Vrijdagavonden: L. Puska: Living With

• The bar is open from 19:00
• Program starts at 20:00
• Entrance: Pay What You Can
• Language: English

L. Puska shares insights from her ongoing, performance-led project URGENT - Residency for Artworks where she lives with three artworks by other artists: Eva Spierenburg, Niina Tervo, and Sijben Rosa. She is in Kunsthal Gent for a short residency in the week before the Friday Evening, making Kunsthal Gent a temporary home for the objects.

What happens when objects mediate physical and social interactions? What kind of relationship evolves between an artist and an artwork in the making process? What does it mean to be a caretaker of an artwork? L. Puska invites you to pause next to an object and observe its performative presence.

The evening starts with a performative introduction to the three objects based on Laura’s experience of sharing her life with each of them. The introduction is followed by a conversation about living with, next to, and surrounded by objects, between the artist and Laura Boxberg (director, Finnish Cultural Institute Brussels) and Eva Spierenburg (artist).

Language: English

L. Puska (b. 1986) is a Finnish interdisciplinary artist with performance-based practice. Her work expands mediums of drawing, sculpture, and video as well as collaborative practices and choreographed routines. It is typical for her work to reuse and accumulate material, repeat and vary actions, collaborate and experiment with forms of co-authorship, micro-social relations, and agency. She considers objects as potential companions and performative gestures as a tool to direct attention. Puska studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Aalto University in Helsinki, and LUCA School of Arts. She currently lives and works in Ghent.

URGENT - Residency for Artworks is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike, #taiketukee)

This autumn, we will present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 10 weeks during the Friday Evenings. We offer local partners a platform. And we put artists with whom Kunsthal Gent currently collaborates in the spotlight. Every Friday evening is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.