Symposium - Layers of the Avant-Garde in Finland, 9-10 October 2008
Welcome to the symposium arranged by the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies in association with the Institute for Art Research of the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Finnish Society for Aesthetics.
Layers of the Avant-Garde in Finland, 9-10 October 2008
Main Building of the University of Helsinki (Unioninkatu 34), Auditorium IV and (on Friday afternoon) Lecture room 10, Mariankatu 11.
Programme:
Thursday, 9 October 2008
11.15 Kimmo Sarje (University of Helsinki): Opening Address
11.30 Irmeli Hautamäki (University of Helsinki): Finland and the Other Nordic Countries in the early 1900s
12.00 Julia Tidigs (Åbo Akademi University, Swedish Literature Society in Finland: The Mixture of Languages as a Modernist and (Un)territorializing Feature in the Prose of Elmer Diktonius
12.30 Coffee-break
13.00 Kimmo Sarje (University of Helsinki): The Innovations of Sigurd Frosterus and Gustav Strengell
13.30 Altti Kuusamo (University of Turku): Deaths of Theory in the Avant-Garde
14.00 Lunch
15.00 Poetic performance by the poet Leevi Lehto
15.30 Vesa Haapala (University of Helsinki): Contemporary Poetry and the Possibility of the Avant-Garde
16.00 Artist Jani Leinonen discusses the background of his conception of art and his realized projects
16.30 End of the day’s programme
Event at the Academy of Fine Arts (film, wine and other refreshments) starting at 19.00
Friday, 10 October 2008
11.15 Teemu Mäki (University of Art and Design Helsinki): After the Avant-Garde
11.45 Erkki Sevänen (University of Joensuu ): The Social Conditions of the Avant-Garde in an Integrating and Globalizing World
12.15 Coffee-break
12.45 Kari Yli-Annala (University of Art and Design Helsinki): Contemporary and Non-Contemporary – The Historical Dilemma of the Finnish Avant-garde
13.15 Harri Veivo (University of Helsinki): Christian Dotremont and the “Northern Dimension".
13.45 Lunch
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Please note. The afternoon programme will be held in Lecture Room 10 at Mariankatu 11.
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14.45 Concert compiled by Ilmo Ranta (Sibelius Academy) of compositions by Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno and Elmer Diktonius. Performers: pianists Ilmo Ranta and Maija Parko and soprano Sanna Heikkinen
15.15 Tanja Uimonen (University of Helsinki): Freedom in Finnish Free Improvisation of the 2000s
15.45 Eero Hämeenniemi (Sibelius Academy): The Avant-Garde of Music and the Concept of Novelty
16.15 End of the day’s programme
19.00 Dinner
For more information, please contact Adjunct Professor Kimmo Sarje, kimmo.sarje@helsinki.fi