Scenography research
Floating Peripheries started, Expanded Scenography in Venice.
A research project “Floating Peripheries – Mediating the Sense of Place” is a four-year project funded by the Academy of Finland and a collaboration between Department of Film, Television and Scenography, Department of Art and University of Lapland.
This artistic research project aims at enlarging the understanding of ‘peripheries’ into areas that are difficult to verbalize. Peripheries are conventionally conceived as marginal geographical locations, whereas this project grasps peripheries as an ambiguous and multifaceted phenomenon – as a conceptual domains, aesthetically and spatially experienced sensory spheres, states of mind shaped by complex associations and mental images, and activities enabled by digitalization. We aim at producing radically new strategies for unraveling the spatial and conceptual hierarchies and biased assumptions of what and where the ‘periphery’ is in relation to the ‘center’.
The Expanded Scenography research group was initiated in 2015 for developing the artistic research and practice in the 'scenographic' field in change. The group members are Professor DA Liisa Ikonen, Postdoctoral researcher DA Maiju Loukola and Lecturer in Scenography DA Elina Lifländer.
The research group's first international output took place in the Venice Biennal 2017 Research pavilion #2, as their artistic research project "Night Pieces" was been accepted in the VB17 Research pavilion's discursive program in 17–27 August 2017.
More information: https://blogs.aalto.fi/expandedscenography/
Past projects:
Figures of Touch was financed by the Academy of Finland (2009–2012), and included two researchers, Laura Gröndahl and Maiju Loukola. The project investigated the sense of touch and the transformation of its significance in regard to the culturally established mind/body order and the institutional order of higher education. The project deployed the epistemic interests of media studies, artistic research, aesthetics, philosophy, performing arts and medical anthropology. It addressed the relations between the arts, body and society in a new way by analysing the transformation of the cultural status of touching that cuts through multiple levels, e.g. due to ubiquitous computing. More information: http://figuresoftouch.com/?page_id=3