Taneli Viitahuhta (formerly Tuominen)
Work
2017 - PhD researcher, University of Jyväskylä, Dept. of Social Sciences and Philosophy (Political Science / Cultural Policy)
Education
2009 MA, University of Helsinki, faculty of Philosophy
Member
2016 – Rab-Rab, Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art (editorial committee)
2015 – The Politics and the arts (research group)
2010 – 2018 Tutkijaliitto (editorial board)
Articles and book chapters (selection)
2017 -"Improvisaatio ja musiikin vapaudet hallinoidussa elämässä", Mustekala, taide työ ja kritiikki -teema,
2016 -"Thomas Bernhard ja käänne kohti vapautta", niin et näin 2/2016, 115–122.
-"Taiteen ja talouden arvot (Dave Beech: Art and Value)", tiede & edistys 4/2016, 354–360.
2015 -"Three Theses on Russolo", Rab-Rab No 2, Vol. A, 141—156.
2011 -"Theodor W. Adorno ja Marx: kohti materialistista dialektiikkaa", in Kriittinen teoria ja Marx. Ed. Mika Pekkola.
Sophi: Jyväskylä, 52—78.
Translations
2022 -Mixmaster Morris: "Happo-Queer", Komeetta
2022 -Brassier, Guionnet, Mattin, Murayama: "Idiomit ja Idiootit", Komeetta
2018 -Theodor Adorno: "Radion kuvaluonne ja kuuloraita", niin & näin 4/2018, 61-66.
2014 -Walter Benjamin: Keskuspuisto. Kirjoituksia kapitalismista, suurkaupungeista ja taiteesta. Helsinki: Tutkijaliitto.
With. Eetu Viren.
2007 -Peter Szondi: "Modernin draaman teoria 1880—1950", Synteesi 1/2007, 47—52.
Papers, lectures, talks (selection)
2022 - Traditions of Trauma and Transformation of Fear in Adorno’s Appropriation of Mark Twain, Jyväskylä 11.6.
2019 - Free Jazz in Finland, Radical Sixties Conference, Brighton, 28.6.
2018 - Free Jazz Communism at Helsinki Youth Festival, 1962, Historical Materialism 15th Conference, London, 9.11.
- Politics of Sound. Walter Benjamin's Theory of Politicizing Art, ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 30.8.
2017 -"Figure of Ragpicker in Benjamin, Baudelaire and Marx", visiting scholar at Fine Arts Academy of Helsinki, course of artistic practice by Olli Keränen and Mikko Kuorinki. 18.1.
-"Taiteen ylijäämä ja autonomia", paper in the working group of art and artists at Westermarck Society’s Annual Conference of Sociology, University of Tampere. 24.3.
2016 -"Immateriaalisen taidetyön paradoksit", KPT-päivät, Jyväskylän yliopisto, 7.8.
-Broadcasted talks on free improvisation (14.4.) and Cornelius Cardew (15.4.) with Sezgin Boynik and Sergio
Castrillon. Pan-African Space Station@Kallio public Library. Curated by Checkpoint Helsinki.
-"Free improvisation, aesthetics and politics", visiting scholar on course Histories of Contemporary Art by Taina
Rajanti. Visual Culture and Contemporary Art (VICCA) program, Aalto University. 7.4.
2015 -"Music not witnessing the political – case Russolo”, lecture at the Art witnessing the Political seminar, Master
course of Cultural Politics, University of Jyväskylä. 30.10.
Publications (music, selection)
2021 -Pug Life: L'Année Perrotique (CD, Akti)
2017 -Horst Quartet: Edged Timbre. (CD, Intonema)
2016 -duo with Ilia Belorukov: Sax Worker's Rights (CC, Cabin Floor Esoterica)
2012 -Mohel: Second Temple (LP, Verdura)
2011 -Horst Quartet: No-Trick Pony (CD, Ikuisuus)
Grants received
2021 -Nyyssösen säätiö
2021 -Wihurin säätiö
2021 -Suomen tiedetoimittajien liitto
2017 -The Finnish Music Foundation: grant for Horst Quartet Kino concert tour
2016 -Kone Foundation: grant for Rab-Rab Press (book broject with Sezgin Boynik)
2015 -Jyväskylä University faculty of Social sciences and Philosophy: grant for PhD work
2013 -Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists: grant for translation
2012 -Kone Foundation: grant for translation
2012 -Kansan Sivistysrahasto: grant for translation
2011 -Nordiska Kulturfonden: grant for Horst Quartet Scandinavian tour
Recidencies:
2017 -Mini residency @ Perf/Immaterial Festival, Pori, 29.8.-2.9.
2014 -Kone Foundation, Saaren Kartano; group residency for "Lovers of Finnish Language and wisdom", coordinated by translator Tarja Roinila and philosopher Miika Luoto. Jun.5-11.