Skills of Economy

Event for contemporary artistic and activistic reactions and ideas to economy

Seminar, Ravitolalaiva Wäiski, 3.10.2013 9.30am. – 7pm.

Skills of Economy Screenings, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts / Kaiku Gallery, 2.10.- 6.10.2013.

Economy and economic rhetorics fill up media space in the Western world. Economy has become the most important way of describing the world and measuring its progress. Skills of Economy is a project that researches and archives contemporary artistic reactions in this societal situation.

The Skills of Economy Event creates a flow of views from artists, curators, activists and theorists on current artistic production and different ideas on how mainstream and hegemonic economic thinking and reality can be challenged through artistic and activist practices. These ways can be roughly divided into symbolic and direct actions. Symbolic actions can create new representations of the visualization of economy or re-perform economic concepts, situations and habits. On the other hand, direct actions, such as time banking, may be giving form to local ways of organizing change. The effects of these actions are neither purely symbolic nor direct, instead they are in dialogue with economical rhetorics as well as with different realities and politics connected to these. The event highlights art and economy both as strong targets of politics and as media of politics.

Participants:

Jenna Sutela, Oliver Ressler, Ore.e Ref. (Eero Yli-Vakkuri and Jesse Sipola), Ruby van der Wekken, Société Réaliste, Syrago Tsiara, Teemu Takatalo, Ville-Pekka Sorsa, Visible Solutions LLC, Zachary Formwalt

Skills of Economy event is curated and organised by Jussi Koitela at the invitation of the Academy of FineArts/Dept of General Studies. Supported by Frame Visual Art Finland and INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Finland.

Seminar 

Ravintolalaiva Wäiski
3.10.2013, 9.30am. – 7pm.
Hakaniemenranta 11, 00530 Helsinki

9.30 Jussi Koitela: Opening and Short Introduction of Skills of Economy Project. 9.50 Syrago Tsiara: Value Revisited
10.30 Ville-Pekka Sorsa: Counter-performing economies?
11.10 Jenna Sutela: New Degrees of Freedom

11.30 Lunch Break

12.30 Société Réaliste: Swindling Futurity
13.10 Visible Solutions LLC: Overview of the Visible Solutions LLC’s practices and artwork–products.

14.50 Coffee Break

14.20 Ruby van der Wekken: Take Back the Economy!
15.00 Ore.e Refineries: About Copper

15.20 Break

15.50 Discussion: moderated by Jenna Sutela, commented by Paavo Järvensivu
17.15 Visible Solutions LLC: Product Presentation (performance)

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Screenings

Kaiku Gallery
2.-6.10.2013
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts mon-fri 11–19, sat-sun 12–16
Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki

2.10.
Zachary Formwalt
Unsupported Transit, 2011 14 min 25 sec

3.10.
Société Réaliste
The Fountainhead, 2010 111 min

4.10
Olivar Ressler
The Plundering, 2013 41 min

5.10.
Ore.e Refineries
“Jesse Sipola, Seppä | Blacksmith” (Parallel Ads 2), 2011 Production: Eero Yli-Vakkuri (Ore.e Refineries)
Camera: Alexandre Riviello, 08 min 6 sec

“Pneumatic Forging by Jesse Sipola”, 2011 Camera: Eero Yli-Vakkuri, Alexandre Riviello Edit: Jesse Sipola, 01 min 31 sec

6.10.
Teemu Takatalo
The Gospel of the Enlightened Consumer, 2012 50 min

Visual Artist and Curator
Jussi Koitela
+358456500857
www.jussikoitela.com