This working group develops artistic research activities and new forms of exchange outside of the seminar room. We focus on addressing the multiplicity of spaces and the ecology of spatial practices that these suggest. We approach space through a variety of physical, conceptual, imaginary, discursive, ephemeral (etc.) phenomena, each of which entails specificities, but which are also potentially tangentially related to each other. We develop methods of imparting the ways in which different spaces structure and format the taking place of things, gestures and events.

Members of the working group include:

• Andrea Rolfes (Independent arts, Johannesburg/ South Africa)
• Anita Szentesi (WITS School of Architecture and Planning, Johannesburg/ South Africa)
• Antti Nyyssölä (Academy of Fine Arts/KUVA, Uniarts Helsinki)
• BJ Engelbrecht (WITS School of Art, Johannesburg/ South Africa)
• Brigitta Stone-Johnson (WITS School of Architecture and Planning, Johannesburg/South Africa)
• Danae Theodoridou (FHK, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, NL). 
• Denise Ziegler (Aalto ARTS, Aalto University Helsinki)
• Jaakko Ruuska (Academy of Fine Arts/KUVA, Uniarts Helsinki)
• Jill Richards (independent pianist, improviser/ South Africa)
• Kristen Kreider (Slade/UCL)
• Luis Guerra Miranda (Academy of Fine Arts/KUVA, Uniarts Helsinki)
• Maiju Loukola (Academy of Fine Arts/KUVA, Uniarts Helsinki)         Contact for WG7
• Marloeke van der Vlugt (HKU Utrecht)
• Mika Elo (Academy of Fine Arts/KUVA, Uniarts Helsinki)
• Sharon Morris (Slade/UCL)  Henk Slager (HKU, Utrecht) 
• Tero Heikkinen (Taiteellisen tutkimuksen tk CfAR, Uniarts Helsinki)
• Tuija Kokkonen (Theatre Academy/Uniarts Helsinki)¨
• Ulvi Haagensen (Estonian Academy of Arts/EKA, Tallinn)
• Zen Marie (WITS School of Art, Johannesburg/ South Africa)

Upcoming activities:

city is sound, city is quicksand – voicing imaginaries and dissonance the third art + research event organized by the City as Space of Rules and Dreaming research project (enabled by Kone Foundation 2021–2024) at Hietsu Pavilion in Helsinki on May 21–23, 2024. The event focuses on spaces, voices and practices of uncertainty and potentiality in urban landscape. See open call here (deadline 29/03/2024).