Project lead: Univ.-Prof. Joonas Lahtinen MA PhD

Exposition in the Research Catalogue (Society for Artistic Research SAR)
 

The ongoing multimodal artistic research project LOVE LETTERS explores strategies and politics of participation, love letters as a form of communication, performativity of text and writing, intimacy and (imagined) boundaries between the "private" and the "public", forms of fandom, discourses on liveness, and the materiality and performativity of the LED ticker as an artistic medium.

LOVE LETTERS also investigates power relations in the arts field; what kinds of assumptions and power relations inform the various practices of fandom, especially in contemporary art? As an artist, what possibilities and challenges reside in one’s “being a fan” of other – well-known – artists? And, what could it mean to be a fan of a certain object, material or medium, such as the ticker?

PROJECT TIMELINE AND CONTRIBUTIONS

2024 // Lecture Performance "How to Facilitate Careful Listening and Non-Coercive Participation in Artistic Research? LED Tickers and Love Letter Writing as Research Tools", Forum Artistic Research // Symposium "Listen for Beginnings", Gustav Mahler Private University Klagenfurt

(Proceedings article forthcoming in 2025)

2023-2024 // Participatory installation in the Kunstzelle // WUK Vienna and Vienna Art Week 2023 festival

2020-2022 // Experiments within the frame of the artistic research project "TACTICS for a COLLECTIVE BODY" at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, PI's: Renata Epifanio Lamenza and Stef Assandri

2021 // video contributions LOVE LETTER TO JENNY HOLZER and WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? in the Facebook Lockdown Calendar of WUK performing arts Vienna