Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities 9–14 September 2019, Helsinki
Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities is a six-day gathering 9–14 September in Helsinki, Finland. The event brings together local and international arts audiences for a week of interactions and dialogues. All events in the programme are free and open to everyone. Only morning discussion series and workshop on Wednesday afternoon require pre-registration.
Welcome!
Monday 9 September
Film screening: Relational Capacities Films by Azar Saiyar, Laure Prouvost, Nazli Dincel, Sini Pelkki, Jacqueline Goss, Colectivo los Ingravidos. Curated by Rachael Rakes. 6.30–8.30pm Bio Rex, Mannerheimintie 22–24
Relational capacities encounters learning and communication in their many entangled transmissions. Each of the selections, located in several different places and points of view, either deals topically with the failures and complexities of language, teaching, and subjecthood; positions cinema itself as a unique and under-appreciated form for experiential understanding; or mixes both operations. This programme considers how problems of interpersonal and trans-cultural translation and subjectivity can be relayed through film practice, and positions the cinema as a space for alternative forms of multi-sensory pedagogy. Moving image art has a specific engagement with time and submersion, which in its quotidian and experimental manifestations alike, has always embraced its own ritualistic status: existing in a scene that is trance-like, flickering, captivating, set in darkness and marked by hapticity. The programme includes six works mixing various aesthetic and narrative approaches: Laure Prouvost’s Dit Learn playfully contends with the conditions of language apprehension and the instability of object relations through a wild, hypnotic succession of image, text, and narration. Employing a keen sense of humor and curiosity, Jacqueline Goss’s How to Fix the World, takes a study of Soviet-sponsored literacy programs in 1930’s Central Asia as a jumping off point to consider cognitive formation, political indoctrination, and comparative logical regimes. Azar Saiyar’s Hey You! and Nazli Dincel’s Between Relating and Use both deal in creative ways with foreignness, and the subjecthood of being displaced. Saiyar’s is an immersive and musical exploration of language and individual production, while Dincel’s merges the "developmental" concepts of the transitional and transnational object in a textual and textured meditation on dislocation. With Length, Sini Pelkki engages with film as a time based medium to play with cognition differently: the work experientially explores the duration
of a thought, the framing of space, and what might consist of a moment. Finally, Amuletos by the anonymous and massively prolific producers of urgent cinema Colectivo Los Ingravidos is a colorful and loud celluloid explosion--the group uses techniques of handprocessing and erratic montage to subliminally transmit politics and feeling. A collaboration between Amos Rex, AV-arkki, Frame and Saastamoinen Foundation.
Tuesday 10 September
Rehearsing Dialogues Day 1 Marjolijn Dijkman, Rick Dolphijn, Mari Keski-Korsu 10am–1pm (coffee and tea is served from 9.30am on, a Brunch is included) Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if}), Keinulaudankuja 4 E, 00940
In these sessions a diverse range of practitioners are invited to share, perform, and rehearse how their practices respond to various epistemologies and ways of knowing. Rehearsing Dialogues expands the format of ‘dialogues’ so that the presenters, participants, audiences, artworks and content are experienced in dialogue together. Marjolijn Dijkman, Rick Dolphijn and Mari Keski-Korsu are the first guests presenting within the morning discussion series Rehearsing Dialogues. Mari Keski-Korsu begins this programme by facilitating a participatory and performative session Holding Space with Yarrow that engages with yarrow through foot baths and meditation. Yarrow is one of the oldest plant remedies used as a cure for many different ills, as its numerous names remind us. Yet what may this powerful plant, which many consider merely a weed, mean for us today? How could its voice be heard in human communities? Note! Participation in this session is not suitable for those allergic to asters (composite plants). After a break for brunch, artist Marjolijn Dijkman will show her collaborative work with artist Toril Johannessen Reclaiming Vision. The film highlights the fact that human efforts to understand the world continue to be based on detached contemplation of observable phenomena. This pervades despite scientific developments, such as the microscope, that enable us to study our invisible co-inhabitants up close. Marjolijn discusses how working with toxic environments can produce knowledge and how vision can be reclaimed. Joining Mari Keski-Korsu and Marjolijn Dijkman in this series of dialogues is Rick Dolphijn, a philosopher publishing on topics of new materialism, ecology/ecosophy and art. In his contribution Rick Dolphijn introduces his thoughts on death and health in Stoic thinking and materialist idea of art.
A collaboration between Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms.
