Category: Preparing for AfriCHI

Preparing for AfriCHI

Travelling to Namibia

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The trip started on Friday 31.11. to Namibia. It is a long trip from Turku, Finland to Windhoek, Namibia. To be more precise to the Safari hotel where the conference is taking place.

Our journey from Turku to Windhoek Namibia
If we should have drive, according to google it would have been 13,414 km. Interesting!

 

We did not drive. We took a bus from Turku to Helsinki, then flew from Helsinki to Doha, and Doha to Windhoek. Once in Windhoek we are moving with a car.

Luggage
That is all waht we brought to Namibia. Can you guess wehre is the brain of the installation?

We were travelling two persons, and Reisenbear.  We had some luggage at the begining because we are bringing technology, lights in addition to two laptos and the brain of the installation. Ah! and some food for the journey!

After some hours we reached Namibia:

At Windhoek airport
We made it! after some hourson the road, we are finally here!

Once in our accomodation it was time to see the truth, did the technology made it?

Testing the technology in our flat!
Testing the technology in our flat!

Result!

The technology made it!  EXCEPT one speaker.

So next step is to move once more, to the conference venue and to install everything, We will keep you posted!

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Bringing all the art together!

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Even that we knew about the installation when we submitted our proposal, the theme of the installation has been evolved as time pass by.

Heike, Antony and Carolina worked the theme of the display, which was fixed to: unique CULTURES in one connected WORLD which we think is the most suitable title for the time we are living.

Then we invite artists of the four selected countries of our installation (Namibia, Mexico, Thailand and Finalnd) with a very short notice. We are very honor and thankful they accepted (as you have notice in the previous posts)

Next step: How to bring the art together in the set up?

We have a skype talk between as we are all located in different parts of the world, it was decided to locate all the art together on the same fabric instead of four individual frames. However we did not count that even that we explain to the artists the measures, due to the short notice, it was not possible to have all the art with the same dimensions.

However, for that we can involve a new talent: graphic design.  This expretise will allow us to organize visually the art together paying attention on dimenssions and colors.

Thank you to Georgina Schweikert from SIE Expressions who took this challenge and support us on this.

Let me share you the wondeful result:

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Welcome Marcos Gama from México!

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On Friday we had the opportunity to talk with Marco Gama via Skype,  after we exchanged messages between us days earlier

(Side note: digital technology is amazing supporting people to work together even if they are separated by thousand of kilometers in between! In this week the communciation for this project has been between these team members:  Marcos in Mexico, Heike in Denmark, Ant in Japan, Chris in Germany, Mikko & I in Finland.)

We are happy to let you know that Mr. Gama accepted to join us in this installation. Furthermore, he will be producing a work for this project. THANK YOU!

Meanwhile let us share you something of his work: https://marcosgama.artelista.com/en/

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Welcome Finland!

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In search of our artist in Finland, we were were presented to the art teacher Hanna Lehtilä. Through her, we met two young talented artists who accepted to join us in this adventure!  Now they are working in order to present their art together. THANK YOU!

We will tell you more about artist’s names soon!

Another outcome of our meeting is, we are thinking to bring the installation to Finland as well. So this is turning to be very interesting! 🙂

 

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Welcome Nambowa Malua from Nambia!

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We receive the wonderful news from Heike, that  Mr. Nambowa Malua has accepted our invitation to be part of this adventure!

He is the first artists to confirm his participation. He represents Nambia in this installation and he will be creating a visual art for this project.  THANK YOU!

You can find some of his work following this link: https://www.behance.net/NambowaMalua

 

 

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The Journey Begins

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This website is to share our “Interactive Installation” at AfriCHI conference. When we submit our proposal to the reviewers the title of our document is: Triggering interest in outdoor gallery exhibitions through touch, sound and games. 

However, as we decided to invite local artists and we are building the installation with them,  we needed a theme for this particular installation. In this case, the theme of our installation is:

Unique cultures in one connected world.

To reach this point we have reached the following milestones:

  • get to know each other (if we do not meet, we wouldn’t be doing this)
  • join visions (we needed to agree on what we wanted to do)
  • write and submit our proporal to AfriCHI
  • After the proposal was accepted, improve it according to the reviewers feedback
  • Sort out many admin tasks
  • Agree on practical details for our installation (some skype calls and whatsapp chats as Heike, Antony and Carolina live in different continents)
  • Today 12.11. open this website

So one step at the time. Currently we are looking forward to join efforts with local artists.

We will let you know here once we have the artists onboard!