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NB! Kõiki valgusinstallatsioone saab vaadata alates 22.10.-24.10. kell 18:00-00:00, Tartu Botaanikaaias.

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The light installations created by Estonian Academy of Arts students combine the skills and strengths of diverse disciplines. From digital solutions to materials ranging from textiles to ceramics and industrial waste, unique perspectives have found expression as complete works of art.

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In Atlas Tree, slowly shifting animations move across the surface of a tree. The changing patterns intertwine with the texture of the tree, forming an intricate web reminiscent of traffic reports, migration patterns, and weather maps. As the animations unfold, the tree becomes part of these shifting maps, at times creating the illusion that it is the tree itself that is moving rather than the images projected onto it.

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The light installation "House Spirit" is a temporary space created in a grove of trees that acts as a beacon, inviting the viewer to come closer, to search, and to discover. The work offers an opportunity to experience the alternation of light and darkness while becoming conscious of the presence of space or its dissipation.

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Utilizing real-time motion capture technology, each gesture generates evolving particles, intricate forms, and luminous landscapes. This installation facilitates a dialogue between the human body and digital space, wherein every movement leaves a transient visual imprint. Each participant acts as both performer and creator, producing a unique visual experience that evolves and dissipates with each subsequent interaction.

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At the boundary of water and night, a solitary boat sails through depths where nothing sleeps. Every nation has had its own sea and its own monster. The Nordic kraken, Japan's ghost whale, the Philippine serpent that swallows the moon. Estonian mermaids who call out to sing. All of these rise from the water, seize, and sink back into the darkness. The power of nature is ancient and asks for no permission.

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This joint exhibition places Janno Bergmann’s work “Cosmic Kitchen” and Erik Alalooga’s “Orchestra of Random Light” into dialogue. The backlight of the photographs printed on the surface of Janno Bergmann’s lightboxes reacts to the rhythmic patterns of Alalooga’s mechanical sound machines. 

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“空 Kū (most often translated as “Void”, but also meaning “Sky” or “Heaven”) represents those things beyond our everyday experience, particularly those things composed of pure energy. It is of particular importance as the highest of the five elements.

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At the heart of this installation is the *püstkoda* (tepee/tent) as a material object. Its antithesis is a primal memory – an intangible element stored within us, spreading through the space like smoke. This combination does not lead to annihilation, but creates a new quality.

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Our lives depend on soil, yet we rarely think of it as something valuable that needs to be cared for and nourished. In contemporary thinking, soil has been reduced to little more than a place from which to harvest crops, to trample and plough endlessly, and into which to pour waste and debris, because soil seems to tolerate everything.

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In the Perennial Valley of the University of Tartu Botanical Garden, in the autumn darkness a mysterious microworld comes to life. The joint installation, created by the young artists of Tartu and Hämeenlinna art schools, explores biodiversity and metamorphoses, revealing the secret lives of both utopian and realistic insects to the viewer. It is an installation environment where new energy is born from the dark.

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Every crack is simultaneously an end and a beginning – a place where a fading and old story meets something new. This crumbling may appear to be an abrupt and silencing end, like a quiet form of death that halts the existing flow. But it is not emptiness. Right from this deep and jagged rupture, where everything seemingly stops, a new vitality begins to emerge.

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Every crack is simultaneously an end and a beginning – a place where a fading and old story meets something new. This crumbling may appear to be an abrupt and silencing end, like a quiet form of death that halts the existing flow. But it is not emptiness. Right from this deep and jagged rupture, where everything seemingly stops, a new vitality begins to emerge.

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When the crisp autumn air and fading light take over, life in the botanical garden slows down and waits. People are drawn then toward fire and light, to tell stories and sing songs. Together, we create an experience that belongs only to that one moment. Sometimes it breathes calmly, sometimes it rushes along it’s digital roots. Vox radicum amplifies our music and song through modern technology across the landscape of the alpine garden, creating a shared flow between music, people and light.

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What happens when you truly take a moment to slow down and focus on something? "Nest" is a counter-balance to the endless rushing and the dark autumn season, when there is always a lot to do and the sunnier times are still far away. The light-playing polyhedrons create an otherworldly and multi-layered labyrinth of reflections. The circular floor plan forms a kind of light-nest, which draws the viewer in and creates a solemn atmosphere in which time and thoughts pause for a moment.

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Little is known about his early life, but it is rumored that he was born in Finland and held an important position related to national defense until recently. It seems that he has taken some time off for now and spends his days mainly looking around Tartu and exploring the surroundings. He even reportedly went to a rave in the spring.

22.10 – 24.10.2026 kell 18:00-00:00.

University of Tartu Botanical Garden / Tartu, Lai 38

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