NR 7
Practicing and the Practice of Art
About exercises
Anu Vehviläinen & Markus Kuikka
When planning our first RUUKKU theme volume, we – the two musician editors – chose practicing as our topic. It was quite easy, since the topic was so close to us: for a musician, practicing is an everyday activity. It is hard and genuine work, which requires a lot of time. But each art genre has its own praxis. The way people practice a specific genre of art tells something essential about the genre and about the artists themselves. A performance, an exhibition, or an artwork is a kind of outcome, but with this RUUKKU issue, we peer inside the making of art, where nothing is yet finished and where the direction is not yet settled. Or is there a specific direction in the first place? Read more »

Voices


Mieko Kanno
7.6.2017

Many people think that practising mainly comprises repetition. This is based on the assumption that you would ‘get it' if you repeat enough times. That is how we learned to ride a bicycle or use chopsticks. But we also know that repetition is only one part of it.... Read more »

 

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