Follow the Plants Research Assembly
The Follow the Plants Research Assembly takes place across Helsinki from 26–29 August, creating connections between the publication and local practitioners, places and publics, while inviting new forms of collective research to unfold beyond the page.
Bioart Society and Food Art Research Network invite you to join us for a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, and published by Discipline and Onomatopee.
Follow the Plants gathers artists, writers and researchers who engage with plants as collaborators, teachers, and political agents, and engages critical research by interrogating the economic, political, and colonial forces that have shaped human-plant relations.
This free, multi-day open programme brings research to life through film, performance and social practice. Both theoretical and embodied, it unfolds through growing, cultivation and food-based practices, situating artistic research within the creative lives of plants.
The assembly programme is realised in a city wide partnership and will take place at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki Art Museum, Kaisanemi Botanic Garden (outdoor garden), Kenno Filmi and Cinema Orion, and Koekeittiö / Test Kitchen.
The assembly is generously funded by Saastamoinen Foundation with support from the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.
Full programme and list of contributors announced in June follow Bioart Society and Food Art Research Network for more information