[H-verkko] Rovaniemi, The North as a Meaning in Design and Art

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The North as a Meaning in Design and Art

Rovaniemi, Lapinkävijäntie 4
30.10.2015 klo 11:00 – 31.10.2015 klo 20:00
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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

 

This seminar 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
maija.makikalli at ulapland.fi / +358-(0)40-4844390.

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 Who Lived in
Lapland and was 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 Iterpretations

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 reindeer antler knife or a traditional Saami-scarf
from China: The 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/

 

 

 

Tiedustelut: Maija Mäkikalli (maija.makikalli at ulapland.fi), puhelin
+358-(0)40-4844390
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