MAIJU LOUKOLA // UNDER CONSTRUCTION, installation as an attempt of materializing research topics. In the opening seminar of Floating Peripheries Academy research project, at Magito Studios Helsinki 7 November 2017
LIISA IKONEN, MAIJU LOUKOLA, ELINA LIFLÄNDER // NIGHT PIECES – 3 X SPATIAL INTERVENTIONS INTO ‘THE VENICE’. EXHIBITION IN VENICE BIENNAL 2017 RESEARCH PAVILION #2: The Utopia of Access, 18–27 August 2017, Sala del Camino Venice (IT)
Out 2 Collective: Valeria Nekhaeva, Henna Herranen, Riikka Theresa Innanen, Niko Tii Nurmi Sipiläinen, Katri Miettinen, Aneta Atsova, Matti Tanskanen, Jakub Bobrowski, Ali Akbar Mehta, Ilona Lehtonen, Saara Kanerva Tamminen, Harri Laakso, Maiju Loukola, Niko Skorpio, Eero Tiainen, Katja Lautamatti, Jernej Cucek Gerbec, Laura Leif, Joel Autio, Tatjana Melnikova, Victor Paradinho, Outi Yli-Viikari, Ragnar Rael // OUT 2. A multi-screen moving image installation and series of related artistic research events. Exhibition in Venice Biennal 2017 Research Pavilion #2: The Utopia of Access, 18–27 August 2017, Sala del Camino Venice (IT)
Liisa Ikonen // Objects and Events Workshop at the Intervening in the Anthropo(s)cene: Probes, Actions, Encounters symposium and artistic research event. Maria Island, Tasmania 29.6.-2.7.2016. Collaboration with Shauna Janssen (Concordia, CA), Campbell Drake (UTS, AU), Ian Garrett (York, CA), Sara Lindsay (UTAS, AU) and Joanne Paterson Kinniburg (UTS, AU/NZ)
Maiju Loukola // Landscape Scenographies Workshop at the Intervening in the Anthropo(s)cene: Probes, Actions, Encounters symposium and artistic research event. Maria Island, Tasmania 29.6.-2.7.2016. Collaboration with Katrina Simon (UNSW, AU/NZ), Alice Lewis (RMIT, AU), Sean Coyle (UTAS, NZ), Emma Shepard-Simms (UTAS, AU) and Dorita Hannah (UTAS, AU/NZ)
Liisa Ikonen // STREET FOOD – installation. >>p.s. peripherical scenes miniFESTIVAL>> organized along with experiental scenography workshop in Aalto ARTS. 28.1.2016 – 29.1.2016
Maiju Loukola // ‘Oletko nähnyt valaan / Have you seen a whale‘ media installation in
>>p.s. peripherical scenes miniFESTIVAL>> organized along with experimental scenography workshop in Aalto ARTS. Consisting of a twitter account for a whale (born in 1851), periscope live stream, 2 tablets, projection, water and mold. 28.1.2016 – 29.1.2016
2015
Maiju Loukola // Curator of the Finnish exhibition in PQ15, jointly with T. Heinonen. 1st Prize for the Best Use of Media in Performance in Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space PQ 2106: All the works in the WEATHER STATION exhibition on performative sound (by Lifländer-Vapaavuori-Ekholm-Kourkia, Soidinsalo-Seppänen-Salo-Laine, Puumalainen/Mäkelä, and Nykyri), curation of the exhibition (Loukola-Heinonen), composition of the works. Prague, Czechia 17.6.2015 – 28.6.2015 http://www.pq.cz/en/galleries/2015/6/21/sound-music http://www.pq.cz/en/program/finland http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/a1305964943468
Liisa Ikonen // Curating the Finnish exhibition in Cultivating Design for Performance: European Design for Performance, NCPA Beijing 10.9.2–29.10.2015
Maiju Loukola // “Vertical Jesus” in Space Invaders III – aesthetically tolerable group exhibition/event. VERTICAL JESUS is a site-specific installation/intervention exploring the personal, imaginary and virtual Otaniemi as it is, and as it could be in dreams and alternate layers of realities in the future. VERTICAL JESUS combines multisensory samples, focusing on visual and auditive material, produced by 2 artists (Maiju Loukola, scenographer-researcher and Taina Riikonen, sound artist-researcher) working with different mediums, creating seen-heard-imagined-fictious-future-views of the area. The method is based on constatnt measuring between the real and imaginary Otaniemi. As a framework for VERTICAL JESUS are a pop song by Depeche Mode and an early video work by Joan Jonas. The work is part of Loukola’s ongoing postdoctoral research. Space Invaders III – Aesthetically tolerable (curated by Anna Jensen & Eliisa Suvanto) is more than a traditional exhibition, binding performance, intervention, site-specific, sound and visual art together. The four-day event is located inside the old bank of Otaniemi mall and its surroundings. What makes the public space aesthetically tolerable and how can one influence on these standards? Space Invaders is an ever-changing creature that aims to explore the existing ways to exhibit art. Otaniemi, Espoo/Esbo, Suomi 14.5.2015 – 17.5.2015
