Mon-Tue 5-6.5.2025
at 18.00-20.30

Jokistudio, Tehdasteatteri
(Itäinen Rantakatu 64 B,Turku)

Two-day symposium invites together practitioners of art and science to share thoughts on site-sensitive fieldwork. The symposium conversations grow out of eight years of collaborations between curator Taru Elfving and artist Lotta Petronella with the scientists at the Archipelago Research Institute addressing the intricately interwoven ecological and biopolitical histories as they manifest in the present on the island of Seili and gesture towards possible futures, across various temporal and geographical scales.

The symposium is organised as part of the launch activities of the Undisciplinary Institute of Art and Ecology, a new initiative by CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, which sets out to imagine and institute into being a speculative support structure for collaborative enquiries situated in between existing institutional and disciplinary frameworks. In the face of the multitude of spectres of unsustainability that haunt the structures, methodologies, systems of value, and professional identities in the fields of art and science, the very foundations of the fields and their disciplinary formations come into question. What could it mean, in practice, to undiscipline our practices and institutions?

The first phase of the Undisciplinary Institute of Art and Ecology focuses on site-sensitive fieldwork as practices that not only labour out in the field of study, but simultaneously rework their own field. What might site-sensitivity rather than site-specificity mean as a critical, ethical and aesthetic commitment in fieldwork? Sensitivity shifts emphasis from the objects or sites of attention to the practices of engagement, to perceptiveness rather than perception. It encourages sensing the way before any attempts at making sense. Sensing implies figuring out how to request permission, what guidance to look for, who makes meaning and has stories to tell, how the senses of the place can be shared, and what might the impacts of my landing on a site be. It is not up to a human individual alone to determine these specificities and their timelines, means or ends. Rather, site-sensitivity calls for attentiveness to all the human and more-than-human communities, who were already on-site and who will bear the consequences of our actions. It demands acknowledgement that sites also affect us, and when becoming sensitised our practices need to be adjusted and realigned accordingly.

The symposium is free and open to the public, no registration required. The presentations and conversations will be in English and Finnish, translation is provided as needed. 

Monday 5th May
18.00-20.30

Biologist Jasmin Inkinen (Archipelago Research Institute, University of Turku) shares her ongoing work with plants in Seili, realised as part of Själö Poiesis in collaboration with Lotta Petronella. Artist, professor Lucy Davis (Aalto University) presents her long-term, collaborative and transdisciplinary project Migrant Ecologies. Curator Taru Elfving (CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago) will introduce the Undisciplinary Institute of Art and Ecology and moderate the discussion.

Tuesday 6th May
18.00-20.30

Marine biologist, professor emeritus Ilppo Vuorinen (Archipelago Research Institute, University of Turku) joins the conversation with Taru Elfving and Lotta Petronella (CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago) on long-term fieldwork, the significance of tacit knowledge, and the changing relationship between the scientist and the researched species.

2.4.2025
17.00–19.00
Titanik, Turku

How do we listen to the forest? How do its rhythms, resonances, and silences shape our understanding of it? This evening conversation brings together scientists and artists whose work engages with nature’s sounds, signals, and interactions. Through their practices, they observe, witness, and participate in the intricate dynamics of forest ecologies, exploring how humans—through listening, sensing, and acting—have always been entangled with the forest in profound ways.

As forests undergo rapid transformations, how can we attune ourselves to their changing realities? Can we expand and diversify what “forest” means today? This discussion invites us to reflect on how we listen—not only to sound but to the multitudes of presence and absence that make up a forest.

The conversation will be facilitated by artist Mareike Dobewall and curator Taru Elfving, with invited scientists and artists. Dialogue partners include artist Lotta Petronella, philosopher Helena Siipi, artists Tuike and Simo Alitalo, and scientist Anna Lintunen. We welcome participants to join the conversation, sharing their own experiences of listening to the forest.

This event is part of the Great Forest Dialogue Day, organised by Kone Foundation’s Metsän puolella initiative and DialogiAkatemia, and hosted by Titanik and CAA.

