Call for registrations: Ecological Thinking Seminar, Spring 2024
We are opening the registrations for the Spring sessions of the Ecological Thinking Seminar from this week until 21.1.2024. The first session is on Monday 22.1.2024. There are 5 sessions in total, culminating in a symposium.
Ecological Thinking Seminar: VERTICAL ECOLOGIES, 3 credits (Spring 2024)
The course explores ecology and extractivism as investigated by visual arts, film and performance. Through the term ‘verticality’ it is proposed to consider the extractivist implications beyond digging into the subterranean in search for resources. This enactment also encompasses extraction from the deep below to human labour and the knowledges our diverse communities produce, to the earth’s atmosphere (where remote sensing satellites detect minerals from above) and in the future, outer space. What ecologies are destroyed and re-shaped by this vertical extension of extractivism -that also impacts the inter-relationships between humans and environment, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation? How is this ’vertical’ dimension explored in the fields of visual arts, film, sound, and performance?
Symposium April 2024: Students will prepare talks, performances or artworks individually or in teams to be presented at a seminar in April 2024. The format and contents will be decided by the course instructors and the participating students.
Publication 2024: We aspire to compile an anthology of writings and artworks by the participants and visiting guest experts to be published in mid-2024.
This academic year’s (2023-24) Ecological Thinking course is jointly organized by Dr. Samir Bhowmik, Academy Research Fellow (Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki) and Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Curator and Artistic Director of the Museum of Impossible Forms and Curatorial Collaborator of the Helsinki Biennial 2023. The year- long course results in a public symposium with talks by international guests, performances and artworks in April 2024. Previously the course has collaborated with Helsinki Biennial 2023, Aarhus University, DK and Research Pavilion.
Registration via Peppi, course unit: K-JI11_23A-3001 Theme Seminar: Ecological Thinking 2023-2024
Course details and schedule in the Study Guide.
Note that Spring attendance is 3 credits. If you have further questions, please contact the responsible teacher Dr. Samir Bhowmik.