Publications

The official catalogue of the Helsinki Biennial 2023, featuring essays by the curators, commissioned texts, and full documentation of all participating artists and artworks. 240 pages, English/Finnish/Swedish.

A collection of theoretical texts and conversations expanding on the biennial theme, with contributions from artists, researchers and writers exploring contamination, agency and new materialisms.

The online venue of the biennial: commissioned net artworks, interviews with the artists, and a reflection on exhibiting art in digital space.

Won’t you celebrate with me

Lucille Clifton

won’t you celebrate with me

what i have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model.

born in babylon

both nonwhite and woman

what did i see to be except myself?

i made it up

here on this bridge between

starshine and clay,

my one hand holding tight

my other hand; come celebrate

with me that everyday

something has tried to kill me

and has failed.

Book of Light,

Copper Canyon Press,

1993

Preface to Fugitive Feminism

Lifting My Face to the Sun

Akwugo Emejulu

Imagine immersing yourself in data as you discover the intricate architectures of environmental sensing that surround us.

The Environmental Audiotour takes us through different spaces and sites of Helsinki and Vallisaari, their past and future. Real and speculative stories unfold together with elemental forces in the extended urban environment, from water to air and from land to energy. The stories draw our attention to the ecological landscapes as we move through different ’islands’ in the city.

Written by Jussi Parikka, Paolo Patelli, and May Ee Wong, The Environmental Audiotour consists of six audiostories that can be experienced in the South Harbour near the Lyypekinlaituri (1st), in Vallisaari at the ruins of the old Weather Station (2nd), in Hietalahti (3rd), in the Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden (4th and 5th) and in Sörnäinen near the Uniarts Academy of Fine Arts – as well as online.

Critical Environmental Data is a transdisciplinary research group that focuses on the interaction of aesthetics, digital culture, and worlds of environmental damage. Part of Aarhus University in Denmark, the group conducts research and participates in international curatorial projects in art and design in order to address architectures and infrastructures of environmental data. The group investigates forms of sensing and aesthetics as well as spaces and places of data and environmental change. The project is led by Jussi Parikka.