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Residency of Laura Puska

hosted by ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival
Participating countries:
  • Belgium
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • Latvia
  • Street Arts
  • Theatre
  • Visual Arts
© MV Leunen

Period

  • From 01-08-2024 to 31-10-2024
Generation #3

Website

Address

Kuopio

Project summary

Artist Laura Puska will work in the context of the Finnish ANTI Festival, the Latvian Homo Novus Festival, and the Estonian SAAL Biennaal. The project will connect the artist with the three festivals located geographically and chronologically near to each other. Puska will travel from her hometown Ghent by land and perform her work, holding the project name, at ANTI Festival in Kuopio, host a workshop at Homo Novus Festival in Riga and work together with the SAAL Biennaal team in Tallinn. The performance work “URGENT - Residency for Artworks” is a platform to ponder upon the role of the artwork as a performer through shared experience with the human performer. It gives a central stage to an art object and engages audiences in interactions and discussions through its existence.
© Awa Gaye

Artist

Laura Puska

Biography: L. Puska (b. 1986 FI) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Ghent, Belgium. She works with performance, sculpture, and video. She considers objects as potential companions and performative gestures as a tool to direct attention. Her works have been exhibited and performed mostly in galleries and museums so far. Puska's video performance Dialogue was selected for New Glass Now -exhibition, which gathered 100 notable contemporary artists and designers working with glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She recently attended residencies in Kunsthal Gent and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Puska studied in Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Aalto University in Helsinki, and LUCA School of Arts (MFA 2022).
Contact: laura.puska@gmail.com
Website: https://www.puska.me
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/puskame/
Work: https://www.puska.me/urgent-residency-for-artworks https://www.puska.me/performing-administration

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