tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64831945806787361992024-03-20T00:02:39.252+02:00'Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-15751255663978403482019-12-05T11:58:00.001+02:002019-12-05T15:57:13.361+02:00They Came from the Sunti River - Ne tulivat Suntista<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunti_river_Kokkola_20190527.jpg">The Sunti</a> is a beautiful river in <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g189943-Kokkola_Central_Ostrobothnia-Vacations.html">Kokkola, Finland</a>. Here is what it looked like when I came here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a river basically made for <a href="https://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html">film noir</a>, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine my surprise when I saw the river being dredged and these came out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sunti was coughing up bikes like a smoker's phlegm. In my mind, several ideas appeared.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a187f088-7fff-e19d-568d-f89407b59ceb"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sunti yski polkupyöriä kuin tupakoitsijan limaa. Mielessäni syntyi monenlaisia ideoita.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was some ingenious art installation, perhaps by the previous artist-in-residence at the Drake. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/04/17/the-right-wing-finns-party-does-well-in-finlands-election">Finns Party</a> disposing of "foreign" bicycles. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The work of "The <b>Bi-psycho-list</b>" - a hitherto unknown serial killer ridding Kokkola's streets of annoying bicyclists who try to run people over. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tämä oli nerokas taideinstallaatio, jonka joku aiemmin Draken taiteilijaresidenssissä asunut taitelija teki.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/04/17/the-right-wing-finns-party-does-well-in-finlands-election" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perussuomalaiset</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> hävittävät "vierasmaalaisia" polkupyöriä. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psykopyörämies</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" — Tähän asti tuntematon sarjamurhaaja, joka yrittää hävittää ärsyttäviä ihmisten päälle ajavia polkupyöräilijöitä. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One local told me 54 bikes had been retrieved. This is a yearly event. It turns out the answer to the mystery is much more mundane than an edgy art exhibit or a crazed serial killer.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-55761e9e-7fff-7b72-c8fe-a0d9eb5e0248"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eräs paikallinen henkilö kertoi minulle, että Suntista löytyi 54 pyörää. Tämä on vuosittainen tapahtuma. Selvisi myös, että arvoituksen ratkaisu on arkipäiväisempi kuin ärhäkkä taidenäyttely tai hullu sarjamurhaaja. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently, Finns get drunk at the pubs and just take bikes until they don't need them and then dump them in the Sunti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But that won't stop me from writing about a crazed anti-bike killer...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ilmeisesti suomalaiset juopuvat pubeissa ja nappaavat polkupyöriä käyttöönsä, kunnes eivät tarvitse niitä enää ja hylkäävät ne Suntiin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mutta sehän ei estä minua kirjoittamasta tarinaa hullusta polkupyöriä vastustavasta murhaajasta…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sequel will feature a broom:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But now the Sunti is colder than a film noir <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FemmeFatale">femme fatale</a>, as shown by this video:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Howdy. This is playwright Bryan Stubbles. Finally, my first blog entry from the interesting, yet relatively quiet town of Kokkola. I’ve spent my time exploring Kokkola, writing a lot, learning Finnish, making friends here and figuring out which supermarket is the cheapest. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Terve. Olen näytelmäkirjailija Bryan Stubbles. Viimeinkin, ensimmäinen blogikirjoitukseni mielenkiintoisesta, mutta suhteellisen hiljaisesta kaupungista, Kokkolasta. Olen kuluttanut aikaani tutkimalla Kokkolaa, kirjoittaen paljon, opiskellen suomea, ystävystyen ja ottaen selville mikä supermarketti on halvin.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Minua pyydettiin kirjoittamaan blogia aina kun siltä tuntuu. Viime viikolla koin niin oudon tapahtuman, että siitä piti kirjoittaa. Kuitenkin oudompaa kuin se, että kaikki olettavat minun olevan ruotsalainen, kun yritän puhua suomea. