"Dear Virginia, I'm Looking for a Room in Tromsø, Buchi"

Women´s Parliament has invited Kirsten Sand, the first female architect of Norway to give a lecture. When Kirsten hears Buchi Emechceta is coming, she accepted the invitation. They decided to write the lecture together.

Women’s Parliament is an international artwork by Saddie Choua and Tuija Asta Jarvenpaa.
The work consists of multiple parts: "a documentary film”, a “lecture series", "salons" and the final multimedia event; the "wmns parliament". The goal using cross-media is a method to address more different kind of people.

Women’s Parliament is an appeal to think, dream, question,
about a new start of humanity where women fully participate.

During the evening our artist-in-residence Tuija Asta Järvenpää will present some themes she has been working on during her residency month in Kysten.

Public interactivity is an integral part of Järvenpää ́s works. Her site and time specific interventions in public space often get a form of an installation, performance or happening. She uses design as a statement or spatial, kinesthetic sensation as starting point to create situations, encounters with public life.
e.g ”Light Gym”, ”Boudoir de Paris”, ”Marry Me?” ”Finnish Sushi Bar Fish” or ”Rose Garden of the Baroness”

Her work draw from the traditions of Conceptual Art and Situationism. The underlying themes often communicate ecological and social issues, consumerism and equality.
Observing the consequences of European modernism and industrialization. Feminine modernism; cleaning, caring and curing, as she herself describes her practice. As her biggest influencers she mentions Marina Abramovic, Gordon Matta Clark, Hannah Hurtzig.

Järvenpää studied industrial design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She did public happenings and site specific installations as independent artist and for the Cities of Paris, Reykjavik and Tallinn, The Los Angeles A+D Museum, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain and Kiasma Contemporary art Museum.

Tuija was born in Saudi-Arabia, educated in
Holland and lives and works in Finlan

About The Nordic-Baltic AiR program at Troms fylkeskultursenter
(Troms County Cultural Center)
Troms County Council has since 2010 run The Nordic-Baltic A-i-R program in collaboration with local partners. The program has since its start hosted 26 artists from Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The program aims to strengthen the network between Tromsø’s growing art scene and artists from the Nordic and the Baltic countries. A-i-R program is rooted in the collaboration with the local partners, which provides a good framework for the program. Tromsø kunstforening, RadArt (Tromsø Performing Arts Network), and the artist-run venues Kurant and Small Projects have been project partners since 2012. In the project period autumn 2015-winter 2017 we collaborated with Insomnia Festival for Electronic Music, Movement and New Ideas, that takes place in Tromsø in October every year in our program. Mondo Books is a new partner in the project period 2017-2018.