Ecological Thinking

A talk by Artist Paul Rosero – Contreras approaches questions related to interspecies communication, speculative imaginaries and non-human intelligence.

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

Thursday 30th May 2024; Time: 13:30 – 19:00 EET. Venue: Museum of Impossible Forms, Aallonhalkoja9, 00540 Helsinki.

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.

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.

Leena Kela writes about her travels around Finland visiting sites of environmental damage by extraction.

Siew Ching Ang explores the pig as a site of extraction, infrastructure and territorial flow.

Hanna Chorell writes about her sonic experience of walking in the woods as a method of artistic research.

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…

“The visible is not a container”- Ecologies of Remote Sensing – Guest Lecture by Göçke Önal, 23.10.

The course explores ecology and extractivism as investigated by visual arts, film and performance.

Orla Mc Hardy wonders if contaminants and cyanobacteria are agents and provocateurs that challenge perceptions of everyday encounters.

Qiong Zhang thinks extraction is not only about humans extracting but also about humans being extracted by the pit.

Saara Hannula examines the contaminated diversity of the Baltic Sea.

Johanna Sulalampi attempts to understand the sonic world of lichens.

Heini Nieminen explores the links between mining and land art from the perspective of aesthetic and geological formations.

Ville Aslak Raasakka investigates the sonic and sensory world of the Baltic shellfish.