Our Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities was shown at the Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals exhibition organised as part of the Uroboros 2023 festival in Prague Petrohradská Kolektiv – Jedna Dva Tři Gallery. The Cabinet is an interactive installation presenting our ongoing investigation of feral ways of knowing, being, and living-with diverse more-than-human ecologies. On display… Continue reading Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Uroboros 2023
Exhibitions
Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje Film at Venice Biennale
The Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje film offers a series of short visual stories capturing a 4-day feral drift with the Lonjsko Polje wetlands in Croatia that we undertook with 19 participants of our workshop organised as part of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Helsinki Design Week
Our interactive installation Weaving the Feral: Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities sprouted at the Living-with Feral Ecologies festival organised within the Helsinki Design Week 2023 public program. The festival presented a series of performative events, workshops, and exhibition interventions exploring feral ways of knowing, caring and relating that shape the flow of life and death… Continue reading Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Helsinki Design Week
Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje at Aqueous Futures Exhibition
The Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje film emerging from our 4-day feral drift with the Lonjsko Polje wetlands in Croatia, organised as part of the Croatian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, was shown at the Aqueous Futures exhibition in Morecambe, UK. The Aqueous Futures exhibition explores ways in which art, design,… Continue reading Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje at Aqueous Futures Exhibition
Walking the green of the industrial revolution in Ouseburn (UK)
In August 2022 in Newcastle we took a group of people for two experimental, hybrid walks in the Ouseburn area followed by a co-creation of forest stories. The patch we walked is a small urban conservation area located in the Ouseburn Valley, often considered the birthplace of the industrial revolution in Newcastle. The trail goes… Continue reading Walking the green of the industrial revolution in Ouseburn (UK)
Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Gallery (PDC2022)
Open Forest was part of the Exhibition Embracing Cosmologies organized around the Participatory Design Conference 2022. We planted an interactive installation at the Shieldfield Art Works gallery in New Castle. During the exhibition we organized two experimental walks around the Ouseburn area which was just around the corner from the exhibition space. Locals and conference… Continue reading Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Gallery (PDC2022)
Open Forest @ Cooler Planet exhibition
The Open Forest installation showing is on display from september 17 to October 12th at the Cooler Planet exhibition (Aalto Otaniemi Campus, Espoo, Finland Väre | 2nd Floor 2, lobby), visitors can browse through existing documentation of past Open Forest walks, stories, get to know some of the forest patches and contribute their own stories… Continue reading Open Forest @ Cooler Planet exhibition
Open Forest @ CreaTures Festival & Exhibition in Sevilla
The Open Forest installation has sprouted at the Real Fábrica de Artillería in Sevilla from Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July as part of the Creatures Festival & Exhibition. The whole exhibition took visitors on an immersive journey through a series of twenty-two experimental productions mobilizing forms of artistic knowledge and production aiming to support reflection… Continue reading Open Forest @ CreaTures Festival & Exhibition in Sevilla
Open Forest @ Data Vitality Exhibition
An Open Forest installation is on display at the Data Vitality: Soft Infrastructures and Economies of Knowledge exhibition at Dipoly Gallery in Espoo The exhibition takes place from 18. 11. 2021 to 14. 02. 2022 and is curated by Edel O’Reilly, Aalto University. Data Vitality explores the changing role of data in society by combining… Continue reading Open Forest @ Data Vitality Exhibition
Walking together-apart with a research forest
From our Open Forest installation in Hietsun Paviljonki at the Research Pavilion #4 exhibition, we organized two hybrid (online and onsite) performative interventions inviting people to join us remotely for a walk at the Hyytiälä research forest, and its SMEAR II station. Some participants joined us from the research pavilion in Hietaniemi beach, some from… Continue reading Walking together-apart with a research forest
Open Forest @ the 4th Research Pavilion
As part of our contribution to the Uniarts Helsinki’s fourth Research Pavilion exhibition, we set up an Open Forest installation in Hietsun Paviljonki during summer 2021. Our exhibition installation was open for a week: we collected new forest stories through the exhibited Feral Map and organized two remote performative walks with the SMEAR station in… Continue reading Open Forest @ the 4th Research Pavilion
Open forest @ the ABlock
The first instantiation of the Open Forest has been planted in an empty retail space at ABloc (Espoo, Finland), as part of a collaboration with CreaTures research project. The Collective will work for six months (November 2020 – April 2021) interviewing various forest stakeholders including passers by, forestry researchers, tree physiologists, artists, and forest data… Continue reading Open forest @ the ABlock