K2K2K Commuter Salon & Speakeasy Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan 1pm - 2pm Commute between m{if} – Frame office (metro) Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan welcome you to join their impromptu Salon & Speakeasy, occurring daily during the commutes between the different venues of this year’s Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. As ‘newcomers’ to Helsinki they are delighted to accompany Frame’s patrons navigating the Finnish capital. Alongside an open mind and listening ear, their Salon & Speakeasy offers hand massages, (rapid) manicures and palm readings.
Find them between the programme and let them be your guides!
Gathering for Publications Yvonne Billimore, Jussi Koitela, Vidha Saumya, Eileen Isagon Skyers 2–4pm (drinks and light bites will be served) Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Ratakatu 1 b A 9
In Gathering for Publications, Frame Contemporary Art Finland launches a series of collaborations and commissions responding to and resulting in various forms of publications. At this afternoon gathering we launch Reading List by Vidha Saumya, the first work in a series of artistic commissions at Frame Contemporary Art Finland's office space, commissioned in the context of Rehearsing Hospitalities. The poem, Reading List, painted as a wall mural, proposes a list of 96 authors from India who should be in global reading lists. This list is potentially endless. Eileen Isagon Skyers, who in 2019 had a research trip to Helsinki, organised by the Finnish Cultural Institute New York and Frame Contemporary Art Finland, uses this occasion to publicise her work resulting from the trip. It takes the form of an online exhibition and printed publication, presenting Eileen Isagon Skyers research alongside the work of artists Jennifer Chan, André Filipek Magaña and Militza Monteverde.
This event is also the site for the launch of Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 1, the first in a series of readers acting as a partner for Frame’s Rehearsing Hospitalities public programme 2019-2023. Including a range of contributions this reader opens up the programme and becomes a resource for those attending Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities and beyond; an insight into practices, a reflective space, and a notebook for the inclusion of personal thoughts, drawings, or annotations. Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 1 is comprised of contributions from artists, curators, thinkers and collaborating partners, participating in the 2019 Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. With essays, drawings, reading lists, invitations, exercises, dialogues by Clelia Coussonnet, Rick Dolphijn, Pia Lindman, Rachael Rakes, Vidha Saumya, Sumugan Sivanesan and Irina Mutt, artist-led collective Asematila, culture centre Museum of Impossible Forms and Frame’s programming team Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela. A collaboration between Frame, Finnish Cultural Institute New York and Alfred Kordelin Foundation.
Wednesday 11 September
Rehearsing Dialogues Day 2 Hanna Laura Kaljo, Pia Lindman, Anna Matveinen, Sepideh Rahaa, Martta Tuomaala 10am–1pm (coffee and tea is served from 9.30am on, a Lunch is included) Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if}), Keinulaudankuja 4 E, 00940
In these sessions a diverse range of practitioners are invited to share, perform, and rehearse how their practices respond to various epistemologies and ways of knowing. Rehearsing Dialogues expands the format of ‘dialogues’ so that the presenters, participants, audiences, artworks and content are experienced in dialogue together. Hanna Laura Kaljo, Pia Lindman, Anna Matveinen, Sepideh Rahaa and Martta Tuomaala are the second guests presenting within the morning discussion series Rehearsing Dialogues. Pia Lindman and collaborator Anna Matveinen open up the process of their healing sessions Articulations of Forces at Play. Expanding on her subsensorial practice for Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, Lindman invites singer Anna Matveinen to experiment with the effect of sound and the subsensorial. In these healing sessions three bodies resound each other - listening and reverberating. Hanna Laura Kaljo brings attention to the arts in relationship to health and healing for our time. She invites us to consider the creative arts through an emphasis on receptivity to our bodies and surroundings, drawing on embodied research, artistic work and the teachings of being in community. Sepideh Rahaa and Martta Tuomaala then hold a conversation which is an exploration between their artistic practices and experience-driven knowledge addressing issues such as toxic masculinity, feminism and collaboration, and how struggle is part of the healing process. A collaboration between Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms.
Bread Archive Asematila, Museum of Impossible Forms ongoing from Tuesday 10 September to Saturday Public presentation on Wednesday 11 September, 1–2pm Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if}, Keinulaudankuja 4 E, 00940
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Producing and transmitting knowledge is the fifth gesture of hospitality, as part of A series of soft gestures towards hospitality, by Museum of Impossible Forms and collaborators. Museum of Impossible Forms and Asematila present Bread Archive: a multi-sensory installation as a method to bridge two programmes through epistemological knowledges, in this case using bread and its histories within Finnish cultural memories, within its contemporary fabric and the entanglements of purity, immigration, refuge, borderless-ness, community and participatory knowledge gathering. Bread Archive and Bread Omens project will be introduced on Wednesday afternoon 1pm– 2pm, first at the Bread Archive in m{if} and then at/around the oven-in-progress in front of Kontula Public library. Guests will be invited to walk to the oven location to continue the presentation/discussion. On Saturday 11am–2pm there will be a public firing of the oven. A collaboration between Asematila, Bread Omens, Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms.
