Artist Talk with Vera Anttila & Özgü Gündeşlioğlu

A drifty dialogue by the duo that starts from their collaborative project “drifting with clay” and probably stops by friendship, working in between, failures, sailing as an artistic practice, situations, materiality, and more.

Vera Anttila is a facilitator, artist and sailor interested in posthuman feminism and drifting. She uses poetic writing, sailing, walking and weaving as methodologies to learn more about speculative cross-cultural maritime navigation and archipelagic thinking. She graduated in 2021 from the Art Education MA program at Aalto University and is now studying part-time Maritime Studies. @colorpropaganda

Özgü Gündeşlioğlu is a material-based artist- researcher working in Helsinki. She enjoys being carried by the crafting process; gathering and repurposing the material. Mainly ceramic, but also textile and unfired clay lead her practice. Her works revolve around experiments, playfulness, interfaces, plasticity and collaborative practices. @ozgugi

The duo is based in Helsinki and came together a few years ago to initiate a series of collaborative artistic practices called “drifting with clay”. As an ongoing project drifting with clay aims to weave concept and materiality together to create in situ stories. In this project, clay functions as a reminiscent, mimetic and embodier medium to explore or dissolve the peripheries of drifting. @driftingwithclay

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1. Özgü and Vera are on S/Y Korybant, Stockholm Archipelago, July 2022, photo credit: David Osborne

2. Unfired pots for @open.artist.residence, Roihupelto, August 2021, photo credit: Özgü Gündeşlioğlu

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