Temple of Manufacturing presents COMPANY’s long-term project: SECRETS. Traveling to remote sites around the world to learn crafting processes unique to particular industries and places, the duo has collaborated over the last decade with a variety of communities to rethink the very processes and knowledge embedded in these places. Applying this knowledge to new and unexpected designs, COMPANY’s work creates an intersection between the mastery of traditional technique and the invention of a new, poetic, and personal material and object-specific vocabulary. 

Read more: storefrontnews.org/programming/temple-of-manufacturing/
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For the third event that takes place in Otobong Nkanga’s laboratory installation in Athens, under the guise of a public programme exploring the mentality of ritual in resource consumption, we welcome artist, sociologist and agroecologist Fernando García-Dory. García-Dory will speak about his work as a producer of “living culture”, using art production to precipitate social change and reconsider our relationship to the biosphere. García-Dory’s work investigates questions surrounding land use, food production and farming, and the forms of social organisation that frame them. This is aided through an enquiry into understandings of the culture-nature dialectic, social modeling and of possible futures. Through individual and collective projects, from drawings to agroecological cooperatives, expanded sculpture and more, Garcia-Dory looks at cheese production, shepherding, farming, and nomadism, among other practices and processes, in a way that bridges imagination and scientific knowledge to question forms of producing and living. Along with “Seeds in net” (2004), “A Shepherd’s School” (2004) and “A Dairy Museum” (2012), he will speak about “INLAND”, an arts collective and a collaborative agency started in 2009, dedicated to agricultural, social and cultural production.

Curated by Maya Tounta
Please note that there are multiple Archimidous streets in Athens. Ours is near Kallithea metro station in Moschato.

5–6 pm
Archimidous 15, 17778, Moschato, Athens
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The second chapter of the Edge Effects exhibition series opens in Skaftfell - Center for Visual Art on 17th of June, at 4pm–6pm at the Skaftfell gallery. The exhibition presents works from artists Kati Gausmann, Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Richard Skelton.

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Chlorofulfillment: a lab, letters and thoughts

This lecture performance takes the form of a conversation between the works of the artist Hanna Husberg and poet Sria Chatterjee. Collapsing the boundaries between plant breathing and human breath, the performance addresses the murky lines of control in closed systems. Seen in the context of colonial and contemporary histories of manipulated migrations and bio-engineering, their questions around the politics of respiration and ventilation is mediated by a series of poetic works that explores the writings and experiments of the 20th century Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose. The conversation becomes an attempt not to write a history of plant and human sociability but one that looks for language at the crevices of history and organic matter.

Tuesday June 12
4:00–4:45pm
HIAP Project Space

Suomenlinna B 28 / 2
Helsinki
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Tidalectics presents an oceanic worldview, a different way of engaging with the oceans and the world we inhabit. Unbound by land-based modes of thinking and living, the exhibition casts oceanic perspectives on the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans. Taking its title from a play on words by the celebrated Barbadian poet-historian Kamau Braithwaite, Tidalectics seeks to comprehend our histories as trajectories tossed by waves, from ocean crossings to systems of exchange, myths, and microbial origins. The exhibition highlights processes of cultural adaptation and material change, presenting a rich framework for understanding the coalescing polarities of contemporaneity and history, science and poetics, routes and roots, and ourselves – mostly land-dwelling humans – with the oceans and their many and diverse inhabitants. 

Artists: Atif Akin, Darren Almond, Julian Charrière, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Tue Greenfort, Ariel Guzik, Newell Harry, Alexander Lee, Eduardo Navarro, Sissel Tolaas, Janaina Tschäpe & David Gruber, Jana Winderen, Susanne M. Winterling

The exhibition opened on June 2, and runs until November 19, 2017. On June 23, Joan Jonas is performing as part of the performance series Ephemeropteræ, which accompanies the exhibition. 

Read more: tba21.org

Mustarinda – Edge Effects is the first of the seven chapters of a multipolar exhibition series organised by Frontiers in Retreat project, opening on Thursday 15th of June. The artists of the exhibition are Sylvia Grace Borda, Nabb+Teeri, mirko nikolić and Elina Vainio. 

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We are seeking expressions of interest from writers, artists, and others interested in participating in a workshop exploring the vocabulary of ecology. We will be developing short texts ‘dedefining’ some words, taking Georges Bataille’s Critical Dictionary as our starting point. We will set words off on irreverent adventures and explore subversive approaches to lexicons, dictionaries, taxonomies, and glossaries.

