Flowers of the Glacier
Navigating Turbulence
Amphibia
Insularias
Sounding Sound
Le feu tue les yeux de la Nuit
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Elon Kierre
Scrying into a Shell
Ballard in Albisola
Writings - Home Shores
- Navigating Turbulence
12.06-17.09.23 / Vallisaari Island, Helsinki (FI)
Voices of the Baltic Sea: Science, Art and Action
02.09.25 / Hanasaari Cultural Centre, Helsinki (FI)
The sound piece is intended for the ferry to Vallisaari and lasts for about the length of the trip. For the full experience, we recommend to start listening with your own device as soon as you get on board and enjoy the scenery. Listen to the sound piece here.
We warmly thank Associate Professor Arttu Polojärvi (interview) and Doctoral Researcher Marek Muchow (interview) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Aalto University, Doctoral Researcher Tim Hammer from TU Delft (poetry), Antoine Flahaut (sound editor) and Essi Pellikka (voice) for their openness and contributions.
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The site-specific sound piece Navigating Turbulence came with the intention of expanding the visitor’s experience of the Helsinki Biennial, located on the island of Vallisaari.
The Helsinki Biennial Art Mediation Forum 2023 is a collaboration between ViCCA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art) at Aalto University’s School of ARTS and the Helsinki Biennial 2023. The project focuses on mediation as an ‘articulation space’ for the biennial’s themes and artistic contributions.
Helsinki Biennial 2023: New Directions May Emerge adopts its title from a quote by anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, who proposes learning from (the art of) “noticing”. It is curated by Joasia Krysa, with other curatorial intelligences — Museum of Impossible Forms, TBA21–Academy, Critical Environmental Data, ViCCA@Aalto Arts, and an AI entity.
Voices of the Baltic Sea: Science, Art and Action
Conference: Scientists, artists, and policymakers join forces to turn the challenges of the Baltic Sea into drivers of action.
Anchored in the Baltic Sea’s late-winter, Navigating Turbulence brings artistic and scientific perspectives into dialogue around sea ice research, combining field encounters with experiments at the Aalto Ice and Wave Tank. The project investigates the fragile condition of sea ice and its entanglement with human-made infrastructures such as offshore wind turbines and icebreaking vessels. By juxtaposing controlled lab models with the unpredictability of sea ice, the work traces how knowledge shifts across scales and time. It showcases a frozen seascape under climatic pressure, entangled with global trade and the green energy transition, and opens a space to reflect on fragility, resilience, and the infrastructures we construct to navigate an increasingly uncertain world.