27.2.2025
Centre for Art and Ecology
Goldsmiths University of London

What might site-sensitivity rather than site-specificity mean as a political, ethical and aesthetic commitment? Sensitivity shifts emphasis from the objects or sites of attention to the practices of engagement, to perceptiveness rather than perception, to responsiveness and sensibilities. It encourages sensing the way before any attempts at making sense, so as to safeguard the un-predefined space- time of encounters. Sensing implies figuring out how to request permission, what guidance to look for, who makes meaning and has stories to tell, how the senses of the place can be shared, and what might the impacts of my landing on a site be. It is not up to a human individual alone to determine these specificities and their timelines, means or ends. Rather, site-sensitivity calls for attentiveness to all the human and more-than-human communities, who were already on-site and who will bear the consequences of our actions. It demands acknowledgement that sites also affect us, and when becoming sensitised our practices need to be adjusted and realigned accordingly.

Seminar on site-sensitivity gathers together to reflect on what might this mean in and through practice in the expanded field of contemporary art. It addresses site- sensitivity neither as an alternative to the notion of site-specificity nor as a particular applicable methodology as such, but rather as an emergent approach that can only arise out of processes and practices of entanglement with specific sites. To begin the conversation, curator Taru Elfving and artist Lotta Petronella share their collaborative practices, which are deeply indebted to and informed by the island of Seili in the Baltic Sea, where they have been working for years together with scientists and artists. From this situated perspective Elfving and Petronella continue to address the intricately interwoven ecological and biopolitical histories as they manifest in the present and gesture towards possible futures, across various temporal and geographical scales.

The participants are invited to bring to the seminar experiences and examples on how we might understand site-sensitivity from a range of partial perspectives. The discussion sets out to explore how site-sensitive practices might also hold significant potential in nurturing inter/transdisciplinary collaborations that are urgently required in response to the web of escalating socio-ecological crises. Sitesensitive approaches might even guide us towards undisciplinarity, to critically reflect on how the hierarchical structures of knowledge discipline our practices and encounters.

Towards Site-Sensitivity is organised by the Centre for Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London in partnership with CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago and it contributes to the development of a future collaborative research project. The seminar is part of the launch activities of the Undisciplinary Institute of Art and Ecology, a new initiative by CAA.

6.-8.11.2024
Seili

The symposium At the Edges of Knowledge gathered together a multidisciplinary group of researchers in Seili to reflect on the significance of and transformations in fieldwork in their different areas of scientific and artistic practice. Starting from the longterm environmental monitoring and study at the Archipelago Research Institute, the symposium participants brought into the discussions a range of perspectives and methodologies from marine biology, nature conservation and restoration, place-based and site-sensitive artistic and curatorial research. The island guided the exchanges that took place mainly out on the meadows and rocky shores, the lively field(s) of the shared research practices.

The symposium launched CAA’s new research on the changing meanings, methods and potentials of fieldwork as part of the emergent Undisciplinary Institute for Art and Ecology. The presentations and discussions will be edited and published as fieldnotes. They also lay the ground for future events and, eventually, a collection of articles.

The participants and contributors to the symposium: Taru Elfving and Lotta Petronella (CAA), Jari Hänninen, Katja Mäkinen, Marjut Rajasilta, and Ilppo Vuorinen (Archipelago Research Institute, University of Turku), Anna Törnroos-Remes (Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science SOS, Åbo Akademi), Maija Mussaari (ELY-center), Ros Gray (Centre for Art & Ecology, Goldsmiths University of London, UK), Mark Peter Wright (CRiSAP, University of the Arts London, UK), Helena Hunter (Nottingham Trent University & Scottish Association of Marine Science, UK), Lucy Davis (Arts and Media, Aalto University), Daniel Peltz (Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki), artist Arja Renell.

The symposium was organised as part of the public programme of the exhibition At the Edges of Knowledge, with the support of the Art Promotion Centre Finland and Niilo Helandar Foundation.

8 August 2024
Seili

Welcome to the Archipelago Research Institute in Seili to meet the Baltic herring!

Herring is a key species in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Along these Northern shores it has also fed the development of human cultures. Baltic herring has fueled maritime travel and cultural exchange already for thousands of years. Thanks to herring the coastal communities survived even the hunger years. These days, however, the environmental changes caused by human activities are severely affecting the herring population. Industrial waste has blinded the herring and now their hearing seems to be suffering. The herring in the Archipelago Sea is growing ever thinner as it adapts to the impacts of climate change.

