Cathérine Kuebel was born 1978 in Graz (Austria) and is currently working as artist, illustrator & designer, lecturer and general doing-stuff-person based in Finland and Austria.

After finishing one MA degree in Graphic Design and one in Environmental Art some years ago life is taking new directions and everything is possible.

'Reverse Ghosts' (working title) shown in Ptarmigan will be part 6 of the ongoing 'Somnambulia Stories' series. 

Model Court is an ongoing curatorial/research project that was designed by the artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Lawrence Abu Hamdan and which also involves Lorenzo Pezzani and Oliver Rees. It uses the structure and technologies of the courtroom to interrogate the signifying and controlling role architecture plays in contemporary art and society.

The project began as an exhibition and accompanying publication commissioned by the Centre of Contemporary Art in Glasgow. The point of departure for this project was the work of Architect Hikaru Kitai, who is working on a World Bank sponsored commission to design courtrooms in the “developing world”. Kitai’s project occupies the ambivalent ground between a search for innovative forms of transparency and imposed forms of justice. Through conversations with Kitai the Gallery in Glasgow was redesigned as a model of a courtroom. In this first incarnation of ‘Model Court’ the legal technologies of representation and the protocol of spatial/legal practice were used to display a series of video, sound, written works and talks both by the artists and other practitioners.

Model Court has been invited to produce another body of work and an exhibition at Ptarmigan.  The project will be an exhibition that will host a series of works; an artist talk and a publication will be produced. This publication will be an approximately 80 page compendium of the research involving contributions from a wide range of participants.

The project will continue to deal with jurisprudence, evidence and the hidden apparatuses that become the essential constituents of tribunals - the typist, the illustrator and the media technologies that enable the public dissemination of verdicts. The rooms which play host to this project become spaces in contestation, developing a line of debate around the way in which the legal context challenges the way we see objects, models, films and other forms of production. The project thus aims to create a translation of spaces, to open the discourse between the gallery and the court, in which a trade of rhetorical devices and patterns of representation are constructed.

Model Court in Finland will be the product of the biweekly meetings of the group. In these meetings associated themes are discussed in great detail; texts, films and artworks are exchanged, sites and significant people are visited and plans are made for new articulations of the project. The exhibition at Ptarmigan will be both a product of this research, and additional events, meetings and workshops organised throughout the two week residency. The publication from this exhibition will be subsequently produced and have launch nights in London, Helsinki and Copenhagen; these events will involve an artist talk and further discussion about the work.

Scott Andrew Elliott is a Canadian artist and recent graduate of the Environmental Art department of the University of Art and Design Helsinki.  His work is focused primarily on environmental installations in the form of large site specific architectural works. Each work demands active participation from visitors.  The projects examine the relationship between person and architectural environment.

Elliott has presented his work in Canada, Finland, and France.

Born in 1984 in Ireland. Has completed her BA in Fine Art in National College of Art & Design in Dublin in 2006. She has been actively involved in founding and running artist led spaces in Berlin from 2007-2009.  She has recently completed a residency in Reykjavik, Iceland.  Hughes has also exhibited in various countries including Ireland, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands and Iceland.    In May 2009 she was selected to take part in an major exhibition Made in Berlin in State Gallery of Kaliningrad, and the German-Russian House, Kaliningrad, an exhibition of contemporary Berlin based artists.  Other recent exhibitions include 48 hours Neukolln festival in Berlin.  Jane Hughes is currently studying on the MA programme in Environmental Art in Taik, Helsinki, Finland.

From a city with 6,217 inhabitants per square kilometer to the third most sparsely populated country in Europe, my initial goal is to explore the connection and possibilities of art and environment in Finland. It is my second year of studies in the MA in Environmental Art program at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. I appreciate the space here which has broadened both my physical and mental boundaries. Environmental Art for me is not merely about nature or landscape. Rather, its locus would be on the correlation between humans and the entities embracing us.

I am interested in examining the relationship of my existence with the surrounding environment. Most of my works are site specific and I like to use any found material. The works are reflections of my observations. It’s also my practice to use material from around the site I’m working on. Sometimes my works are so blended into the site or even hidden; it takes time for the viewers to identify them. The process of locating them is the key in engaging the viewers with my works.

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I am a 26 year old art education student and  "crazy"(add whatever word in
here)maker.
Junk, crap, waste... you name it, means endless possibilities to me.

Ross Manning is an Australian artist that works with custom electronics, instrument building and junk assembly. Creating music solo or along side his automated instruments, Ross’ output traverses many medias, encompassing installation, sculpture, sound art, image and live performance.

Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon began around 1997 to elevate entomology as a rock genre, a place it deserves to be credited and somehow neglected. Irene Moon, the laboratories public persona, was created as a synthesis of a prescription addicted high school algebra teacher and one of the Lennon sisters in the early days of the Lawrence Welk Show. She is quite strict, verbose, well articulated—and always dressed to perfection. Under the name Irene Moon we have proceeded in creating multimedia environments, organizations, happenings, and music. "For your pleasure or perhaps only just for mine."

The activities are broken up into parts based around two "Organizations" that present "Opportunities" to the public. The organizations are the I.M. Laboratories and the Begonia Society. The primary purpose of both of the organizations is to educate. The educational goals are science and the Moon esthetic. History has often given us the mimic, or the fool to show our own folly. The natural sciences are an imperfect art, idealized and often misinterpreted by the public. My installations, happenings, and films, presented under a scientific pretext, introduces chaos and decadence into this assumed sterile realm, revealing an underlying dependence in society on progress and the images symbolizing the advancement of humankind. Recent work with the IM Laboratories continuing Lectography explores communication of scientific thought, idiosyncrasies and stereotypes of scientist/lecturers and the assimilation of scientific advancement into our daily experience. This is primarily expressed through a series of factual lectures with slides (most recently powerpoint), handouts, demonstrations and live specimens. Pop quizzes and original music accompanies Irene Moon. Recent infiltration into the Department of Entomology at Field Station B.

In the constant quest for association… Irene has positioned herself as a Graduate student in the Department of Entomology at the University of Kentucky, with a research concentration in Systematics. THE GOAL: To forward the conneXXXion between the fashion of science and the world of the Begonia Society. Opportunities presented in the past to musical audiences are now divulged in a scientific environment, the intimate bond between modern entomologists and their work is open for observation by the Moon public.