Ecological Thinking

This is the course blog for KDOC-24B20 - Ecological Thinking Seminar. In 2024-25, the seminar collaborates with Helsinki Biennial 2025 contextualizing its themes and curatorial vision with discourses and practices in the visual and performing arts. In 2023-24, we explored "Vertical Ecologies" by visual arts, film and performance, co-organized with Curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif of the Museum of Impossible Forms. Previously, in 2022-23, we organized a year-long collaborative research studio with Aarhus University, DK, Research Pavilion 2023 and Helsinki Biennial 2023 on the themes of environmental data, sensing and contamination.

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Imagining without Brain: Towards a Decentralization of Cognition – Guest Lecture by Paul Rosero-Contreras, 18.11.

5.11.2024 0

A talk by Artist Paul Rosero – Contreras approaches questions related to interspecies communication, speculative imaginaries and non-human intelligence.
Open Call: Ecological Thinking Seminar 2024-25 with Helsinki Biennial 2025

26.8.2024 0

KDOC-24B20 Theme Seminar – 6 credits (1 year) September 2024 – June 2025
Vertical Ecologies Symposium 2024

23.5.2024 0

Thursday 30th May 2024; Time: 13:30 – 19:00 EET. Venue: Museum of Impossible Forms, Aallonhalkoja9, 00540 Helsinki.
Ecocidal Development and Atmospheric Warfare – Guest Lecture by David Muñoz Alcántara, 18.3.

11.3.2024 0
Against Animal Capitalism – Visibilizing Animality in Ecosocialism – Guest Lecture by Terike Haapoja, 4.3.

27.2.2024 0

In this lecture, Haapoja will discuss key concepts of Marxist theory in the light of scholarship that attempts to include nonhuman animals in left political theory.
“Schizophrenic relationship with nature” – Guest Lecture by Matti Aikio, 12.2.

6.2.2024 0

This session focuses on the artistic practice of Matti Aikio, whose work explores the counterpositions of Western modernity vis-à-vis Sámi’s worldview and relationship with time and nature.
Greetings from Places I Never Wanted to Visit

5.2.2024 0

Leena Kela writes about her travels around Finland visiting sites of environmental damage by extraction.
Pig as Geography — Site, Infrastructure and Flow

5.2.2024 0

Siew Ching Ang explores the pig as a site of extraction, infrastructure and territorial flow.
Forest Fragments – A Walk in the Woods

18.12.2023 0

Hanna Chorell writes about her sonic experience of walking in the woods as a method of artistic research.
Ecocentric Investigations – Guest Lecture by Nabil Ahmed, 27.11.

21.11.2023 0

This talk will explore ecocentric investigations as an operative concept that looks at the way environmental destruction poses unique representational challenges and how to overcome them…

About this blog

This is the course blog for KDOC-24B20 – Ecological Thinking Seminar. In 2024-25, the seminar collaborates with Helsinki Biennial 2025 contextualizing its themes and curatorial vision with discourses and practices in the visual and performing arts. In 2023-24, we explored “Vertical Ecologies” by visual arts, film and performance, co-organized with Curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif of the Museum of Impossible Forms. Previously, in 2022-23, we organized a year-long collaborative research studio with Aarhus University, DK, Research Pavilion 2023 and Helsinki Biennial 2023 on the themes of environmental data, sensing and contamination.

Header image credit: Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka / Seed, Image, Ground (2020)- With permission from the authors.

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