{"id":16905,"date":"2024-04-10T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/?post_type=blog&p=16905"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T05:19:51","slug":"ait-residency-report-by-anastasia-artemeva","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.a-i-t.net\/en\/blog\/p16905\/","title":{"rendered":"AIT Residency Report by Anastasia Artemeva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Anastasia Artemeva is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Artemeva works in the genres of installation, photography and textiles. Artemeva holds a BA in Sculpture and Combined Media from Limerick School of Art and Design (Ireland) and an MA in Fine Arts from Aalto University (Finland), where she studied environmental art. She is a trained diversity advisor working to promote equity and support multiculturalism in the arts . Domesticity and labor, isolation and confinement are the topics of her research. Architecture and the natural environment are explored using process-based art techniques such as slow stitching and drawing. She has a fascination with sewing it as it can be both the most enjoyable creative activity, and well as used as punishment and means of slavery – in prisons and sweatshops. This potential violence of an ordinary recreational process in a shared environment is the key concept of her current artistic practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the residency I intended to further develop my textile book project, where I use fabrics as materials for sketching. I aimed to research the former and current sites of incarceration in and around Tokyo. In this residency I wanted to focus on the local geography and research the textile industry and traditions of Japan. Working directly with the public via open workshops has been a large part of my practice and I had intended to apply these community art techniques in institutions in Tokyo.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n