Lapland 2001

A group of 5 lecturers and 17 students spent almost two weeks in Lapland. The first two days in Ivalo, the next two in Utsjoki by the Norwegian border and the last seven days again in Ivalo in beautiful Nanguvuono.

The group visited the surrounding areas and discussed the theme of borders. They also confronted borders of their own by jumping in the frozen lake, going to sauna together and coping with the darkness and the cold. They also worked with ice and learned how to use the tools involved.

Together and individually they worked with their own themes using ice, performance, video, photography, drawing...

The Burren, 2002

A group of 23 students and lecturers traveled to The Burren area of Ireland for 12 days. After a happy reunion and getting to know the new members in the group the first few days were spent getting to know the area and visiting some of the local sights.

The Burren landscape inspired people to work with different sites in very different ways. Quite a few people used video and photography in their work. Some did work with the local materials, limestone, seaweed or things found on the beaches.

The theme of borders wasn’t so much discussed with the whole group this time but more in smaller groups. The themes that came up in Lapland were continued in some people’s work. Now there was some continuity, something to look back to. The new members of the group and of course the new scenery and culture changed the dynamics of the group in a significant way.

Estonia 2003

The third part of the Be Bounded By… project was arranged in east, in Estonia. After a group gathering in Tallinn and visiting the Tallinn Kunstiakadeemia and museums the group of 4 lecturers and 16 students settled in a place called Ontika Mois. It is a seaside place near the Gulf of Finland and the town Kohtla-Järve. From Ontika we took trips to the nearby towns: Jöhvi, Sillammäe and Narva. The town of Narva is at the border of Estonia and Russia.

For this intensive course we had a clear goal to build up an exhibition into a gallery in the town of Kohtla-Järve. Students had brought with them art works from the earlier workshops of the project. The new participants made work out of the material and objects they found from the area. All the students collected new material from the surrounding area for further work in their home college.