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Heillä oli puvut ja he olivat meikattuja. Ensimmäinen ajatukseni oli, että naiset ovat menossa Halloween-juhlaan. Suomalaiset ovat näköjään omaksuneet joitakin pinnallisia Halloween-piirteitä Yhdysvalloista. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Halloween is my favorite holiday. I’ve even <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jLs9iaiE1wMxxopksz4blc3SVvlKq00f/view?usp=sharing">written plays about it</a>. And blog posts <a href="https://unknownplaywrights.wordpress.com/tag/halloween-plays/">on my own blog</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The women were speaking English with the owner, so I thought they might be foreigners. I told them their make-up and costumes looked really nice. They said they were doing a presentation at the local library about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Day of the Dead</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This is a Mexican holiday that lasts from October 31st to November 2nd and can be found in the US, as well.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Halloween on juhlapäivistä suosikkini. Olen kirjoittanut jopa <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jLs9iaiE1wMxxopksz4blc3SVvlKq00f/view?usp=sharing"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">näytelmiä siitä</span></a>. Ja blogikirjoituksia <a href="https://unknownplaywrights.wordpress.com/tag/halloween-plays/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">omaan blogiini</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Naiset puhuivat englantia omistajan kanssa, joten ajattelin että he ovat ehkä ulkomaalaisia. Kerroin heille, että heidän meikkauksensa ja asunsa olivat tosi hienoja. He kertoivat esiintyvänsä paikallisessa kirjastossa aiheesta <b>kuolleiden päivä </b>(Day of the Dead). Se on Meksikolainen juhla, joka kestää lokakuun 31:stä marraskuun 2:een ja sitä juhlitaan myös Yhdysvalloissa.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Älä ikinä kutsu sitä "Meksikolaiseksi halloweeniksi". Koskaan, vaikka se yhä enemmässä määrin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/mexico-day-of-the-dead-festival-mainstream"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">vaikuttaa Halloweeniin</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Muunnelmia Catrina-meikistä. Kaikki <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Jenntheglamourgirl"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">Jennifer West</span></a>in tekemiä ja kuvaamia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Catrina makeup is in imitation of a political cartoon from 1913. The point of the cartoon was that no matter how much well-to-do Mexicans copied European ways, death takes us all. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catrina-meikki imitoi poliittista pilakuvaa vuodelta 1913. Pilakuvan idea oli, että vaikka varakkaat meksikolaiset kopioivatkin eurooppalaisia tapoja, kuolema kohtaa meidät kaikki. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Kasvot, jotka käynnistivät <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Calavera_Catrina"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">tuhat kuolleiden päivä meikki-ideaa</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I said “Día de los muertos” in Spanish. She seemed happy I knew the Spanish name of the holiday. Maybe I should've told her I knew <a href="https://www.westword.com/news/what-is-the-proper-terminology-for-dia-de-los-muertos-5122320">the other name, too</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sanoin hänelle “Día de los muertos”, espanjaksi. Hän oli tyytyväinen, että tunsin juhlan espanjankielisen nimen. Ehkä minun olisi pitänyt kertoa hänelle, että tunnen <a href="https://www.westword.com/news/what-is-the-proper-terminology-for-dia-de-los-muertos-5122320"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">sen toisen nimenkin</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Kolmannella naisella oli Halloween-tyylinen noita-asuste. En saanut selville mistä he olivat, mutta englanti ei ollut heidän äidinkielensä. Ajattelin kysyä saanko ottaa heistä kuvan, mutten uskaltanut. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe I misunderstood something. I don’t think they would play a “trick” - BTW the Halloween refrain “trick or treat?” refers to the older Halloween custom of <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-halloween-was-all-tricks-no-treats-180966996/">playing tricks on people</a> during Halloween, especially if they were miserly and didn’t give you any treats. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ehkä käsitin jotakin väärin. En usko heidän keppostelleen kanssani. Muuten, halloweeniin liittyvä hokema "karkki vai kepponen?" (trick or treat?) viittaa vanhempaan perinteeseen, jossa Halloweenin aikaan <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-halloween-was-all-tricks-no-treats-180966996/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;">tehtiin kepposia ihmisille</span></a>, etenkin, jos he olivat pihejä eivätkä antaneet karkkeja. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My mind went over the possibilities of s</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ome foreign ladies celebrating Day of the Dead in Kokkola who ominously...disappear into the night. I've already started writing the play.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Aloin mielessäni kuvitella ulkomaalaisia naisia viettämässä kuolleiden päivää Kokkolassa, jotka pahaenteisesti … katoavat yöhön. Olen jo aloittanut näytelmän kirjoittamisen.</span></div>
