This November Frame is organizing a series of events offering international contemporary art professionals a platform to discuss their practice and current topics in contemporary art during their visit to Finland. All events are in English and open to the public free of admission. Welcome!
Frame Espresso: Collectivity Beyond Global North
With Renée Mboya, Asep Topan and Christopher Wessels
Tuesday 6 November 2018
10 am–12 noon
Sinne (Iso-Roobertinkatu 16, Helsinki)
This year Frame’s Espresso discussion series has focused on the role of collective practices in contemporary art amidst today’s ongoing societal transformations. In spring, we discussed collectivity as a way of organizing and acting within artist-run initiatives as well as in the context of institutional values and the aims of small and midscale institutions.
This discussion was based on the Agencies of Art report by curator and theorist Jonatan Habib Engqvist and curator, critic and writer Nina Möntmann. The report looks into the artistic, social, societal and economic significance of contemporary kunsthalles within a Nordic context.
Collectivity Beyond Global North expands the scope of the discussion by viewing collectivity not only as way of working and organizing as a locally rooted phenomena, but also as a practice that has the potential to challenge normalized geographical and cultural divisions.
Collectivity Beyond Global North will open with presentations by Renée Mboya and Asep Topan on collective artistic organizations and practices in Nairobi and Jakarta. Writer, curator and filmmaker Renée Mboya will speak about the evolution of Weaving Kenya, a feminist collective formed in 2012 as a staging ground for women’s collaborative and cooperative creativity. Curator Asep Topan, who is currently on a HICP residency in Helsinki, will briefly present historical aspects of collectivity in an Indonesian art context, from the independence struggle to the post-dictatorship period.
These presentations will be followed by a commentary by cinematographer, cultural worker and artist Christopher Wessels, who will reflect on the Museum of Impossible Forms and current practice of the Miracle Workers Collective.
Collectivity Beyond Global North is the last discussion in the Frame Espresso series. Frame’s programme will be renewed in 2019.
An evening with HICP resident Cory Scozzari
Tuesday 13 November 2018
6–8 pm
Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s office
(Ratakatu 1 b A 9, Helsinki)
This evening event presents the curatorial practice of current HICP resident Cory Scozzari, who is both a curator and artist. He is the founding director of Cordova, a curatorial project initiated in 2016 in Vienna. He is currently located in Barcelona and in residence at Fundacio Antoni Tapies. He now works as a curator, and from 2015–2017 worked as assistant curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21).
He was a founding member and co-director of Jupiter Woods, London/Vienna from 2014–2016. He received his BFA in photography from SCAD in 2010 and his MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths in 2015. His recent exhibitions include HAPPINESS: with Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, Tarwuk and Viktor Timofeev at Art-O-Rama in Marseille and Hopes and dreams for the future with Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho in collaboration with Harry Burke at Cordova in Barcelona.
In Waves – Residency of feminist curating
Monday 26 November, 7–9 pm
Hanaholmen Cultural Centre
(Hanasaarenranta 5, Espoo)
The Hanaholmen Cultural Centre has invited feminist curatorial duo nynnyt to curate a residency programme as part of their ongoing artistic programme.
The In Waves feminist curating residency opens on November 26 with an event inviting Finnish art professionals to visit Hanaholmen and meet the international residency guests, including the invited workshop hosts curator Helena Reckitt, artist-activist Timimie Märak and the artist collective Read-in.
The programme for the public event on Monday evening at 7–9 pm includes a WATERFALL 7 performance by Anne Naukkarinen and Maarit Mustonen, introduction of the residency group and small cocktail bites. Registration open for 30 people. Please register to the event here by November 23.
The event is hosted in collaboration with nynnyt, Hanaholmen and Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
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Image (from left): Christopher Wessels, Asep Topan and Renée Mboya.