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Photo:
Alexandra Mitiku
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I arrived
with Lavinia on a wet Tuesday morning in Leeuwarden. We were running
late for the opening of the international week at Leeuwarden and
managed to get slightly lost. Eventually we stumbled into the
presentation room of
Minerva Academie voor Popcultuur. My first
impression of the school was how liberal they were, from discussions
to interior design. Also, how kind they were to offer free coffee.
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Photo:
Fanny Niemi Junkola
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We were a
part of the Urban Exploration Workshop. Originally we were supposed
to make only installations based on the environment, but we ended up
joining another workshop ‘Future City planning’ and consequently
our workshop description was a fusion of planning a future Leeuwarden
and making an art installation. It was an interesting twist in the
program!
During the
two days of the workshop we interviewed strangers in the street about
their ideas about their town, had interesting discussions about the
history of the town and the existence of its society, and created a
quilt-like installation in the end. The old man with the walking
stick in the image below was the most striking character. Isa arrived
right when we had come back from our excursion the first day, but she
adapted swimmingly into our discussions. We got another arrival on
the second day by our teacher Fanny. She helped organize the
proceedings of our hybrid workshop so that everyone was content with
their projects.
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| Photo: Fanny Niemi-Junkola |
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| Photo: Lavinia Colzani |
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| Photo: Lavinia Colzani |
The
intriguing electronic part of the installation was the loudest. A
program that translates images into sound presented photos taken by
Lavinia Colzani. The interactive live stream on the MacBook had a
similar idea where it recorded the movement of passersby, the video
of which was translated into sound.
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| Photo: Isa Hedez |
Now if you
are wondering about the box with the patterns, there is an
interesting story behind it. Tibor Kecskes, a teacher from Hungary,
projected the pattern of a broken security glass onto the cardboard
boxes and started to carve. He had much to say about patterns that
occur by happenstance.
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| Photo: Fanny Niemi-Junkola |
The last
day! The day we got to see what all the other workshops were up to.
We also listened to very informative lectures about sustainable
living, with follow-up debates on how to improve our atmospheres –
both social and environmental.
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| Photo: Isa Hedez |
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| Photo: Isa Hedez |
This
guy spun the wheel of fortune, a wheel of solving random problems,
like how to talk to the dead.
The last presentations were
from the music side of the Academy. There were five students from
TAMK who had also been participating in a music camp for the entire
week, making so much as four songs per day! The atmosphere was like
that of a talent show, with the judges voicing their opinions. We
were all impressed by their tunes and versatility in styles.
Text by
Alexandra Mitiku 2015
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