How to work responsibly with Imperfect Tools nynnyt (Orlan Ohtonen and Selina Väliheikki) 2–5pm Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if}, Keinulaudankuja 4 E, 00940
Devising together the tools required to counter institutional hegemony is the second gesture of hospitality, as part of A series of soft gestures towards hospitality, by Museum of Impossible Forms and collaborators.
Museum of Impossible Forms has invited nynnyt, a queer feminist curatorial duo consisting of Orlan Ohtonen and Selina Väliheikki, to host a workshop on How to work responsibly with Imperfect Tools. Opening up a conversation about concepts such as language, quotas, criticism and care, nynnyt will invite the workshop participants to think about and share ways of organising around art responsibly, particularly in situations where this can sometimes be very difficult. Please note that this workshop requires pre-registration. Email a brief statement of intent to museumofimpossibleforms@gmail.com, with the subject line Workshop with nynnyt. A collaboration between Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms.
K2K2K Commuter Salon & Speakeasy Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan 5pm - 6pm Commute between m{if} – Goethe (metro) Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan welcome you to join their impromptu Salon & Speakeasy, occurring daily during the commutes between the different venues of this year’s Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. As ‘newcomers’ to Helsinki they are delighted to accompany Frame’s patrons navigating the Finnish capital. Alongside an open mind and listening ear, their Salon & Speakeasy offers hand massages, (rapid) manicures and palm readings.
Find them between the programme and let them be your guides!
Thursday 12 September
Rehearsing Dialogues Day 3 Camille Auer, Rosa Tolnov Clausen, Clelia Coussonnet, Eeva-Kristiina Harlin 10am–1pm (coffee and tea is served from 9.30am on, lunch is included) Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if}), Keinulaudankuja 4 E
In these sessions a diverse range of practitioners are invited to share, perform, and rehearse how their practices respond to various epistemologies and ways of knowing. Rehearsing Dialogues expands the format of ‘dialogues’ so that the presenters, participants, audiences, artworks and content are experienced in dialogue together. Camille Auer, Rosa Tolnov Clausen, Clelia Coussonnet and Eeva-Kristiina Harlin are the third guests presenting within the morning discussion series Rehearsing Dialogues. Camille Auer's speech performance complicates the 'givens' of language and speech to draw them into attention. To make visible/tangible/audible/thinkable the collaborations involved in the formation of meaning in speech, she adds an extra element to the process, an audio sampler. In this performance Camille Auer gives voice to how hegemonic modes of presentation and representation contribute to and enforce hegemonic ways of knowing and thinking. Clelia Coussonnet brings forward questions on knowledge of the body and knowledge of gestures, combined with exploring transmission and knowledge production. As part of her dialogue Clelia Coussonnet holds a Q&A with designer Rosa Tolnov Clausen discussing knowledge of materials, learning environments, and the guest/host dynamics of these spaces. Also within her contribution is a space for dialogue with the audience. The final contribution in this morning is a from Eeva-Kristiina Harlin a doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Giellagas Institute (institute for Saami Cultural Studies) in Finland. Her PhD deals with tangible Sámi heritage and repatriation politics. In this session she discusses the ontology and categorisation of objects/crafts in museum collections.
A collaboration between Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms
K2K2K Commuter Salon & Speakeasy Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan 1pm - 2.30pm Commute between m{if} – Helsinki City Center (metro) Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan welcome you to join their impromptu Salon & Speakeasy, occurring daily during the commutes between the different venues of this year’s Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. As ‘newcomers’ to Helsinki they are delighted to accompany Frame’s patrons navigating the Finnish capital. Alongside an open mind and listening ear, their Salon & Speakeasy offers hand massages, (rapid) manicures and palm readings.
Find them between the programme and let them be your guides!
