Tanja Råman and John Collingswood from TaikaBox write about creative strategies one must adopt while working on an international dance project under the restrictions of the current COVID-19 pandemic. What can be done when performances and workshops are cancelled? As sensory experiences – essential for dance artists – are restricted, how to respond to theContinue reading “Dance in the Time of Coronavirus – article from Dance Info Finland”
Category Archives: Conferences
Oulu Research Online
Towards the end of March 2020, TaikaBox had planned to host a 3-day research seminar for the Dance Artists in Barents project. Due to the global restrictions in travel and gathering imposed to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus, it was not possible for the artists to travel from Sweden, Norway, Germany and RussiaContinue reading “Oulu Research Online”
Dancing together in 5 countries from your living room
I would like to reflect a little on todays virtual work day as well as the general situation and feeling of things happening in and around us right now. Because of COVID-19 we are pretty much out of work as are most of all the other freelancers and artists we know. We are also quaranteenedContinue reading “Dancing together in 5 countries from your living room”
Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds
Information has been used in artistic practises for quite some time. For simplicity’s sake in this post I mostly talk about information (or data) visualisation and sonification (changing data to sound). This should be thought of as a smaller subset of a bigger, amorphous field of creative practices, often referred to as Information Arts, orContinue reading “Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds”
Oulu Research Days: Monday 23rd March
Unfortunately, due to the current situation with the Covid-19 virus alert, the Oulu Research days have been cancelled and we will conduct research online with Skype meetings and working on this blog.
Tony Rice-Perttunen
Tony will be running a session with us in Oulu in March. He has set two tasks for the artists in preparation for his workshop. 1 Devote a few minutes, at least weekly – preferably daily – in concentrated intention.Your intention will be to call upon your deepest creative self.You must call it with allContinue reading “Tony Rice-Perttunen”
Sketches by Konstantin Gladkov
Throughout the first research event in Luleå, Konsta was busy drawing and photographing the action. Here is a selection of the images he created. You can find out more about Konsta’s design work here and photography here
Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold
NOTES: For the meeting in Luleå, I was asked to make a presentation of my work, and some thoughts on what are the strategies that I follow when I make. These notes gives an insight to what happened: WHO AM I? I am a Norwegian (danish based) dance artist. I graduated from the Danish NationalContinue reading “Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold”
Keith Larson
Keith is a scientist based at the Abisko weather station in Northern Sweden. Here he shares some of his vast knowledge on Arctic climate change.
Marit Shirin Carolasdotter
https://dotraproductions.com/ Marit ran a dance class each morning in Luleå and gave a presentation of her work, focussing on her residencies in Japan and her current project: Humans and Soil
Louise Fontain: Uluga atorpara
Markus Öhrn & Institutet
Institutet är en svensk teatergrupp som startades 2008 i Malmö och sedan 2018 har flyttat sin verksamhet till Vitsaniemi i Tornedalen efter att den nya konstnärliga ledaren Markus Öhrn har tagit över verksamheten efter grundaren av gruppen Anders Carlsson har tillträtt som professor i skådespeleri på TEAK i Helsingfors.
Dancing on the Margins of Climate Change 