Here you find the results for the Open Calls for a videographer, an intern, and an exhibition producer. More results to come soon, stay tuned!
Helena Aleksandrova was selected as videographer, and started to work online in May 2020:
Artist and filmmaker from St.Petersburg, she lives in Helsinki. Holds a BA from Smolny College, St.Petersburg State University 2014, with major in Film and Video. She also got a second degree from Bard College. In 2017 she received her MA from Aalto University in the program of Visual Culture and Contemporary Art. In 2018 Finnish Cultural Foundation awarded Helena a working grant. She was a participant of Academy of Moving People and Images 2019.
Social media, website maintenance and communication: unfortunately Deborah Suikkanen’s position has not been confirmed by TE-office. We will inform soon whether there will be another Open Call.
Tatiana Solovieva was selected as producer for the exhibition “2084” in Cable Factory, 2.-14.10.2020.
While waiting to meet in real life and to go back to the streets, let’s meet virtually on Thursday May 14th at 5-7 pm! See link here below.
We’ll talk about:
Catalysti values: what does it mean to be transcultural? In which values do we recognise ourselves? Let’s write them down together and publish them on our website.
Catalysti future: which strategies and ideas does the association support? How do you imagine the association’s role in the next years? Do you have ideas or proposals for 2021? Help us to write down ideas for the next round of applications, in August-September 2020!
Annual General Meeting 2020: it will be held in June, when meetings up to 50 people will be allowed. Btw. the Finnish Patent and Registration Office gave permission to the associations to hold their AGM later, until 30.8. During the AGM the new board will be elected, so it is important to be there! Do you have propositions for the board? Every member can be a candidate, please send your propositions tobefore 25.5.2020.
FlowWowProductions is an artistic platform founded by dance artist Nadja Pärssinen in 2018. More information: www.npflowwow.com
Pärssinen is currently working on a solo work called Wanderlust, in which she explores the dialogue between wandering in nature and her own identity. For the above work, she is looking for an experienced video artist, who is especially interested about the topic.
Catalysti got the invitation to propose new members for TAIKEArts Councils for the years 2021-2022, before 29.5.2020. You’re welcome to send your proposals to before 28.5.2020, with: name, date of birth, title, postal address, telephone number, email address, a written agreement to the candidacy, a mention about the availability to operate on other art fields councils, art field, a short description of your expertise.
It is very important to propose as many transcultural candidates as possible, to have more diversity on the committees!
We can propose 2 names for each committee (keeping in mind gender equality). And, if there are proposals, some for the regional committees (2 names per committee). The art fields are:
– architecture & design
– audiovisual art (film, media art, light & sound art)
– performing arts (theatre, dance, circus, performance art)
– literature (including art journalism)
– music
– visual arts (visual arts, photography, comics, illustration)
* commitment to participate to 5-7 yearly meeting + taking extra time to read applications (for example visual arts commitee has about 1900 applications and performing arts committee 1200 applications a year)
* NB this is not a paid work, it is a service to the community
* good expertise on the art form and art field in general
* members cannot apply TAIKE grants from the committee she/he is a member of, during the two years in office (2021-23)
* as most of the applications are in Finnish / Swedish, it is better if a member has some knowledge of one of these languages (not compulsory), and the ability to read applications by an online program
A committee member has the same status as a civil servant (virkamies) and cannot participate to decision making if there is a risk for any conflict of interest. E.g. when a committee member is:
* board member in an association applying from the committee
* is an employee of a community applying from the committee
* is involved with a working group applying from the committee
* or if committee members child, parent or spouse/ex-spouse applies
TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre launched a grant application “for work situations that have changed due to the coronavirus pandemic”. The application period is 1.5.-15.5.2020. See here for more infos.