Friday 13 September
Rehearsing Dialogues Day 4 Marie-Andrée Godin, inaway (Ramina Habibollah and Nayab Ikram),Tereza Jindrová, Nadiye Koçak, Marie Lukáčová 10am–1pm (coffee and tea is served from 9.30am on, a Lunch is included) Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if}, Keinulaudankuja 4 E
In these sessions a diverse range of practitioners are invited to share, perform, and rehearse how their practices respond to various epistemologies and ways of knowing. Rehearsing Dialogues expands the format of ‘dialogues’ so that the presenters, participants, audiences, artworks and content are experienced in dialogue together. Marie-Andrée Godin, inaway (Ramina Habibollah and Nayab Ikram),Tereza Jindrová and Nadiye Koçak are the fourth guests presenting within the morning discussion series Rehearsing Dialogues. Tereza Jindrová screens work by Czech artist Marie Lukáčová to situate a dialogue between herself and invited artist Marie-Andrée Godin. Alongside the film work, Tereza Jindrová and Marie-Andrée Godin, hold a conversation discussing topics of feminist perspectives on production of knowledge and skills, particularly magical thinking and witchcraft, together with the notions of exploitation of nature and ecological imperatives. In part two of this session, inaway (Ramina Habibollah and Nayab Ikram) present a performance alongside artwork by Nadiye Koçak which they have curated to sit within their performance space. The performance navigates through the curatorial process and the daily life of inaway which is based on food, friendship and laughs online and IRL. A collaboration between Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms
Saturday 14 September
Bread Omens Jani Anders Purhonen and Elina Rantasuo Ongoing Tuesday – Saturday / Public firing on Saturday 14 September 11am–2pm Kontula Public Library, Ostostie 4. Daily documentation at m{if}, Keinulaudankuja 4 E
The exploration of sustenance and sustainability is the third gesture of hospitality, as part of A series of soft gestures towards hospitality, by Museum of Impossible Forms and collaborators. In collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms, artist collective Asematila has invited Bread Omens (initiated by Elina Rantasuo and Jani Purhonen) to take part in the week of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. Bread Omens is working around bread, fantasies of kinship, and playing with the idea of the nearly vanishing culture of communal bread ovens– while expanding their artistic practice through collecting bread starters, stories and engaging in encounters. During the week they will construct a temporary oven at Kontula Mall, in front of the Kontula Public Library. Daily documentation of this process will be situated in Museum of Impossible Forms. The oven site will function as a meeting spot, where bread-related memories can be explored. On Saturday, the artists will light the fire in the oven and baking will start. A collaboration between Asematila, Bread Omens, Frame and Museum of Impossible Forms.
K2K2K Commuter Salon & Speakeasy Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan 1.30pm - 2.30pm Commute between m{if} – HIAP (metro and ferry) Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan welcome you to join their impromptu Salon & Speakeasy, occurring daily during the commutes between the different venues of this year’s Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. As ‘newcomers’ to Helsinki they are delighted to accompany Frame’s patrons navigating the Finnish capital. Alongside an open mind and
listening ear, their Salon & Speakeasy offers hand massages, (rapid) manicures and palm readings.
Find them between the programme and let them be your guides!
Reclaiming Vision, Wet Code and visit to HIAP residency studios Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen, Myriagon (Tuomas A. Laitinen and Jenni Nurmenniemi) plus HIAP artists-in-residence 2.30–5 pm Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP): Levyhalli hangar Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) Studio building: Suomenlinna B 44 (Susisaari) Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) Gallery Augusta & Project Space: Suomenlinna B 28 / 2 (Susisaari)
Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) host an afternoon gathering on Suomenlinna island (a ten-minute ferry journey from city centre), presenting Reclaiming Vision, a film by Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen, an online audio piece by Myriagon (Tuomas A. Laitinen and Jenni Nurmenniemi) and a visit to the HIAP residency studios. Note: Please bring your mobile phone (or some other mobile device which can connect to internet) and headphones, the audio piece will be listened via personal devices while walking. Only some headphones will be available from HIAP. Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen: Reclaiming Vision Captured through a light microscope, Reclaiming Vision features a diverse cast of microorganisms, sampled from brackish water, alongside algae, cultivated in a lab. The film reveals various processes in the water that are hidden to the naked human eye. By investigating the brackish water, its inhabitants, its properties, and the traces left by human activities, the film is a reflection upon the relationship we humans have with our surroundings, especially through what we cannot see.
Myriagon: Wet Code Fusing together hydrophilic future fiction and research on underwater acoustics, this experimental audio piece asks questions about knowledge formation in in relation to varied bodies of water and their inhabitants. To access this audio work please visit: http://myriagon.world
K2K2K Commuter Salon & Speakeasy Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan 5pm - 6pm Commute between HIAP – PUBLICS at Kaiku club (ferry and metro) Irina Mutt and Sumugan Sivanesan welcome you to join their impromptu Salon & Speakeasy, occurring daily during the commutes between the different venues of this year’s Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. As ‘newcomers’ to Helsinki they are delighted to accompany Frame’s patrons navigating the Finnish capital. Alongside an open mind and listening ear, their Salon & Speakeasy offers hand massages, (rapid) manicures and palm readings.
