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APPLY FOR MUSTARINDA ARTIST / WRITER / RESEARCHER RESIDENCIES
Next deadline for Mustarinda AIR is 1.–31.3.2012.
You can apply for two periods: August–September 2012 or February–March 2013.
>> http://mustarinda.fi/en/society/residency
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Aurora borealis
Sun is now very active which means that there will be lot's of Aurora borealis /Northern Light also in Mustarinda. Today especially will be heavy solar storm which might cause also problems with electronic equipment, cell phones etc. You can read the latest news from and statistics from these sites:
http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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MUSTARINDA NEWSLETTER January 2012
Mustarinda 2012 events have found their place in the calendar.
>> RESIDENCE AND INTERNSHIPS
In January-March the Mustarinda house welcomes local and international artists in residence. This winter and early spring the residents are Jim Holyoak (Canada), Megan Hepburn (Germany), Lucy Atherton (England), Kyle Riedel (USA), Melanie Taylor (Australia), Matthew Gribbon (USA) and Jukka Hautamäki (Finland). Intern: Irina Kaldewey (Germany). So far, the summer residents are Eric Cruikshank (Scotland), Maija Muinonen and Maria Kajava (Finland), and Martha Dalla Via (Italy) and Lucia Veronesi (Italy).
The next application period for residences occuring in August-September 2012 and February-March 2013 is March 1-31 2012. For more information on how to apply will be posted on our website from the beginning of February onwards. Outside of these dates the Mustarinda house can be rented as a space for independent work/projects. Present your ideas and ask for more information>> info@mustarinda.fi
Mustarinda is happy to accomodate interns. For more information write to us>> info@mustarinda.fi
>> EVENTS IN 2012
In January and May Mustarinda house hosts workshops by the Kajaani theater performing arts professionals and
students>> www.g-voima.fi/ktt.html
March through April Mustarinda is involved in the IHME Days (program will be published in February)
>> www.ihmeproductions.fi/
In June, Mustarinda house hosts the Green Gold Workshop>> registration and information http://www.greengoldworkshop.eu/
In June Mustarinda will host its third summer exhibition. The theme and the artists will be published shortly. The exhibition will be constructed with the help of international volunteer workers.
In July Mustarinda house will host the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation's International Youth Camp.During the summer there will also be opening of the new vista-tower, a Mustarinda-day for local people, and summer festivals.
>> MUSTARINDA YEAR 2011
The upstairs studio space was completed in the spring of 2011.
● 25 resident artists and researchers
● Mustarinda participated in the Supermarket 2011 art fair event in Stockholm, as well as alt_cph11 art fair in Copenhagen
● Mustarinda was invited as an artist group to carry out works at Asilo Bianco Art Center in
Ameno, Italy
● The Winter Exhibition at Mustarinda house showed works by Kalle Leino and Wang Ya-
Hui. The exhibition went on to be shown in Taipei, Taiwan.
● World images in science shaping art environmental relationships and Visual ecocritical
opportunities in visual arts - seminars, together with the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
● Visits to Vuokkiniemi and Kostomuksha in Russia to establish cooperation in arts and
protection of forests
● Presentation at the EGOS organizational research conference in Gothenburg: Good
Intensions, Market-Making Practices, and Old-Growth Forests.
● Presentation in the Hollo Institute's Arts and Economics Seminar at the Kiasma Theatre
● The Summer Exhibition: Terike Haapoja, Sanna Kannisto, Henni Kitti, Jussi Kivi, Pekka
Niittyvirta, Outi Pieski
● Sponsors: Education and the Ministry of Culture employment support, Finnish Arts
Council, Arts Council of Oulu, the Finnish Cultural Foundation
● In the Media: City magazine in Sweden 27/02/2011: "Art Supermarket favorites
come from Finland ... Mustarinda located in the hilly forests of the north-east Finland …"
● Mustarinda collaborated with the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation to make a
proposal for the protection of UPM's forests in Paljakka.
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A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS – trailer
A trailer of a movie directed by Ben Rivers & Ben Russell that has been partly shot around Mustarinda >> vimeo.com/32750656
"From pagan re-enactors to Scandinavian communes, black metal concerts to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS is an inquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular world.
Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (LICHENS) and co-directed by Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA), A SPELL is a feature-length film that lies between fiction and non-fiction, a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the now.
+Coming In Summer 2012+"
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Artists in residence, winter 2012
Check info of the artists coming to Mustarinda this winter >> www.mustarinda.fi/en/residency/Artists
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New Rules of Art Policy and Other Fantasies Seminar
Antti Majava gives a presentation on 12.10 at 9.30.
FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange will hold the seminar New Rules of Art Policy and Other Fantasies at the CIRKO Centre in Suvilahti, Helsinki on the 12th and 13th of October 2011. The themes of the seminar will be the challenges of art and art institutions, internationality, collaboration and adaptability in a changing economic and political climate. Discussion in art addresses the creative economy, the role of art education, nationality and innovations. The seminar considers how these aspects are realized in art on an everyday basis.
Art and the art world have a great deal of written and unwritten rules. In this seminar, each invited speaker will present a proposal for improvement or change, a new fictive rule. The presentations will be followed by panel discussions in which the seminar audience can also participate.
The speakers will include Paco Barragán (Curator/Associate Editor of ARTPULSE, Spain), GILFER (Artist, Spain), Andrew Hetherington (Project Director, Business to Arts & Fund it, Ireland), Noel Kelly (Curator/Critic/Chief Executive Officer, Visual Artists Ireland, Ireland), Antti Majava (Artist/Chairman and Co-Founder of the Mustarinda Association), Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (Chief Curator, The Finnish Museum of Photography), Max Ryynänen (Critic/Gallerist/Lecturer in the Theory of Visual Culture, Aalto University School of Art and Design), Riiko Sakkinen (Artist, Finland/Spain) and Sakarias Sokka (Lecturer in Cultural Policy, University of Jyväskylä).
The seminar will be held in English and will be open to all interested participants (free entrance).
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Mustarinda in Alt_Cph11 16.–18.9.2011
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Pictures from Mustarinda
Photos by Joanne Pang during her AIR in Mustarinda fall 2011
http://joannepangmustarinda.tumblr.com/
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Mustarinda recommends
Mustarinda members Elina Tuhkanen is exhibiting in NATIONALE in Portland (USA) and Antti Majava in Helsinki. Welcome!
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Heleen & Sjoukje's blog
Two of our artists-in-residence Heleen VD Hoogt and Sjoukje Gootjes, have launched a blog.
To check out what they have been up to, go here.