Herring is truly a political animal, our companion species in the natural-cultural history of the Baltic Sea region. Similarly our futures go fin in hand.

The Archipelago Research Institute has studied the transformations of the Baltic herring population and its maritime habitat since the 1980’s. The Herring Day presents this research to the public and guides the participants to view the Baltic Sea from the perspective of the herring.

The Herring Day is co-organised by Archipelago Research Institute (Turku University) and CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago in collaboration with Imagining Godzilla and John Nurminen Foundation. The event is part of a long-term collaboration between art and science in Seili, which is presented in the exhibition At The Edges of Knowledge this summer at the Archipelago Research Institute in celebration of its 60^th anniversary. The exhibition and the public event are supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

The event is open for public and free, no prior booking needed. The event is both in Finnish and English. More information available in the beginning of August.

Programme

12.30-13.00   60 Years of Research on the Changing Sea: guided tour of the Archipelago Research Institute

13.00-14.00   What’s up Herring?: how to read the otoliths (hearing bones) of herring and the food web of the sea, guided by researchers Katja Mäkinen and Marjut Rajasilta at the Seawater Laboratory

14.00-15.00   Below the Surface: view the seashore through water binoculars, snorkeling, swimming or floating, guided by biologists

15.00-15.30   Performance by Rag Elnyg, organized by Imagining Godzilla

15.30-16.00   At the Edges of Knowledge: exhibition tour with the curator Taru Elfving / CAA

16.00-16.30   60 Years of Research on the Changing Sea: guided tour of the Archipelago Research Institute by professor Ilppo Vuorinen

17.00-17.45   Cello performance Global Soundscapes by Sergio Castrillón, organised by Imagining Godzilla

Transport to Seili

M/S Norrskär
Turku-Seili 9.30 – 11.15
Seili-Turku 16.30 – 18.15

M/S Östern
Nauvo-Seili 12.10 – 12.40
Seili-Nauvo 17.25 – 17.55

More information and bookings of transport:
https://www.visitseili.fi/en/connecting-vessels/

14.6.2024
SOLU / Bioart Society

The launch event presented the new publication Uusi Pangaia – Kasvimatkoja Seilin saarelle (The New Pangaea – Plant Journeys to Seili) together with video and sound works from The New Pangaea series by Kalle Hamm and Band of Weeds.

The event also brought the work of Hamm and Band of Weeds into dialogue with the practice of artist and filmmaker Lotta Petronella, who shared some of her ongoing multifaceted body of work Själö Poeisis. These two long-term collaborative projects approach the naturalcultural history and present of Seili from a range of perspectives that unsettle anthropocentric and patriarchal narratives of the island and its biopolitical institutions.

The ongoing collaboration between artists and scientists at the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku) in Seili was discussed in the event by artists Kalle Hamm and Lotta Petronella together with marine biologist Prof Ilppo Vuorinen and archaeobotanist Dr Mia Lempiäinen-Avci, moderated by curator and researcher Taru Elfving.

The event was realized in collaboration with the Bioart Society at their SOLU space in Helsinki. It was a satellite event in the public programme of the exhibition At the Edges of Knowledge presented by CAA at the Archipelago Research Institute in Seili during the summer 2024 with the support of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

The book is part of a larger body of work The New Pangaea (2021-24) realized in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute and produced by CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago. It is the first publication in a series of books by CAA emerging out of the long-term interdisciplinary research residency programme on the island of Seili. The publication has been produced as part of the project Spectres in Change (2017-2024) by CAA with the support of the Kone Foundation, Oskar Öflund Foundation and the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland. The publication is now available in print and online in Finnish. An English translation will follow soon.

The New Pangaea series will be completed with the release of the album The New Pangaea – Interspecies Cantata by Superpang Records in 2025.

