[spectre] Case Pyhäjoki - Artistic reflections on nuclear influence NOW

[Mari Keski-Korsu]

casepyhajoki.info * facebook.com/casepyhajoki * twitter #casepyhajoki

Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence is a 
trans-disciplinary expedition and production workshop in Pyhäjoki, 
Northern Finland 1. - 11.8.2013. The sixth nuclear power plant of the 
country is planned to be build in Pyhäjoki.

Participants of Case Pyhäjoki are for example artists, researchers and 
activists. The programme has consisted of lectures, meeting local people 
and expeditions of different kinds to get to know the area, nuclear 
power as phenomenon, and what the power plant means to people. It 
reaches from the local to national and global. What is artist's role in 
the changes in the area and wider? How can we develop methods of 
creative work in a complex and contested place of social tragedy and 
distress? How can we communicate this through to wider networks?

As well as talking, thinking and research, there is also time for 
action. The participants have created different types of engagements, 
prototype events and experiments, reaching from a large 'thank you' sign 
for those who refuse to sell their land to the nuclear power company, to 
the design of a 'power sports day', a local fairytale, aswell as a mural 
painting with local youth, a special karaoke playlist, and a DIY geiger 
counter building workshop.

The contributing presenations, workshops, expeditions and reflections 
are documented online at casepyhajoki.info and facebook.com/casepyhajoki

See also links to the broadcasted lectures on the website.

The final 
'show & tell' day is on Sunday at 14.00 in the local Parhalahti School, 
close to the location of Hanhikivi, the actual site for the planned 
nuclear power plant.

The participants of Case Pyhäjoki are Ryoko Akama (JP/UK), Erich Berger 
(AT/FI), Brett Bloom (US/DK), Bonnie Fortune (US/DK), Carmen Fetz (AT), 
Antye Greie-Ripatti (FI/DE), Martin Howse (UK/DE), Maarit Laihonen (FI), 
Liisa Louhela (FI), Pik Ki Leung (HK), Mikko Lipiäinen (FI), Helene von 
Oldenburg (DE), Opposite_Solutions (RO), Andrew Paterson (SCO/FI), Leena 
Pukki (FI) ja Heidi Räsänen (FI).



Case Pyhäjoki is supported by Kone Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre 
of Finland.



Best,
Mari Keski-Korsu

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artist. Mari Keski-Korsu
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e-mail. mkk at katastro.fi
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