Past event
Sustainable Visual Arts Network Meeting 14.11.2024
The Sustainable Visual Arts Network Meetings share the challenges and expertise of the network members in relation to the ecological transition of each organisation and discuss the future activities of the network. Interesting speakers from the visual arts scene in Finland and abroad are invited to speak about their own work to promote the sustainability transition.
The fourth meeting of the year will be on Thursday 14 November remotely from 2 pm to 4 pm.
Program
14.00-14.10 Welcoming words and introduction, Paula Toppila (IHME Helsinki), Chair of the Sustainable Visual Arts Network, FI/ENG
14.10-14.35 SWAMP Vera Kavaleuskaya and Adel Kim. 15 min talk +10 min Q&A. In English.
SWAMP: Art Material Swap and Waste Management Point is a material bank for second-hand art supplies and stuff. SWAMP is located in Pasila, Helsinki, and will be open to the public on the 10th of October, 2024.
The project collects reusable items from individuals and organizations in one location and makes them accessible to other art workers for free. By creating this space, our objective is to decrease the environmental impact of the Helsinki art industry and to contribute to the financial sustainability of artists and art institutions.
swamp-swap.art
instagram.com/swamp_swap
Co-founders:
Vera Kavaleuskaya is a weary curator who dreams of running a garage.
Adel Kim is a curator, manager, researcher of artists’ residencies, and a girl moss.
14.35-15.00 Taidekansallispuisto, Laura Mellanen, 15 min talk + 10 min Q&A. In English.
Art National Park initiative is a campaign for a new art themed national park in Hyrynsalmi and Puolanka. The ridges of Kainuu form a nationally important nature areas. Nature needs protection, Kainuu needs sustainable tourism and ecological transition needs art. Because of the unique ecosystems, high ecological and cultural values of the area, a national park has been planned to this particular area for over two decades. In addition to nature values, the new initiative could emphasise and build ecosocial wellbeing through art and culture.
Laura Mellanen is a context artist, arts-based-developer and coordinator of the Vaara-Kainuu Art National Park initiative preparation at Mustarinda-seura ry, where she contributes to the communal, substantive and political preparation of the project.
https://www.taidekansallispuisto.fi/
15.05-15.30 Stages, Rogério Nuno Costa, 15 min talk + 10 min Q&A. In English.
STAGES (Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift) is an ambitious sustainable theatre experiment to re-imagine how the cultural sector interacts with the concept of sustainability. From 2022-2025, 14 influential theatre and academic organisations, including a European theatre network, will collaborate and tour urgent new performances on the climate crisis. What makes STAGES unique is that no people or items will move as part of the tour, even as it travels to stages around Europe and as far afield as Taiwan.
In addition, each partner venue will use lessons from ‘Doughnut Economics’ to analyse and transform their buildings and working practices – and experiment with new ways of making theatre alongside scientists and audiences.
Rogério Nuno Costa is Helsinki-based performance artist, theatre director, writer, researcher, pedagogue and curator from Portugal. His para-artistic work is of a hybrid and cross-disciplinary nature, exploring and problematising the fields of performing arts and literature at their intersections with philosophy, art theory, communication sciences and documentation practices. Following an invitation by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Portugal), he joined the project STAGES in 2023, operating as artist/researcher within the segment “Germinations”.
15.30-16.00 Change of the chairs of the network: this year’s chairing organizations (IHME Helsinki and Frame) will thank and the 2025 chairs (Kunsthalle Helsinki and Finnish Artists’ Association) will introduce themselves and tell about their plans.
Organisations and associations can join the Sustainable Visual Arts Network throughout the year. New members are are admitted to the network in network meetings.
For more information about the network and many other interesting facts about climate action in the arts, visit the Green Art website.
The Sustainable Visual Arts Network is co-chaired this year by IHME Helsinki and Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
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