Seedlings and Sprouts

Some of the participants in our network share here the work that has sprouted from our collaboration

Tinna Greatarsdottir and Sigurjon Hafsteinsson in TERA, international/Germany 2020

Rozanne van Klaveren research project Rewilding, Belgium

Rozanne van Klaveren, Bioarctica Residency, Kilpisjärvi, Finland

Rozanne van Klaveren, coming up: essay about the representation of reindeer, in the future anthology by RGCC, Research Group on Circumpolar Cultures, international/Holland

Lauri Linna in Pori Biennale 2020, Finland

Lauri Linna in JAR, 2020, international

Pia Lindman and Kristiina Koskentola in Sinne Gallery, Helsinki 2021, Finland

Pia Lindman in the exhibition "Let the Field of Your Attention Soften and Spread Out..." , Tallinn Photo Month, KAI Art Center 2019, Tallinn, Estonia

Pia Lindman: "Big Toe, Brain Rock, performance script", in Slow Spatial Research: Chronicles of Radical Affection, Slow Research/Carolyn Straus, 2021, Valiz, Holland

Slow Thinking Lab, next iteration: residency at Saari Manor, Funded by KONE Foundation, Finland, 2021

Alice Smits in the exhibition Time and River are alike, SOLU space, Bioart Society, Finland, 2019

Initiated by Leena Valkeapää, invited Rozan van Klaveren and Pia Lindman: a Reindeer Mind Map, Kilpisjärvi, Finland. In progress since 2020

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ONLINE WORKSHOPS 2020 - KUUSAMO

Chill Survive opened a new website in November 2020 offering art, poems, interviews, and essays. Kuusamo workshops were transformed for online participation in December 2020, and you can check them out below (scroll, scroll, and scroll further down...): From Reindeer Poo-to-Paper by Chan'nel Vestergaard and Littlepink Maker Gravitational Shift by Marie Kølbæk Iversen and Katinka Fogh Vindelev Singing to the Virus by Pia Lindman Pandora's Box by Rozan van Klaveren All workshops are realised in colaboration and with the support of Kuusamo city and and Ulla Ingalsuo-Laaksonen. Thank you! Workshop details and documentation below: From Reindeer Poo-to-Paper Chan'nel Vestergaard and Littlepink Maker This workshop gives you the protocols of how to make paper out of reindeer poo. The digestion system of a reindeer is so effective that its poo contains nothing more than fibers - and some microbes. This is why this material is well suited for paper-making. Let us up the up-cycl...

Singing for Lead

Singing for Lead A call to sing a spell for Lead: a collaboration with Viennese singers Rehearsals: three weekdays in November Final Event: 25th of November at 7PM Contact piuska@mac.com for more information According to Finnish healer-traditions the place of Lead is in the depths of the Earth, where it cannot poison living organisms and wreak havoc on nerve cells. However, Lead has been dug up to the surface by us humans - to serve our industrial and economic - even belligerent - motives. Lead is a preferred metal in bullets, due to its density and stability in heat. In the act of shooting, a shooter inhales lead particles and eventually develops lead poisoning. A visible symptom of lead poisoning is aggression. War breeds war. On the 25th of November, as final event, during the Vienna Week, the singers will sing at a public site in Vienna of their choosing and in relation to local history of violence and war. Singing for Lead in Central Pa...

Sila, Sky Woman and Puhpowee: Reflections from Greenland, (work in progress) by Tinna Grétarsdóttir.

In times when Gaia “has the power to question us all” (Stengers 2015:12), humans have come to the moment of reconfiguring their humanity and relations with the world. Our species’ doings have evoked “the intrusion of Gaia” (ibid) which cannot be undone with techno-scientific solutions. While grasping how to inherit human history and survive on a planet in chilling transformation, we, the participants in the Chill Survive, have been weaving a meshwork of trails in the Arctic while attempting to spin human/non-human narratives and practices for the future North (see Ingold 2010). In Greenland I was introduced to the indigenous concept of Sila, which is somewhat akin to the concept of Gaia, as argued by the Métis and anthropologist Zoe Todd (2016). At the National Museum in Nuuk, Sila is explained as a unity of the climate, the weather, the breath of a living being, consciousness and mind. As such, it interconnects human-nature relationships. To read full essay, click here.

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