About: (this is not a line)
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Before you is an exposition related to an artwork entitled Mattolaituri (Carpet Pier) (2023). The artwork was a site-specific, temporary wooden construction located on the bank of the Pankajoki River, in the small city of Mikkeli, in Eastern Finland, during the summer of 2023.
This exposition is mainly a documentation of the artwork, but it also includes texts and other material related to its context, background, starting point and reception. There are four pages, which can be accessed via the contents bar in the upper left corner or the links on the front page.
On the page Carpet pier you can find the documentation of the art piece Mattolaituri (Carpet Pier). Pages The River and Monere mens, contextualize Mattolaituri (Carpet Pier) in relation to art and artistic research. The page Gestures sums up the thoughts raised by the work. You can approach the pages in any order you wish.
The artwork Mattolaituri (Carpet Pier) is one artistic part of the research project The Negation of a Monument and the Meanings of a Fissure (working title), which focusses on memory objects, wood as a material and the memory that materials and objects might carry.The research considers how wood as a material and memory intertwine: what can we find or read in the materials, what can we learn from them and from collaborating with them? What stories can materials reveal and bring to light? In this research, materiality acts as an affective starting point for remembering, a tool for recalling as well as a carrier of memories. The wood as a material itself remembers, and in line with the methods of artistic research, not all remembering is articulated in words and concepts.
This exposition is multimedia and was created side by side and in interaction with the construction of the artwork Mattolaituri (Carpet Pier). The text is partly fictional, partly fragmentary, and does not always proceed linearly. Exposition as a form of artistic research shapes the research process and is reflected in its results (e. g. Schwab 2012, 339). This exposition reveals material that has influenced the creation of artwork but remained outside of it. The exposition also enables those who were unable to visit Mattolaituri (Carpet Pier) during the summer of 2023 to do so virtually.
Please note that:
-Moving images should play automatically.
-Image captions can be displayed by moving the cursor over the image.
-Most of the images can be enlarged by clicking on them.
-The exposition also contains sound (Finnish language).
-Hovering the cursor over “the blue waves” ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ will provide information about the context of that page.