Festival

BASICS OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH AND ARTS VOCABULARY

How can one learn to research through art? How do you understand art-speak and converse like an experienced cultural professional? The festival programme includes a small research guide to help budding artistic researchers get started. There is some space for notes in the guide, but if you are an enthusiastic note-taker or doodler, you should […]

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BAR SEMINAR

What if the greatest insights actually happen while spending a relaxing evening out? The first evening of the University of Kucku Festival concludes with a bar seminar at the charming café-restaurant Saltbodan. Welcome to tinker around, chat freely and make the world a better place. After a long afternoon and evening of sitting, you are […]

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SYMBIOoSi

group exhibition What kind of art and art experiences can emerge from community-based or participatory art projects? How can local people get involved in the creation of art? The exhibition features works realized over the past two years by both local professional artists and artists-in-residence in collaboration with local communities. In the workshops, participants have […]

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SYNTH PAINTINGS

What happens when you combine visual art with a collection of different electronic sounds, rhythms, and tones? In what other ways can you interact with a physical artwork besides just looking and listening to it? How does the art experience and the interpretation of the piece change when the audience can influence the artwork themselves? […]

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UNIVERSITY OF KUCKU – OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES

We are delighted to announce that You have been selected to study at the University of Kucku! The world’s shortest and most unofficial Bachelor’s studies begin with the opening ceremony and conclude with the closing ceremony. OPENING CEREMONY PROGRAM (Fri Sep 18 at 4 p.m., Kino Marilyn): 4:00 p.m. Unveiling of the University of Kucku […]

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PESÄLOINEN (NEST PARASITE)

Environmeltal Artwork How can humans be compared to cuckoos? How do environments change? At what stage of different environmental changes are we now? What are we able to perceive about these changes, and what are we blind to? Isaac Cordal and Antonio Arosa’s public art work Nest Parasite consists of small-scale figures placed inside birdhouses […]

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