Find them between the programme and let them be your guides!
Ongoing throughout the week
A series of soft gestures towards hospitality Museum of Impossible Forms (m{if})
For Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, Museum of Impossible Forms ‘non-performs’ A series of soft gestures towards hospitality. These gestures are the result of both direct and indirect collaborations between Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Museum of Impossible Forms, curatorial duo nynnyt, artist-led collective Asematila, artist collective Bread Omens (Jani Anders Purhonen and Elena Rantasuo), artist Heidi Hänninen, bread makers from Tikke Restaurant, as well as other invited guests and participants from Kontula. 1. The first gesture of hospitality is to invite and welcome people into one’s own space 2. Devising together the tools required to counter institutional hegemony is the second gesture of hospitality 3. The exploration of sustenance and sustainability is the third gesture of hospitality 4. To participate with and involve those who live amongst us is the fourth gesture of hospitality 5. Producing and transmitting knowledge is the fifth gesture of hospitality
Articulations of Forces at Play Pia Lindman, Anna Matveinen During the week of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities artist Pia Lindman is holding a series of one to one healing sessions with collaborator Anna Matveinen. Each session begins with the participant reporting on their subsensorial state by writing, drawing, or other means of self-expression. During the session, Lindman will utilize various ancient healing techniques and her own subsensorial sensitivity to treat the participant, while her collaborator Anna Matveinen utilizes their voicing skills and subsensorial sensitivity for sound healing. After each session, participants re-report on their subsensorial state.
These one to one sessions are limited and all places have been booked in advance. There is a waiting list available for last minute cancelations. To join the waiting list contact Ida Enegren: ida.enegren@frame-finland.fi
Bread Stories / Leipätarinoita Heidi Hänninen Mon 9 September, noon–2pm at D-Asema, Kontulankaari 24 Tues 10 September, 5–7pm at Kontupiste, Keinulaudankuja 4 Wed 11 September, 2–4pm at Kontula Library, Ostostie 4 Thur 12 September, 3–5pm at Luuppi (Kontula Youth Center) Ostostie 4 Fri 13 September, 1.30–3.30pm at Museum of Impossible Forms, Keinulaudankuja 4 E
To participate with and involve those who live amongst us is the fourth gesture of hospitality, as part of A series of soft gestures towards hospitality, by Museum of Impossible Forms and collaborators. Along with community artist and activist Heidi Hänninen from KAS - Kontula Art School, this project works with sister institutions (D-Asema, Kontula Public Library, Kontula Youth Activity Center Luuppi ) in Kontula to host a series of workshops aimed for residents of Kontula. In Bread Stories, Heidi Hänninen and participants will discuss forms of thinking and molding of experiences related to bread and hospitality in different cultures. Materials used will be dough clay made from flour, salt, and oil. The sculptures can be fired on Saturday 10am–1.30pm as a part of the Bread Omens firing event. All workshops free and open to the public. Organised by Museum of Impossible Forms.
Parallel programmes Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities runs in parallel with Goethe-Institut Finnland’s programme on Bauhaus, gender, ecology and Nordic design presented in collaboration with Design Museum Helsinki and PUBLICS Today Is Our Tomorrow art festival taking place during the same week.
