Conferment procession
The procession celebrates art and artists. The route of the procession runs from the Helsinki Music Centre through the centre of Helsinki.
Welcome to the conferment procession, where newly conferred masters, doctors and honorary doctors, as well as the academic staff of the university, walk through the centre of Helsinki in black and white formal outfits. Along the procession, there will also be a diverse art programme from Uniarts Helsinki students.
Route
The procession will depart from Musiikkitalo past Kiasma towards Mannerheimintie, from where it will continue through Paasikivenaukio towards Salomonkatu and Antinkatu. On Antinkatu, the procession is divided into Temppeliaukio Church and the Kulttuurikasarmi.
The best places to follow the procession are Kansalaistori Square or Mannerheimintie, as the procession comes out from the entrance on the Kansalaistori side of the Helsinki Music Centre.
The order of the procession
When leaving Musiikkitalo, the director of the festivities will be at the head of the procession. After him come the promoters, who are the highest dignitaries of the promotion. Promoters are usually also the oldest professors in academies. Next, honorary doctors, doctors, masters, university and academies management, academic staff and other invited guests marched.
Programme
Media screens at the Musiikkitalo and Lasipalatsi
Video works by students of the Academy of Fine Arts.
“untitled” (600 repetitions)
Viktor Sundman
2024
Hiusten aika (Hair time)
Vita Edwards
2021
this reoccuring dream
Sakari Kyyrönen
2024
Conversation with an angel
Niklas Feinik
2024
Nimeämätön (Unnamed)
Ian Laitinen
2024
Video work + statue (plywood, metal, surface treatment)
The purpose of the big billboard is to attract the attention of a passer-by so that after going past this place, the thing being advertised on the board will be at the foremost in people’s minds. They will completely ignore e.g. the lovely canopy underneath the board!
The premise of the work is this act of directing people’s attention. The shape of the statue draws from Lasipalatsi and the spatial phenomena of its surroundings. This way, through an intermediary, the work aims to direct the attention back to the place itself. The work explores how people focus their attention and how it is drawn in public space.
Balcony of Kiasma
Folk music for the procession on two violins
Pihla Perämäki and Tuike Suomalainen
Kansalaistori
Päästä varpaisiin (From head to toes)
Outi Wright
Poles stand still inanimately.
Poles restrict our space.
Poles guide our passage, direct our routes.
This artistic work comments on the role of humanity in a restricted urban space. There are always small, subtle indications of humanity and gentleness around us. Toes that are bashfully hiding peek out quietly in the urban environment that otherwise applies such a big scale.
Cold metal meets toes.
You can feel it.
From head to toes.
Paasikivi square
Veden sylistä (Out of the arms of the water)
Suvi Sievilä & vocal collective Sabrina ja Saarten tyttäret
A voice comes out of the quiet arms of the water,
the weaving of the echo circles around, gleaming,
a whisper touches the faraway rocks,
the waves carry over the voice with open arms.
The collaborative piece has been created by scenography student Suvi Sievilä and the vocal collective Sabrina ja Saarten tyttäret for Uniarts Helsinki’s conferment procession.
Corner of Salomoninkatu and Antinkatu
POLTTOPISTE (FOCAL POINT)
Hanna Kangasluoma
Freezing, burning, flowing, dying down Hissing, whistling, crackling
Burning, biting, embrittling
On the surface, on the bottom, on the inside
In the focal point
Fragile core
Surroundings
Performer: Olavi Angervo
Sounds used in the work: Yle Archives
En-route entertainment for the procession
Pi Sandås and Sofia Kistol from the Degree Programme in Dance
The Finnish word leikari refers to a joculator or histrion – a minstrel or actor of sorts who had an almost outlaw status at the end of the 13th century, as the Law of Magnus Eriksson allowed even quite the extreme punishment of these performers if the need occurred. On the other hand, sources of that time mention that they were gifted such fancy, colourful clothes that only the nobility had the permission to wear. In Finnish contexts, the term larvator is also mentioned, meaning someone with a mask, evidently a creature with horns. In other words, this kind of performer may have also been associated with the carnival or old wintertime animal play pretends or the devil.
