Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use SISU

Author: Allan Kukk

Sketches: Allan Kukk, Katerina Balakina, Sandra Mirka, Semele Kari, Veera Gontšugova.

Fotod: Kairi Rand

And the final lecture of SISU 2019 will be "To Sit Quietly in a Room Alone" by Damon Taylor (Brighton) at 8.45 pm on 14 June.

Damon Taylor is a design philosopher, author, educator and performer. His research is concerned with the relationship between the made environment and the politics of action, the role of emotion in design, and the changing nature of affect in a culture where the tangible and the intangible are beginning to merge. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Design at the University of Brighton. His book, Moving Objects: a Cultural History of Emotive Design is to be published by Bloomsbury in 2020.

In his performance-lecture at SISU this year, Damon Taylor will be exploring whether in an age where a battery of devices clamour for our attention, and connection is an expectation, it is possible to just be, and if we attempt to do so, what are the imperatives of such an act?

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At 8 pm on the very last day of SISU 2019, we'll get to listen to Jyrki Siukonen, Finnish artist and researcher, working mostly with conceptual art and installations, and writing about art and culture. His book “Hammer and Silence. A Short Introduction to the Philosophy of Tools” was translated into Estonian in 2016.

Jyrki’s point of departure is that the acts of "inventing" and "considering" are inbuilt in the making.

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Day 3 of SISU 2019 brings to the symposium stage a man very much used to the stage: choreographer and performance artist Mart Kangro – possibly one of the most internationally acclaimed contemporary Estonian performance artists. Mart focuses in his work on the meanings that the body and movements create and the concept of meaning in theatre as a semiotic time-space.

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SISU Symposium, drawn by hand: the album. // SISU sümpoosion, käega joonistatud: suur album -- 12.-14. juuni 2019

The curatorial proposal for SISU 2019 is to explore - from a spatial designer's professional point of view - the concept of 'real', of 'present', to consider the importance of learning and thinking by hand, learning from doing and being present, using all your senses. It made complete sense therefore to ask sketch artists to be the mediators of SISU. Our sketch team, to whom we are eternally grateful: Semele Kari, Sandra Mirka, Veera Gontšugova, Katerina Balakina & Allan Kukk.



2019. aasta SISU sümpoosioni lähtepositsioon on uurida - ruumiloojate vaatenurgast - seda, mis meie ümber on tõeline, seda, mis on "kohal", vaagida kätega mõtlemise ja õppimise tähtsust, tegemisest ja kohal olemisest õppimise tähtsust, kasutades kõiki oma meeli. Seega tundus täiesti loogiline kutsuda sündmust vahendama visandajad. Meie visandajate tiim, kelle üle oleme lõputult rõõmsad: Semele Kari, Sandra Mirka, Veera Gontšugova, Katerina Balakina ja Allan Kukk.

Continuing our lecture programme on Day 3 of SISU, concentrating on the tactile-sensorial spatial experience, is Eik Hermann - lecturer on philosophy and practice-based theory at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and the co-editor-in-chief of Estonian architecture magazine Ehituskunst. Eik’s current focus lies mainly in the gray areas between the theoretical and practical, material and mental, psychological and political, and technical and poetic. He'll be on stage at 18.30 on 14 June.

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SISU lecture programme, Day 3: June 14th at 17.45 - Karsten Födinger.

Karsten Födinger who'll by the time of this lecture will have finished tutoring a 2-day concrete workshop at SISU, is a sculptor whose works start with a detailed examination of the specific location and local materials. He often uses materials, methods and tools borrowed from a construction site to create works that often deal with the properties of the materials used – but the outcome is not what you might expect. How to you change people's perception of concrete, what kind of new conditions do you need to give the material?

http://www.foedinger.de/