Candy Chang & James A Reeves
http://candychang.com/ http://ritualfields.com/US
In January we organize Open Studio welcome to meet them!
Here they are on Korpo island! Visual artists, painters, drawings, photography, sound - often working with with mixed media and installations. Giuliana Grippo from Buenos Aires, Rochyne Delaney McNulty from GB for 2 months, Chris Sheridan from Seattle, US for 2 months, and Sabeen Omar from Sri Lanka.
Fine Art Students filled AARK in Sep for the last 2 weeks. They had an intensive Thesis writing workshop with senior lecturer Ilona Tanskanen. Succes.
After Sauna & Swim at Renjas home: writer Rachel Keranen, New York, Visual artist Laura Ruohonen, Fin, photographer Karen Knorr, London, painter Kaisu Lundelin, Helsinki, photographer Marie Docher, Paris. Later in Aug there were even a Open discussion at The Finnish Museum Of Photography organized by Clement Beraud.
Women in Art: Is It All About Talent. Karen Knorr, Marie Docher, Hertta Kiiski, Elina Heikka, Elina Brotherus, Clemont Beraud at the Finnish Museum of Photography. https://www.facebook.com/events/461390951308455/
A little boat trip to nearby island.
We saw some curious seals.
Sat 28.7. At Hotel Nestor & Restaurant Backpocket yard 22:00 (FREE)
https://hotelnestor.fi/fi/hotelli/
Sun 28.7. Korpoström Archipelago Centre, Auditorium 16.30 (FREE)
http://skargardscentrum.fi/?lang=en
Mezzo-soprano Roxanna Walitzki will perform a program of experimentally-arranged classical songs at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström / Skärsgårgscentrum Korpoström / Saaristokeskus Korpoström Auditorium, presented by the AARK Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, Finland.
Trained as an opera singer and heralded as an "operatic iconoclast," Roxanna integrates elements from electronic and ambient music into her arrangements of operatic art-songs, producing a delicate world of sound that matches her uniquely ethereal aesthetic. Currently touring throughout Europe, Roxanna's work keeps classical music alive and current, while addressing the impact humans are having on our natural ecosystems.
This evening of music will be the culmination of Roxanna's time as an artist in residence at AARK, where she has spent July alongside her sibling and artistic collaborator Redd Walitzki (ReddWalitzki.com), who also attended the residency last summer. The siblings set out to travel across Europe earlier this year, and are creating eco-conscious artwork that inspires thought and positive change in the world. Ranging from fine-art, editorial fashion design and photography, to music and video production, their art showcases the message that we, as a whole, can help sustain our fragile home planet.
The program will feature songs by Schubert, Wolf, Debussy, and Duparc, arranged for voice, piano, and electronics, as well as
Video projections by Redd and Roxanna.
https://www.betweenislands.net/p/info.html
PRESS RELEASE
Between Islands Saarten välissä – Mellan Öarna – Between islands is a cooperation between the artist residencies in the Finnish archipelago area. This summer the project exhibits works from five artists. The artists were invited to work in AARK in Korpo in May and June, and the works produced will be on display until the end of September.
Between Islands was launched when two of the residencies involved, AARK in Korpo and ÖRES in Kimito, found out they had launched in 2015 almost simultaneously, and residency founders, artists Renja Leino and Nuutti Koskinen, decided to develop forms of cooperation. Soon the Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence coordinated by Johanna Henriksson in Kökar also joined the project.
Thanks to this dialogue and cooperation between the residencies, artists have been able to visit other residencies in the form of residency exchanges, and a common production residency, resulting in the works exhibited this summer, has been realized. Five artists were invited into this year's programme: Lilli Haapala, Elisa Matikainen, Grace Phillips, Maria Windschüttel and Marco Dessardo. Each of these artists has worked on the residencies involved before. The works produced are based on these experiences. The work of each artist is also revolving around the dialogue between humanity and nature, and with this year's programme, the artists and the works are also put into dialogue with each other. Most of the exhibited works are placed in and around the Korpoström Archipelago Center, while some can also be viewed in Källskär (Kökar), Örö and Dalsbruk.
