FRI 17.9.2021 / 12.00 – 16.00
SAT 18.9.2021 / 10.00 – 15.00

@ KANTTI, KUOPIO MUSEUM WORKSHOP ROOM
address: Museokatu 1
Accessible event

The students of Aalto University will host a participatory event – a set of gifts to the visiting creatures.

Together with the participating audiences (people, other living beings, organisms and/or biological/technological processes) the students will organise series of art projects in the space. The themes of the projects are giving, receiving and gift. The event is open to all and suitable for people of all ages.

On Friday, the Aalto researchers Riikka Haapalainen, Tiina Pusa and Tomi Slotte Dufva will host a discussion event on the themes of the project in Finnish as a part of our Meet the Makers programme.

Hanna Kaisa Pohjalainen & Tiiu Vainio: Incoming – Outgoing

Incoming – Outgoing is a communal art project made in collaboration between Hanna-Kaisa Pohjalainen and Tiiu Vainio. You can participate in the project by getting a score (instructions) from the post box. When returning your score and the work you have done, you’ll get a link to the online exhibition that opens later this month to all the participants. Please keep in mind that when you return your score you are giving us a permission to publish your work on the website.

Nova Pokkinen: Utopia Mail

UTOPIA MAIL is an invitation for participants to send letters to the future. For two hours, the space will hold a mail office for dreams, utopias, visions and wishes. The letter can be addressed to yourself or other people, other beings & entities, or maybe even institutions. The contents may deal with personal life, but also environment, state of the world, or coexistence.

Creator of the letter defines when and who is allowed to open the envelope. You may take the letter with you or leave it for the Utopia Mail Officer. Sending the letter via mail is free of charge. Utopia Mail will keep the letters maximum of 25 years. If the artist is unavailable to send the letters on given dates, an appointed substitute will do it instead.

Laura Haikala: Flower activist

The pollinators of the world are in trouble, which is due to e.g. changes in living conditions and the effects of various pesticides. The world needs pollinators, and pollinators benefit from, for example, diverse habitats like meadows and small yards. A flat lawn offers little growth potential for small bugs. So I invite everyone to participate in a small-scale activist act: planting plants useful for pollinators in the environment! At the same time, the project also takes a stand on the environmental planning of cities and municipalities. Decision-makers should take better account of the living conditions of pollinators in decision-making and urban planning.

Participants will receive small bags containing a mixture of numerous seeds of different meadow flowers, such as corn daisy, spreading bellflower, cowslip and yarrow. The bags come with planting instructions that encourage the participant to plant the seeds, for example, in the wasteland. The seeds can be planted right in the fall or let them wait until spring. Some of the flowers bloom in their first year, some in the years to come. Thus, the participant can follow the success of their own plantations well into the future.

Salla Nieminen: Permission

Permission is a performance that explores the norms of bodily expression in public spaces and specifically asks whether dancing in public around the city is allowed or accepted. The performance happens in random places at random times around the city centre of Kuopio, where a dancing figure can be encountered. Permission is a joyful, glittery permission to dance and an attempt to free the body from pointless social and cultural norms.

Saara Konttinen: URBAN GRAZERS

SAT 18.9.2021  / 10.00 – 13.00

In the performative workshop, we’ll walk up and down the local Antikkala ski slope in the Puijo area. Slow-paced hiking also offers places to stop. Sometimes we sit or lie down on the ground.

The sixth wave of extinction is happening around us right now.  The Antikkala ski slope is a man-made environment that, with its openness, has provided a habitat for several endangered species, such as rare mushroom and moss.

Urban grazers is a site-specific intervention in which we take ourselves literally to the ground to explore biodiversity within and around us. Welcome loiter around, species among species.

DURATION: 3 h

WHERE?
We’ll leave to ANTIKKALANRINNE at 10 am from KANTTI, KUOPIO MUSEUM WORKSHOP ROOM (Museokatu1). Please be in time! We will return to the Museum approximately 1 pm.

HOW TO PREPARE?
Please wear walking shoes and weather proof, warm clothing. It is a good idea to bring your own bottle of water.

LANGUAGE Finnish & English
PRODUCTION Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture; The Department of Art
IN COOPERATION WITH Kantti Kuopio museum

Safe festival experience

Please follow our general instructions and the guidelines of Kantti for a COVID safe festival experience!