Where: Online, via Zoom
Booking: Limited spaces, click here to book.
For Primary / Kaleidoscope Members
Take part in a talk and discussion with Finnish curator and writer Taru Elfving, exploring curatorial collective CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, and their art-science collaborations on the shifting shorelines of the Baltic Sea.
Curatorial collective CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago has been initiating and leading long-term multidisciplinary projects in the Turku Archipelago, off the south-west coast of Finland in the Baltic Sea, since 2009 in collaboration with diverse scientific research organisations and other actors in the region.
CAA focuses on bringing local practitioners and experts into dialogue with international colleagues and peers, drawn together to address environmental and societal urgencies both in their local specificities and planetary resonances. Since 2017 CAA has been inviting artists and scientists to share methods, protocols and rituals of ecological enquiry on the island of Seili in the project Spectres in Change through residencies, retreats and public events.
About Taru Elfving:
Taru Elfving is a curator and writer based in Finland focused on nurturing un-disciplinary and site-sensitive enquiries at the intersections of ecological, feminist and decolonial practices. She is artistic director and co-founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago. Her previous curatorial research projects include Hours, Years, Aeons (Finnish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015), Frontiers in Retreat (HIAP Helsinki 2013-18), and Towards a Future Present (LIAF Lofoten 2008). Elfving has co-edited publications such as Contemporary Artist Residencies. Reclaiming Time and Space (Valiz 2019). She has a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Matterlurgy, Field Casting (2023)
Access: This session will be held on Zoom. Closed captions will be available.
This event will be recorded.
Kaleidoscope Network: This event has been organised by Spike Island for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol), and The NewBridge Project (Newcastle). Primary residents and members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.
Eastside Projects makes art public. Based in Birmingham, they are an artist-run multiverse, commissioning, producing and presenting experimental art practices and demonstrating ways in which art may be useful as part of society. Extra Ordinary People is Eastside Projects’ Associate membership scheme. EOP works with artists, curators and art-writers to support the development of work, ideas, connections and careers through a programme of events, opportunities and projects.
Spike Island is a dynamic arts centre that supports, produces and presents contemporary art and culture. A short walk from Bristol city centre. Spike Island Associates is a dynamic network of artists, curators, designers, writers and thinkers at all stages of their career. Members span multiple disciplines and share a common interest in collaboration, experimentation and a desire to learn new skills and have new experiences.
The NewBridge Project is an artist-led space that supports artists, curators and communities through the provision of space for creative practice, curatorial opportunities and an ambitious artist-led programme of exhibitions, commissions, artist development and events.