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Reading circles, workshops ja guided tours

READING CIRCLES

On Wednesdays 5–7 pm
20.3. / 3.4. / 10.4. / 17.4. / 24.4.


In collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Language: All other meetings in English, the meeting on the 17th April in Finnish
Process space, The Finnish Museum of Photography
Admission to the meetings is free.
Admission to the festival exhibitions with the museum ticket / Free admission with Museum Card.

In open reading groups, researchers and artists will engage with the public, reading texts that deal with photography-related influencing and activism. Asko Lehmuskallio, Antti Majava, Mirjami Schuppert, Hanna Weselius and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger will discuss their chosen texts with the audience. 

Reading Circles Schedule and Texts:


20.3. Asko Lehmuskallio 
 text: Sekula, Allan. "The Body and the Archive." October 39 (1986): 3-64.

Asko Lehmuskallio works as Associate Professor in the New Social Research Programme at Tampere University. Starting in April, he will serve as Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

3.4. Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger
text: Aria Dean, "Closing the Loop," The New Inquiry. March 1, 2016. 
thenewinquiry.com/closing-the-loop

Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, PhD, works as a Professor of Exhibition Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts /University of the Arts Helsinki. She is also responsible for the MA-program for curatorial studies, Praxis. Former she worked as the Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography. Rastenberger is a artistic co-director and co-founder of 'The Festival of Political Photography'

10.4. Mirjami Schuppert
text: Ariella Azoulay, "The Potential History: Thinking through Violence," Critical Inquiry 39, no.3. Spring 2013: 548-574. 
http://f.cl.ly/items/1U2G0b0n1Y0E0w3D103b/Potential%20History.pdf

Mirjami Schuppert is a curator and academic. Since 2010, she has been working as an independent curator delivering numerous exhibitions in Finland, Germany and Northern Ireland in off-site venues, galleries and museums. She successfully completed a practice-based PhD in curating (2016, Ulster University). Her research explored the critical potential of artistic interventions into photographic archives and the curator's role in this process. Her current research is concerned with ethics of curating. The focus of Schuppert's curatorial practice is commissioning new context and site-specific works in any medium. She is interested in time and its cyclicality; how the past, present and future coexists in and through works of art.

17.4. Antti Majava
text: Sampo Soimakallio: Biomassan energiakäyttö: vaikutukset hiilinieluihin ja ilmastopäästöihin 
https://koneensaatio.fi/wp-content/uploads/Soimakallio_Arktinen_murros_s91-124.pdf

Antti Majava is an artist (Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts) and phd candidate in Helsinki University (Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences). He is a co-funder of Mustarinda Association and BIOS -research unit where he currently works.

NB. This meeting will be in Finnish.

24.4. Hanna Weselius
text: Joanna Zylinska: "Photography after the Human", (Chapter 3) in Nonhuman Photography, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, pp. 81–101, 2017.

Hanna Weselius (Ph.D.) is University Lecturer of Photography at Aalto University, where she teaches critical photography, documentary photography, and writing as a method of research.
With a background in photojournalism and visual arts, she is a writer on and off photography in the contexts of journalism, artistic research, and fiction.

︎ download text Joanna Zylinska: "Photography after the Human", (Chapter 3)