I take a walk on Vallisaari island with Myriam Gras and Cyane Findji, to look at a selection of works from Helsinki Biennial 2023. They have organised a series of guided tours for the exhibition, with focus on more site-specific works. Their project, Navigating Turbulence ~ towards the making of place, also contains a publication and a sound piece. We talk about the island's many functions; military defence, natural habitat for plants and animals, and now international art gallery. We discuss the concept of art biennials and how they affect the places that host them, and we reflect on how a place like the island is used and regulated by many groups with different agendas. We also talk about the sea freezing to ice, how this phenomenon is studied in a lab in Aalto University, and we learn about the existence of science-poetry.

This episode contains excerpts from the sound piece Navigating Turbulence ~ towards the making of place, made by Cyane and Myriam for the boat ride as part of their tours. The project is developed as part of The Art Mediation Forum by ViCCA@Aalto ARTS, one of five curatorial collaborators invited by curator Joasia Krysa and HAM for the Helsinki Biennial 2023.

Full sound piece

Cyane's website

Cyane's Instagram

Myriam's website

Myriam's Instagram

ViCCA's website

Helsinki Biennial's website

Vallisaari's website

Vallisaari on Finnish National Parks' website

Aalto's Ice & Wave Tank

Tim Hammer on LinkedIn

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