Jussi Koitela

Visual Artist/Curator

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Curatorial Not Another Public Process Work It Out Act 2 Floating Ghost New Arrangements Dissolving Frontiers Skills of Economy — Post Models: Ore.e Refineries To Use As a Capital For Your Health Only! Work It Out Skills of Economy Event Artist-Build-Time Skills of Economy Featherweight Portable Museum MediaPyhät Circle – New Paintings from Tampere Ars Kärsämäki “Experimental Life”

Not Another Public Process

Work It Out Act 2

Floating Ghost

New Arrangements

Dissolving Frontiers

Skills of Economy — Post Models: Ore.e Refineries

To Use As a Capital

For Your Health Only!

Work It Out

Skills of Economy Event

Artist-Build-Time

Skills of Economy

Featherweight Portable Museum

MediaPyhät

Circle – New Paintings from Tampere

Ars Kärsämäki “Experimental Life”

Works/Projects Class War Room Streamtease (Whether They Are Speaking Or Just Making a Noise) Puhuvatko he vai metelöivätkö he Study Circle 120 repäisyä-Schengen-Tekosyy Nobody’s Space FAQ Safe Play Reader Safe Play History Sex Words 2009 Live Blog Sex on the Street Gay Dad

Class War Room

Streamtease (Whether They Are Speaking Or Just Making a Noise)

Puhuvatko he vai metelöivätkö he

Study Circle

120 repäisyä-Schengen-Tekosyy

Nobody’s Space

FAQ

Safe Play Reader

Safe Play History

Sex Words 2009

Live Blog

Sex on the Street

Gay Dad

Texts On Being Able To Do Ethics Institutionaalisesta melankoliasta eettisiin vaatimuksiin Taidetyöläisen monet roolit — jälkipuhetta Tampereen One Love –teoksen ympärillä Työelämään liittyviä normaaleja tunteita

On Being Able To Do Ethics

Institutionaalisesta melankoliasta eettisiin vaatimuksiin

Taidetyöläisen monet roolit — jälkipuhetta Tampereen One Love –teoksen ympärillä

Työelämään liittyviä normaaleja tunteita

Bio/Cv

koitela.jussi (at) gmail.com

Dis­solv­ing Fron­ti­ers, Gal­ley Augusta/ HIAP , Install­a­tion view, Photo: Hertta Kiiski

The artists of the exhib­i­tion: Brett Bloom & Bon­nie For­tune (Copen­ha­gen), Fernando Garcia-Dory (Mad­rid, Mal­lorca), Tue Green­fort (Ber­lin), Khaled Ramadan (Beirut, Nico­sia), Hanna Hus­berg (Stock­holm) & Laura McLean (Lon­don), Mari Keski-Korsu (Hel­sinki, Sulkava), Tonka Maleković (Zagreb), Nestori Syr­jälä (Helsinki).

The exhib­i­tion is co-curated by Jenni Nur­men­niemi ( HIAP , Hel­sinki) and Jussi Koitela (Helsinki).

There is wide­spread belief in the cap­ab­il­ity of “mod­ern” soci­et­ies’ to ration­ally solve com­plex social, polit­ical, and eco­nomic prob­lems and to cor­rect the mis­cal­cu­la­tions of earlier gen­er­a­tions. These soci­et­ies are seen to have developed through pro­gress­ive steps from prim­it­ive to more advanced modes of exist­ence, with the fruits of this civil­iz­a­tion pro­cess – mod­ern sci­ence and tech­no­lo­gical innov­a­tions – hav­ing provided the tools for con­tinu­ing the pro­gress of the mem­bers of these soci­et­ies on Earth.

This assumed pro­gress has taken place within the frame­work of nation states. Their suc­cess has been meas­ured by eco­nomic growth derived from con­sum­ing the resources of Nature.

An under­stand­ing of Nature as sep­ar­ate from human cul­ture has provided an end­less source of oth­er­ness, and a pleth­ora of spe­cial­ized dis­cip­lines have prom­ised to offer human­kind all the know­ledge needed to bene­fit from it.

Para­dox­ic­ally, in light of obser­va­tions and research from over the last four dec­ades, it seems that these assump­tions have brought the eco­sys­tem, of which the human spe­cies is a part, into a drastic state of imbal­ance. Des­pite sig­nals on a plan­et­ary scale of trans­form­a­tions caused by human activ­it­ies, the main­stream mind-set is still set in the mode of end­less eco­nomic growth and pro­gress. How­ever, the con­vic­tion of human cap­ab­il­ity to handle eco­lo­gical, social, and cul­tural crisis, has begun to waver.

This brings about an increas­ing sense of urgency for new approaches, under­stand­ings and skills. Space has to be made for spec­u­la­tion and uncer­tainty, instead of try­ing to cling on to exist­ing truths.

The exhib­i­tion Dis­solv­ing Fron­ti­ers at HIAP Gal­lery Augusta finds its struc­ture from the ten­sion between mod­ern­ist modes of organ­ising human life and the need for new per­spect­ives that require decom­pos­ing and unlearn­ing its assumed truths, as well as the adop­tion of more spec­u­lat­ive approaches.

The rear exhib­i­tion hall is ded­ic­ated to art­works by Khaled Ramadan, Hanna Hus­berg & Laura McLean, Nestori Syr­jälä and Tonka Maleković. In their dif­fer­ent ways, they deal with dis­ap­pear­ance, either anti­cip­ated or actu­al­ised, as well as with roots, tra­di­tions and traces of what remains after some­thing that has once exis­ted will dis­solve into some­thing else.

In Malekovic’s Garden Circles a nearly 40-year-old com­munity garden of one of the largest apart­ment blocks in Europe is bull­dozed in one day without warn­ing. Ramadan, with his doc­u­ment­ary Mal­dives to be or not (2013), provides per­spect­ives on the mod­ern­isa­tion pro­ject of the Mal­dives and its politi­cised eco­logy. In their col­lab­or­at­ive video work, also Hus­berg and McLean take a look at the Mal­dives and spec­u­late on pos­sible futures for this nation state anti­cip­ated to dis­solve into the ocean within the next cen­tury. Nestori Syrjälä’s new video focuses on a sub­ject­ive, embod­ied exper­i­ence of eco­lo­gical crisis.

The front space provides an open plat­form for new approaches and spec­u­la­tion. Over the course of the sum­mer 2014, artists Tue Green­fort, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Mari Keski-Korsu, and Brett Bloom & Bon­nie For­tune will make their marks and leave traces in the space. Their con­tri­bu­tions open up new per­spect­ives on exist­ence on Earth by look­ing at ques­tions of new tech­no­lo­gies and ter­rit­ory, the dynamic of the urban and the rural, the secrets of the plant world, com­mu­nic­a­tion between humans and other spe­cies, and through find­ing new ways of listen­ing to and being embed­ded in our environment.

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