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<br />Unknown Playwrightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16516388174817217709noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-47358512722353542972019-08-05T20:46:00.002+03:002019-08-05T21:19:55.078+03:00Two weeks in at the Drake Arts Center ResidencyThis is Justin Serulneck. I am based out of Los Angeles. My time in Kokkola has been invigorating and inspirational. For the last two weeks, I had been working on diagrams while thinking about Martha Rosler's work as well as the nature of diagrammatic artworks. I produced several digital artworks during the residency using this precious time to focus and concentrate. <br />
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The cottage the residency provides is spacious and well equipped with desks and tables and a place to cook.<br />
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I've been thinking about the nature of introspection, artistic solitude, and what it means to produce site-specific work as someone from the exterior.<br />
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Life seems calmer here than in America and people do not seem rushed. I've been interested in seeing how people who live here think about their daily life and how they spend their time.<br />
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The daylight at midnight has been amazing as the city and buildings remain illuminated by the sky far after sunset. Kokkola is a wonderful place from which to produce artwork.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-46636670173876904092019-05-27T20:00:00.000+03:002019-05-27T20:00:03.272+03:00Leaving<br />
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<br /><br />It's our last day in Kokkola and we pack our bags and clean up the cottage.<br />It's the last day we can enjoy the sea and the silence of the wood before we return to the noisy city in southern Germany.<br />I also clean up the studio and think it's so sad that I am one of the last artists to work here. The AIR program is closed for the next season and it's uncertain what happens here in future. I hope the Drake Arts Centre is able to find a new partner. <br /><br />Good bye Kokkola, it was a nice time to stay!<br /><br />If you are interested to follow my work you can visit my website www.meike-lohmann.com and follow me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/meikelohmann/<br /><br />
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monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-18396533733369923182019-05-25T20:38:00.000+03:002019-05-25T20:39:01.857+03:00white nights<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The last week has come and we will leave Kokkola soon. The time of the
white nights have begun and we are witnessing endless days that don't
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mood is significantly different than in my home country but I enjoy it.<br />
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While I'm working on my painting, my partner is making an augmented reality project. I've just uploaded a videostill but you should check out this work by Tobias Ziegler at his instagram account https://www.instagram.com/dasbomm/<br />
This Adobetool ist absolutely incredible and I can't get enough.<br />
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<br />monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-71704998014645638102019-05-22T11:37:00.000+03:002019-05-22T12:02:34.625+03:00Hike and work<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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We are now in our third week at Kokkola. Fortunately, it got warmer and we also used the nice weather to do a little hike.<br />
We have discovered a small lake on the map and have laid a route through a fairytale forest. <br />
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Striking for me was the strong spread of ice blue lichen on the forest floor, a slow growing plant that covered a large area. <br />
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It has rained so much the last few days our path was very muddy and our feet were pretty wet at some point. <br />
