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).