Shubhangi Singh
Jaakko Ruuska
Vincent Roumagnac

Playgroup:

• BJ Engelbrecht, 
• Jill Richards, 
• Jurgen Meekel

Mohammad Mustafa

Neo Monyama
Prince Massingham

Rashid the Magician
Zen Marie  
Maiju Loukola
Nina Liebenberg
Pia Euro & Tanja Kiiveri
Simo Kellokumpu
Sirpa Jokinen
Eerika Jalasaho
Aino Hirvola
Henna-Riikka Halonen
Mika Elo
Alexander Damianisch
Andy Best
Alex Arteaga
Samedha Arora
Annette Arlander
Jan-Erik Andersson

Otso Aavanranta

More information about the research project

Read more about the event and about the research project from its home page.

Read more about the research project at Uniarts Helsinki project page.