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Finally we reached the lake and a few distance ahead the sea.<br />
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of the other cities and the public transport is not very well equipped and very expensive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A painting of the forest - Crayon and Aquacolor on paper</td></tr>
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Nevertheless I found a lot of inspiration and I love the forest. I had a good week at the studio and painted a lot.<br />
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<br />monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-52273726273559110832019-05-17T21:37:00.000+03:002019-05-22T11:54:11.178+03:00Impressions<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Time and memory are central aspects of my work. Memories are a jumble and never completely clear; they are subjective and solitary impressions. Memories travel with us throughout our lives, telling us stories about desire, doom, and prospective. <br />
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I was very curious what Finland can offer me on this subject and, in fact, I came across an old ethmythological book right at the beginning.<br />
I found some interesting pictures of people who also gave me an impression of folkloristic clothing.<br />
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As so often, I also took a lot of pictures myself and started some small paperworks. I've experimented a lot with watercolors but also used crayons and vinyl paint.<br />
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The result is a very light and airy work with which I am quite satisfied.<br />
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<br />monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-73969056799908478142019-05-15T21:24:00.000+03:002019-05-15T21:24:10.107+03:00Hello EuropeSoon will be elections in Europe. <br />
I’ve already voted before my departure because I am not only German but also European. Europe is great and I enjoy being able to travel to Finland without borders to discover this beautiful country. <br />
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What I noticed soon is how relaxed Finns drive car.<br />Germany could learn a lot. Great are the bike paths resp the walkways are so wide that it’s comfortable and safe to drive there. In addition, the Finns drive unbelievably relaxed car. While the Germans drive often enough w<br />
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<br />monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-61343669365387780882019-05-13T21:12:00.000+03:002019-05-13T21:12:15.691+03:00At the studio<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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After some days I feel now very comfortable with my new studioplace and even painted much more than I thought.<br />An Artist in Residence is always a great chance to turn old proven things upside down. <span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">Mostly
you have to restrict yourself in the material and can not take
everything with you or buy locally. Just the transport limits what you
can do.</span></span><br /><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">I decided to work on paper and took colors with me I never used so much before: </span></span><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">Watercolor paints and crayons, but also some vinylcolors and tiny acrylics. </span></span></span></span><br /><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""></span></span></span></span><br /><br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">Usually I'm used to make my colors on my own with pigments and I even embroider the canvas.</span></span></span></span><br /><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">I've taken some embroidery threads with me but I'm not sure if I will use it here.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-63204907244182425852019-05-09T17:30:00.000+03:002019-05-13T21:23:21.419+03:00Meike Lohmann - New month new artist<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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I'm Meike Lohmann and I'm taking residence with my family at the Drake Arts Centre. I'm a painter from Germany.</div>
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The first few days we used to explore our new residental area. </div>
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It's unusual cold and we are happy to catch some sunbeams today.</div>
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Today I went to my temporary studio at the Nordic Art School. <br />
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adolescents. Unfortunately it has shut down but I have the permission to
