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BLOG: Migrating Art Academies
Write up for aesthetic workshop
Of course everybody remembers the example in philosophy class in Upper secondary school where a boy steals medicine for his sick mother. No one would let the mother die. Still, at least here in Finlan...
BLOG: Baltic-Nordic Network of Remote Art & Reside
Holiday Romance: Winter at Nida Art Colony 2013
The idea of 'remoteness' and of taking a break from normal, often city, life can be very seductive. Three months ago, sitting at my desk in a gallery in Bristol, UK, I was going through my e-mails and...
BLOG: Women Playwrights around Baltic...
Sista blogginlägget för Women Playwrights
Bästa läsare av vår blogg! Det är en tid sedan vi skrivit och mycket har hunnit hända. Vi har haft vår presentation i Stockholm i augusti och de sista rapporterna för projektet har skickats. Vi vill r...
BLOG: Migrating Art Academies
Illegal Aesthetics: blowing the art out of Tallinn
Hijacking the Ptarmigan practice over the first quarter of 2013 is Illegal Aesthetics, an ongoing laboratory executed within the Migrating Art Academies framework www.migaa.eu, purse-snatching for int...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Foraging for powerful plants around Salpa Line
My willingness to coordinate and organize the Salpa Linja camp was based on an interest in exploring other contexts for interdisciplinary expeditions related to cultural heritage, including related kn...
BLOG: Krabstadt
From Berlin to Vienna
“Whaled Women” included in the "Best 5 films @Berlinale round up" in German edition of Artinfo magazine
BLOG: Migrating Art Academies
Distributed Migrating Art Academies Network
Migrating Art Academies (MigAA) is a platform for innovation and exchange in arts teaching and research. The model uses the concept of migration – of resources, people, competencies, disciplines – as...
BLOG: Krabstadt
Whaled Women
SchlopSchlop (SS) and KK are two annoying women who work at the Office of Developement in Krabstadt, a small town located in an undefined Arctic region where the Nordic countries have sent their Unwan...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Foraging for powerful plants around Salpa Line
A hand sweeps down among the bushes and gathers ripe berries into its palm or scoop, dropping them into a small container. Sometimes, but less common, the flowering tops of a plant may be snipped and...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Soothing the wounds - A herb trail in Salpa Linja
Reina Magica: "As an artist, human, and herbalist, I felt really strongly from the experience and exploration of Salpa Linja, that out of decay comes new life, and the true abundance of the place - th...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
The tactile documentation
During the first Abandoned Mystery camp in Nida Art Colony I developed the Tactile Documentation project. It is, for me, a homage to people who died during the Second World War.
BLOG: Baltic-Nordic Network of Remote Art & Reside
A Visual-Textual Trip through Remote Baltic–Nordic Art & Residency Centres
The Baltic – Nordic Network of Remote Art & Residency Centres aims to find out what works, what does not and why, when an art centre settles in a province and wants to become a meaningful and usef...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Glory - Series of photos and texts
At the time when the Abandoned Mystery project was starting, I was working on my MA thesis as well as working on visuals for a play called "Scorched" by Wajdi Mouawad. The play focuses on the role of...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Bunker Symphony
During the Abandoned Mystery project, the idea of 'Bunker Symphony' was born. The piece is created from audible and hidden sounds, collected from abandoned places and bunkers in Kaliningrad, Lithuania...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Circularities
In the closing decades of the 19th century large numbers of Jewish emigres boarded steamboats in Eastern Europe and set sail for the West. Leaving ports such as Riga, and Libau in Latvia and arriving...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
On official knowledge of contemporary art and trauma
Abandoned Mystery is an interdisciplinary project on exploring the constitution of the phenomena of abandoned military sites in the Baltic Sea area. The title, suggestive of romantic and mystic expe...
BLOG: Women Playwrights around Baltic...
Thoughts from the rehearsals at Saaren Kartano
We arrived yesterday after a long bus ride. Everyone was exhausted, but some of us actors were quite hectic. Inspired. Almost hysterical. Anxious to start.
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Memel nord map review
On our expedition, we explored maps from a different point of view. Through entering into physical contact with the terrain and its strategic layout, in front of us lay just a small part of the whol...
