Photo: Sinem Dişli Residency at Triangle Arts, New York between 9.1.2015-30.3.2015. Triangle Arts Residency for Finnish Artist is a new residency program organized in collaboration by the Triangle Arts Association and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. It was made possible by the generous grant form the Finnish Cultural […]
Mother, Child in Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
Mother, Child in “Sound, Image, Experience”, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art between 5.12.2014 –1.3.2015. The exhibition explores the experiential encounters between sound and image through the work of Finnish contemporary artists. Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
Untitled Prototype in Pori Art Museum
Untitled Prototype in “Brush, Push, Prod”, Pori Art Museum Project Room between 26.09.2014 – 11.01.2015. “Brush, Push, Prod is an exhibition about the different levels and dimensions of touching. The works featured in the exhibition give tangible expression to the different levels of touching. The exhibition is a continuation of the […]
Untitled Prototypes in Design Forum
Untitled Prototypes (2014) in Media Lab 20th anniversary exhibition: Design Forum between 17.9. – 1.10.2014. The electronically enhanced knitted sculptural objects respond to touch. They explore the shape and the surface of an imaginary body turned inside out. The process of knitting has informed the structure of each object. The electronic parts […]
Kosketusetäisyys – Within reach
2.1.2014 Kosketusetäisyys – Within reach The Finnish word “kosketusetäisyys” refers to the distance or the perimeter of what could become touchable within one’s reach. The three installations in the exhibition elaborate on this distance. They invite the visitor into the space in which the embodied relation to the other, […]
Välitilassa – Trinh T.Minh-ha ja marginaalista puhumisen taito
1.10.2013 Välitilassa – Trinh T.Minh-ha ja marginaalista puhumisen taito In the article (Interstice – Trinh T.Minh-ha, the art of speaking of the marginal) Heidi Tikka approaches Trinh T.Minh-ha’s work from the point of view of artistic research, looking at the connections between her writing and her cinematic work. The article […]
Configurations for Surveillance Cameras 1-2 at Kuala Lumpur 7th Triennial
Kuala Lumpur 7th Triennial: Barricade, 16 Feb – 02 March 2013, White Box, MAP @ Publika “Following on KLT6: Artifice, this year’s Kuala Lumpur Triennial has taken on the theme of the Barricade. The title refers to recent contestations over public space which generally take two forms. On the one […]
Performativity of power – on financing media art
15.10.2012 Performativity of power – on financing media art How do the institutions that finance media art in Finland, shape the field of media art production? In her most recent article in AVEK 2/12 Heidi Tikka discusses the performative role of the institutions and the strategies that media art practitioners […]
Extension for At Hand, Europe video installation
1.9.2012 Extension for At Hand, Europe video installation At Hand video installation at the Europe metro station in Paris has been extended until 31.10.2012
Curating and producing on urban screens, round table discussion
23.8.2012 Curating and producing on urban screens, round table discussion Discussion moderated by Susa Pop, Media Facades, Berlin participants Nerea Calvillo from Medialab-Prado, Madrid and Heidi Tikka, artist, Helsinki. City Sets & Media Facades seminar, 23.-24.8.2012, Media Centre Lume, Helsinki View discussion