Stll places for autumn from Oct -2017. Email: info at aark.fi
photo By Lilli Haapala, Oct 2015
AARK August New Artists arrived: Maia Flore, Christian F. Kintz, Judith Amsallem, Roxana Perez-Mendez & Mario Marzan and Philipp Buenger - since June, today last day.
Jessie & Kendra & evening boat trip... Its midsummer week and light almost around a clock.
Jessie Imam is an Australian artist working with photography, the moving image and installation to create works centred around themes of embodiment and the female perspective. While at AARK, Imam hopes to use the borders and boundaries of the islands of the Archipelago to explore the borders and boundaries of the body.
http://www.jessie-imam.com/
Kendra Bell is a costume designer and full time faculty at Tufts University in Boston, Ma. She is excited to be a part of the AARK for the month of June. Her desire to break routine and experience life amongst a new community lead her to seek out the residency in Korpo. While on the island, Kendra is catching up on research for a course she will be teaching next semester on "Costume and Activism." In between academic readings, she has been taking advantage of the archipelago's natural resources in order to begin the creation a performance art piece.
First evening: Snow & Wind... in May!
Mari Miyamoto Fin / Japan
Mari has right now 2 Solo Shows in Helsinki: Gallery MUU Kaapeli and Gallery AARNI.
Hisayoshi Miyamoto, Japan
Shinobu Terada, Japan. 2nd time at AARK. He participated Barefoot Path last year with this installation, material was bandage.
Marjolein Witte, Netherlands.
2016 she spent 2 months on Korpo, at AARK. This year Marjolein is invited to participate in Barefoot Path, which is the environmental Art Forest Exhibition. Barefoot Path is open from June - Sep 2017. Daily 24/7.
www.barfotastigen.com
Eleanor Cepko, US
Laura Nevanperä, Fin
Emily Coussins, London, UK
Jiro Ishihara, Tokyo, Japan
Safe journey back home and Welcome Back!
Here is a sea view by our residency. More images in FB, follow us there!
POM: I am a composer of electroaucustic music. I use landscape recordings, objects and Instruments I build myself. Also electronic syntheziser. I am playing live of experimental music. My main research is about Time.
I am at AARK residency for 2nd time and I propose an intimist experimental consert of some sounds of archipelago and of meeting and perhaps of some sharing about our different experiences of time.
http://temposensoriel.tumblr.com/
Tonight the 1st home concert at animator artist Antonia Ringbom (separat invitation, private occasion) Next home concert is on 27.1. Friday, Interested? Please take contact: [email protected].
Also photography students from TUAS Arts Academy, Fine Arts: Juuli, Noora, Sara, Madelein
... so 2017 seems lighter ... We wish you all a happy new year!
Renja & Benkku
We are looking for artists and other art professionals from all disciplines for whom nature and the surrounding seaside could be an interesting area or theme to work on. We offer a space to think and time to develop a new idea - or to continue on a work in progress.
AARK Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo Finland
winter - spring - summer - autumn. DL 30.12.2016.
AARK is located right by the sea and the ferry shore, you can follow the Sea Way from our windows and from the yard. Our residency is surrounded by the unique archipelago nature, sea and a forest that you easily can reach by foot or by bicycle. The outer archipelago is also within reach, since AARK is located opposite the community ship harbour. see closer also www.uto.fi
Duration of residency
We work on a full calendar basis so the residency period is 1-3 months and prefer longer stays. In winter even 2 weeks residency possible. Ask for more information.
Disciplines, work equipment and assistance
For national and international Art Professionals in all disciplines
Accommodation and studio/ workspace
3 SPACES: 3 studios living rooms. Each apartment has own kitchen and wc /shower:
2 large Seaside Apartments a 72m2. Each has 2 bedrooms. Downstairs apartment has a terrace.
1 spacious Single Studio 3rd floor, 56m2 for one or a couple.
+ a 30m2 raw working space for whatever use in the basement.
Work equipment: Simple tools for wood, Tripods, Projector. Bicykles.
No specific assistance. Help and and support in the new environment of course as well free form discussions, dinners, and sauna. Weekly meeting when possible with all artists.
– Important: Please indicate if you are willing to share the apartment with a person of the opposite sex. Separate bedrooms.
Fees and support Fee: 440€ a month in shared apartment paid by the artist. (The 2nd month 410€ ) Studio 3rd floor 510€/month + 150€ / each person
- Even a group can apply, 5-10 people.
- Artist families
A travel and liability insurance is obligatory!
Expectations towards the artist
We encourage a dialog inside the residency between both national and international quests and of course a dialog with local people and the environment. Depending on timing and season AARK might be full - or quite silent. Some independency is needed from our artists.
We expect some discussions about each artists work, a dialog inside the residency and voluntary open talks. No obligatorynew production ... most probaply collecting impressions for a new work.
Application information
Welcome with your application!
Contact: info at aark.fi
Renja Leino, visual artist, founder and director - will answer you soon.
Digital application with LOW RES materials:info (at) aark.fi Selection procedure by a small team.
Please fill the application form (or just write the asked info in your application).
- A short freely formulated working idea / a short motivation letter, why do you want to have a residency at AARK. Also, what do you wait from us?
- www (and/ or 5 low res. images 72dpi or light PDF of recent works, installation views)
- CV including year of birth and gender, nationality and actual address.
- Timetable, when do you wish to come?
5 Islands is an exhibition of five artists from five different countries in the Korpoström Archipelago Center’s gallery over the course of the winter, the first time that work will be up over this time period. The artists met while they were at the AARK residency in the old ferryman’s building on Korpo during June, 2015. Over Midsummer and the waning days of the AARK residency, the artists discussed about what they will take with them after they were gone from Korpo. While the works on view have been created after the residency, they retain the spirit of this special place.
Their time as five artists on one island has transitioned back to the coasts of five separate islands. The artists are now separated, but often coming back to the water’s edge to glimpse pieces of each other’s coasts. It is done in different mediums and with differing intentions, but is done with a shared feeling of lightness and darkness and the time in between. Across each of their projects, the artists are searching for the familiarity of the golden sunlight of the archipelago that they shared on Korpo, grasping those fleeting rays of light that still shine on their 5 islands.
