Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
katkon@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: E206 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2310-4702 |
contemporary art, art-based research, art-writing, methodologies, art&theory, new materialisms, craftivism
I'm on leave of absence on from my teaching position (until 31 July, 2023) and currently work as a senior research fellow and co-director in the multidisciplinary research project "New Economies of Artistic Labour"(2019-2024, Kone Foundation).
I have worked at the University of Turku in several research and teaching positions since 2002, with lengthy periods of research abroad. In 2014–2017, I was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow with the project ”Affective Fabrics of Contemporary Art: Stitching Global Relations” at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, where I continue to supervise practice-led PhDs. My research also affiliates with SenseLab: A Laboratory for Thought in Motion (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada), where I spent a term as a visiting scholar in 2013–2014; I’m currently a member of SenseLab’s Australian Hub through my affiliation with The National Institute of Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (CCAP: Contemporary Culture, Arts and Politics). Earlier, I have held visiting researcher positions in Gender Studies, The University of Sydney (2006), in History of Art at UC Berkeley (2006–2007), and at the Finnish African Cultural Institute of Villa Karo in Benin (2008).
My areas of expertise include contemporary art, participatory research, arts-based and practice-led research, feminisms, activisms, (new) materialisms, and research methodologies. I’ve developed new materialist research especially in the fields of arts and humanities for over 15 years by way of research projects, publications and event organisation. In 2014–2018, I was a managing committee member and country coordinator for New Materialism COST IS1307 mobility action, and co-convened the network’s largest working group ”New Materialism Embracing the Creative Arts” that had over 60 members from 16 countries. The results have been published in several special issues including Cultural Studies Review (2015), Studies in Material Thinking (2017) and Ruukku: Studies in Artistic Research (2018).
Since September 2017, I have been a senior researcher in the project Localizing Feminist New Materialisms (Academy of Finland, 2017–2021), led by Dr Taru Leppänen (Gender Studies, University of Turku), where I study minor activisms of gender and art. As part of this project, I co-run a craftivism group for asylum seekers in Turku, and organise Feminist Colour-IN events with Dr Kim Donaldson. In December 2018, Kone Foundation granted me, Dr Milla Tiainen and our multidisciplinary research team a 4-year research grant to study ”Changing Economies of Artworking” in Finland.
My monograph Ways of Following: Art, Materiality, Collaboration (Open Humanities Press, 2018) continues my new materialist, art-based work and offers methodological insights on how to appreciate the materialities of art, and embraces new ways of being and thinking that they offer.
I'm currently on research leave, and do not offer teaching. I, however, continue to supervise PhD students.
Recent intermediate level course units that I have coordinated and taught include e.g. Art and Politics, Contemporary Art Intensive, and Embroidering Varieties of Gender (dept. of Gender Studies).
I often integrate practical components into my teaching, such as visits to museums and exhibitions, and bring actual works of art to my classes. I enjoy teaching methodologies and analysis. I have a teaching certificate (University of Turku, Adult Education) and have studied University-level Pedagogy at the Universities of Turku and Melbourne.
- Johdanto: taidehistoriallisia ansioita ja anteja (2023) Kuvia lähellä: taidehistoriallisia tulkintoja ja tutkimusasenteita. Tutta Palinin juhlakirja Frigård Johanna, Grén Roni, Kontturi Katve-Kaisa, Niemelä Riikka
(Book chapter (B2)) - Kuvia lähellä: taidehistoriallisia tulkintoja ja tutkimusasenteita. Tutta Palinin juhlakirja (2023) Frigård Johanna, Grén Roni, Kontturi Katve-Kaisa, Niemelä Riikka
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Taiteen työ: arvo, tekijyys ja ruumiillinen kytkös (2023) Kuvia lähellä: Taidehistoriallisia tulkintoja ja tutkimusasenteita Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Attuning to attunements: Towards new materialist politics of attunement? (2022) Radical Sympathy Khodyreva Anastasia A, Tiainen Milla, Taru Leppänen, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
(Book chapter (B2)) - Kirja-arvio: Maalauksen keinoin kerrottu: Tyttöarmeija ja sen sukupuolisäröt. Tukiainen, Katja: Tyttöarmeija: kerronnallinen maalaus tilassa. 2022. ISBN 978-952-353-423-0 (2022)
- SQS : Journal of Queer Studies in Finland
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Taidetyön yhteismuotoutuva todellisuus: Ehdotus monitieteiseksi lähestymistavaksi (2021)
- Kulttuurintutkimus
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Tiina Pyykkisen maalausten lumovoimasta (2021) Turhan tiedon kirja: Tutkimuksista pois jätettyjä sivuja Kontturi Katve-Kaisa
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Containing, Packing, Pasting (2020) Paste of Time Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
(Book chapter (B2)) - Fabulous folds: revolutionary costumes in Grey Gardens (1975) (2020)
- Journal of Aesthetics and Culture
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Making Middles Matter: Intersecting Intersectionality with New Materialisms (2020)
- NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Preface to New Materialism: Mattering of Arts, Crafts and Aesthetics special issue (2020)
- Polish Journal of Aeshtetics
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Review of A pragmatic poetics: reflections on the work of Franck Leibovici (2020)
- ASAP journal
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Tahiti 8 Conference: From Material to Immaterial (2020) Johanna Frigård, Roni Grén, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Tutta Palin, Riikka Stewen
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - The Polish Journal of Aesthetics: New Materialism. The mattering of the arts, crafts, and aesthetics (2020) Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Adrian Mroz, Milla Tiainen
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Feminist Colour-in: An Aesthetic Activism of Connection and Collectivity (2019)
- Mai: feminism & visual culture
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Re-registrated with sustaining care (2019) Re-Register: Australian Women Sculptors from the Women's Art Register Kontturi Katve-Kaisa
(Article in a professional research book (D2)) - Aesthetic Intra-Actions: Practicing New Materialisms in the Arts (2018) Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Milla Tiainen, Tero Nauha, Marie-Luise Angerer
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Art, Becoming, Affect (2018) Gender: Time Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - A Visual Essay: Entanglements of Cloth and The Body (2018)
- Synnyt Origins
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Book review: Marsha Meskimmon and Phil Sawdon: "Drawing Difference: Connections between Gender and Drawing". ISBN: 978-1-78-453026-6. (2018)
- CAA.reviews
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1))