Alchemy of the Third Millennium
14.-15.10.2010
Artek's 75th Anniversary Symposium
When Artek was founded in 1935, the business idea of the company was to sell furniture and to promote modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and other means of education. The founders of Artek, Alvar and Aino Aalto, Nils-Gusfav Hahl and Maire Gullichsen, believed in a grand synthesis of the arts and wanted to make a difference in town planning as well as architecture and design. These goals and values are still very much part of Artek today. In the spirit of the far-sighted founders, Artek wants to emphasize the role of cross-disciplinary thinking between science, art, architecture and design. As a statement for the future and for the celebration of its 75th anniversary, Artek will organize an international symposium.
Entitled Alchemy of the Third Millennium, the symposium will debate the role of the classical elements - earth, water, air and fire - in contemporary art, architecture and design.
Program
October 14th
10.00 - 10.15
Welcoming words
Mirkku Kullberg, CEO of Artek
10.15 - 11.00
Art and Alchemy: Images of matter in artistic expression
Professor Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect
11.15 - 12.15
The Language of Things
Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London
Lunch break
13.30 - 14.15
Focus: James Turrell - a view on the artist and an extended circle of visual colleagues
Professor David Neuman, Director of Magasin 3, Stockholm
14.30- 15.30
Works and Humanitarian Activities
Shigeru Ban, Architect
Closing words for the 1st Symposium day
October 15th
13.00 -13.45
Meditation: Notes for Living with the Elements
Dr. David Kleinberg-Levin
14.00 - 14.45
Transforming ideas and materials into form
Amanda Levete, Architect
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 - 16.15
On eggsTobias Rehberger, Artist
16.30 - 17.30
Love at First Sight. About Spaces and Things
Professor Peter Zumthor, Architect
Closing words
Daniel Sachs, CEO of Proventus
Alchemy of the Third Millennium is curated by Professor Juhani Pallasmaa and Esa Laaksonen, director of the Alvar Aalto Academy, and organized in collaboration with the Aalto University.
The Symposium is non-profit and open to the public.
Registration at artek75@artek.fi. Please let us know if you wish to attend the entire two-day seminar or just one day.
http://www.artek.fi/fi/news/126
