Bussiekskursioon ja töötuba: ON+ OFF. (Dis-)Embarking Rhythms of Transient Communities

Installatsioon

D-terminal, Lootsi 13

Algus:11:00 17.09.2015

Lõpp:17:30 17.09.2015

11:00 to 13:00 Thematic Presentations Port of Tallinn, D-Terminal Lootsi 13, 3rd floor, travel transit zone
14:30 to 17:30 Guided Bus Tour Point of Departure Port of Tallinn, D-Terminal Lootsi 13, main entrance at ground floor

The specific geopolitical location and the recent political and socio-economic transformation of Tallinn also triggered and redirected routes and patterns of transnational mobility and migration between the Baltic realm, Russia, Scandinavia, and Central Europe. These streams of mobility show an influx on the transformation of urban space while individuals and groups develop new methods to appropriate and make sense of these spaces. The bus tour will follow flows of mobility and visit relevant sites, e.g. wholesale markets, logistic hubs for processing goods, real estate projects for foreign investment such as the BLRT harbour front re-developments, nodes for transnational mobility like the current Tallinn harbour terminals, whose massive influx of passengers has an enormous impact on the perception and production of spaces in Tallinn. Project presentations by guests will open a wider scope of scientific and artistic works related to the issue of mobility and transformation.

Damiano Cerrone, A sense of place: Hacking the invisible city through social media
Ingrid Ruudi, Naissaar: extraterritorial utopian zone of the transitional era
Jaak Kilmi, Stories about the Finnish TV and other influx during the Soviet time
Keiu Telve, Estonian commuters in Finland – The good migrants
Moderated by Tarmo Pikner, Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel

Damiano Cerrone is co-founder and coordinator at SPIN Unit, a transnational urban research group combining art and science to find new and creative approaches to urban studies and advanced data solutions. Damiano is also principal researcher at TERREFORM New York. This year he received the Young Scholar award at the ESRI UC in San Diego.

Ingrid Ruudi is an architecture historian, critic, and curator working at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Institute of Art History. Her research focuses on issues of built environment, public space, and critical interventions from the late Soviet period to the contemporary era. She has curated the Estonian exhibition “Gas Pipe” at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008, co-curated the Urban Installations Festival LIFT11 in 2011, and initiated and curated the open project space März in Tallinn in 2010–2011. Her latest exhibition “Unbuilt. Visions for a New Society 1986–1994” at the Museum of Estonian Architecture this year investigated unrealised architectural and urban propositions of the transitional era.

Jaak Kilmi is a film director. He has created several documentary films reflecting on transformations in Estonian society, e.g. “Disco and Atomic War“, “The New World”, “The Art of Selling”, “The Paper City”. Besides the production of documentary and feature films, Kilmi has cooperated with several TV channels and published film reviews. He has taught in the field of documentary film at Baltic Film and Media School.

Keiu Telve, PhD researcher of ethnology at the University of Tartu. She studies Estonian men commuting between Finland and Estonia. Her research focuses on the following themes: how men perceive the mobility between the countries, how multiple affinities can be hold, and the changes in behaviour patterns along the work-related commuting routes.

Event is free of charge. Please register before September 15 via e-mail to Tarmo Pikner tpikner@tlu.ee.

Additional information: http://www.stopandgo-transition.net/publication/tab/