BLOG: Anna Bitkina
TOK's new project 'Design Platform'
This year Creative Association of Curators TOK (St Petersburg) hasstarted its new project 'Design Platform'. It is a collaborative,interdisciplinary, research-based project, which aims to create a...
BLOG: Women Playwrights around Baltic...
Pernille Sejlund
I'm a Danish composer and singer (b. 1979) and I'm living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Atmospheres, pictures, places, stories and texts always inspire me a lot and it's very often those terms which creat...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Which is the real historical memory?
The locations we have visited so far on the Abandoned Mysteries project are often "abandoned mysteries" at first glance – uncared for, left to rot and unmarked. Nature regrows and weather takes its...
BLOG: Women Playwrights around Baltic...
Massiva och monumentala - Anteckningar från en diskussion i Moskva om kvinnliga dramatikers skrivande
Läs Sofia Aminoffs tankar om seminariet i Moskva
BLOG: MULTICOOL NORD
MULTICOOL NORD
MULTICOOL NORD er et samarbejde mellem Film fra Sør i Oslo, Antirasistiska Filmdagar i Malmö og Salaam Film og Dialog i København. De tre festivals har slået sig sammen om at zoome ind på den etniske...
BLOG: Abandoned Mystery
Exploring abandoned military objects
A first camp of Abandoned Mystery project started on the 15th of April at the Nida Art Colony. Participants from Russia, Finland, Sweden Latvia and Lithuania are invited to take part in a month-long...
BLOG: Women Playwrights around Baltic...
Följ med på resan till Stockholm!
Välkommen till vår blogg! Här kan du läsa nyaste nytt om vårt projekt.
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
The Poetry Ride blog has a new home!
I have had a great time blogging in the Nordic Culture Point’s portal. I’m grateful that I have had the possibility to reach readers everywhere in the Nordic countries and beyond through this blog....
BLOG: Vertical Gardening
Vertical Gardening / The Carpet
In the village of Dura Al Kara, between Jalazone refugee Camp and the Israeli settlement Beit El, lies a valley with fertile planting soil and a natural water supply. Here the project Vertical Gardeni...
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Missing the Riders
Oh how I miss my dear Poetry Riders! Our ride together is over but it certainly left its mark on all of us.
BLOG: Anna Bitkina
VIDEO: Expanding the territory of contemporary art in St Petersburg
We managed to put on a great public art exhibition Critical Mass after almost 2 years of preparation! A group of international artists from Nordic countries and a Baltic presented brilliant art works...
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Visby, Stockholm, Tallinn
Landing in Visby on Sunday was like landing into paradise. Or at least close to it. We were not the only guests in the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, and among the other guests there were...
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Hit the road, poet
We are on the road! The Poetry Ride 2011 started from Helsinki on Saturday, and as I write this we are heading to Visby.
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Knowing me, knowing you
One of the reasons why I’m such a devoted Poetry Rider is the aspect of really getting to know the participating poets and other hang-arounds. Networking isn’t something that automatically happens w...
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Beautiful things
Some days ago my fellow poetry rider Guntars came to visit me and brought the brand new Poetry Ride posters and flyers with him.
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
The crew is complete!
The well-spent holiday is over and I’m sitting in the in front of my computer, watching the tourists enjoying the old city of Tallinn and occasionally some drinks in a terrace accross the street. Pos...
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 9 - i Gerdas fodspor ...
Sidste dag på Svalbard var vi på vandretur på fjeldet der ligge på højre siden af Longyearbyen. En tur på 20 km. 4 1/2 time opad gennem blokmark og sne.
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 8 – Svalbard/ Pyramiden
I dag tog vi bådtur til Pyramiden, endnu en russisk mineby, som blev forladt i 1998. Pyramiden har været en sovjetisk mønsterby med svømmehal, kulturhus og gartneridrift. Nu er der ingen elektricitet...
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 7 - Svalbard/Barentsburg
Dagen begyndte helt vanvittigt. Vi var ved at komme for sent på bådturen til Barentsburg - en russisk by, hvor russiske minearbejdere stadigvæk udvinder kul her på kanten af Nordpolen.
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 6 - Signaldalen - Tromsø - Svalbard
Idag skulle vi have været ude at danse med rensdyr. Men vi kunne ikke finde flokken, fordi samekongen lod vente på sig
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 5 - Kautokeino - Signaldalen
I dag besøgte vi Frank Juhl og hans tyske kone, Regina, der i 1951 slog sin ned i Kautokeino og begyndte et lave smykker. Oprindeligt fordi, de reparerede samernes.
