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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Artist Talks – Spring 2025

13.1.2025 0

An Introduction by Blanca de la Torre (co-curator of Helsinki Biennial 2025) and commissioned artists: Tue Greenfort, Nabb+Teeri and Tania Candiani.
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.

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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