Spectres in Change:
Site-Sensitive Art-Science Research in the Archipelago Sea

Mon, 13 Feb 2023
18.00-21.00 GMT

George Wood Theatre
Goldsmiths, University of London

How do you know what you know? has been the guiding question for artists and scientists coming together on the island of Seili in the Baltic Sea since 2017 to share methods, protocols and rituals of ecological enquiry. As a microcosm reflecting acute planetary challenges of the present against complex historical trajectories, the island has acted not only as a site but as a conspiring catalyst and mediator in the multidisciplinary dialogues. Prior to the establishment of the Archipelago Research Institute, the island served as a hospital, a site of confinement for lepers and most recently as a mental asylum exclusively for women. Long-term scientific mapping of the rapid transformations in the marine ecosystem is haunted in Seili today by centuries of institutionalised othering.

In the symposium, curator Taru Elfving introduces the collaborations addressing the myriad spectres of Seili. Insights into the ongoing work include Post Glacial Rebound by FoAM Earth, a soundwalk encouraging listening as the biological time of generations intersects with the slow time of tectonic forces, and the Band of Weeds’ interspecies cantata The New Pangaea, composed of field recordings of plants signalling diverse modes of migration to and disappearance from Seili. Artist and filmmaker Lotta Petronella presents her work-in-progress Själö Poeisis, a critical study of power structures on the island through plants, especially the common plants – the weeds, the vulgaris. The project consists of an artist book, a tarot herbarium, lecture performances, a choir work, an apothecary, botanical sessions and sleepings with plants.

Matterlurgy will share their work Field Casting, a research project and exhibition that investigates scientific ‘fieldwork’ as a site and subject of study, zooming in on the practices, tools and perspectives embroiled in the production of climate data. They will discuss the relationship between field practice and automated data collection and highlight knowledge as an event that is materially entangled with the lives of humans and nonhumans.

Fraud discuss Fields of May, a permanent installation within the Archipelago Research Institute in Seili. It is built with discarded naval wares from the museum-ship Sigyn (1887), a vessel which bore witness to transatlantic colonialism and the timber trade, as much as to the changing nature of Finnish forests. As an architecture of engagement that draws from legal and juridical traditions, Fields of May coalesces a diverse ecology of practices and historical-material specificities with the aim of cultivating the conditions of possibility that might conjure worlds attuned to non-extractive rhythms.

Spectres in Change symposium is chaired by Dr Ros Gray and hosted by the MA Art & Ecology and the Critical Ecologies research stream at Goldsmiths, University of London. The symposium is organised in collaboration with CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, which has been leading the research project Spectres in Change in Seili since 2017, in partnership with Archipelago Research Institute of Turku University and supported by Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and Oskar Öflund Foundation.

More information on the symposium and registration here.

Participants:

Dr Taru Elfving is a curator and writer based in Finland focused on nurturing undisciplinary and site-sensitive enquiries at the intersections of ecological, feminist and decolonial practices. She is artistic director and co-founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago. Her previous curatorial research projects include Hours, Years, Aeons (Finnish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015), Frontiers in Retreat (HIAP Helsinki 2013-18), and Towards a Future Present (LIAF Lofoten 2008). She has a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Lotta Petronella is a filmmaker, artist and curator based in Turku, Finland. She is co-founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago and has worked with and on islands for nearly two decades. Since her internationally awarded film Själö – Island of Souls (2020), she has been leading the collaborative research Själö Poeisis in Seili. She will premier new work at Helsinki Biennial in 2023. Petronella is also a devoted medicine and flower essence maker and tarot scholar.

Matterlurgy is a collaborative practice between London-based artists Helena Hunter and Dr Mark Peter Wright. Their work engages with the environmental sciences: its methods, processes and technologies for sensing, translating and predicting climate change/damage. Working across disciplines and media, they combine the production of artworks with co-constructed events, exhibitions and live performances. Recent works include Air Morphologies (Wellcome Collection/Delfina Foundation), Hydromancy (John Hansard Gallery/Onassis Stegi) and Sensitives Streams (Arts Catalyst/Whitechapel Gallery).

FRAUD (Dr Audrey Samson & Dr Francisco Gallardo) is a duo whose practice examines the extractivist gaze embedded in the management of raw materials. Their work develops modes of art-led enquiry into thinking materially about decolonization as a geosocial process. Somerset House Studios alumni, the duo has been awarded Artangel’s Making Time Fellowship (2023), the State of Lower Saxony – HBK Braunschweig Fellowship (2020), the King’s College Cultural Institute Grant (2018), and has been commissioned by the Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), RADAR Loughborough (2020), and the Cockayne Foundation (2018).

