Meadow meditations emerged from observing the work of researchers and biologists at the Archipelago Research Institute and Metsähallitus Wildlife Services in Seili and the archipelago. The artistic research focused on the nature of long-term research projects, the relationship between the researcher and researched and knowledge which does not fit into the scientific framework.
Meadow meditations were presented to the public in the form of day long communal enquiries including presentations by researchers, video works by Arja Renell, dialogue and exercises. The aim was to find different ways to approach other species, to create room for the unknown and a widened awareness of us humans as part of, not above other animal, plant or mineral life.
Ecology of Change talks 5.5.2022 in Korpoström revisited the Mat Med Vyer project which was part of the Contemporary Art Archipelago exhibition, realised as part of Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture.
Stressed Herring, with researchers Katja Mäkinen and Marjut Rajasilta, Archipelago Research Institute, Seili. 2.6.2022
Beetle day in Seili with biologist Sampsa Malmberg, Metsähallitus Wildlife Services. 4.8.2022
Stressed Herring was part of a series of events titled How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness which bring together and open up a multi-year collaboration between artists and researchers at the Archipelago Research Institute on the island of Seili. The series is part of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago’s project, Spectres in Change, and is supported by the Kone Foundation and the Svenska Kulturfonden.