WHAT DO WE WALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ART IN PUBLIC SPACE?
Opinn fyrirlestur með Mika Hannula. Fyrirlesturinn fer fram á ensku og er öllum opinn.

(English below)

Performatívur fyrirlestur Hannula er ferð með viðkomu á fjórum stöðum þar sem listaverk í almenningsrými eru virkjuð og efnisgerð. Áherslan er lögð á inngrip (interventions) og gjörðir sem móta og gera afmörkuð afstæð rými að ákveðnum stöðum innan hins eina, hikandi en magnaða sífellda augnabliks.

Viðkomustaðirnir eru fjórir: Helsinki, München, Teheran og Zagreb. Hannula mun kynna fjögur verk í opinberu rými sem eru staðsett, tengd og félagslega og sögulega meðvituð með þeim hætti að þau vita hvað þau gera þegar þau gera það sem þau gera. Þessi verk renna ekki lárétt,heldur kafa dýpra og dýpra inn í samhengi samhengisins í tíma og rúmi.

Í fyrirlestrinum er með aðstoð myndefnis og hugkorta, tekist á við spurningar á borð við: Hvað er almennings? Hvað er rými? Hvernig spilar þetta tvennt saman og hvað gerist þegar því er skeytt saman? Markmiðið er ekki að skilgreina þurrar staðreyndir, heldur að varpa ljósi ámögulega hreyfingu frá því sem er (almennt, algengt, einsleitt) til þess sem verður (sértækt, tímabundið, ákveðið).

Mika Hannula er sýniningarstjóri og rithöfundur. Hann gegndi áður stöðu prófessors í listrannsóknum við Gautaborgarháskóla og stýrði Listaháskólanum í Helsinki á árunum 2000-2005. Hannula var einnig stjórnarformaður í KUNO, samstarfi listaháskóla á Norðurlöndunum. Hannula sýningarstýrði Eistneska skálanum á Feneyjatvíæringnum 2007, sýningunni Situated Self í Belrade og Helsinki og hefur einnig stýrt sýningu í Kling&Bang. Hann hefur gefið út fjölda bóka og á meðal þeirra eru Politics, Identity and Public Space – Critical Reflections In and Through the Practices of Contemporary Art (Utrecht School of Art, Expodium, 2009), Tell It Like It Is – Contemporary Photography and the Lure of the Real (University of Gothenburg, 2011) og Politics of Small Gestures (art-ist, Istanbul, 2006). Hannula býr og starfar í Berlín.

Frekari upplýsingar er að finna hér: www.mikahannula.com

 

On Friday the 7th of October at 1 pm an open lecture by the curator and writer Mika Hannula will be held at the Department of Fine Art, Laugarnesvegur 91.

WHAT DO WE WALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ART IN PUBLIC SPACE?

This performative lecture will take you to different sites and situations in which art in public space is activated and actualized. The focus is on interventions, actions that shape and make a certain abstract space into a particular and singular place – for that ever hesitant yet powerful moment.

The tour will stop at the following locations: Helsinki, München, Teheran and Zagreb. I will walk you through four cases of art in public space that are situated, committed and socially and historically aware of what they do when they do what they do. They do not slide horizontally, these acts dig deeper and deeper into the conditions of conditions within a given time and place.

The talk is conducted, with the help of images, as a huge mind map. It will, nevertheless, begin with an outline of the productive dilemma: What is a public? What do we mean with space? And yes, how do these two notions interact and what happens when they are put together? The aim is not to manufacture static definitions but to highlight the potential move from what is (general, common and generic) to what is about to become (specific, temporal and particular).

Mika Hannula (Born 1967) is a writer, curator, teacher and art critic. He was a professor for artistic research at the faculty if fine, applied and performing art at the university of Gothenburg, Sweden 2005-2012. Through the years 2000-2005 he was the director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, also acting then as the chairman of KUNO, Nordic network of Art Academies. Hannula lives and works in Berlin.

He holds a PhD in Political Science and is the author of numerous articles and of several books on contemporary art. He was the curator for the Estonian Pavilion at Venice Biennial 2007 and curated the show Situated Self with Branko Dimitrijevic in Belgrade and in Helsinki the year 2005. He also curated the show on artistic research called Talkin Loud and Saying Something – Four Perspectives into Artistic Research in Gothenburg in 2008. In 2012 he curatoed, again with Branko Dimitrijevic, the 53rd October Salon in Belgrade called Good Life.

Books include: Artistic Research Methodology, Narrative, Power, and the Public, with Juha Suoranta and Tere Vadén, Critical Qualitative Research series, Peter Lang 2014, Läsnäolo – Taide arjessa, (Being-in-the-World – Art and the Everyday) Taide kustannus 2012, Politics, Identity and Public Space – Critical Reflections In and Through the Practices of Contemporary Art, Utrecht School of Art, Expodium 2009, Tell It Like It Is – Contemporary Photography and the Lure of the Real, University of Gothenburg (2011) Politics, Identity and Public space, Expothesis (2009), The Politics of Small Gestures, art-ist, Istanbul (2006), and Rock the Boat - Localized Ethics, the Situated Self, and Particularism in Contemporary Art (2003, with Tere Vadén).
Further information at: www.mikahannula.com