Credits: 3
Schedule: 06.05.2019 - 24.05.2019
Teaching Period (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
I, II, III, IV, V
Learning Outcomes (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Deepens and strenghtens the students' own personal exprenssion, visual thinking and technical know-how.
Content (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Personal work and group work in the guidance of the teacher of the workshop.
Details on the course content (applies in this implementation):
This workshop is an opportunity for you to produce new work with a quick pace and to get feedback both from your peers
and from an experienced tutor. You will get practical advice on how to construct a meaningful sequence of new images.
Working alone is alternating with working together as a group. Sharing our time, our images and our stories is an important
part of the experience.
You can choose to integrate the work produced during the workshop into a series in progress, or to start something
completely new. I will give you several assignments that you will use according to your needs: take them as warm-up
exercises, as triggers and tools to get you towards your images, or perhaps as small accomplished pieces.
We will also talk about Life After School: How to find your place in the artists’ community in national and international context,
to publish and exhibit your work, to collaborate with curators and galleries, to write applications… all the hidden work that is
an integral part of the professional artist’s everyday life.
Please prepare a portfolio of your previous project(s) that you will show to me in our individual meeting.
SCHEDULE OF THE WORKSHOP
Monday April 6: Group meeting 9:15-17, Aalto (Väre) Room L101
Tuesday April 7: Group meeting 9:15-17, Aalto (Väre) Room L102
Monday April 13: Individual meetings 9-17, Elina’s studio, Cable Factory, D stairs 5th floor (7 students)
Tuesday April 14: Group meeting 9-11 Elina’s studio, Cable Factory, D stairs 5th floor.
Individual meetings 12-17, Elina’s studio, Cable Factory, D stairs 5th floor (5 students)
Monday April 20: Group meeting 9:15-17, Aalto (Väre) Room L101
Tuesday April 21: Group meeting 9:15-17, Aalto (Väre) Room L102
Please note that it’s obligatory to participate in all the group meetings. If you are absent, you will not pass the class. Between
the meetings, you should reserve time to work on your project.
ASSIGNMENT PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP
Here is a little a writing exercise I would like you to do before the workshop. Please bring it with you the first day and be
prepared to read it for the group. I take this opportunity to say that I hope we can establish an atmosphere of trust and
openness in our group so that you can write and speak in all honesty.
TIME-LINE EXERCISE
Take one sheet of paper. Write on it, in chronological order, a list of the most important things of
your life so far: the things that have made you into who you are. They can be people, books you
have read, political events, things that have happened in your family - anything of personal
importance.
I look forward to meeting you soon!
All the best,
Elina
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About the tutor:
Elina Brotherus (b. 1972 Helsinki, Finland) works in photography and moving image. She holds an MA in Photography from
University of Art and Design Helsinki (now Aalto University). Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and
art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the
model, gave way to images on subjective experiences in her recent bodies of work Annonciation and Carpe Fucking Diem. In
her current work she is revisiting Fluxus event scores and other written instructions for performance-oriented art of the
1950s-70s.
Elina has published 9 monographs with various European publishers and exhibits since 20 years in galleries and institutions
such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Biennale of Sydney, gb agency, Paris, Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg,
Istanbul Biennial, Kiasma, Helsinki, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Kunst Haus Wien, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Humlebaek, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, MAXXI, Rome, Mois de la Photo, Montreal, National Art Center, Tokyo,
PhotoEspana, Madrid, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Saatchi Gallery, London and Serlachius Museums, Mänttä. In
2017 she
Assessment Methods and Criteria (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Typical ways of working are lectures, group discussions and practice works. Methods vary from workshop to workshop.
Workload (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
See details of the contact hours and other ways of working from the workshop description of each workshop.
Details on calculating the workload (applies in this implementation):
The course can give 3-5 credits. 3 credits come from the teaching and theory, 5 credits includes also independent work during the course.
Monday 13.5. and Tusday 14.5 have been reserved for individual meetings, which are held in Kaapelitehdas.
Study Material (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Teacher will provide in the beginning of the course.
Prerequisites (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Workshops require knowledge of techniques and expression, that will be announced by the teacher.
Grading Scale (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
Pass- fail or 1-5, see workshop specific information from study event.
Registration for Courses (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020):
The order of priority is as follows: 1. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS); 2. exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester; 3. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet; 4. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major’s or programme’s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year 5. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major’s or programme’s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet; 6. students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor; 7. students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject’s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet; 8. students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.); 9. other students.