Monthly Archives: August 2011

The Art World in a New Historical Situation  From the Protection of the Expansive Welfare State towards a Market-Based Cultural Policy, or from the Relatively Autonomous Sphere of Art towards an Instrumental Conception of Art University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce that we will have a poster at the ESA conference in Geneva: “Market-based Turn in Contemporary Finnish Art World.” (Häyrynen, Lampela, Logrén, Sevänen.) 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Geneva, Switzerland, 7th-10th September, 2011. Some … Continue reading →

The project has started and will last until the end of 2014. The opening seminar “Contemporary Art as a Source for Alternative and Critical Consciousness” was held in Joensuu in December 2010. Those of you who read Finnish can find the … Continue reading →