Figures of Touch

Mika Elo: Tangents. Performance, Forum Box 25, 26 and 27 March 2010.

“Tangents” is a performative study of the role of touching in the experience of art. It is a work in progress intimately related to Elo’s theoretical research on the cultural status of the sense of touch. The elements of the performance are speech (English), bodily presence, and an object that is touched by words, eyes and hands. The duration of the performance is approximately 10-15 minutes. The concept of the performance is adjusted anew every time according to the space and context.

Maiju Loukola: “Scenography lived”. Paper at Scenography Expanding symposium. Riga 25.-26.2.2010.

Mika Elo: “Image and Word Touching”. Paper at Photography Next conference, Stockholm  5.2.2010.

Laura Gröndahl: “Paikan kosketus”. Paperi Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivillä, Jyväskylän yliopisto 12.12.2009.

Sami Santanen: “Tois(t)en näyttämö?”. Paperi Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivillä, Jyväskylän yliopisto 12.12.2009.

Maiju Loukola: “Virtuaalikuvallisuus ja kosketus”. Paperi Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivillä, Jyväskylän yliopisto 12.12.2009.

Harrri Laakso: “Tekijän avaruus”. Paperi Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivillä, Jyväskylän yliopisto 12.12.2009.

Mika Elo: “Feedback”. Paperi Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivillä, Jyväskylän yliopisto 11.12.2009.

Maiju Loukola: “Scenography re-reflecting history: Images white-washed”. Paper at “How Art Performs History” -seminar organized by The Finnish Theatre Research Association and the Estonian Theatre Research Society. Tallinn 27-28 November 2009.

Mika Elo: “Introduction: ethics of the in-between”. Paper, Media Factory Researchers’ Forum, 12 November 2009, Aalto University, Helsinki.

Maiju Loukola: “Calculations: hands & being taught by the horsie”. Video installation and presentation at the Joint research day in artistic research organized by research school TUTKE and the department of post-graduate studies of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. 28 October 2009, Theatre Academy, Helsinki.

Mika Elo: Tangents. Performance at the Joint research day in artistic research organized by research school TUTKE and the department of post-graduate studies of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. 28 October 2009, Theatre Academy, Helsinki.

Harri Laakso and Pia Euro: Orientation exercises. Video installation at the Joint research day in artistic research organized by research school TUTKE and the department of post-graduate studies of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. 28 October 2009, Theatre Academy, Helsinki.

Sami Santanen: “Touching: some paradoxes”. Presentation at the Joint research day in artistic research organized by research school TUTKE and the department of post-graduate studies of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. 28 October 2009, Theatre Academy, Helsinki.

Laura Gröndahl and Maiju Loukola: Room manipulation at the Joint research day in artistic research organized by research school TUTKE and the department of post-graduate studies of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. 28 October 2009, Theatre Academy, Helsinki.

Mika Elo: “Figures of Touch in Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida”
Paper at Light touches -seminar, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, 11 June 2009.

Sami Santanen: “The Law of Tact: Jean-Luc Nancy on Art(s), Body and Thinking”. Paper at International Symposium in Phenomenology, Hotel del Sacro Cuore, Perugia Italy, 15 July 2009.

Esa Kirkkopleto: “Scène, mimèsis, acteur – Réflexions sur la phénoménologie du théâtre”. Paper at International Symposium in Phenomenology, Hotel del Sacro Cuore, Perugia Italy, 15 July 2009.