Residency artists and researchers

Multidisciplinary art

Kivikokoelma (The Stone Collection)

The working group of the Stone Collection consists of dramaturge Emil Santtu Uuttu, performance and video artist Ilmari Paananen, producer-curator Riikka Thitz and sound designer Tatu Nenonen.

The working group of the Stone Collection consists of dramaturge Emil Santtu Uuttu, performance and video artist Ilmari Paananen, producer-curator Riikka Thitz and sound designer Tatu Nenonen.

Uuttu and Paananen started collecting material for the work in 2019. Their field trips to Western and Eastern Finland and cooperation with the Geological Survey of Finland, the Department of Geology at the University of Helsinki and various stone associations have laid the foundations for this artistic work.

At Saari Residence, we will display the material we have collected. We will explore how to see something special in what seems common and something unfamiliar in what seems familiar. We will examine something particular, some isolated manifestation, this.

The Stone Collection is an essayistic work depicting time. By exploring stones, the presentation strives to change the viewer’s experience of time and make them observe the world for a moment through the interspecies time perspective of stones. The work will consist of an exhibition and performance. and will be organised as a tour in collaboration with the Lakeus, Nurmijärvi, Tampere, Joensuu and Jyväskylä stone associations in the autumn of 2021.