CROSSROADS SAKSALANHARJU
CROSSROAD SAKSALANHARJU is an innovative collaboration project in which
migrant artists from different NORDIC regions start a multidisciplinary artistic
dialogue with each other, based on the communication in the work itself, the
history, nature and local culture. The artists will also create an interaction
with local community. The outcome of the project parts will be presented in e.g.
performances, lectures, seminars, exhibitions and publications.
The main purpose of the pilot project CROSSROADS SAKSALANHARJU is to create
a platform to investigate and exchange, collaborate and produce international
multidisciplinary dialogue. This dialogue will be realized with migrant artists
living in NORDIC countries.
The leading participants of the collaboration and workshops will exchange
and collaborate with native artists and others and interact with cultural
workers, teachers, craftsmen, policymakers and youth of the multicultural
community of Haukivuori (another target group of this project). Through this,
also local youth can develop their artistic skills and increase consciousness
about their specific roots and relationship with northern Europe.
The location Saksalanharju will be viewed through the eyes of professional
observers with the specific goal of to shape a concrete impression. Through
intense dialogue the arts professionals will communicate verbally and visually.
This project will contribute to cultural exchange and increase awareness of
historical and cultural knowledge as well as the emergence of new traditions and
contemporary cultural heritage in the NORDIC region. It will develop more
democratic access into cultural participation, also on specific NORDIC rural
areas.
In different sessions from 4 to 6 weeks artists create one or more art
works, (this can include drawings, paintings, installations, site specific art,
sculptures, video and/ or mixed media). The artists will have to collaborate
with each other aimed at challenging them to cross the boundaries of their own
work and attain new influences.
The pilot project starts in the summer of 2009 and ends in the spring of
2010 and will be carried out at Saksala ArtRadius on Saksalanharju.
Participants: migrant NORDIC artists Marja de Jong FIN (project leader),
Tiina Suhonen NO, Ian Newberry SE, Lucien den Arend FIN. Ilse van den Berk NL.
Artists from Nordic countries and Europe can find the project on the internet
and through international art organization.
The project’s Nordic dimension:
In the pilot-project CROSSROADS SAKSALANHARJU, migrant and native artists from
Nordic countries and Europe will exchange and collaborate with each other. This
will challenge them to cross the boundaries in their work and experience new
influences. This crossing identifies the impact of place on an artist’s
practice. New forms of expression and communication are anticipated to produce
intense dialogue that the professional artists will communicate verbally and
visually. The atmosphere in landscape and climate, and the mood and attitude of
the people living more or less isolated in the country side in the NORDIC region
will offer the specific impressions to the artists.
The large monolith SAKSALANHARJU was already for hundreds of years a
significant mark in the landscape where travelers crossed from different
directions. The project initiates through art production by collaborating
migrant and native artists the attention to the unique exploring of the NORDIC
region. In this project, it is interesting that the nature heritage
SAKSALANHARJU will be viewed through the eyes of professional observers of
different origin with the specific goal to shape a concrete impression. By
borrowing the eyes of an outsider, locals can see their culture and landscape in
a new light and from a different angle.
This project will stimulate Nordic cultural exchange and increase awareness
of historical and cultural knowledge in a Nordic context. It will develop
democratic access to cultural participation, also for rural areas. With the
contribution from different Nordic foundations the exchange and collaboration of
migrant Nordic artists will create new forms of expression and communication. It
is this migration what is important to develop the specific historic and culture
value of the Nordic rural areas. Think global and act local is reformulated in
this project: act locally, but with a global effect.
collaboration March 2010 - Siard and Matiass Jansons
The pilot project CROSSROADS SAKSALANHARJU has got funding by:
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