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monodextrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693660230959407573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-12375854786485361832019-04-19T15:27:00.000+03:002019-04-19T15:27:37.062+03:00Joel Slotte: Pääsiäinen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Residenssijakson kolmas viikko on lopuillaan pääsiäisen kynnyksellä. Tein lyhyen syrjähypyn Helsinkiin alkuviikosta. Piti käydä erääseen näyttelyyn liittyvässä tapaamisessa ja päättää esitettävistä teoksista. Tapaaminen meni hyvin ja loput päivästä tein kotonani toimistotöitä.</div>
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Palattuani tiistaina päivän mittaiselta reissultani menin suoraan työhuoneelleni Pormestarinkadulle maalaamaan. Ensimmäinen maalaus oli jo käytännössä valmis, mutta lisäsin siihen muutamia yksityiskohtia. Olin alun perin suunnitellut maalaavani maalauksen hahmolle otsalle nostetut valkosankaiset aurinkolasit, mutta päätin jättää ajatuksen hautumaan ja ratkaista sen myöhemmin. Siirsin maalauksen lattialle nojaamaan seinää vasten ja keskityin toisen maalauksen jatkamiseen: farkkutakkiin pukeutuneeseen hahmoon, joka tuijottaa melkein katsojaa, vain vähän ohi.</div>
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Maalaamisen lisäksi olen tutustunut uudestaan Kokkolaan kävelemällä. Olen pysähtynyt katselemaan teollisuusalueiden myymälöitä, kirpputoreja, lounaskahviloita, omakotitalojen pihoja ja niillä kasvavia jäkäläkuorrutteisia mutta muuten alastomia omenapuita, kerrostalojen pihoja ja betoniastioihin istutettua kanervaa, pihakeinuja, lumen alta paljastuneelle kuivalle nurmikolle aseteltuja muovisia puutarhatuoleja joiden alla on lasipurkki tupakantumpeille, Neristanissa pulua saalistavaa varpushaukkaa, Harrbådan majakkaa, hilseilevää maalia ja Draken residenssin pihalla kulkevia mustavalkoisia kissoja. Olen kuin pesusieni; kaikki nämä vaikutteet imeytyvät minuun ja psyykeni alkaa suodattaa niitä hitaasti ja pikkuhiljaa alan muodostaa suodattuneista ajatuksista kuvia. Kävelyretki Kokkolassa on runsaudensarvi havainnoille.</div>
Slottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348707665516576152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-15893612377685931972019-04-06T22:58:00.000+03:002019-04-06T23:00:57.512+03:00Joel Slotte: ensimmäinen viikkoOlen kokkolalaislähtöinen, nyttemmin helsinkiläistynyt kuvataiteilija. Työskentelen pääasiallisesti öljymaalauksen, piirustuksen ja keramiikan keinoin. Olen Drake Arts Centren residenssitaiteilija huhtikuun ajan.<br />
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Ensimmäinen viikko Draken residenssissä on jo takana. Jostakin selittämättömästä syystä kuvittelin, että aika kuluisi Kokkolassa hitaammin ja että sitä olisi kaikin tavoin vain enemmän, niinkuin mielikuvissani ajoilta kun vielä asuin täällä. Ensimmäiset päivät menivät lähinnä residenssin ja työhuoneen avainten noutamiseen, ruokaostoksiin, siivoiluun ja työvälineiden purkamiseen ja järjestelemiseen Pormestarinkadun työhuoneella. Tiistai-illan vietin tyhjän, valkoisen kankaan kanssa uudella työhuoneella ja lähdin residenssille nukkumaan luonnosteltuani kankaalle muotokuvan, jossa omia piirteitäni sekoittuu tuttujen ja keksittyjen ihmisten piirteisiin eräänlaisen oivalluksen kynnyksellä olevaksi hahmoksi.<br />
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Olen itsekin ollut tämän viikon jatkuvan oivaltamisen tunteen äärellä. Haen kai synnyinkaupunkiini uudenlaista suhdetta, sillä kaupunki on muuttunut poissaoloni aikana niin paljon, että on korkea aika tutustua toisiimme uudestaan.<br />
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Keskiviikkona aloitin uuden öljymaalauksen työstämisen ja uppouduin koko päiväksi työhön. Torstaina jatkoin maalausta kunnes oli aika käydä Lasten ja nuorten kuvataidekoulun kevätnäyttelyn avajaisissa. Olen itsekin käynyt kuvista 7-vuotiaasta 18-vuotiaaksi ja saanut sieltä paljon kannustusta ja tärkeää oppia tulevaa ammattiani varten, joten oli ilo nähdä niin monen nuoren tekijän hienoja teoksia esillä kauniissa koulurakennuksessa.<br />
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Perjantain vietin jälleen työhuoneella maalaten. Hahmo sai mustan t-paidan ja maastokuvioisen liivin ylleen. Illalla vanhempani veivät minut maistelemaan viinejä Olivetteen. Kolmen viinin tasting-setti oli hyvin kuratoitu ja seura erinomaista!<br />
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Tänään lauantaina pesin kertynyttä pyykkiä, kävin pizzalla Yksipihlajassa ja korjasin muutamia itseäni häirinneitä kohtia maalauksessa. Onneksi öljymaali kuivuu (ehkä ilmaston eroista johtuen) hitaammin Kokkolassa kuin Helsingissä, joten korjaukset oli armollista toteuttaa.<br />
