maanantai, 10 joulukuun, 2012, 08:01
STAR GUEST Tiina Pusa: Thorns hidden under beauty
In my doctoral thesis, I studied the semantic relationships between art and old age. The art material brought out a manifold old age, which led me to set a manifold concept of art as the basis of art education as well. My study materials included Jaana Partanen’s artworks of the Sleeping Beauty series. They offered a fascinating mirror to reflect on old age. Ms. Partanen’s freeze-frames about old age first caught me as an ordinary recipient of art. When I lingered in front of them as a researcher, I also got to feel the stings. Individual and general stories about old age were found under the aesthetic surface. The possibilities of art to shape the individual’s and the society’s conceptions of old age began to live in a dialogue with other materials. After the research process, the fairytale classic of Sleeping Beauty is for me more a story of the wisdom of old age than of an adolescent princess.
Tiina Pusa, Doctor of Arts
The dissertation “Harmaa taide” (“Grey Art”) was reviewed at the Aalto University on 5 October 2012.
Avainsanat: Everyday Alchemy, Sleeping Beauty, star guest
