
Kari Korolainen
Senior Researcher
Folklore and Cultural Studies, PhD
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute
kari.korolainen@uef.fi | +358 50 575 6670
How do traditions – cultural continuities within immaterial and material folklore and customs – relate to geographical and other, more symbolic borders as well the plurality of mobilities? And what kinds of perspectives open up, when these issues are addressed from the viewpoint of material and visual culture, and aesthetic matters? How do we visualize, especially by means of sketching, things like immaterial folklore, beauty, or borders? What viewpoints research and arts, separately and together, provide for these questions?
Folklore and culture studies researcher Kari Korolainen is specialized in cultural traditions and mundane aesthetic issues, as well in visual and material culture, not only in the research but also from the practical stance. In the project the Lost Mitten and Other Stories (Jan 1, 2018-July 31, 2020), Korolainen combined research and visual arts. Accordingly, “Marjatta & Ilman Kinna” comic book was published (by Kirjokansi) in February 2020 In the earlier studies, Korolainen dealt with issues as the borderlands of (visual) arts, home decoration and cultural customs from the viewpoint of artification. Korolainen possess multidimensional expertise also in the issues relating to the collecting and the archives of the folklore materials. He used to work in the Finnish Literature Society Archive and in the North Karelian Museum. Formerly, he worked as a visual artist.
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Graphic Aspects of Mobility: Folkloristic-Ethnological Drawings as a Starting Point for Discussing Mobility and Borders
Korolainen, Kari. Folklore 79: 115-136. 2020 -
Marjatta & Ilman Kinna
Korolainen, Kari. Kirjokansi. 2020 -
Nyt ja perinne - Aikakerrostumia Kansantieto-lehden kyselyvastauksissa piirrosten näkökulmasta tarkasteltuna
Korolainen, Kari / Suomen Museo - Finskt Museum 2020. 2020. 2020 -
The handwork of folkloristic-ethnological knowledge : the viewpoint of Samuli Paulaharju's drawings
Korolainen Kari. Ethnologia Fennica 44: 35-51. 2017 -
Perinnetieteet ja piirrosten tieto. Piirrosten asema Axel Olai Heikelin ja Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavion tutkimuksissa
Kari Korolainen. Elore 21 2: 1-31. 2014 -
Artification and the Drawing of Distinctions: an Analysis of Categories and Their Uses
Kari Korolainen. Contemporary Aesthetics Special volume 4, Artification 4: -. 2012 -
Koristelun kuvailu : kategorisoinnin analyysi
Korolainen Kari (ed.) . Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in Education, Humanities, and Theology. 2012 -
Ilomantsilaisen koristelun taustoja ja yksityiskohtia paikantamassa
Korolainen Kari. Seppo Knuuttila, Helmi Järviluoma, Anne Logrén, Risto Turunen, Syrjäseudun idea. 207-217. 2012 -
Himmelin armoilla - vai taiteistumiselle altis elämä?
Kari Korolainen. In: Seppo Knuuttila, Minna Tuuva (ed.) , ITE vaaroilla. Nykykansantaiteen vuosikirja 8..Maahenki Oy. ss. 40-46. 2010 -
Jäsenkategorisoinnin analyysi koristelun ja taiteistumisen menetelmänä
Kari Korolainen. In: Jyrki Pöysä, Helmi Järviluoma, Sinikka Vakimo (ed.) , Vaeltavat metodit.Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura ry. Kultaneito Kultaneito VIII. ss. 138-160. 2010