Helsinki Biennale X Caisa

Kaksipäiväinen ohjelma koostuu luennoista, keskusteluista, paraatista, esityksistä, työpajoista ja muistojuhlasta Ilma Lindgrenille, naiselle, joka toi jokaisenoikeudet Suomeen.

Sisällön on kuratoinut Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Museum of Impossible Formsin taiteellinen johtaja.

Keskustelut ja puheenvuorot pidetään pääosin englanniksi ja ne striimataan tapahtumapäivinä ja niistä tulee myöhemmin katsottavaksi tallenne.

Perjantai 1.9. klo 13.00-20.00
Polyphonic Entanglements

Polyphonic Entanglements is a discourse series. The programme brings together lectures, screenings, sonic interventions, performances and gatherings as an evolving assemblage that contextualises and expands on the diverse practices and debates present in this biennial. It proposes a way of thinking-with and through island ecologies, Baltic contamination, radioecologies, desertification, practices of healing and collective resistance to pose questions not about what will come but rather focusing on ways to learn and reset paths-of-entry into spaces of plural transformations

You are welcome to take part to all events or choose lecture and performances of your interest. To ensure your place, please register to attend to Friday sessions here.

Language of the event is English. The event will be partly streamed live.

13:00 | Open doors
13:05 | Opening words and welcome by Giovanna Esposito Yussif (Hall)
13:10 | Screening and sonic intervention: Psyche by Lotta Petronella (Caisa Hall)
13:25 | Lecture performance: Green Forage by Minna Henriksson and Ahmed Al-Nawas (Auditorium)
Green Forage is a journey across Finnish art history reflecting on the contradiction between the national romantic ideal of untouched nature and the reality of its exploitation by logging and pulp industries.
14:00 | Presentation and conversation: Ilma Lindgren and the fight for public access to nature
Presentation by Anu Huttunen
Ilma Lindgren (1883–1957), a previously unknown woman from Imatra, had a significant role in recognizing the public access to nature in Finland. Lindgren won a lengthy legal battle over 20 litres of lingonberries in 1920. The dispute was finally solved by a ruling of the Supreme Court. The verdict was celebrated in national newspapers as an important precedent and a victory for the poor. Thanks to Lindgren’s trial, open access to wild berries was finally recognized by law.
Conversation with Eija Lehmuskallio (LuontoPortti) and Sami Tallberg moderated by Joss Allen and translations by Simo Vassinen (Auditorium)
15:15 | Performance: A Song, the Grain & Me by Sepideh Rahaa (Caisa Hall)
The performance is a continuation of Rahaa’s work Songs to Earth, Songs to Seeds presented at the Helsinki Biennial. The work addresses ancestral knowledge bringing to the fore the poetics of rice as food, as a source of life and being.
16:00 | Lecture |PHOSfate multiple destinies by Mohamed Sleiman Labat (Auditorium)
17:00 | Conversation: Communities of care with Sonya Lindfors, Ama Kyei, and Melissa Linsa moderated by H Ouramo (Auditorium)
18:15 | Sound performance: Giävlliene, bárrun, guassane – As a circle, as a wave, as a spruce by Elina Waage Mikalsen and Katarina Barruk (Caisa Hall)
19:00 | Sound performance: The New Pangaea – Interspecies Cantata by Band of Weeds with VJ J. Culebro (Caisa Hall)
The New Pangaea is an interspecies cantata inspired by the myriad interactions between humans and plants on the island of Seili. The cantata introduces twenty plants, which represent diverse modes of migration to, as well as disappearance from, the island. The audio material played in the concert has been collected in Seili either with microphones or by transforming the electrical conductivity of the plants into sounds audible to the human ear.