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In winter 2008 CASSIE THORNTON is one of the artists staying in the residence

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My current practice involves assuming the position of Founder and Executive Director of various homemade institutions. With the authority of a title and an organization to support me, I am able to devise outlandish pedagogical situations that lead people to investigate in their own experience. I would like to experience life outside a city in order to have a chance to focus on my art work and to comprehend my place as an artist in the world without all the pressures involved with NYC living.  I am also specifically interested in Finland because I plan to live in Helsinki in the next few years to get my PhD at the University of Art and Design.  Saksala seems like a magical place with a lively community and beautiful surroundings.  The art center is ideal because it seems to be the center of many exciting world class projects and people while it retains the charm of a small and beautiful community. I would like to work to develop one large project or several small ones that are quiet investigations of the surrounding land and people.  If there is the community for it, I like to do experimental pedagogical projects, where I offer a project to work on with the public in order to measure the social climate and to test how the community and the landscape/architecture are functioning for each other.  In the process of studying a place, I might develop a system or translate another system (like Ayurveda) to use as a tool for analysis.   In the process I would develop graphs and charts as well as giveaways, brochures, books, websites, and other things which could become part of an exhibition.

all images © cassie thornton	visit also the website of Cassie Thornton

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