Associate Curator @OnomatopeeExhibition and Publication series
Folklore and Critical Research
2024 - 2028
A Tree, with a Bird, by a Woman, on Land, Under a Star
A Tree, with a Bird, by a Woman, on Land, Under a Star, is a recipe or a spell with exit points that become chapters and grow into their own ecology of stories and actors. Together they form a composition, a picture or a tarot card that tells about the future and the past or an insight, warning or recipe for now.
This research series with exhibitions, workshops and publications and program includes folklore and critical research as an apparent contradiction here as a rich encounter. Science and intuition come together, enter into conversation and question each other, from hard figures to spirituality. Ecofeminism is an angle with which the themes are approached, a critical philosophy that sees connections between the oppression of ecology and women and strives for their joint emancipation.
2024 - A TREE,
Exhibition with contributions by: Sanne Vaassen, Gerbrand Burger, Hira Nabi, Manjot Kaur, Ingela Ihrman, Goldin+Senneby, Alice Ladenburg, Roderick Hietbrink.
Publication with contributions by: Joss Allen, Céline Baumann, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Jorge Menna Barreto, Renée Bus, Lucy Davis, Amirio Freeman, Manjot Kaur, Marjolein van der Loo, Karen Lofgren, Anne Richter, Jerrold Saija, Oscar Salguero, Jonmar van Vlijmen, Müge Yilmaz, Burger, Chihiro Geuzenbroek, Femke Habets, Roderick Hietbrink, Ingela Ihrman, Mari Keski-Korsu, Alice Ladenburg, Hira Nabi, Frank Resseler, Sanne Vaassen.
2025 - WITH A BIRD,
Exhibition with contributions by: Daniel Godínez Nivón, Ignace Cami, Bryony Dunne, Ai Ozaki, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Monika Czyżyk, Manjot Kaur and Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide).
Publication with contributions by: John Berger, Ignace Cami, Monika Czyzyk, Bryony Dunne, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Daisy Hildyard, Manjot Kaur, Natalie Lawrence, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Michelle J. Moyer, Evangeline M. Rose, Bernard Lohr, Karan J. Odom, Kevin E. Omland, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Ai Ozaki, Maria Popova, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Yuri Tuma, and Suzanne Walsh.
2026 - BY A WOMAN,
Exhibition with contributions by: Müge Yilmaz, Leonie Brandner, Pei-Ying Lin
Publication with contributions by:
2027 - ON LAND,
2028 - UNDER A STAR,
Chairwoman
Thinking Forest Foundation
Thinking Forest is an initiative of artist Gerbrand Burger and is realized by the Thinking Forest Foundation. Thinking Forest is a radically sustainable exhibition space where ecology, contemporary art, and science meet in a production forest. The double meaning of ‘Thinking Forest’ points to both the natural wisdom of the forest as an ecosystem and a place to think, reflect, and learn, an organic model for developing and spreading seedling ideas. Art and wood production, decay, biodiversity, science, and a public program come together within the forest. Thus the notion of ‘production forest’ can be reimagined as beneficial to all nature, humans included, instead of nature’s submission. Thinking Forest aims to combine the production of wood and other forest products with the presentation of contemporary art and cultural events, regenerative forestry with a long-term perspective, and small-scale development and construction of bio-based housing on a new forest estate.
Stories of the Boneless One - Tuomas A. Laitinen
Co-editor
How do decentralized brains work in morphing ecosystems? How can an octopus act as a conductor for discussions about ecology, mythology, and symbiotic worldmaking? How would it be possible to stretch the imagination to think about interspecies communication and the possible perspectives this premise might open concerning biodiversity and ocean ecosystems?
Ctongue is a book that attempts to answer these questions. It combines old and new technologies, new research in the intersection of neurosciences and biology, experimental poetry, and meditations on various ecosystems through these aquatic lifeforms.
Tuomas A. Laitinen has been working with octopuses since 2016, and this research has manifested in various modalities: glass sculptures made for octopuses, multiple audiovisual works, and a glyph typeface drawn from the research on octopus arm movements.
This cluster of works forms a base for the book in a proposal to reveal the experimental and tentacular research process. Being true to its central conductor, it brings many minds together in a single body.