KORU6 SEMINAR 17.-18.8.2018

Seminar program contains artist lectures and expert lectures in related fields. The loose frame around these two days is about the current themes in contemporary jewellery world and more importantly, what will be relevant in contemporary jewellery field in the future?

 

Place: Faculty of Fine Arts, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Tietäjänkatu 5, Imatra, Finland.

(changes in content are possible)

 

FRIDAY 17.8.2018

 

• 10:00 registration
• 10:30 welcoming words
• 10:40 Creativity Is a Myth, Julia Maria Künnap (EE), artist
• 11:30 Heli Kauhanen (FI), Arts Promotion Center Finland
• 12:00 lunch & jewellery lottery
• 13:15 Exploring Hair as a Material, Carla Castiajo (PT), artist, PhD
• 14:00 Carin Reinders, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
• 14:30 coffee & jewellery lottery
• 15:00 Mittens and other stories, Eija Mustonen (FI), silversmith
  
  
• 15:45-16 final words
• 17:00 KORU6 exhibition opening Imatra Art Museum

 

 

SATURDAY 18.8.2018

 

• 10:00 registration
• 10:30 welcoming words
• 10:40 But if the Crime is Beautiful, Lauren Kalman, (US), Artist and Associate Professor at Wayne State University
• 11:30 Artist talk, Maria Nuutinen (FI), jewellery artist MFA
• 11:45 lunch
• 13:00 Current Obsession (NL), jewellery phenomenon
• 13:45 Can neuroscience help understand art?, Minna Huotilainen (FI), neuroscientist, professor of educational sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
• 14:30 coffee
• 15:00 Artist talk, Octave Vandeweghe (BE), something between artist, designer, maker, craftsman, silversmith, goldsmith, blacksmith, stonecutter, professional, amateure, enterpreneur, photographer, photoshopper, dispatcher, scrap collector, investigator, cultivator, restorator,administrator, wanabe archeologist and pretentious anthropologist
• 15:15 Now and then, Sofia Björkman (SE), artist, gallerist, curator, AJF Board member
  
  
• 16:00 final words

 

Participation fee:  2 days 100 € / 50 € for students, 1 day 50 € / 30 € for students

For workshop participants 2 day seminar 60 € / 40 € for students

 

Price includes coffee and bun, lunch is not included.