Research Pavilion #5: Helsinki
Art Reserch Residency
May 2023
Research
Art Residency
Voice
Performance
Art Reserch Residency
May 2023
Research
Art Residency
Voice
Performance
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The Fiction Group – Adam Kaasa, Nicky Coutts and Jessica Wiesner – writes to prompts as its art fiction method. There will be two devices to navigate the week in Kallio-Kuninkala as generative research in progress: the impulses of punctuation and of weather.
Weather Stop Fiction Stop, is a durational fictioning that took place during a research week at the Kallio-Kuninkala Residency. There will be two devices to navigate the week as generative art research in progress: the impulses of punctuation and of weather. Both devices open up means of crossing, connecting, extending, eliding, containing, and spilling out and in through the multiples of the seemingly disparate and individuated fictionings. Fiction in this context is a foggy technology of scale, transgressing relations of size, distance, volume, or comparison through the climatic conditions of punctuation.
The Fiction Group full membership is Adam Kaasa, Nicky Coutts, Jessica Wiesner, Holly Graham and Shehnaz Suterwalla, and writes to prompts as its art fiction method. We recognize that the question of the ‘prompt’ acts as a metaphor for both being ‘puzzled together’, and the act of puzzling. Each member suggests a text, image, sound, place (the prompts are always evolving) and the group participants respond individually in writing. The texts are then collectively discussed. We approach this as a radical archival gesture for thinking about how knowledge exists, is presented, animated, reconfigured, and how we might expand the process through altering the conventions of knowledge. Language and its deployment are key, and the group use the language of fiction to write syntactically to the possibilities of ‘found’ objects and beginnings. We would like to expand the language of fiction from text to new experiments in voice and gesture.
About the Research Pavilion #5: Helsinki
Originally organised in connection with the Biennale in Venice, the fifth Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion hosted a series of artist and artist-researcher residencies during spring 2023 and culminated in an on-location event on 5 to 21 June 2023 in Helsinki. The residencies in April and May were organised in cooperation with Uniarts Helsinki, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) and the Saari Residence maintained by the Kone Foundation.
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The Fiction Group – Adam Kaasa, Nicky Coutts and Jessica Wiesner – writes to prompts as its art fiction method. There will be two devices to navigate the week in Kallio-Kuninkala as generative research in progress: the impulses of punctuation and of weather.
Weather Stop Fiction Stop, is a durational fictioning that took place during a research week at the Kallio-Kuninkala Residency. There will be two devices to navigate the week as generative art research in progress: the impulses of punctuation and of weather. Both devices open up means of crossing, connecting, extending, eliding, containing, and spilling out and in through the multiples of the seemingly disparate and individuated fictionings. Fiction in this context is a foggy technology of scale, transgressing relations of size, distance, volume, or comparison through the climatic conditions of punctuation.
The Fiction Group full membership is Adam Kaasa, Nicky Coutts, Jessica Wiesner, Holly Graham and Shehnaz Suterwalla, and writes to prompts as its art fiction method. We recognize that the question of the ‘prompt’ acts as a metaphor for both being ‘puzzled together’, and the act of puzzling. Each member suggests a text, image, sound, place (the prompts are always evolving) and the group participants respond individually in writing. The texts are then collectively discussed. We approach this as a radical archival gesture for thinking about how knowledge exists, is presented, animated, reconfigured, and how we might expand the process through altering the conventions of knowledge. Language and its deployment are key, and the group use the language of fiction to write syntactically to the possibilities of ‘found’ objects and beginnings. We would like to expand the language of fiction from text to new experiments in voice and gesture.
About the Research Pavilion #5: Helsinki
Originally organised in connection with the Biennale in Venice, the fifth Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion hosted a series of artist and artist-researcher residencies during spring 2023 and culminated in an on-location event on 5 to 21 June 2023 in Helsinki. The residencies in April and May were organised in cooperation with Uniarts Helsinki, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) and the Saari Residence maintained by the Kone Foundation.
pellentesque pharetra, lacus turpis tempus tellus, sed euismod dui risus eget nisi. Nulla nibh tellus, tempus non sapien id, rhoncus luctus dui. Nam pellentesque sem id porta eleifend. Nullam consequat lacinia diam, at venenatis tortor vehicula eu. Nulla facilisi.
Weather Punctuation Drawing, Nicky Coutts, 2022