Vapaatila - Informal Spaces

A Cross Cultural Project

Jukka Orava

‘Digital technology has made us “global citizens” withskills and the tools to effectively communicate. Insularcultural boundaries are being replaced by a developing sense of multiculturalism. These creative and challenging workshops provided a meaning and function for the arts in a multicultural context. More than anything else the pupils learnt that education can be liberating and that the processes associated with art practice are more than just making. The experience was memorable, empowering and supported a real sense of empathy in these informal spaces’. Jukka Orava

The upper secondary group studied ’space and environment’ by using video.

Crucial areas were elements that constructed the space: light, shadows, reflections, sound etc. Two groups were created, one for a sound workshop and the other for an image workshop. A film was created called ”Shadows”.

The sound group produced presentations, which were performed as performances during

the project week.

Collaboration and Research

Sequential exercises on paper.

In the image manipulation workshopstudents worked with their own ’free space’ images. They used black and white photocopies of their original images.

Programmes: PaintShop Pro –Animation Shop.

The topic was an ’event in a situation’. Space and situation was selected from their own images. The starting point was to study the spirit of the moment including the temporal and functional

dimensions.

The performance and installation workshop studied the phenomenas in contemporary art.

Visit to Kiasma - Workshop produced an ”accidential haiku” piece. The Group wrote haiku poems and hid them in public spaces in Helsinki.

ACCIDENTIAL HAIKU

Final showIndian – Finnish dance performance

Opening of the exhibition