The project has been realized with support from the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
The artists and the works:
Lilli Haapala: Seeds of Utopia
Lilli Haapala’s work Seeds of Utopia consists of several small sculptures that can be found from the beaches of three different islands during summer 2019, in Örö, Korpoström and Kökar. Shapes of sculptures have been influenced by the forms of corals and seeds and they can be seen as golden sea seeds leached to the shores of islands, describing new ideas, dreams or opportunities. On the other hand, the works are like traces of the past, as well as fragments of valuable cities left under the sea. Lilli Haapala is a Turku-based artist who deals with the human relationship to the natural environment and to the other through her works. Haapala is currently working with a project called Searching for utopia, where she is focusing on different meanings of island phenomena such as paradise, utopian societies, dystopia, space and boundaries.
Elisa Matikainen: Plastic Rain / Sleeping Catastrophy
How far can microplastics travel, the unvisible plastic dust which is filling also our atmosphere? What if the raindrops find more and more often a tiny plastic dust as their core and the flying microplastics come down as a rain? What if one day the rainbow is ”made of plastic”? Numerous studies have been published on microplastic in marine environment, but we know little about these pollutants in continental environments. Only few studies are focused on the presence of microplastics in the air. Almost no research is being done on nanoplastics in the air and their impacts on human health and the environment. Elisa Matikainen is painter based in Kökar. Her work can be seen as a visual poetry, some kind of emotional expressions of being. Her work process is often a long and slow improvisation between drawing or painting and the different elements and details which she finds in the environment and the human life.
Grace Phillips: The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma
The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma is a live performance for Maria V. Vatanen (actor) and Emma Myllynen (kantele player). It is a brief window into the experience of one tourist as she visits an island in archipelago and wanders away from her tour group. The piece is derived from Anne Carson's book Eros, the Bittersweet, and the hallucinations to be found on Örö Island. It comes out of a collaborative process with the performing artists. Grace Phillips is an american writer whose work focuses on the environment, both natural and built. A childhood in Montana and background in science inform her study of relationships through language. Her writing has appeared in exhibitions, film festivals, news outlets and art magazines.
Maria Windschüttel: LUOTO (Space Oddity)
During Between Islands Maria Windschüttel created several artworks for her long term environmental art project LUOTO – with chalk on rock, under and above the water. For the documentary of these temporary works she used fine art photography, combining interdisciplinary artistic layers to conceive one otherworldly narrative, such as seen in the exhibition in Korpoström. Maria Windschüttel is a visual artist working with painting, drawing, photography and environmental art. Based in Berlin, she is frequently reaching out to the Northern parts of this world – for inspiration and as work spaces. Islands are a great part of her life and works – the smaller, the better. She has been living and working for several months on islands in the Norwegian Arctic as well as on Kökar.
Marco Dessardo: PunkTerhi390
PunkTerhi390 is a compact sculling and sailing boat made out of the crossing of two crafts: a Finnish Terhi 390 plastic boat from the 1970s, previously belonging to the Korpoström farmer Reinhard Jansson, and a discarded Italian surfboard designed in the 1980s by yacht designer Andrea Vallicelli. Both were collected from Korpo, recycled, and made into a sculpture. Propulsion is provided by a square sail and two single oar systems, a Chinese ancestral patented yuloh and an original godille from the French Brittany. PunkTerhi390 was sailed by the artist in Korpo Retais in the Turku Archipelago before being installed at Korpoström. Marco Dessardo is an italian sculptor based in France. He likes to face projects with a limited set of tools and a selection of local material. After a reasonable moment of wandering and drinking coffee, he starts an intensive work process. The output is often unexpected, highly influenced by local context and his passion for boats. When working with boat sculptures, they have to be functional and are sea trialed by himself.
Grace Phillips: The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma
The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma is a live performance for Maria V. Vatanen (actor) and Emma Myllynen (kantele player). It is a brief window into the experience of one tourist as she visits an island in archipelago and wanders away from her tour group. The piece is derived from Anne Carson's book Eros, the Bittersweet, and the hallucinations to be found on Örö Island. It comes out of a collaborative process with the performing artists.