Dr Ros Gray is Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology and Reader in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research is concerned with ways in which artists engage with ecological crisis, with particular focus on cultivation practices, soil care, and decolonial, feminist and queer approaches. Recent work includes co-editing of the Third Text special issue The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions and the podcast The Coloniality of Planting for Camden Art Centre’s series Botanical Minds. She was Principal Investigator of the Natural Environment Research Council’s Creative Climate Partnership Sensing Soil. She is a member of the Critical Ecologies research stream.

3.2. & 19.2.2023
Titanik Gallery, Turku

During the exhibition Field Casting by Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright) two public events introduce the artworks and the marine research the artists have been following at the Archipelago Research Institute on the Island of Seili since 2019. The exhibition and the accompanying events invite participation in the ongoing multidisciplinary dialogue and highlight the significance of fieldwork in the face of the escalating ecological emergency.

Fri 3.2. at 15.00

Introduction to the exhibition followed by discussion about field research of environmental changes in the Archipelago Sea: How is climate data stored, for example, within the ear bones of fish? How is this information interpreted and what can it tell of the possible futures of the Baltic Sea? The artists and curator of the exhibition in conversation with professor Jari Hänninen and researcher Katja Mäkinen from the Archipelago Research Institute. The event is in English.

Sun 19.2. at 14.00

Tour of the exhibition and discussion about art-science collaboration and fieldwork on the island of Seili. Professor emeritus Ilppo Vuorinen in conversation with curator Taru Elfving. The event is in Finnish.

Field Casting is part of the programme How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness which presents new artworks commissioned by CAA in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku) in the project Spectres in Change. 

The exhibition and the events are produced by CAA in partnership with Titanik Gallery and the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku). With support from the Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and Oskar Öflund Foundation. Thanks to Eero Merimaa and sculpture students at Turku University of Applied Sciences, Tom Ranson, and Alex Ball at the Natural History Museum in London, UK.

3.9.2022 at 12pm until late
Ruissalo, Kino Diana & Manilla, Turku

For the past four years, CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago has been nurturing the sharing of methods, protocols and rituals – some inherited or borrowed, others invented or emergent – between artists visiting the island of Seili and scientists with decades-long embedded practice at the Archipelago Research Institute. We invite the audience now to take part in this ongoing experimentation with exercises in attentiveness.

On Saturday 3rd September, the public programme continues in Turku. A series of exercises on the island of Ruissalo will take place during the afternoon for small groups. In the evening new artworks commissioned by CAA will be presented in performances, screenings and discussions at Kino Diana and Manilla.

How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness events are organised collaboratively by CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago and New Performance Turku. The programme and the presented art works are produced as part of CAA’s project Spectres in Change in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute, and have been supported by Kone Foundation, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and the Oskar Öflund Foundation.

PROGRAMME

12-15 Exercises in Attentiveness at Saaronniemi, Ruissalo (participatory activities, pre-booking required):

Själö Poeisis: Reading with Plants – Lotta Petronella with Cecilia Westerberg (pre-book here)

Buoyant – Maija Mustonen (pre-book here)

16-17 Film Premiere at Kino Diana (pre-booking plus places at the door depending on availability):

The Scent of the Changing Sea – Kati Roover (pre-book here)

18.30-00 Exercises in Attentiveness at Manilla
(performances & discussion, plus DJ set):

Fields of May – Fraud with Ilppo Vuorinen

The New Pangaea – Kalle Hamm & Band of Weeds

followed by DJ Antti-Juhani Manninen

EXERCISES IN RUISSALO

Själö Poeisis: Reading with Plants
Lotta Petronella with Cecilia Westerberg

A private reading with plants from Seili. Ask the island. Let it enter your imagination, your dreams.

The exercise is part of a larger body of work Själö Poeisis, a critical study of power structures through plants, especially the common plants – the weeds, the vulgaris. Själö Poeisis consists of an artist book, a herbarium, lecture performances, a choir work, an apothecary, botanical sessions and a set of 26 plant cards loosely based on the cosmology of tarot.

