Performing Places - media and embodiment in the urban environment
Venue: Theatre Academy of Finland, Haapaniemenkatu 6, Helsinki
http://www.teak.fi/
Programme
Tuesday, November 7
18-19.30 Session 1 - Critical Urban Practice
The session discusses artistic and technical practices in the urban context and and opens the seminar with a discussion of critical urban practice.
Welcome from organisers
Ari Tenhula (FI), Dance of simultaneous relations and meanings
Heidi Tikka (FI), Performing Family - on situated and techno-affective practices of mobile intimacy
Pia Lindman (FI/US), NYT in Helsinki
Panel discussion
19.30-21 Screenings/demos A: Performing Helsinki
Wednesday, November 8
9-12.45 Session 2 - Performativity
The session approaches urban space in terms of affect, performativity and politics. It further opens the agenda of the seminar through introductions to the workshops.
Nigel Thrift (UK), Turbulent passions. Towards an understanding of the spaces of political feeling
Sally Jane Norman (UK/FR), Theatres of Individuation: shaping shared aesthetic experience
Giulio Jacucci (FI/IT), Ubiquitous Interaction; Commentary - Lily Diaz (FI/VE), Cartography
Panu Lehtovuori (FI), Experiential Urbanism; Commentary - Alan Prohm (US/FI), Sites
Minna Tarkka (FI), Affected Places; Commentary: Annette Arlander (FI), Landscapes
14-17.30 Sessions 3-5 (three parallel workshops)
Ubiquitous Interaction
moderators: Giulio Jacucci, Lily Diaz
The workshop is about mobility and locative media. It discusses practices of mapping, augmenting and engaging with sites accross social and informational landscapes.
Mark Shepard (US), The Tactical Sound Garden Toolkit
John Evans (UK/FI), Aware and Loca: Letting others know where you are
Tristan Thielmann (DE), Tracking the Personal: Mapping Augmented Reality by Navigation Systems
Mauri Kaipainen (FI/EE), Blending geographical and experiential coordinates of Tallinn by means of soft ontologies
Andrew Paterson (UK/FI), Participatory and site-specific frameworks in urban art workshops
Experiential Urbanism
moderator: Panu Lehtovuori
The workshop is about changing forms of urbanism and spatial practice. It relocates the production and planning of urban space in a context defined by ephemeral/temporal processes and the frameworks of globalization and local policy.
Katherine Willis (UK/DE), Situations and Encounters. Social Technologies and Public Space
Ana Rewakowicz (CA), The modern-day nomad moves as she pleases
Taina Rajanti (FI), The Art of Studying Wormholes. Exemplary instances of social production of space in post-fordist society
Daniela Serna Jimenez (US/MX), And they perform places, don't they
Giacomo Botta (IT/FI), The city that was creative and did not know: Manchester, pop music and cultural sensibility
Affected Places
Moderators: Minna Tarkka, Annette Arlander
The workshop is about artistic and political interventions into urban and technical spaces. It discusses strategies of performance, protest and mediation in the redefinition of place.
Sher Doruff (NL), From Psychogeography to Cybertopology: Situating "Place" in the Disoriented Dérive
Lilia Del Rio (MX/EE), Last-resource urbanism: the month-long street camps in Mexico City
Sampo Villanen (FI), Appropriating places - moderate and more radical protests in Helsinki
Alejandra Perez Nunez (CL/ES), Bending Informational Circuits
Hanne-Louise Johannesen (DK), Collaborative Communicative Creative Clothing (CCCC) - urban thought and perfomative play
Rowena Easton and Mike Blow (UK), Machines for Singing - Reinterpreting the Built Environment
20-22 Screenings/demos B: Performing Elsewheres
Thursday, November 9
9-12 Sessions 3-5 continued
Ubiquitous Interaction
Julie Andreyev (CA), Drifting the City
Nis Römer (DK), Free soil bus tour of Silicon Valley -a journey trough the Utopian beginnings and environmental currents of the high tech industry
Susa Pop (DE), Mobile Studios - a nomadic multimedia production laboratory
Experiential Urbanism
Andrew Greenman (UK), The Dynamics of Affected Place: How Extended Embodied Horizons and Relational Governance Interrelate in Love City
Joanna Saad-Sulonen (FI), Spaces of policy and spaces of design: the prefix "e" for everyday life?
Alex Haw (UK), Biological and optical urbanism
Affected Places
Maciej Ozog (PL), Under the Skin. Surveillance as a theme and method of media art
Maiju Loukola (FI), Image-spaces in the Urban Environment - performative display window installation
Tomi Humalisto (FI), Performing with the Invisible
Asko Lehmuskallio (FI), Is the medium still the message? Notes on agency and mediated communication practices in urban settings
13-16 Session 6 In/Visible Cities
The session is about new forms of visibility, technicity, sociality and power in cities. It presents results from the workshops and concludes the seminar.
Adrian Mackenzie (UK), Mesh embodiments: wirelessness and the urban network-image
Hille Koskela (FI), Transparent Deviance/Empowering Exhibitionism
Reports from the workshops
Concluding panel