School of Arts, Design and Architecture

AREA Publications

Highlights of the current publications and research outputs from doctoral researchers in the AREA (Artistic Research Doctoral School of Aalto) programme.

Exhibitions and Creative Outputs:

  • Blanchette (2024). Shit Load (sculpture). In Gifts/Presents/ Presence exhibition, Cable Factory, Helsinki 6-15.6.2024.
  • Koivisto & Suomi (2025). Kudos – Library for Material Relations (installation) Forum kortteli, Turku 9.12.2025-7.2.2026.
  • Meriläinen (2025). Hypnos (media art). Pre-examined Artistic Component. Cirko, Helsinki. (Premiere 6.2.2025).
  • Meriläinen (2026). Kotiteatteri esittää: makuuhuoneessa. Pre-examined Artistic Component. Tehdas Teatteri. (Premiere 17.6.2026.) 

Journal Articles:

  • Blanchette (2025). Faecal Pharmakon. In Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness and beyond conference proceedings British Computer Society, 227-283.
  • Koivistoinen (2025). Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice, VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research 14.
  • Torrey (2025). Paper as a responsive threshold: Material correspondence and assemblage in collagraphs. IMPACT Journal. (Under review)
  • Torrey (2025). The palimpsestic frottage: Practice-based artistic research with glacier striations in Southern Finland. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice. (Under review)
  • Torrey. (2026). Distant surfaces: Postconceptual painting and the geological imaginary. Journal of Contemporary Painting. (Under review)
  • Blanchette (2026). The Sentient Mouth-Organ and its Uncanny Synthetic Food. Artnodes: Journal on Art, Science, and Technology (submitted for review).

Conference Presentations:

  • Meriläinen & Heinonen & Pusa (2026). Navigating the Taboo: Porno-Art, Pedagogy, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education. Lecture-demonstration. Artist Pedagogy and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices. Uniarts Helsinki, 27-29.8.2026.
  • Koivisto (2026). Porous Bodies, Porous Materials: Atrans-Corporeal Reimagining of Sustainable Aesthetics in Architecture. The Art of Research conference (full paper submitted for review).
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