More detailed information will be sent to those who sign up for the event.

Buoyant
Maija Mustonen with Ami Karvonen and Even Minn

Imagine your weight and weightlessness, the movements of the sea on your skin under the autumn sky, you are floating.

The 70% watery human body is approximately 37°c whereas the seawater at Saaronniemi beach in Ruissalo is now about 18°c. The salt content of human tears and sweat is close to the salinity of the Archipelago Sea. The buoyancy varies between different water bodies. Every water has its own character.

Floating exercise is a meeting between seawater, a giver and a recipient. Buoyant is a participatory exercise by Maija Mustonen with a working group (Ami Karvonen and Even Minn). We will help you to float in short one-to-one sessions.

It is also possible to go to sauna. There is a unisex dressing room in the event and also a possibility for private dressing rooms. Please bring a swimsuit. More detailed information will be sent to those who sign up for the event.

SCREENING AT KINO DIANA

The Scent of the Changing Sea
Kati Roover

This video essay weaves together multisensory experiential knowledge and scientific observations in a poetic reflection on the distant past and possible futures of the Baltic Sea. Using archive material and new recordings of sound and video from Turku Archipelago, Roover looks for knowledge in between linear and circular thinking in response to this point in history, which calls for both old and new ways of navigation through an unknown future.

PERFORMANCES & DISCUSSIONS AT MANILLA

Fields of May
Fraud (Audrey Samson & Francisco Gallardo) with Ilppo Vuorinen

In conversation with professor emeritus Ilppo Vuorinen, Fraud presents Fields of May, a semi-permanent infrastructure installed at the Archipelago Research Institute this summer. The salvaged old masts of the museum ship Sigyn bear witness to colonialism and timber trade as much as to the changing nature of Finnish forests. They act now as a structure to chair multidisciplinary events to discuss the potentiality of more-than-human legal ecologies.

The New Pangaea
Kalle Hamm & Band of Weeds

Hamm plays The New Pangaea, a forthcoming new album by Band of Weeds that reflects the complex entanglement of human and plant life on the island of Seili. The interspecies cantata introduces 20 plants, which represent diverse modes of migration to, and disappearance from, the island. The cantata has been composed of field recordings of plants translated into sounds audible to the human ear.

Programme details available in Finnish on the New Performance Turku website.

Archipelago Research Institute, Seili
Thursday 4.8.2022, 13.15-00.00

This one-day workshop, held at the Archipelago Research Institute in Seili, invites participants to engage with the world of insects from both scientific and artistic perspectives. Taking place on Thursday 4^th August, the event, which guides attendees through the island’s current insect research, will be co-led by Metsähallitus conservation biologist Sampsa Malmberg and artist Arja Renell.

In summer 2021, Metsähallitus carried out an extensive insect survey with a particular focus on the endangered beetle species living in Seili. Amongst the numerous insects observed by the survey was the highly endangered Kärsämö beetle; Seili is now recognised as the beetle’s last remaining habitat in Finland alongside one site in Åland.

The artistic starting point for following insect research has been to document and reflect on the importance of long-term scientific research. Despite the immediate use of data obtained through species surveys – for example, in nature conservation activities such as population management to assist endangered species – the true value of research can sometimes only be determined after decades; it is by no means possible to predict all of its benefits.

During the upcoming Beetle Day, participants will become acquainted with the study of insects, as well as the interconnected relationship between the researcher and the subject. Questions such as how does the relationship with the species group, species or its individuals develop in long-term research? what kind of information is left out of scientific research? what can we learn from another species? and how can we practice the approach of another species so that we allow our senses to observe and find connections? will be asked throughout the day via a series of presentations, discussions and exercises.

The event will be held in Finnish, with English used as a second, intermediary language. Participants are welcome to use either Finnish and English for the discursive components of the workshop.

For the full itinerary (in Finnish), visit our Facebook event. Alternatively, for more information or to register, email info@contemporaryartarchipelago.org

Beetle Day is part of the series How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness which brings together and publicly shares a multi-year collaboration between artists and researchers at the Archipelago Research Institute on the island of Seili. The series is part of the CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago’s project Spectres in Change and it is supported by the Kone Foundation and the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.