The Reach: An Erotic Dilemma will be performed at the
Korpo at Hotel Nestor Saturday 29th June at 8.45 PM
Dalsbruk market square stage on Sunday 30th June, 7 PM.
https://www.betweenislands.net/p/info.html
By Odysseus Atlas
‘Odysseus Atlas’ is creative initiative by Lithuanian artists Kęstutis Montvidas and Jūra Bardauskaitė with the island as its central theme. The idea has emerged from wonder about islands. Are they for all of us, or have to be discovered in person by those who dreams of them? How did they appear in such a blooming diversity? And how they shape us?
Site Specific works are installed in the nearby forest.
Open Studios you can meet also painter Sari Nieminen and sculpture and sailor Marco Dessardo who made a plastic boat sculpture on view at Korpoström Archipelago Centre, Plastic Garbage. Project Between Islands. Welcome!
http://dessardo.com/
OPEN CALL for 2019 residencies!
For National and International Art Professionals.
DL 20.1.2019.
Focus on your own artistic practice in the middle of the unique Archipelago Nature!
2nd floor studio apartment, sea view.
We are looking for art professionals from all disciplines for whom the surrounding Archipelago Nature, island life, the seaside and forest could be an interesting area to contemplate, to research or a theme to work on. We encourage a dialog inside the residency and a dialog with local people, and the environment. You can apply a space for 1-3 months. We might even accept shorter visits depending on timing. We offer you time to think and time to focus on your own artistic practice, to develop a new idea - or to continue on a work in progress.
AARK yard by the sea and ferry.
AARK is located right by the ferry shore, you can follow the Sea Way from windows and from the yard. Our special area is the unique archipelago with thousands of islands, forest and Archipelago National Park, fresh air and clear sky, stars, perhaps sea gets frozen. Darkness and silence in the winter… light summer nights, rich bird life as well swimming. We have a traditional sauna in the house.
Map over our archipelago area... Korpo is one of the islands.
However, this idyllic setting also has some heavy issues: we are concerned of the state of our Archipelago Sea. There is less fish than ever before, population is decreasing and services are being cut. Against all odds we want to keep our island and archipelago alive all year round! We have a good grocery store, cafes and bakery on the island and several restaurants. We have some professional artist living in nearby and cooperate and have informal meetings.
We believe that artists in a new environment see things in a different light and can possibly find new aspects on our everyday environment. We welcome a discussion. We encourage a dialog inside the residency AARK and a dialog with local people and the environment.
We live on an island so some independency is needed. The ferry and the bus goes in front of the house. We have bikes and a car for shorter trips.
Open Studio can be arranged or other public presentations.
Yellow kitchen 2nd floor seaside apartment.
Application: [email protected]
Artist and director Renja Leino shall answer you asap.
We work on a full calender months 1st to last day of the month. We prefer longer stays but even 2 weeks are possible depending on timing.
A brief, freely formulated working idea / motivation letter.
Your WWW or Low Res PDF of recent works, exhibitions views.
CV /BIO (incl. nationality, year of birth, gender, home adress)
– TIMETABLE: when do you wish to come? We usually work on a full calendar month basis 1-3 months. We might accept shorter visits, 2 weeks, specially outside summer season May-Aug.
SPACE:
AARK has 3 studio apartments all with wireless internet and kitchens/ wc/showers. Easily suitable for individual working or duo or a group.
2x Seaside apartments are 72m2 with 2 separate bedrooms, shared kitchen and living room/studio.
1x Single Studio space, kitchen shower/wc. Its airy 54m2 that is perfect for a more private studio bedroom and living space 3rd floor. Windows to North and West.
30m2 ruff Studio space for whatever use in the basement, no window.
Important: In Shared apartment for 2 artists there are 2 bedrooms. Please indicate if you are willing to share the apartment with persons of the opposite sex.
FEE paid by the artist:
490€ /month / person paid by the artist in the shared apartment.
590€ Single Studio +150€.
Artist families are welcome!
Children are welcome.
Visitors only by agreement and only short visits. Fee.
A travel and liability insurance is obligatory.
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Its +-0 C. Fresh winds. You can apply any time - contact [email protected]
WELCOME to AARK in August!
Hannah Gatland, Australia www.hannahgatland.com
Stephanie Tudor, UK www.stephanietudor.co.uk
Lilli Haapala, FIN, www.lillihaapala.com
Paul J Woods, US continues since June, for 3 months