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 4 – Kautokeino
Fredag mødtes vi med Haukur Gunnarsson, lederen af Teater Beaivvás, i Kautokeino . Det der skulle have været et eftermiddagsmøde, blev et aftenmøde. Der gik trold i tiden, så alt trak ud.
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 3 - Kiruna
Det er morgen i Kiruna. Rundt om i værelserne på Yellow House begynder hotelgæsterne at vågne - føntørre hår og samtale . Herinde er der stille. Vi kom sent i seng igår.
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 2 Kiruna
Solen skinner og klokken er 22.17. Maja og Kamilla taler teater i haven udenfor Yellow House. De har slået håret ud - Maja ryger sågar cigaretter .
BLOG: Camilla Hübbe
Rejsebrev 1 Stockholm-Kiruna
Kulturkontakt Nord har givet instruktøren Kamilla Bach Mortensen, scenografen Maja Ravn og mig forprodukjtionsmidler, så vi kan researche til vores forestilling SNE - en eventyrligt moderne version af...
BLOG: Arts and Audiences
Konferansen Arts and Audiences kan følges på nett
Arts and Audiences er en nordisk konferanse om utfordringer og muligheter rundt publikumsutvikling og kunstneriske samarbeid.
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
What I brought back from Stockholm
Recently I had a chance to spend a day in Stockholm discussing about the Poetry Ride with our Swedish partners. It is always nice to visit Stockholm and this time was no exception.
BLOG: Arts and Audiences
Ha empati for publikummet!
I forbindelse med konferansen Arts and Audiences i Bergen i slutten av mai, har vi bedt en av bidragsyterne, Lisa Baxter, om å dele noen av sine tanker om publikumsutvikling med oss.
BLOG: Vertical Gardening
Introducing Vertical Gardening
The objectives of our 3 projects Vertical Exile (West Bank, Copenhagen & Stockholm suburbs) was not fully met: give/share different workshops and performances in a short period of time, due too m...
BLOG: Anna Bitkina
Critical Mass: how's everything started?
The development of ‘Critical Mass’ started in 2009 from a research.The research part of the project was based on my trip to Nordiccountries in winter 2009.
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Livonian poet Valts Ernstreits
Do you know how the Livonian language sounds like? Soon you will have the chance to hear that beautiful language in the Poetry Ride, when Livonian poet Valts Ernštreits reads his poems.
BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
Introducing Igor Kotjuh
We have been quite busy with our artistic director Guntars. The hard work has paid off, and some really interesting poets are participating in the Poetry Ride this year. We will also have a photograp...
BLOG: Anna Bitkina
Welcome to the Critical Mass
"Сritical Mass" is an international public art project that aims to develop and produce knowledge about public space as a platform for an open critical discussion. St Petersburg is taken as an example...BLOG: Jenni Kallionsivu
A true poetry rider
Blogging about the Poetry Ride is something I have been thinking about for a long time, so I was thrilled when I was offered the opportunity to do so in the Nordic Culture Points website.
BLOG: Nordic Culture Point at Large
Nordic Culture Point in Japan, day 5
This was my last day in Yokohama, Japan. Tomorrow I'll take the 12 o'clock flight back home to Helsinki.
BLOG: Nordic Culture Point at Large
Nordic Culture Point in Japan, day 4
The sessions are over and the market has begun. Which means that several dance/theater companies and organizations (22 all together) are presenting themselves in booths at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall and/or...
BLOG: Nordic Culture Point at Large
Nordic Culture Point in Japan, day 3
This morning I participated in a closed roundtable session together with representatives from different funding organizations and arts councils around the world.
BLOG: Nordic Culture Point at Large
Nordic Culture Point in Japan, day 2
Today I attended two different sessions, as a listener in the first one and as a speaker in the second one.
BLOG: Nordic Culture Point at Large
Nordic Culture Point in Japan, day 1
The intense day ended with a play by Tosiki Okada’s group Chelfitsch and their play The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise. It’s about a couple that lives in Tokyo. They imagine how their lives could be a...
BLOG: Nordic Culture Point at Large