“Of Borders and Spirit”, an exhibition about the XXXVI Finno-Ugric expedition of the Estonian Academy of Arts is open at the Museum of Occupations

The Finno-Ugric expeditions, a tradition established in 1978 by Kaljo Põllu, professor of the Academy of Arts, have been organized for several decades. Every summer, the students embark on a journey to one of the Finno-Ugric peoples and stay there for nearly a month. In the summer of 2013, the art students were conducting anthropological fieldwork in Narva, Narva-Jõesuu, Kudruküla, Ivangorod and Vanaküla. The goal was to study the borders of Narva – physical, mental as well as metaphorical – and see how the locals sense them.
The question of borders is always relevant – while separating one space from another, the border is also the junction and common ground of those spaces. A state border is more than just a signed contract – it is also something you can experience physically. This physical aspect of the border is, in fact, the focal point of the whole exhibition inspired by the humorous stories collected during the fieldwork period. How does the border smell? How does the border taste? Can you bite through the border? Is the border wearing panties?
The following people took part in the fieldwork: Kalle Keskrand, Hendrik-Julius Kits, Mihkel Reha, Eva Sepping, Ave Taavet, Madis Tuuder, and Marika Alver as the supervisor.
The expedition was funded by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Estonian Students Fund in USA.

The exhibition will be open until the end of January 2015.

For more information, please contact:
Marika Alver
+372 55529199
marika.alver@artun.ee

We would like to draw your attention to the artist talk with Fideelia-Signe
Roots on Tuesday, 13th of January at 6 pm at
EAA gallery, Freedom Square 6/8.Artist talk by Ruuda Liisa Malin, music
improvisation on piano by Gerhard Lock.
Solo exhibition The Heroine’s Yourney by Estonian Academy of Arts’ PhD
student Fideelia-Signe Roots presents stories of the masculine connoted
phrase hero. By reproducing mythological characters, the artist is trying
to disillusion the archetypal narratives rooted in the society.
At the current exhibition the artist plays mainly with two concepts: heroic
versus sexualised female body, by looking at Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)
hero’s journey model through a feminist prism. Campbell’s ideas were based
on the well-known myths which he constructed into a single so-called
monomyth, universal hero’s journey scheme which premise is the existence of
a male hero. The Heroine’s Journey represents the artist herself passing
through different variations of the hero’s journey.
Fideelia-Signe Roots’s solo exhibition The Heroine’s Journey is part of
her doctoral dissertation at the Doctoral School of Art and Design at the
Estonian Academy of Arts. Previewing the part of her doctoral dissertation is
on Wendesday, 21st of January at 2 pm at the EAA gallery. Doctoral
supervisors are Prof. Dr. Katrin Kivimaa and Prof. Dr. Tiina Ann
Kirss. Exhibition reviewers are Dr.
Margus Ott (Tallinn University) and Dr. Eve Annuk (Estonian
Literary Museum).
We would like to thank: Katrin Kivimaa, Tiina Ann Kirss, Marko Mäetamm,
Ants Käärst, Kalev Mahtra, Maria Wattel, Gerhard Lock, Kullar Viimne, Hasso
Krull.
The exhibition is sponsored by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, The Estonian
Artists’ Association and European Social Fund’s Programme DoRa.
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Freedom Square 6/8, in the courtyard of Tallinn Art Hall
Exhibition is opened 11.12.2014–21.01.2015
Tue–Sat 12–6 pm
Free entrance
Kontakt/Contact
EKA galerii / EAA gallery
Vabaduse väljak 6/8, 10146 Tallinn
GSM +3725266272
e-mail eka.galerii@artun.ee

We’re happy to announce that we’ve opened our internship applications once again. We would like to thank Estonian Academy of Art for its continued support in sharing these opportunities with its student and college networks. As we move into 2015 we continue to bring the environmental design community excellent hyper-local environmental design news, thanks to you. Please support us again in sharing our expanded opportunities with your students. We look forward to receiving applications from your highly skilled and talented student body. Applications close on Friday, January 16, 2015 and all internship opportunities can be found at the following site: http://www.globalsiteplans.com/internship. And as an added bonus, all internships are available for academic credit upon request.
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Anouk De Clercq studied piano in Ghent and film at the Sint Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Her works explore the audiovisual potential of computer language to create possible worlds, many of which have a strongly architectonic character. She has received several awards, including the International Backup Award New Media in Film in 2004 and the Illy Prize at Art Brussels in 2005. Her work has been shown in Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MAXXI, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ars Electronica, among others. Anouk De Clercq is affiliated to the School of Arts University College Ghent as an artistic researcher.
www.portapak.be
http://www.augusteorts.be/projects/43/Oh

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Public Guest Speaker Series

Quite a few well-known architects, theoreticians, critics and urbanists have given talks at this lecture series, to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought from around the globe.

The lectures are open to all students and professionals in the fields of architecture, urbanism and other spatial studies, as well as to the broader circle of those interested in the future of our living environment. The lectures are in English and they are free of charge.

The previous talks can be found at https://www.artun.ee/avatudloengud/