AREFS taide ja kulttuuri ry
AREFS art and culture association
  • Savon Radan ryhmä organizes activities along the historical Savo line

TRIANGLE ROCK PROJECT

INTENTION and PURPOSE
The rural regions of Europe make a substantial contribution to the richness and diversity of European culture.
The purpose is “to harness rural culture to create a better, more sustainable future for rural regions with new artistic and cultural initiatives”.
The TRIANGLE ROCK program comprises: -
1. An artistic TRIANGLE ROCK RESIDENCY, in which a potent mix of the best artists from the partner regions will collaborate to create work in different regions. The work will respond to, and comment on, the diverse cultural experiences they encounter. The works will travel between regions to stimulate dialogue at the CULTURAL EXCHANGE EVENTS and to bring culture and art of high quality to places and audiences that are usually not part of the international cultural discourse.
2. A series of CULTURAL EXCHANGE EVENTS during which cultural actors will undertake intercultural exchange and dialogue with specific themes (e.g. RURAL ART VILLAGES etc). Citizens of the regions will be invited to interact with the events and register their responses to the emerging values and stories.

BASIC PRINCIPLE FOR PARTNER AND LOCATION SEARCH
The TRIANGLE ROCK partners should have a shared belief that:
a. culture and art is a powerful change agent for rural regions
b. its ability to transform will be strengthened by intercultural dialogue and cultural exchange

The TRIANGLE ROCK partner locations have to be connected by the specific conditions of their areas.
They have to be out of the center of Europe and have to be related to rock-environments.
They have to have a mix of cultural influences, from the past, but also recently, and that gives an impact on the local societies.
Finally the project will active contribute to a positive self-awareness of people living in external areas in Europe and it will also contribute to more knowledge and respect of rural regions.
The locations and their environments also differ from each other and are unique.

BASIC PRINCIPLE FOR THE WORKPLAN
A number of 2 national and/or international artists per location will stay and work together in different composition in several sessions of minimum 4 weeks in successive locations in/on and between rocks. Through intense dialogue the arts professionals will communicate verbally and visually. The art production includes all visual arts like sculpting, painting/drawing, photography, etc and installation, site specific, community based art, video and/ or mixed media.

The artists and the works will circulate between the different locations. In order to get acquainted and involved with the location, the artists will need to explore the environment, both the nature and the rural culture. The impact of place is different for every artist. The confrontation with specific rural circumstances is a challenge for artists to start the intense dialogue and exchange in art works. The atmosphere in landscape and climate, and the mood and attitude of the people of different cultures living in the country side will offer the specific impressions to the artists. The locations will also add the inter-cultural aspect based on human interest. In the different places the artists will meet those small communities, like villagers and other locals. The artists are also intending to cooperate and produce together with local communities whom they deem valuable for the artistic exchange.

BASIC PRINCIPLE FOR THE CULTURAL OBJECTIVES
With the different backgrounds and all the different influences of every specific place, the outcome of the project will show the uniqueness of the different locations and the process of changing of the artists. The challenging conditions will improve new forms of art production that can be documented and published.

Finnish artists from the rural area will be challenged to co-operate and collaborate with artists from different European countries and will improve and broaden their artistic vision and skills and compare their rural roots with others. It will bring divers development to the isolated artistic situation.

The project will contribute to cultural exchange, cultural diversity and increase awareness of historical and cultural knowledge, as well as the emergence of new traditions and contemporary cultural heritage.
Awareness will be raised for both the artists attending and the local people.
 

The project can be found on the website of Rhiz.eu.

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