Residency artists and researchers Research Annu Wilenius Master of Arts I am working on my doctoral dissertation at Aalto University’s Department of Art under the heading Semi-Detached Ger with a Garden – experiencing self, community and environment through urbanizing Mongolia. As a research project, this has meant realizing three extensive exhibition exchange projects in co-operation with Central European and Mongolian artists. We made our first trips to Mongolia already in 2005-2006 and our first big group exhibition, Mongolia: Perception and Utopia, was arranged in 2008 at the Kerava Art Museum in collaboration with Pirkko Siitari and Saara Hacklin. In addition to trips to Mongolia, the second project, Bare House, is the result of two residencies, one in Pori, Finland and the other in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The exhibitions were held in 2010 at Pori Art Museum and Pori’s Puuvilla, as well as at the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A book+DVD publication is available of both the Mongolia: Perception and Utopia exhibition and the Bare House exhibition in Pori. Now, during my residency at the Saari Residence, I am editing a publication of the Bare House exhibition in Ulaanbaatar. It will consist of material documenting the exhibition and its construction as well as of an extensive photography essay of the city of Ulaanbaatar where I spent six months in 2011. I am also writing an essay for the publication under the working title of At the Building Site in which I ponder the shaping of not only the city and the exhibitions but of identity as well. Once this work is done, I hope to still have time to begin the written portion of my dissertation. WWW.ANNUWILENIUS.COM