Source: Pentti Paavolainen: Suomen teatterihistoria 1.2. Keskiajan teatteri- tuntematon
Welcome to the conferment procession, where newly conferred masters, doctors and honorary doctors, as well as the academic staff of the university, walk through the centre of Helsinki in black and white formal outfits. Along the procession, there will also be a diverse art programme from Uniarts Helsinki students.
Route
The procession will depart from Musiikkitalo past Kiasma towards Mannerheimintie, from where it will continue through Paasikivenaukio towards Salomonkatu and Antinkatu. On Antinkatu, the procession is divided into Temppeliaukio Church and the Kulttuurikasarmi.
The best places to follow the procession are Kansalaistori Square or Mannerheimintie, as the procession comes out from the entrance on the Kansalaistori side of the Helsinki Music Centre.
The order of the procession
When leaving Musiikkitalo, the director of the festivities will be at the head of the procession. After him come the promoters, who are the highest dignitaries of the promotion. Promoters are usually also the oldest professors in academies. Next, honorary doctors, doctors, masters, university and academies management, academic staff and other invited guests marched.
Programme
Media screens at the Musiikkitalo and Lasipalatsi
Video works by students of the Academy of Fine Arts.
“untitled” (600 repetitions)
Viktor Sundman
2024
Hiusten aika (Hair time)
Vita Edwards
2021
this reoccuring dream
Sakari Kyyrönen
2024
Conversation with an angel
Niklas Feinik
2024
Nimeämätön (Unnamed)
Ian Laitinen
2024
Video work + statue (plywood, metal, surface treatment)
The purpose of the big billboard is to attract the attention of a passer-by so that after going past this place, the thing being advertised on the board will be at the foremost in people’s minds. They will completely ignore e.g. the lovely canopy underneath the board!
The premise of the work is this act of directing people’s attention. The shape of the statue draws from Lasipalatsi and the spatial phenomena of its surroundings. This way, through an intermediary, the work aims to direct the attention back to the place itself. The work explores how people focus their attention and how it is drawn in public space.
Balcony of Kiasma
Folk music for the procession on two violins
Pihla Perämäki and Tuike Suomalainen
Kansalaistori
Päästä varpaisiin (From head to toes)
Outi Wright
Poles stand still inanimately.
Poles restrict our space.
Poles guide our passage, direct our routes.
This artistic work comments on the role of humanity in a restricted urban space. There are always small, subtle indications of humanity and gentleness around us. Toes that are bashfully hiding peek out quietly in the urban environment that otherwise applies such a big scale.
Cold metal meets toes.
You can feel it.
From head to toes.
Paasikivi square
Veden sylistä (Out of the arms of the water)
Suvi Sievilä & vocal collective Sabrina ja Saarten tyttäret
A voice comes out of the quiet arms of the water,
the weaving of the echo circles around, gleaming,
a whisper touches the faraway rocks,
the waves carry over the voice with open arms.
The collaborative piece has been created by scenography student Suvi Sievilä and the vocal collective Sabrina ja Saarten tyttäret for Uniarts Helsinki’s conferment procession.
Corner of Salomoninkatu and Antinkatu
POLTTOPISTE (FOCAL POINT)
Hanna Kangasluoma
Freezing, burning, flowing, dying down Hissing, whistling, crackling
Burning, biting, embrittling
On the surface, on the bottom, on the inside
In the focal point
Fragile core
Surroundings
Performer: Olavi Angervo
Sounds used in the work: Yle Archives
En-route entertainment for the procession
Pi Sandås and Sofia Kistol from the Degree Programme in Dance
The Finnish word leikari refers to a joculator or histrion – a minstrel or actor of sorts who had an almost outlaw status at the end of the 13th century, as the Law of Magnus Eriksson allowed even quite the extreme punishment of these performers if the need occurred. On the other hand, sources of that time mention that they were gifted such fancy, colourful clothes that only the nobility had the permission to wear. In Finnish contexts, the term larvator is also mentioned, meaning someone with a mask, evidently a creature with horns. In other words, this kind of performer may have also been associated with the carnival or old wintertime animal play pretends or the devil.
Source: Pentti Paavolainen: Suomen teatterihistoria 1.2. Keskiajan teatteri- tuntematon