Goethe x Change: Bauhaus being benign – Gender meets Eco Goethe-Institut Finnland and Design Museum Helsinki Wednesday 11 September, 6:00pm -7:30pm Goethe-Institut Finnland, Salomonkatu 5 B (Kamppi), 00100 Helsinki
Talks and discussion with Julia Lohmann & Julia Meer Julia Meer gives insights to the working process of the book ›Women in Graphic Design 1890–2012 (edited by Gerda Breuer and Julia Meer, JOVIS Verlag, 2018). The book sets out to make the contributions of women to graphic design more visible and at the same time explains why they haven’t been part of the canon so far. Julia argues that it is important to overcome outdated narratives and to develop alternatives which are more inclusive and diverse. The discussion continues with a talk between Julia Lohmann and Julia Meer on how the situation of women has changed in the past 100 years, and what challenges we are facing today (i.e. intersectionality). The Julias will explore parallels to the eco design discourse, for example the drive towards „being benign“ (,good-natured’) – meaning ecological sustainability for Lohmann, and more inclusive language and actions for Meer. Free Entry, Language English
Fokus Bauhaus Symposium: Bauhaus and Nordic Design Goethe-Institut Finnland and Design Museum Helsinki Friday 13 September, 12noon- 5pm Design Museum Helsinki, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki
What is the meaning of Bauhaus in the Nordic countries and how does it relate to Nordic design and architecture today? Is there a mutual philosophy and a shared history or should we see them as separate worlds? These questions will be dealt in a one-day symposium that will be organized on September Friday 13th at the Design Museum Helsinki. Just like Nordic Design, the term Bauhaus indicates modern, functional and democratic design. The centennial of the German art school Bauhaus (1919–33) gives an opportunity to look at this link closer and search for influences, parallels and differences. The symposium is part of the programme for the Fokus Bauhaus (19.8.2019-2.2.2020) intervention exhibition in the Design Museum's permanent collection exhibition Utopia Now - The Story of Finnish Design. The curators of the exhibition are Julia Meer from Berlin and Julia Kartesalo from Helsinki. Fokus Bauhaus Symposium will be organised jointly by Design Museum Helsinki and the Museum of Finnish Architecture with support from the Goethe-Institut Finnland and Estrid Ericsons Stiftelse. The symposium is part of programme for the Fokus Bauhaus (19.8.2019-2.2.2020) intervention exhibition which will be shown in the Design Museum's permanent collection exhibition Utopia Now - The Story of Finnish Design. The curators of the exhibition are Julia Meer and Julia Kartesalo. Registration: The Symposium is free of charge. The Auditorium space is limited and registration is requested. Please register by mail to: info@designmuseum.fi before September 11th.
Today Is Our Tomorrow PUBLICS and collaborators 12–14 Sep 2019, 5pm–5am daily Kaiku–Kieku–Stidilä, Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki
The future is happening now. With so much emphasis on the future, its end, and lack of agencies to alter its demise, our thoughts lead us to focus, remind and inform ourselves of the potentialities and (re)constructions of now. There is no time but the present to transform, to reimagine and to represent our moment(s). Initiated by PUBLICS, Today Is Our Tomorrow is a collaborative, collective, and transdisciplinary festival – a coming together of affinities, alliances and differences. Taking place this year at club Kaiku and the neighbouring spaces Kieku and Stidilä, the program is produced in partnership with numerous local and international organisations, initiatives and institutions. Today Is Our Tomorrow takes the form of a roving constellation of practices, discussions, talks, workshops, installations, interventions, film screenings, events, live performances, DJ sets, curatorial projects, and live music intersecting with one another across three main interconnected venues. For more information, the full programme and to buy tickets please visit: http://www.publics.fi/calendar/today-is-our-tomorrow/ https://www.goethe.de/ins/fi/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21640717
Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities Contributors Camille Auer
is an anarchist trans dyke bitch artist, writer and performer. She works with sound, words, digital image and direct action. Her subject matter is the friction and diffraction that takes place in and between micro and macro realities, subject and object formation, matter and meaning, and marginalised individuals in an oppressive society.
Bread Omens
(Jani Anders Purhonen and Elina Rantasuo) are an artist collective working around dough. It’s infinite fermenting & kin-making process at best - dough bondage, bread-eating, sinking into a tub of sourdough. They rest while waiting for their turn to bake, learn from others, grow in softness, and expand each other’s beautiful and kind existence. Sensing and smelling freshly baked crusty skin, in and out.
Jennifer Chan is a Canadian media artist, curator, and programmer based in Toronto, Ontario. She is best known for her work that addresses how gender and race manifest in the fields of digital and online art, using amateur aesthetics inspired by pop culture, YouTube mashups, and millennial experience.
Rosa Tolnov Clausen’s creative practice oscillates between the fields of craft and design. Clausen creates physical spaces about the practice of hand weaving, using craft as a catalyst for physical, social and creative interaction, and a pause in the contemporary urban every day.
Clelia Coussonnet
is an independent curator, art editor and writer based Aix-enProvence. Coussonnet is interested in how visual cultures tackle political, social and spiritual issues in different, or complementary, ways than other disciplines. She also likes to create interdisciplinary projects outside of traditional art circuits, particularly in contexts linked to craft or heritage and in spaces previously unused for cultural projects.
Marjolijn Dijkman is an artist and co-founder of Enough Room for Space, based in Brussels. Her works can be seen as a form of science – fiction; partly based on facts and research but often brought into the realm of fiction, abstraction and speculation. Enough Room for Space initiates long-term experimental research projects, challenging the barriers between different disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist). marjolijndijkman.com
Rick Dolphijn is an associate professor based at Humanities, Utrecht University, with an interest in transdisciplinary research at large. He has published widely on new materialism, ecology/ecosophy and art and is interested in the developments in continental philosophy and speculative thought. His academic work has appeared in journals like Angelaki, Rhizomes, Collapse and Deleuze Studies. Most recently he published an edited volume entitled Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary with Bloomsbury Academic.
