Saari Residence guest presentations
Take a look at the ideas and work of artists and researchers who have worked at Saari Residence.
Current guests | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | All years |
Einari Aaltonen Finnish translator
Translation of Rawi Hage's novel "Cockroach" into Finnish, 2 months
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Caroline Dear, Heli Konttinen, Leon Patchett, Katja Syrjä, Tiina Vainio, Kimmo Ylönen
Scottish-Finnish workshop for visual arts, 2 weeks
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Petri Eskelinen Sculptor
Artistic work, 2 months
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Aune Kallinen theatre director and performance artist
Preparation of a performance piece and the accompanying texts, 2 months
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Marja Kanervo Artist
Preparation of a solo exhibition, 3 months
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Otso Kautto Author and theatre director
Translation of a play, writing of a play, work on a novel, 3 months
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Eha Komissarov Programme Manager/ Curator
"Socialist Realism and Art in Soviet Estonia: Collaboration and Resistance": a monograph on the impact of Socialist Realism on Estonian art between 1944-1956 and during the following decades.", 3 months
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Heli Konttinen Artist
Screenplay for a documentary-style film on a boy’s sexual development as a heterosexual in a society in which homosexuality is the norm, 3 months
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Sampo Kurppa Circus artist
Completion of a solo comedy piece entitled "Houkutus" (Enticement), 3 months
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Marita Liulia Artist-director
Work on the script, interviews and footage for a multi-media work on multicultural relationships, 2 weeks
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Metsästäjät-ryhmä Hunters
Planning of the production of artistic work and of an exhibition, 2 weeks
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Laura Murtomaa Freelance musician and theatre artist
Planning, composition and practice for a piece to be premièred in late 2010, 3 months
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Ville Mäkikoskela Sculptor
Preparation of a solo exhibition, 2 months
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Risto Oikarinen Poet, musician
Poetry, 2 months
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Hanna Pajala-Assefa MA Dance, choreographer
Artistic work, 2 months
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Ranskanperunat translator’s group
Atelier critic’s workshop, 1 week
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Risto Repo Journalist
Biography of Eino S. Repo, 2 months
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William Sweeney Professor of Music
Completion of Sonata for Cello and Piano for the Finnish Cellist Erkki Lahesma and Scottish Cellist Robert Irvine. Development of New Work for Chorus and Orchestra to a text by Pablo Neruda, 2 months
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Riikka Tanner MA, Nonfiction writer
Writing a documentary novel "Kotirouvat" (Housewives), 1 month
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Quo Vadis Theatre group
Theatre production, 6 weeks
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Adriane Wachholz Visual artist
Project with video and drawing "At the sill of a detached room", 2 months
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Workgroup led by dancer and choreographer Soile Lahdenperä Dancer, choreogrpher
Cooperation with five dancers on the final artistic part of a work based on the Alexander technique that forms part of a doctoral project at Theatre Academy Helsinki, 2 weeks
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Workgroup previously named TADaC09
Collective modern dance work, 2 weeks
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