This summer has turned out to be very wild. The wild construction process of the residency house, trolley workshop and brand new road has taken all spring and continues to the fall. In the meantime it’s also the time for the Wild Bits residency camp. We are slowly getting ready to open ourselves to the public so there is a lot of news still coming this year. Enjoy the summer and come visit!
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Wild Bits is an international open-air exhibition of technological art taking place in the summer of 2024 at Maajaam and the landscape around it. The exhibition is part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 official program. We are in the middle of our first Wild Bits residency camp now!
Artists participating in the first Wild Bits creative camp are heidundgriess (Alexandra Grieß & Jorel Heid) (DE), Yu-Ching Chiang & Ying-Ting Shen (TW), Mohar Kalra (US), Aly Ogasian & Claudia O’Steen (US), Julijonas Urbonas (LT).
In September, the first works of Wild Bits will also be exhibited at a satellite event in Kaunas, Lithuania as part of the side program of the Magenta landscape design festival.
Maajaam opens its doors for two days on Open Farm Day and we’re excited to welcome everyone! You can peek into the studio, see the constructions of the residency house and the trolley workshop. Artists participating in the Wild Bits residency will present their process of creating new artworks for Wild Bits exhibition in 2024.
July 23 & 24
10.00 – 17.00
Eleftheria from Thessaloniki (Greece) arrived to Maajaam in late May and she will stay until the end of September (or who knows…). She studied at the visual and applied arts department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been helping out with Wild Bits residency and has been testing out some delicious vegan recipes on Maajaam’s team (like, really delicious). However, her biggest project in Maajaam has been a very special roundpile for sauna wood that she learned to construct at Maajaam. It is a method used by ancient Germans and Norwegians that will help to keep the wood dry. It took her 4 days to finish the pile.
How to make a roundpile:
First, you create a circle of logs and ensure it is levelled. Then, keep adding circular layers of logs on top of your first layer until you reach your desired pile height. Then, you fill your log cylinder in with the remaining wood. Lastly, you arrange your remaining wood in a cone to create the roof, so the wood below is protected from weather conditions.
Maajaam is looking for participants from Nordic-Baltic countries for a 3-day workshop (August, 12th-14th). Send your motivation letter, CV & portfolio by 25th of July to sotan@maajaam.ee.
Maajaam invites you to take part in the workshop by Aly Ogasian & Claudia O’Steen (US) in the framework of Wild Bits residency. The artists will introduce their methods for creating the artwork Living Water for the Wild Bits exhibition.
The project and workshop create tangible linkages between human activity and climate change, examining how individual choices can contribute to the larger instability or stability of the system. The goal is to change the way we conceptualize our role on this planet as symbiotically enmeshed rather than separate from and working against the natural world and each other.
The workshop is co-organized with State of the Art Network which is a Nordic-Baltic transdisciplinary network of artists, practitioners, researchers, and organizations who have come together to discuss the role, responsibility, and potential of art and culture in the Anthropocene. It is supported by Nordic Culture Point, Nordic Culture Fund, and A. P. Møller Foundation.
