m/other becomings – exhibition
Bioart Society
2021-2022
m/other becomings is an international and multilayered curatorial platform for Bioart Society’s Arc-hive exhibition case study. On top of the exhibition, the Bioart Society collaborated with different organisations and actors during 2021-2022 on various activities relating to the m/other becomings project, which will also be covered in this case study.
The program, realised by the Bioart Society, included: the production of two artworks produced during 2021 and 2022, a student course with Aalto University (including a series of 6 lectures, 4 of which were public online lectures), during November-December 2021, a 5-day wet-lab workshop with 15 participants, two exhibitions with a total of 6 artists, and a 2-day on-site and online symposium with 11 contributors with a 3-day workshop at the Theatre Academy Helsinki before the symposium. Within the m/other becomings project, the Bioart Society collaborated with students from the MA program in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art of the Aalto University during the course Trans-Institutional Experiments and Collaborations in fall 2021, as well as with the Aalto University Biogarage and Biofilia laboratories, and the Aalto Design Factory.
m/other becomings cultivates intergenerational and multispecies methodologies, makes space for the investigation of domestic resistance practices, and probes technologies of reproduction, resilience, and recuperation. These practices manifest as durational collaborations between experimental cultural institutions, artists, and thinkers. m/other becomings is a collaboration between Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (DK) (lead organisation of the institutional network), The Association for Arts and Mental Health (DK), Kultivator (SE), Art Lab Gnesta (SE), and Bioart Society (FI).
LECTURE RECORDINGS
Lecture by Ida Bencke
Lecture by Lyndsey Walsh
Lecture by Signe Johannessen
Lecture by Riina Hannula
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION OF M/OTHER BECOMINGS EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
Documentation of m/other becomings exhibition instalment I
Documentation of m/other becomings symposium
VIDEO INTERVIEWS WITH EXHIBITION ARTISTS
Video interwiev with Lyndsey Walsh
Video interview with Riina Hannula
Documents contained in the compressed folder:
- mother-becomings-exhibition-bibliography (323 KB)
- mother-becomings-exhibition-index (1147 KB)
- mother-becomings-exhibition-production-howto (1485 KB)
- mother-becomings-exhibition-project-report (2144 KB)
- mother-becomings-exhibition-technical-setup (377 KB)
Credits
The online lecture series, produced in collaboration with the MA program in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (Aalto University) was organized in November-December 2021. m/other becomings exhibition instalments took place in spring 2022 at Bioart Society’s SOLU Space, instalment I during 5–28 May 2022 and instalment II during 9–30 June 2022. The m/other becomings symposium was held at the Aalto Design Factory 9–10 June 2022.
Lecturers on the online lecture series: Ida Bencke, Signe Johannessen, Riina Hannula and Lyndsey Walsh.
Artists featured in the first and second exhibition instalments: Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh, Rian Ciela Hammond, Marta de Menezes, Pekko Vasantola, and Margherita Pevere.
The workshop at the Theatre Academy Helsinki (TEAK) was conducted by Lesley-Ann Brown and hosted by Immanuel Schipper (TEAK).
Symposium contributors: Ionat Zurr, Tiia Sudenkaarne, Lesley-Ann Brown, Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh, Emilia Tikka, Chessa Adist-Morris, Margherita Pevere, and Signe Johannessen.
Documentation of m/other becomings exhibition instalment I video footage and editing by: Samy Kramer
Documentation of m/other becomings symposium video footage and editing by: Genietta Varsi