Residency artists and researchers Multidisciplinary art Petri Kaverma Visual artist I am a visual artist and during my residency, I intend to (somewhat) finish the written portion of my doctoral dissertation at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. I see the opus as being independent, a work of art in itself (which is probably exactly how everyone else like me thinks). I will impose the work entirely myself. This way I intend to achieve dialogue between picture and text. The connection, tuning, dialogue are slow to form but my work has convinced me that this is the only way to make a doctoral dissertation based upon artistic work and expression. Also, it is endlessly inspirational and interesting. Not always. I read a lot and prefer fiction because novels balance out other texts and help to liven my thoughts, language and writing. I especially like the works of J.M Coetzee, W.G. Sebald, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Georges Perec, Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Moravia, Jose Saramago, and Samuel Beckett. I watch a great deal of movies and gladly listen to minimalistic and noise-free music. WWW.KAVERMA.FI