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Pia Lindman Reporting from Kainuu, Kuusamo, and Kilpisjärvi in Finland PART 2

Rovaniemi and Kilpisjärvi This image above shows a poem by Pia Lindman. The poem was assembled in collaboration with Hannah Star Rogers and Karen Bishop, members of the Second Order Group at the Field_Notes Ecology of Senses residency at the Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi, organised by Bioartsociety, 2018. Pia constructed the poem from found objects around the station. The strips of words had been strewn across the area by Hannah and Karen, as part of an exercise given to all the Field_Notes residents. This poem reads thus (found objects in bold, found words in italics): an almost black stone blue strip and two pink strips please remember to take your shoes off bury your face in the soil turn then toward the world a piece of birch cork - one part of it almost black the other almost white a twig from a birch, black the white flowers of a Yarrow plant two blue strips to what does our attention turn? fixes a moment in time four red berries, a red leaf...

Pia Lindman Reporting from Kainuu, Kuusamo, and Kilpisjärvi in Finland PART 1

Pia Lindman and Alice Smits (curator, Zone2Source, Amsterdam), camping out through parts of Carelia and Lapland in Finland   Travelling from Kajaani to Valtimo Meeting up with Stop.Talvivaara activists Jari Natunen (molecular biologist) and Antti Lankinen (pastor and member of Kajaani City Council). Natunen and Lankinen have continued following the state of the lakes and forest in the vicinity of the mine formerly known as Talvivaara, but after the takeover by the Finnish State, now titled Terra Fame. Terra Fame is expanding its activities and is now applying for the environmental permission to collect Uranium ore. Natunen and Lankinen have been successful in suing Terra Fame for negligence in terms of environmental security and full disclosure of their activities in their reports. Their next court case in preparation will be in regards to Uranium. Visiting Omavaraopisto in Valtimo (School for Self Sufficiency), funded by Lasse Nordlund, Maria Dorff, and Marko Ulvila....