Programme

Friday 27.09

Guided tour (in Estonian): Magdaleena Maasik

Tour group gathers at the entrance of the fair.

Artists’ Special Programme: Andre Joosep Arming

Ground floor of Kai Art Center.

Roundtable: Art Fairs on the Art Scene. Karin Laansoo, Bruno Barsanti, and Triin Metsla

Auditorium of Kai Art Center. The roundtable is held in English.

In a discussion led by Triin Metsla, Karin Laansoo and Bruno Barsanti discuss art fairs – to whom and why? What distinguishes it from an exhibition and what forms can an art fair take? How does the model of an art fair fit into the Estonian cultural landscape and what role does it play here? What is the value of an art fair outside its commercial aspect?

Artists’ Special Programme: Andre Joosep Arming

Ground floor of Kai Art Center.

Saturday 28.09

Guided tour (in Russian): Anastassia Langinen

Tour group gathers at the entrance of the fair.

Kristina Õllek in conversation with Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

Auditorium of Kai Art Center. The conversation is held in English.

Freelance critic and curator Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk talks to artist Kristina Õllek. Working in the field of photography, video and installation, Õllek focuses on representational processes, geological matter and human-made environment. The conversation between Lekkerkerk and Õllek centers on the relationship between ecology and anothropocene and the links between nature and technology. The conversation will take a closer look at Õllek’s photographic installation on show at the art fair Filter feeders, double binds and other silicones, that explores the North Sea and its blue mussels, oysters and the expanding jellyfish population.

Artists’ Special Programme: Sandra Kosorotova

Ground floor of Kai Art Center.

Also participating are Pire Sova, Keiu Krikmann, Ando Naulainen.

Guided tour (in Estonian): Magdaleena Maasik

Tour group gathers at the entrance of the fair.

Guided tour (in English): Magdaleena Maasik

Tour group gathers at the entrance of the fair.

Roundtable: Trauma of Photography. Tanja Muravskaja, Rebecca Erin Moran, Fabian Schroder, and Paul Kuimet. The talk is moderated by Indrek Grigor.

Auditorium of Kai Art Center. The roundtable is held in English.

While the practice and subject matter of the participating photo artists are relatively different, they are all facing the same attempts that keeps haunting (art) photography time and again – how to describe the phenomenon as a whole. These attempts have been in parallel, both infertile and totalitarian. Without offering a sustainable and evolving language of description, they are traditional grand narratives that occupy all photography. One of the most recent global generalizations about the nature of photography is trauma. However, this new generalization cannot overcome the previous notions of photography as index and as a technology. The practice of the participating artists in the roundtable is influenced not only by the social role of the photographic medium but also by photography as a technological medium. While the discussion is unlikely to bring upon a theoretical revolution, the artists will introduce their personal position in relation to their chosen medium.

Sunday 29.09

Guided tour (in Estonian): Magdaleena Maasik

Tour group gathers at the entrance of the fair.

Artists’ Special Programme: KORDON in a container. Urmo Vaikla, Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla, and Karel Koplimets

In the container next to Kai Art Center (in case of bad weather ground floor of Kai Art Center).

Before KORDON art residency’s new gallery in a shipping container travels to its final location in Kärdla, Urmo Vaikla and Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla from KORDON residency talk about the ideas behind the pop-up gallery. Karel Koplimets introduces his video installation on display in the container – Case No.14. The Storm on the Baltic Sea packed in a sea container.

Guided tour (in Russian): Anastassia Langinen

Tour group gathers at the entrance of the fair.

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