Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Communal Art In Action - Art workshops in Me-talo

Me-talo (in English “we-house”) is collaboration project between Me-säätiö (“We-foundation”) and the city of Tampere. Me-talo is created to bring people together to learn new skills and just to have quality time together. The goal of me-talo is to create communality and promote well-being. Peltolammi school started to have workshops and events 28th of October 2017.

TAMK´s students of communal-based art course held three workshops in Peltolammi during  the fall. Events were free for everyone to join, but they were especially created for children. Themes for the workshops were communal painting, costume/photography workshop and gingerbread workshop.

The children told us stories about how they spend their Christmas and what they hope to get from Santa Claus. There are plenty of toys that I had never heard of! Even I got excited (again) about legos, while listening to their stories!


 In the communal painting workshop, the children could freely create one big painting together. The theme was “creatures”. Many of these creatures got their own names and background stories. Together they created their own funny world, in which they were friends and “visited” each other.  
In the costume workshop the children could dress up in different costumes and take photographs of their outfits. Our students got excited about this workshop too, and didn´t remain just workshop tutors, as you can see in the pictures.




The gingerbread workshop was especially Christmassy. Children had to learn to be patient with gingerbreads, because they break easily. One should not just smash candy through the roof (note to self, too). The children seemed to have fun and they enjoyed the creative work. The end results were also delightful!    


Text: Anniina Pasanen 2017
Images: Anniina Pasanen, Julia Matinniemi, Sari Tervaniemi

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Saturday, 24 October 2015

Get ready for INTAC - International Art Collaborations Course


 Intac was born in 2010 as a tandem project between two schools, TAMK University of Applied Sciences and OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.
The core idea was that students from the two universities would ideate and realize art projects working together, using skype and other social media to communicate, and at the end they would organize a joint art exhibition.

Five years passed by, and Intac is stronger than ever. Six universities are taking part in the project right now(TAMK, OCAD in Canada, Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Osaka University of Arts in Japan, BTK from Berlin and NID from India)and for the first year this year, the international students from the new Fine Arts study path are taking part in the project.

Intac is a non conventional course. You might find yourself working late in the night as there might be seven time zones in between you and the person working on the same project.
Even lessons have  to be scheduled according to other partners availability, as we're dealing with the full extension of time zone, from extreme west to east(and I might add we and the guys at BTK are the lucky ones, as we all live roundabout in the middle).


It was pretty exciting to meet all the other people from the other universities! Here you can see our first contact with the students from Canada:



So, basically Intac has a blog on tumblr ( http://intac.tumblr.com ) which is where most of the action happens. Every participant publishes a presentation at the beginning of the year, and then a Project Proposal. Every participant has to take part in three different projects, so everyone needs to contact and work with people from different countries. Before the exhibition all the works will go through the screening and evaluation of the teachers. 

This year the exhibition is going to be in Berlin, in Bethanien Gallery(http://www.bethanien.de/en/) and we'll be there the 1st and 2nd December to set it up, and we'll have our opening on December, 3rd, 2015.

Another important feature of the Intac course is that we're self funded. While in December the exhibition is going to be in Berlin, which is a pretty cheap destination from Finland, next year it might be in Canada, or India, and of course being art students we really can't afford flying all over with our own money; for this reason we have to take commissions and work to get the Intac course going on. 
Right now, we're working for Technopolis(who own the Mediapolis premises, where our school is located); we're planning a 16 meters high artwork which will be used in one of Technopolises main business building, Yliopistonrinne in Tampere. The building offers high class facilities for few very known companies in Tampere. We had few meetings with Mediapolises manager Saara Eskola , the architects who have been planning the building and we even went to visit the printing shop where the final artwork will be printed!








This is Intac, and we'll keep you updated as soon as events are happening! 

If you want to follow us more closely, visit:  http://intac.tumblr.com 
If you are interested in the Fine Arts Study Path, follow us on facebook  or Instagram on our page Art Media TAMK  with always fresh and updated infos on our courses! 




                                                                                                                                                                  


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Tuesday, 20 October 2015

14 Art Media takes over Rajatila for a while


Text by  Alexandra Mitiku
Photos by Lavinia Colzani & Alexandra Mitiku

5 days and 1 empty gallery. This is what we were given to realize our projects for the course ‘Art and Environment Workshop’. I had never worked in a gallery before, so it was a wonderfully new experience.

It was a different atmosphere to create something – a recycled space that had seen many different
artistic settings.

Although it cut into our autumn holidays and we couldn't be physically present during all of the days, we managed to put together a unique exhibition-type event in Rajatila.





Creating the title for our event was a bit tricky, since we were not sharing a common theme. After an
hour of brainstorming, cookies and playing word games, it came down to ‘Fleeting Space’. Lavinia took the photo for the flyer, instructing us to walk around aimlessly and throw the pillows around. It felt silly, but we got the image we wanted!



During the event itself, we presented our works-in-progress and the audience was welcomed to give
suggestions and feedback. Our event had a handful of guests, besides our class, and it was interesting to hear their opinions of our pieces.




Jade Vesto created a magazine consisting of photos from her film camera and poetry that she had
written, exposing her vulnerabilities and nostalgic moments with her friends. Her written pieces were all in caption and punctuations were left out, giving the viewer a unique reading experience.



Lorenco Soares here is explaining about his installation, a video of leaves falling to a composed rhythm. The piece is meant to be viewed from outside, giving us an insight on nature in different space - and goosebumps for those who went to see the video without a jacket..



Annina Pasanen presented a political, yet playful, painting of a bear having a victory tea party after the defeat of humans.



Konsta Koivisto had a vision to create his own fashion brand made solely from recycled fabrics. His long term plan was to sell his company and use the money to buy a forest. Here he is showing some of his designs..which were pretty impressive considering he had never sewn before!



If you are interested in more about what our class is up to, look us up on one of these social media

channels:

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