Flowers of the Glacier
Amphibia
Insularias
Sounding Sound
Le feu tue les yeux de la Nuit
Cam
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*intent*
Navigating Turbulence
Elon Kierre
Scrying into a Shell
Ballard in Albisola
Writings - Home Shores
- Navigating Turbulence
2023 / HAM, Helsinki Art Museum Publication (FI)
Editors: Bassam El Baroni and Patrizia Costantin.
Commissioning Editor: Joasia Krysa.
Contributors: Filipa Ramos, Adeena Mey, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Cyane Findji and Myriam Gras, Aska Mayer, Martina Šerešová, Micol Curatolo, Julia Fidder.
Graphic Design: The Rodina.
Download the pdf here.
Findji and Gras would like to thank Arttu Polojärvi, Otto Puolakka, Alice Petry, Teemu Päivärinta, Lasse Turja, Tim Hammer, Hayo Hendrikse, Laura van Dijke, Tom Willems, and Cody Owen, who informed us about the current research and facilitated access to the ice tank.
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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.
“In a text titled Navigating Turbulence: Towards the Making of Space, Cyane Findji and Myriam Gras present an intriguing voyage that borrows from the investigative methodologies of geology to traverse the expansive maritime landscape of the Baltic Sea. The biennial and its context are here mediated through various island influences. The text seeks to explore the thematic framework of the biennial while making the primary focus water in its various material states. The trajectory proposed by Findji and Gras disrupts the established dichotomy between those confined to the mainland and those tethered to the islands. Instead, it advocates for a more fluid, experiential understanding of the biennial that is informed by the unseen that dwells beneath the sea surrounding Vallisaari. The text invites us to navigate the Baltic Sea vertically, to pierce its surface, plunging into its depths to explore the layers of contamination and resilience therein, engaging our senses in a multidimensional exploration. Once back on the surface, we re-emerge with what the authors define as manifold points of departure to be explored in our experience of the Helsinki Biennial 2023.” (Note from eds. Bassam El Baroni and Patrizia Costantin)