The building of the Pavilion During spring 2011 the Estonian curator Rael Artel took part in a residency at Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen. In the course of her stay she visited Ytter’s office, where we had conversations about art, with good food and wine, many laughs, and after a while, a lot of dancing. In this meeting the idea of Ytter’s participation in ART IST KUKU NU UT was born. We were intrigued by Rael and Kaisa (Eiche)’s approach to hijacking Tartu Art Month, which had been going on for years in their hometown Tartu, and which also lends its name to the festival, the anagram ART IST KUKU NU UT. Their ambition to change the festival’s outdated format and content and their dedication to fill it with high-quality contemporary art, are combined with a willingness to take chances. Ytter was on this basis invited to arrange a seminar where Nordic and Baltic artists and curators could meet and converse about their various overlapping practices and professions.
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