Research Pavilion

What will the future look like? How can we imagine future in a time that seems determined by various crises? And what will be the role of artistic research in this? The sixth Research Pavilion will culminate this December in an exploratory exhibition imagining the future together. Join us in Kuva/tila gallery in Helsinki!

Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries research exhibition | Uniarts Helsinki How can we imagine future in a time that seems determined by various crises? And what will be the role of artistic research in this? The exhibition in Kuva/Tila gallery 5–21 December is part of the…

The covid-pandemic and escalating climate change has highlighted the urgent need to better understand the global impact of human relationships with plants and other animals.
How could art and science help us understand our shared future? The Synzoochory mobile exhibition and series of mini-symposiums and workshops will convene a wide range of perspectives on human-plant-animal relationships through utilising strategies of the curatorial.

Synzoochory | Uniarts Helsinki This mobile exhibition and series of mini-symposiums and workshops will convene a wide range of perspectives on human-plant-animal relationships through utilising strategies of the curatorial.

If you are in Helsinki in November, take a ferry to Suomenlinna to listen to folk music improvisation! The members of the Into the deep collective will improvise solo and together during the event on 21 and 22 November. The music will be followed by a panel discussion about the ideas inspired by improvisation and the experience of making improvised music. Audience members are also welcome to join the discussion. The event is part of the sixth Research Pavilion and the research project is funded by Koneen Säätiö - Kone Foundation

Folk music improvisation laboratory | Uniarts Helsinki The Syvälle collective invites those interested in improvisation, folk music, and artistic research to a two-day musical event featuring music and discussions on the experience of long-form…

Please join us to cel­e­brate the cur­rent mul­ti­ple, poly­phonic, con­tra­dic­tory and lively state of artis­tic re­search in the sixth Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion!

The sixth Research Pavilion celebrates the current multiple, polyphonic, contradictory and lively state of artistic research | Uniarts Helsinki The current condition of artistic research calls for a pluriformity of approaches and manifestations, while eluding attempts towards a uniform definition. RP #6 aims at intensifying the fruitful…

What is jazz music and how to keep it alive and evolving? In our Research Pavilion's Puzzled together podcast, Professor Dana Hall talks about the colonial forces that exist in jazz education, and how important it is to teach the broader societal and historical contexts that are associated with music genres. Dana Hall is a drummer, percussionist, composer, bandleader and ethnomusicologist. He is head of jazz studies at Chicago's De Paul university and is also a visiting professor at the Sibelius Academy.

Decolonizing Jazz Education with Professor Dana Hall by Puzzled together In this episode, Professor Dana Hall talks about the colonial forces that exist in jazz education, and how important it is to teach the broader societal and historical contexts that are associated with music genres. Dana Hall is a drummer, percussionist, composer, bandleader and ethnomusicologist. H...

Voiko unelmointi olla aktivismia? Kuuntele Puzzled together -podcastimme jakso, jossa Miia Laine keskustelee kollektiivisen unelmoimisen tärkeydestä Sonya Lindforsin ja Maryan Abdulkarimin kanssa. Podcast on osa Taideyliopiston Tutkimuspaviljonki-tapahtumaa.

Miksi kollektiivinen unelmoiminen on niin tärkeää, Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim? by Puzzled together Tässä jaksossa taiteellinen johtaja Sonya Lindforsin ja toimittaja Maryan Abdulkarim kertovat heidän yhteisestä projektistaan "We Should All Be Dreaming". 2018 alkanut projekti on saanut vaikutteita afrofuturismista ja keskittyy kollektiivisen unelmoinnin potentiaaliin rakentaa parempaa tulevais...

European colonialism not only took objects but also sound from the cultures it controlled.

In Puzzled together podcast's first episode, Kenyan composer, sound artist and performer Nyokabi Kariuki gives us insight into her new album exploring language as memory, her relationship to African composers and what decolonising means in her practice as an artist. Throughout this piece you will hear parts of Nyokabi's earlier compositions, as well as a snippet of her concert in Helsinki.

Kariuki came to Helsinki for Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion artist residency to work on her new album and presented some of the new material at the Research Pavilion event.

An afternoon with composer Nyokabi Kariuki by Puzzled together This episode is an afternoon with Kenyan composer, sound artist and performer Nyokabi Kariuki, who came to Helsinki for Research Pavilion artist residency to work on her new album and presented some of the new material at the Research Pavilion concert. Nyokabi gives us insight into her new album exp...

How to explore language as memory or decolonize jazz education? Listen to Miia Laine's conversations with Professor Dana Hall and composer Nyokabi Kariuki about their art and artistic research in our Research Pavilion podcast Puzzled together.

Suomeksi voit kuunnella lisäksi jaksot unelmoinnista ja taiteellisesta tutkimuksesta!

Puzzled together • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters The Research Pavilion, an ongoing project hosted by Uniarts Helsinki, highlights the points of view of artistic research in the context of eminent contemporary art events. Puzzled together podcast introduces artists and artist-researchers who took part in the fifth Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion...

Our resident artists Elena Mazzi and Noora Sandgren both deal with questions of art and ecological sustainability by utilizing methods or hypotheses of natural sciences as part of their work. Read about their experiences in Saari residence!

Ecological sustainability in art challenges the place and position of the artist, too | Uniarts Helsinki The Saari Residence, maintained by the Kone Foundation and located in Mynämäki, seems like a natural setting for the art and ecology themes that the Research Pavilion will explore this year.

There is an increasing attentiveness in artistic research towards probing and addressing complex environmental problems. Despite the interest on the topic, the arts institutions are slow to change. What will it take for the change to happen?

Read more about Samir Bhowmik's and Jussi Parikka's Ecological thinking course and come and visit the 'As you may sense' group exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts’ Kuva/tila gallery from 12 June until 2 July!

Environmental data opens up new horizons for artistic research | Uniarts Helsinki In a world with wicked problems, we need new points of view that take us closer to a sustainable future. Samir Bhowmik and Jussi Parikka believe that artistic research can help people understand the…