The residency is a space for research on ecological sustainability and a space for performing arts, writers, sound and bio art, analogue art practices, film and music.
It is also a project to transform a 150-year-old hand built natural stone house into a continuously evolving, ecologically sustainable, autonomous work and living environment.
We aim to create new forms of inclusive and sustainable space of exploring, in practice and in critical dialogue and research, new types practices, inventions and knowledge on sustainability of our future culture.
What / who?
Armas Residency’s artistic director is Sakari Laurila. The residency is administered by Armas Creative cooperative.
The platform aims for critique and understanding of our fossil post-modern consumer society by theoretically and practically analysing the systems and dependencies we live in and creating alternative solutions, combining research and practice.
This is done in two interconnected ways (a) material relations: exploring the natural world, our relations to materials and life sustaining processes, as well as (b) ideology: a critique of the conscious and subconscious realms of our thinking. This process aims at imagining new ways of relating to work, care, independence, sustainability, politics and contemporary art.
More about the motivation and rationale behind the project in the motiovation-section below.
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Project motivation
Further reading on the foundation and motivation of the project: here (opens a new page)
Contact
Armas Residency inquiries for residency periods or any questions:
residency at armascreative.fi