Framework: The Finnish Art Review
Issue 4 Dec '05: Permanent Transience

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In an effort to understand the on-going processes that are taking place around us in the spheres of contemporary culture, the 4th issue of Framework sketches the conditions for creating concepts of meaning and worth in an era characterized by a sort of permanent transience, a state in which exception and insecurity take the upper hand. In the midst of constant movements, migrations, displacements and transformations, the general dissolution of the borders between various spheres of life has had deep consequences on the traditional understanding of knowledge creation. New global tensions arise and are reflected in local scenes, often in violent forms.

Focus is inspired by an experimental conference, Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War, which took place on the Trans-Siberian train and in the cities that it connects - Helsinki, Moscow, Novosibirsk and Beijing - from the 7thth to 20th of September, 2005. The conference brought together an exceptional, interdisciplinary group of researchers, intellectuals, and artists interested in the shifting and turbulent terrain of changes in current organization, economy, politics and culture. The guest editors Akseli Virtanen (FI) and Steffen Böhm (GB) as well as a number of invited contributors call upon philosophy, social sciences, psychoanalysis as well as art, media and activist practices to expose the insidious cultural, political and economic forces that structure the confluence of production and creation today.

The featured Finnish artists Jaakko Niemelä, Sanna Kannisto, ROR - Revolutions on Request, and Gun Holmström give insight also into debates around the body and feelings, difference, as well as technology.

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Issue 4: Permanent Transience