Thursday 30th May 2024; Time: 13:30 – 19:00 EET. Venue: Museum of Impossible Forms, Aallonhalkoja9, 00540 Helsinki.
This symposium is the culmination of Ecological Thinking | Vertical Ecologies course (2023-2024) led by artist-researcher Samir Bhowmik and curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif.
For this session, our invited keynote speakers are Sámi Indigenous scholar, curator, and duojár Liisa-Rávná Finbog, whose research has focused on the devastating effect of the colonial epistemicide on the practice of duodji; and Léopold Lambert, editor-in-chief of The Funambulist and author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. As well, it brings together new artworks and presentations by artist participants to the course: Frank Brümmel, Siew Ching, Leena Kela, Haiyun Yu, and Rut Karin Zettergren.