We will be developing discursive, de-definitions of terms which might include: frontier, carbon, energy, garbology, water, retreat, nonhuman, mycelium, affect, entanglement, symbiosis, mutualism, skill, boundary, interface, proximity, instrument, technology, spider, spit, universe, weave, mess, material, remote, algae, dust, dough, space, mouth, museum, rock, taxonomy, toxicity. Other terms for de-definition will emerge in the workshop.

We will aim to take iconoclastic, oblique, and awry approaches to the language of ecology and climate in order to move past impasses, hackneyed ideas, and vacant terminology. Polyphonic associations of ideas, objects, fragments of thoughts, unexpected juxtapositions, might displace exhausted and impotent ways of thinking about ecology and climate. We will be aiming to get beyond ingrained binaries and systems of knowledge and understanding to an anti-taxonomic vision, chiselling at words as a sculptor works with stone, or casting, caressing and sounding words.

Workshop Leader:

Tracey Warr is a writer who has worked with installed text and published books and essays on contemporary art. Her novels are published by Impress Books. Her recent future fiction writing is published by Meanda Books. She recently edited Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture published by Routledge. She is an artist in the Frontiers in Retreat project led by HIAP.
https://traceywarrwriting.com https://meanda.net http://www.zooetics.net

Workshop Contributors:

Jenni Nurmenniemi is a curator with HIAP – Helsinki International Artists Programme, Finland, and the curator of Frontiers in Retreat project (2013–2018). Recent curatorial projects include ‘Excavations’ (2015), ‘Deep Time Séance I & II’ (2015), Wolf Von Kries: ‘Weaving around the Void’ (2016), Lene Baadsvig Ørmen: ‘Soliloquy’ (2016), and ‘Edge Effects: Active Earth’ (2017, upcoming). In her practice she combines Critical theory, queer and intersectional feminism, and a focus on ecosystemic entanglements. Currently she lives and works across Helsinki, Seoul and New York.

Jussi Parikka is a new media theorist and Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, UK. He also teaches at Turku University of Art, Finland. His books include A Geology of Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), Insect Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), Digital Contagions (Peter Lang, 2007).
https://jussiparikka.net

Antti Salminen is a philosopher, poet, fiction writer and literary critic and Associate Professor at University of Tampere. His publications include Future University, with Juha Suoranta and Tere Vaden (Cooperative Edge of the Bold, 2010) and Energy and Experience with Tere Vaden (so & so books, 2013). 

Selected texts from the workshop will be included in a Frontiers in Retreat book to be published in 2018.

There will be a maximum of 12 participants in the workshop. You must be able to participate fully on both days. Please email your expression of interest consisting of a one paragraph biography and another paragraph on why you are interested in participating to: traceykwarr [​at​] gmail.com and jenni [​at​] hiap.fi by 31 May.

Lunch on both days and dinner on the first day will be provided by HIAP. The accommodation and travel costs to/from Helsinki are at participants’ own cost. HIAP can support the travel costs of 1–2 workshop participants from outside of Helsinki (within Finland), please e-mail jenni [​at​] hiap.fi for more information. 

HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme /
Frontiers in Retreat project (2013–18)
HIAP Gallery Augusta & Project Space Suomenlinna
Helsinki Sat 8 – Sun 9 July 2017, 10 am–6 pm
Free

Inland Scotland

A conversation and presentation of Inland in The Cabrach - a two year project with Fernando Garcia- Dory, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Frontiers in Retreat, and Cabrach inhabitants and farmers.

Framed by the European project Frontiers in Retreat (FiR) and under a Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) commission, artist Fernando Garcia-Dory applies the INLAND approach he has been developing in different places since 2010 - in this case to the Cabrach, a high moorland with grazing pastures, progressively abandoned, and enclosed by a private Estate.

Over the last two years, Fernando has connected with Rural Development agents working in the area, and Cabrach inhabitants and farmers, and looked at the content of the recently formulated Land Reform Act of Scotland, with its legal and political implications, in relation to a possible applications within the rural community there. Fernando also worked with a Cabrach community member, active against the proposed wind farm, to lead a guided walk for an international FiR symposium held at SSW. The route requested permission from the Estate’s Head Gamekeeper and claimed free roaming access, traversing lost paths in an interrupted walk, depicting a damaged landscape.

As the project enters its final phase, tenant farmers of the Cabrach and farm cooperative members from Andalusia, Spain have been invited to participate in an exchange residency. In early 2017, farmers of the Cabrach and SSW will host members from the Spanish cooperative who created a landless farm workers union (S.O.C) in the 1980s as part of a campaign to highlight inequalities in a region of huge historical private Estates.

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