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Slottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348707665516576152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-16690589089539281352019-01-27T11:48:00.001+02:002019-01-27T11:48:41.817+02:00Tatjana Bladt-Cohen. Manifestations. My time in this wonderful snowy bubble is drawing to a close, and I already know I will miss the beautiful calm and the quiet this space has granted me. With this I have been able to focus in on my work, thanks to the lack of distractions, and also the impossibility of comparing myself to others. While it has been sometimes quite confronting, these weeks have allowed me to become self reliant in this respect and be more confident in the artistic choices I have made whilst here.<br />
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I began with many grand ideas, but gradually narrowed them down to the concept of manifestations being my main project whilst I’ve been here. The concept is that by naming a thing, it brings it into being. This originates from many different stories in the past, one of which was the custom in Northern European countries of calling bears ‘brown things’, for fear that naming them would magically summon them to the village and cause destruction.<br />
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Then, I overlapped this idea with Finnish folklore of the vedenemo, and will-o-wisps and N<span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-family: "roboto" , "helveticaneue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ä</span>kki etc, and local and personal family history in a series of paintings. The paintings also bring in other layers such as story vs religion, child vs adult imagination, but my overall intention is to create a piece which anyone can connect to and perhaps then use it to contribute to the tradition of story telling.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10397722468261004825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-89753979387550570832019-01-17T23:18:00.000+02:002019-01-17T23:21:46.313+02:00Tatjana Bladt-Cohen. Fairy tales, ponderings and more snow.Working alone in a big building like the Nordic Art School is a funny thing. Despite being free to choose where I work, having the space to work on a massive scale if I so wished, I find myself in the busiest room, working on the smallest paper I have. With a big table filled with delightful plants on one side, easels and chairs on the other, I have placed my desk comfortably in the middle, looking out at the snow gently falling from the opaque sky. The silence of the school, the neighbourhood and my walks in the area has been so different from the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam, and yet has been very much welcome. This past week I put pen and brush to paper, pulling together stories of my musical great grandmother, tales of Vedenemo (the ‘mother of waters’) and imagery from this beautiful place. <br />
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A week of snow and seemingly perpetual white skies. Seven days of cold fingers scrunched up in mittens, treading carefully (in my fairly-old, barely-used, now much appreciated fur-lined boots) along icey paths scattered intermittently with gravel to aid pedestrians, but which then freezes again in a rather counter-productive manner, resulting in near collisions between my backside and sidewalks of death as I explored this lovely little town of Kokkola.<br />
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My name is Tatjana Bladt-Cohen, and I am a multi-faceted visual artist and writer drawing from a multi-faceted background. Before I arrived as the January ‘Artist-in-Residence’ here at the Drake Arts Centre, I was ambitious. I had enjoyed a lovely Christmas break in the sun in France, and I was ready to start the year running. I had so many ways in my mind that I wanted to connect this small town to the migration of the last 3 generations of my family, to the stories that have been written and those that I wanted to write, and to the beautiful landscapes of snow and isolation.<br />
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What I wasn’t prepared for was how this town, the light, the atmosphere, the weather would affect my thoughts and processes. I quickly became aware that approaching my time here ‘running’ was not going to work... Since this realisation it has been interesting to see how my ideas have changed and yet remained constant through this past week. The snow just makes everything quiet. The low light and early sunsets make the days so much shorter and the ice makes (the inexperienced) travel at a slower pace.<br />
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I'm nearing the end of my restful residency in Kokkola. It's been a wonderful and generous experience, so I really am thankful for those who made it possible, such as Stina and Meri :-)<br />
