KUVATA WEBINAR #9 Green Art

14.1.2025 at 14:00-15:30
Online on Teams
Enrollment: https://docs.google.com/forms

Objectives of The Webinar

Sustainable Development Strategies, Roadmaps, and tools for promoting sustainability for visual and community artists, artist collectives, and artist-led associations or businesses. How to incorporate sustainability in art productions?

About The Speakers

Low-carbon expert Saara Korpela has been working in ecological sustainability within the visual arts as an eco-coordinator and educator since 2020. Her employers have included ANTI Festival, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, HIAP – Helsinki International Art Programme, IHME Helsinki, Mustarinda, and Finnish cultural and scientific institutes. She worked as project coordinator in the Green Art Project, which developed a carbon and material footprint calculator for visual arts professionals. Currently, Saara is promoting ecological sustainability in public art acquisitions at the Turku Museum Centre.

Paula Toppila‘s passion is to think about the role of art and art institutions in the sustainability transition. He works as executive director and curator of Art Foundation Pro Arte and led the organizational change from IHME contemporary art festival to IHME Helsinki. IHME Helsinki’s operations combine art, science and climate work. The aim of the activity is to promote the freedom of art, eco-social civilization, a sustainable and democratic society and a diverse good life.

Egle Oddo is a visual artist interested in operational realism, understood as the presentation of the functional sphere in an aesthetic arrangement and its interrelations. She combines photography, moving images, installations, sculptures, environmental art, and experimental live art. In her pieces, industrial production transforms into delicate handcraft, life forms appear and emerge from sculptures and objects, film photography appropriates digital images, selected trash mixes with fashion, precious edible minerals, and ancestral recipes are served as part of ritual meals. Her work is featured in international biennials, museums, and relevant institutions, as well as in cutting-edge and independent alternative spaces and events. She lives and works in Helsinki.

Schedule and Structure

14.00–14.05
Introduction by Maria Huhmarniemi (Vice Dean and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Lapland)

14.05–14.25
Saara Korpela (Arts Manager and Educator): How do you calculate the carbon footprint of an art exhibition or work of art? What is the Green Art Calculator and what can you do with it? This talk will review the basics of carbon footprint calculation, present examples of the effects of different choices in art productions, and touch on the challenges associated with assessing carbon footprints.

14.25–14.30
Q&A

14.30–14.50
Paula Toppila (Executive Director and Curator)
Presentation of IHME Helsinki and its activities that promote artistic freedom, eco-social education, a sustainable and democratic society and a diverse good life.

14.50-14:55
Q&A

14.55–15.20
Egle Oddo (Visual Artist): “What do I do as an artist/curator in the field of ecological/sustainable art”

15.20-15.25
Q&A

15.25–15.30 Closing words by Maria Huhmarniemi

What is KUVATA
With the aim to produce targeted training for visual artists, the KUVATA project will create equal opportunities for visual artists in today’s evolving world through knowledge and education.

The main project partner is Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). The University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Design will yield training in areas such as sustainability, responsibility, and anti-racism in the visual arts. Globe Art Point will supply educational content on topics such as equality, diversity, and ethics in the field of art, not forgetting copyright issues.

More information here: www.tuni.fi.