Art Outside of the Classroom

Weeklong workshop with art education students on the island of Nötö
and exhibiton at the University of Art and Design Helsinki

May 2008

Teacher: Mari von Boehm

 



In May 2008, Mari von Boehm did a workshop with Master students in art education on the Finnish island of Nötö. This workshop can be regarded as the establishment of a temporary environmental research station, based on art. The idea was that the participants would be doing their own arts-based research on the island, chosing one point of view and one method on forehand, with which they would work with during a week. This could of course change when they would actually see what the place was like. It was in a way similar to other field research, which takes place within a pre-established framework, with the idea to work further with the results.

 

 

 

The school board, used on Nötö,
as well as in the exhibition in Helsinki

Nötö harbour

 
Typed comments on the exhibiton at TaiK  by a visitor from Nötö Inside the research laboratory

 

  
PARTICIPANTS

Name
Tuovi

Ideas that research is based on:
Richard Long's text on walking as art.

Explanation in poetic form
In am going to collect in the future all the chewing gums and rubbish and treat those equal as nature


 

Tuovi

Name
Elsa

Research subject
The relationship between everyday life and nature
 

Explanation in poetic form
Is it possible to change your relationship to the environment through different kinds of practices? How can you make your own living environment like a natural place for yourself?

 

Elsa
 
     
   

Name
Eeva Astala


 

 

 

Eeva
 
 

Name
Katariina

 

Katariina
 
   

Name
Kassu

 

 

Kassu
 
     
   

Name
Heikka

 

 

Heikka
 
 

Name
Mari von Boehm

 


 
Mari
 
     
   

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