Opening 7.10.2025 at 18 - 21. Welcome!
Perspectives, realignments and suggestions for coexistence with multiple and diverse beings, circumstances and realities.
How to make space for other ways of being—for the stories, untamedness, needs, and experiential worlds of nonhuman animals, beings, and different natural places? How to recognize the value of and to care for the invisible, the unfamiliar, and the truths and lives different from our own—worlds we do not know? How to attend to the wonder, complexity, and vastness that make up our shared world?
The starting point for the event is a need to imagine futures in which human action is no longer based on exploitation, individualism, coercion, and destruction, but instead guided by listening, care, and compassion within networks of multispecies communities. Behind the works presented are not only love for diverse forms of life, but also questions of oppression, indifference and grief.
With-happening will include photography, moving image, text, sculpture, sound, and performance. During the event these works and perspectives come together as a shared space, intertwining, presenting viewpoints, and engaging in dialogue with one another and with audiences. The event also includes a series of Earth Talks- conversations, where the artists open up the backgrounds of their work.
Participating artists: Matilda Aaltonen & Salla Tuomivaara, Outimaija Hakala, Mia Halme, Anttoni Halonen, Heli Keskikallio, Kaisu Koivisto, Veli Lehtovaara & Eija-Liisa Ahtila & Jani Hietanen, Eläinoikeusakatemia & Matilda Aaltonen & Laura Gustafsson, Leena Valkeapää & Oula A. Valkeapää, Soile Voima.
The event is curated and produced by Heli Keskikallio and Soile Voima.
Opening hours of the installation:
Tue-Thu klo 14 - 19
Fri-Mo klo 12 - 19
The detailed schedule for the event will be published soon!
Thank you for the support the City of Helsinki, Arts Promotion Center Finland and Finnish Cultural Foundation.