Marie-Andrée Godin was born in Canada and works between Canada and Finland, where she now lives. Her work focuses on the figure of the witch as a feminist figure and explores the concepts of a-hierarchy, craft, holistic and anti-anthropocentric thinking and reclaiming skills and knowledge as a source of power. She is now trying to see how magic, post-capitalism and diverse political forms or systems can be intertwined to manifest a future. She conducts this research under the title WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB / WILD WO.MEN WITCHES / WORLD WITHOUT WORK).
Heidi Hänninen
is a community artist with a background in art education and sculpture. She has studied monumental painting in St. Petersburg, and has been making wall-paintings in Finland and abroad. She uses street art as a method of communication for community art. Heidi is currently working on a multilingual research project ”Itä-Helsingin uudet Suomen kielet” – developing new art methods for how to deal in the school classes of children from various cultures by valuing different languages.
Eeva-Kristiina Harlin is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Giellagas Institute (institute for Saami Cultural Studies) in Finland. Her PhD deals with tangible Sámi heritage and repatriation politics. She has worked in Sámi museums in Finland and in Norway and she is specialized in Nordic and European Sámi collections and repatriation. Currently she works with Sámi artist Outi Pieski in a project called “Máttáráhkku ládjogahpir – Foremothers horn hat.
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Nayab Ikram and Ramina Habibollah are a Finnish-Asian curatorial duo. In their curatorial practice, they aim to create a dialogue between the Finnish and the Nordic art sphere by working with artists of colour. Working through the method of the intersectional feminist perspective, they are challenging the norms of the cultural politics in Finland to be more inclusive and representative.
Tereza Jindrová
is a curator and art writer. In general, she is interested in methods of creating curatorial ‘frames’ to layer different interactions between artists, artworks and the public. Recently she has focused on the topic of human-animal relations, environmentalism, rational and irrational aspects of healing, irrational beliefs and magic, and gender stereotypes in the context of artistic creativity.
Toril Johannessen is an artist living in Tromsø. Combining historical records with fiction and her own investigations, and with an attention to how science coexists with other systems of knowledge and belief, her works often have elements of storytelling in visual or written form. www.toriljohannessen.no
Hanna Laura Kaljo
is concerned with the cūra within the curatorial, pointing to practices of attention and healing. She received her MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, London, and has been supporting artists through dialogue since 2012. In addition, she has trained in group processes including 5 Rhythms, The Way of Council, and Work That Reconnects - practices concerned with body-soul-earth relations.
Mari Keski-Korsu is a transdisciplinary artist who explores how ecological changes manifest in everyday life. The work is based on collaborations with different kinds of communities and species and usually are in the realm of hybrid combinations of performance, visual arts and live art. Her current practice is focused on interspecies communication to possibly enable empathy towards whole ecosystems. marikeskikorsu.net
Nadiye Koçak is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist currently studying in Saimaa University of Applied Arts (BFA). They grew up in Kerava in a Turkish-Finnish family, and spent their summers in rural South-Eastern Turkey eating plums, climbing mulberry trees and playing video games. Their work explores the body through various materials and has been presented in Taidehalli, Helsinki as a part of the Young Artists 2019 Exhibition, where they were awarded the Maecenas Kilta Young Artist stipend.
Pia Lindman
is doctoral candidate at the program of Nordic Cultures and Environmental Politics at Lapland University researching her concept of the subsensorial. A result of many years of investigation into the body and its place within the cultural space, Lindman's work responds to a contemporary desire to mend the fission between science and art, healing and creativity – and moves beyond the human body proper to multiple realms of life.
Marie Lukáčová
graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. She is one of the founders of the Fourth Wave feminist group which initiated public debate on sexism at universities in 2017. Her films transform symbols borrowed from the fields of politics, mythology, geology and science. They move across various time levels and locations, addressing the questions of uncertain future through specific narratives and poetics.
André Filipek Magaña
is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. makes sculpture that engages Mexican life and identity by re-interpreting icons from pre-colonial history, regional culture, pop media, and everyday consumer culture.
