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Artistic and research interests
Scenographer, DA, Liisa Ikonen is the head of Expanded Scenography Research Group and the Principal Investigator in the Academy of Finland funded Floating Peripheries – Mediating the Sense of Place artistic research project (2017-2021). Floating Peripheries research consortium (Aalto University and University of Lapland) aims at enlarging the understanding of spatial and conceptual peripheries. It brings the practical and theoretical skills and epistemologies that have traditionally belonged to performing arts, visual arts and media art, to be distributed among a wide spectrum of societal forums. The main objective of the research consortium is to re-calibrate the multidimensionality and hidden potential of peripheries appearing in different contexts– in sub/urban spheres, social spaces of healthcare and wellbeing, digital networks and Arctic nature.
As a scenographer, Liisa Ikonen has worked throughout her 25–year career in both experimental and institutional fields of performing arts, and her research is closely tied with her artistic practice. Ikonen‘s expertise in renewing artistic research practices has been recognized e.g. through her systematic development work in project Hypnos (1994 – 2000) in which she developed work methods through several site specific performances in non-institutional found spaces in urban environment. Her dissertation Dialogical Scenography – Phenomenological Interpretation of an Alternative Work Process (2006,) based on artistic research in Hypnos group, won the Best Dissertation Award (2007) in University of Art and Design, Helsinki (UIAH). She has developed multidisciplinary design and application of alternative uses of scenographic means also as part of professor Tuuli Mattelmäki`s Tekes funded research project Spice – Spiritualizing Space (2009 -2011), that was focused on storytelling approaches in service design.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Arts (Art and Design)
Licentiate of Arts (Art and Design)
Master of Arts (Art and Design)
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Research Output
Artistic-Intelligent Research Alternator AIRA
Ikonen, L., 24 Oct 2019Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
Domesticated
Ikonen, L., 31 Dec 2019, In : Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research. 12, 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Open Access
Domesticated in Site and Situations: Artistic-Research Exhibition
Ikonen, L., 14 Jan 2019Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Solo art production
Fragments Exhibition at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
Ikonen, L., 6 Jun 2019Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
Imagination, Transformation and Memory – Case of Poveglia Island in Fluid States Exhibition publication
Ikonen, L., 6 Jun 2019, Fluid States.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Active
Floating Peripheries – Mediating the sense of place
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2021
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Prizes
Art Prize of Espoo City for Hypnos-group
Liisa Ikonen (Recipient), 1996
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Best Dissertation Award of Aalto ARTS, 2007
Liisa Ikonen (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Student Prize: Prague Quadrennial 2019: Best Student Exhibition Experience
Liisa Ikonen (Supervising professor), Oscar Dempsey (Student prize recipient), Jenni Nylander (Student prize recipient), Bea-Stina Tornberg (Student prize recipient), Riikka Mäntymaa (Student prize recipient), Mirva Mietala (Student prize recipient), Riina Nieminen (Student prize recipient), Csilla Szlovák (Student prize recipient), Elina Ström (Student prize recipient) & Liisi Shorouh (Student prize recipient), 2019
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Activities
Floating Peripheries Conference
Maiju Loukola (Organiser), Liisa Ikonen (Organiser), Pia Euro (Organiser)6 Apr 2021 → 10 Apr 2021
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
Dorita Hannah
Liisa Ikonen (Host)7 Jan 2019 → 19 Jan 2019
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting a visitor
Site and Situations
Liisa Ikonen (Speaker)15 Jan 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Gallery Talks
Liisa Ikonen (Speaker)11 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
SKENE+GRAPHEIN/writing a scene
Maiju Loukola (Speaker), Liisa Ikonen (Speaker), Ivana Momcilovic (Speaker)16 Jun 2019 → 18 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation