Epigenetic imagination
This text was published in the exhibition publication at ‘Johtingeaidnu – The Path Within’ by Emilia Tikka with Oula A. Valkeapää and Leena Valkeapää. Berlin, Schering Stiftung, 2025. Thinking about genes is also a way to think about limits and moldability. When we think about genes, we think about how what we are is not…
Time, technological imagination, and memories of birds, returning
This text was published in Albert, Marie and Ida Bencke (eds.) Art meets health and biomedical research, ART2M & Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2022. Migratory birds’ lives unfold with little mind to borders drawn on the land below. While some of us attach ourselves to houses with heating, plumbing and other municipal comforts, for…
Insectarium
https://www.after-progress.com/insectarium Insectarium is a story in sound of a walk in the woods in three pieces. It pays attention to the spaces and rhythms of sensory encounters with insects in Western Uusimaa region, Southern Finland. Making use of bioacoustic ecosystem monitoring devices, it is a meditation on perceived, enhanced and possible sounds of a forest.