Anna Matveinen hails from deep rural Finland as the last child of Mutalahti village. The border with Russia has severed the village in half. The atmosphere of the village is dominated by the closeness and reminder of a bloodied history. These are the elements that comprise the concepts and themes while formulating and creating each piece of art. Finished products are achieved with a performative approach to working.
Militza Monteverde
is living and working in Stockholm. Educated at the Royal institute of art (MFA 2017). Monteverde works sculpturally to embrace the uncanny. In her work she uses the xenophobic gaze’s projections, such as fragility and fear, to trace the similarities between alienation and dehumanization. Central are preparations of a new body and an alternative nature, that always borders to the unheimlich.
Irina Mutt
is a writer and curator from Barcelona currently based in Helsinki. Some of her curating projects, navigated the possibilities of mixing politics and pleasure through queer feminism, friendship, embodied writing and publishing: ‘Undoing text’ (Inéditos 2016, Casa Encendida Madrid) ‘MICRO’ (Nau Estruch 2015) or narratives around vulnerability as a position to share rather than overcoming: ‘A break can be what we are aiming for’ (BCNProducció 2018). Since 2017 she's part of the public program commission at Hangar BCN.
Myriagon
is the experimental outlet for the collaboration between artist Tuomas Aleksander Laitinen and curator Jenni Nurmenniemi that manifests as performative events, publications, and recordings. By fusing aural, written, and visual signs and systems, they investigate how language shapes worlds and explore its diverse materialities. Instead of being a human-centric initiative, Myriagon is made by fleeting multi-species communities. myriagon.world
nynnyt
are Orlan Ohtonen & Selina Väliheikki, a Helsinki-based queer feminist curatorial duo that have, since 2014, been working towards and through a curatorial practice that takes flight from the concept of friendship and echoes intersectional queer feminist politics. nynnyt are co-founders of Poimu studio in Helsinki that hosts the work of 40 feminist art workers as well as an expanding library of art & feminism.
Sepideh Rahaa is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Helsinki and born in Iran. In her practice, she is focused on everyday life, womanhood, resistance, migration and representation. Sepideh’s and Razan’s friendship and professional collaboration started and expanded further by knowing each other’s views while working together in the art project ‘A Dream That Came True?’.
Rachael Rakes is a curator, critic, and teacher from New York City. Rakes is currently the Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam, the Editor at Large for Verso Books, and Programmer at Large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center—where she co-curates the annual festival Art of the Real. Rakes has taught on social practice, aesthetics and documentary art at The New School and Harvard Summer School, and currently serves as Supervisor for the Sandberg Institute Critical Studies programme.
Vidha Saumya is a drawer, poet, cook and bookmaker. She seeks visual interest in congregating bodies, popular cultures and notions of deformity. She has read her poems in festivals and seminars such as Runoviiko Poetry Festival and Stop Hatred Now amongst others. She is a founding member of the Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki and is currently working on the project, ‘Monumentless Moments: Utopia of Figureless Plinths’ supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland.
Eileen Isagon Skyers is a curator, writer, and artist based in New York City. Skyers engages with identity and new media, positioning each against a contemporary society that has grown increasingly alienated as it grows accustomed to artificial intelligences and processes. She is a founding member of HOUSING, a migratory gallery concept that is guided by a desire to stimulate public discourse through the work of artists and creative practitioners whose works show critical commentary and intent. https://eiskyers.com/
Sumugan Sivanesan
is an is an anti-disciplinary researcher, writer and artist currently based in Berlin. Often working collaboratively his interests span migrant histories and minority politics, activist media, artist infrastructures and more-than-human rights. Recently he has produced projects for the The Floating University, Berlin (2019), Insituto Procomun LABxSantos, Brazil (2018) and Nida Art Colony (2018). www.sivanesan.net
Martta Tuomaala is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki. Tuomaala focuses on various forms of film, video and installation. Her artistic practice involves elements of socially engaged art and militant research. Common themes in her artworks are workers’ everyday life, struggles of individuals and communities, and abuse of power. Tuomaala has worked in different low-income fields for many years, and her own experiences have inspired her to create projects emphasizing workers’ rights issues.
Partner Collaborators: Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities is developed in collaboration with a number of partners: Amos Rex, Asematila collective, AV-arkki – The Centre for Finnish Media Art, Finnish Cultural Institute New York, Goethe-Institut Finnland, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), Museum of Impossible Forms, PUBLICS
Supporters The main supporter of Rehearsing Hospitalities is the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland, together with the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark, Finnish Cultural Institute in Madrid, Finnish Institute in Estonia, Finnish Institute in London, Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Nordic-Baltic Curatorial Programme and the Saastamoinen Foundation.