The North as a Meaning in Design and Art
International Conference on the History of Design and Design Culture
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Tapio Wirkkala and Rut Bryk
Venue: Korundi House of Culture, Rovaniemi, Finland 30.-31.10.2015
Excursion: Särestöniemi, Kittilä 1.11.2015
The conference will focus on the meaning of the North in industrial arts, design or visual arts, probing the significance of the North for artists and designers and their work. On a broader level, it will examine the importance of the North in conscious efforts by national or regionally identified industrial arts or art to distinguish themselves in the field of Western industrial arts, design and visual art. What has the North meant to design and art – to individual artists and their art and to national and regional design and art cultures? During the conference an exhibition presenting the art of Tapio Wirkkala will be opened in the Korundi House of Culture, part of the Rovaniemi Art Museum. The exhibition is being arranged by the Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation.
http://www.ulapland.fi/InEnglish/Units/Faculty-of-Art-and-Design/Faculty-of-Art-and-Design/Conference-The-North-as-a-Meaning-in-Design-and-Art
Seminar is free of charge, registration in advance by the 16th of October [log in to unmask]
Organizers: Art and Cultural Studies, University of Lapland, and Rovaniemi Art Museum in collaboration with the Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation
Programme
Friday the 30th October
Concert hall
11:00-12:15 Welcome Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja
Keynote Harri Kalha: Noble Savages, Children of Nature: Finnish Design and the Fantasy of the North
12:15-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Sessions 1 and 2
Session 1
Concert hall
Virginia Cartwright: Aalto's Quiet Light
Julle Oksanen: Northern Hemisphere and Shadow Design
Hannu Tikka: Appearances of Ultimate Echoes in Architecture
Session 2
Art exhibition hall, 2nd floor
Alison J. Clarke: Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir: The Influence of Finland’s North on 1960s Radical Design
Anne Blond: Exploring Hans J. Wegner as an artist designer: the importance of art and nature in the furniture of the Scandinavian design icon
Leena Svinhufvud & Susanna Thiel: Northern Perspectives in the Design Museum Collections
Concert hall
17:00-18:00 Keynote Juhani Pallasmaa: The Power of Place: The Northern Dimension
18:00-20:00 Opening of the STILL/LIFE – Tapio Wirkkala Retrospective Exhibition.
Saturday the 31st October
Concert hall
10:00-11:15 Keynote Ysanne Holt: Rethinking the Peripheries: the visual and material culture of north
11:15-12:30 Keynote Juha Ridanpää: Postcolonial Critic and the North in Geographical Imaginations
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Sessions 3 and 4
Session 3
Concert hall
Hautajärvi, Harri: Romantic Lapland built for tourists – National romanticism in architecture and interiors
Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja: Reidar Särestöniemi – The Artist lived in Mid of Lapland and inspired by Northern Nature
Marja-Terttu Kivirinta: The significance of North in the art of Jaakko Heikkilä
Session 4
Art exhibition hall, 2nd floor
Sophie Dietrich: Aesthetics of Darkness
Eija Timonen: Perception of ice and its mythological interpretations
Sisko Ylimartimo: Mythical Northernnes and Symbols of Impossibilities in Some Illustrations for the Kalevala
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Sessions 5 and 6
Session 5
Concert hall
Sigga-Marja Magga: A handmade "sarvituppipuukko"-knife or a traditional Sami-scarf from China: The traditional Sami handicraft in transition
Heidi Pietarinen: Northenness in the art of international textile designers - Marianne Strengell and Marjatta Metsovaara
Heli Tuovinen: Northern Colours, Design and Myths: Textil designer Elsa Montell’s modernized “raanu”-weaving
Session 6
Art exhibition hall, 2nd floor
Maria Huhmarniemi: Artists facing Polar Bears and Lemmings – art&sci expeditions in the Arctic
Nadezhda Pavlova: The graphic projects of the visual identity for north Russian towns
Sunday the 1st of November
Excursion
(extra fee 20 euros, incl. bus, entrance fee and coffee)
9:00-16:00 Visit to Särestöniemi Museum, the home and studio of artist Reidar Särestöniemi (1925-1981), Kittilä
http://www.sarestoniemenmuseo.fi/english/
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