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Though we mainly stayed in Kokkola the whole time, we did have a trip to Helsinki and the snow covered sand dunes and splitting ice around Karhi, thanks to Clas-Olav and his wife Tarja. I also went ice hole swimming after sweating it out in the sauna with Clasu and Tarja, which was so invigorating! I would highly recommend, at least once. I met Clasu, after he photographed me when I was interviewed for one of the Finnish newspapers. He's great at what he does! I actually, unexpectantly, got quite a lot of press coverage for a couple of different newspapers when I was here, so thank to Stina, Jessica and Anni for making that happen! It was lovely to see people interested in what I do, and very rewarding :-)<br />
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Here are some photos of my festive stay, with some lovely colours!<br />
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Take care,<br />
Dide<br />
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I've just been experimenting with overlaying photos of coral and snow, as diseased bleached coral look like underwater snowscapes to me and I thought it might be an effective way of bringing this to the fore in hopefully inciting change.<br />
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-79596194719885723982018-12-24T16:19:00.000+02:002019-01-04T14:48:26.344+02:00Dide Siemmond - Hello Kokkola<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello Kokkola,<br />
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We've been here for 2 weeks now and are loving it: the cosy Christmas creativity, the crisp snow air and the lazy fantastical slumber of darkness...<br />
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I've mainly been experimenting with melting metal for sculptures and paintings as a bit of side fun. The paintings revolve around ideas concerning freezes, such as brain freezes and freezing moments in time, to address our approach to mental health. I might compose music too, but not sure. Most of my exploring has been sculptural, and I've written some poems too. Here's one like a beetle with a poem inspired by it and Finnish life to go with it. It evolves both a Finnish and Asian tradition. As well as this, I had an idea to create a platform called #creatorsofchange, which I launched last week.<br />
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So far I am being inspired by Finnish culture and history as interpreted by me, Arto Passilinna, Väinö Linna, the Moomins. We've been watching Finnish films and reading Finnish books, and I've seen the St Lucia celebrations and sung Finnish Christmas songs in the church - all new to me :-) We've done everything around the town, from the sea, to museums, eating Finnish fare and even archery, so only a wood sauna left to do, and maybe some ice-skating if it gets cold enough. Here are some photos of Kokkola in the snow :-) Hoping for more snow, fingers crossed!<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Dide<br />
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-35199363082581674562018-10-26T12:31:00.000+03:002018-11-07T12:32:47.799+02:00Sven Domann, Kokkola- Liquid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-7277393652411144962018-10-24T13:29:00.002+03:002018-10-24T13:30:09.088+03:00Sven Domann - Last days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-74674811261813290142018-10-18T12:53:00.002+03:002018-10-18T12:53:55.330+03:00Sven Domann - Liquid <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-33095476200125759542018-10-17T12:32:00.003+03:002018-10-17T12:32:26.140+03:00Sven Domann - Wildfire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-65106765970624474612018-10-12T13:13:00.001+03:002018-10-12T13:13:14.442+03:00Sven Domann - residency guest in October<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sven Domann is our residency guest in October at Drake AC. He is a multitasking artist as he paints, writes and makes art out of photography. He enjoys biking in the surroundings of Kokkola, especially the forests, and takes nice photos of our nature spiced with some details of his own.</span><br />
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-17063787757419979492018-09-29T15:43:00.001+03:002018-10-10T12:28:18.583+03:00Kokko is saying goodbye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kokko is very sad to tell you he got some new projects </div>
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Now, he will leave you with the next coming Artist in Residency in Drake Arts Centre.</div>
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But, Kokko is moving to another BLOG, check it out on: <a href="http://www.zraven.si/">Gledališče DELA</a></div>
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Drake Arts Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962289838131455204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483194580678736199.post-1600796248975755652018-09-28T14:59:00.000+03:002018-09-29T15:21:46.480+03:00Kokko in Kokkola - day 21<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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