🪱 We are gathering audience data on how do people familiarize themselves with their local urban environment and how methods like “foraging for memories”, sonic ethnography, and psychogeography can be used as tools for art organizations and practitioners in engaging with the nonhuman in their everyday practices.

☀️ The exhibition is intended to function that the audience can add to our research project & exhibition.

Here are some shots of video works made using the audios collected by workshop participants as well as our rotating memory works where the participants described a memory related to something non-human and then we rotated the memories where the person next to them would add a question, rotate, add a question, and so on.

In the workshop this was a method of reintroducing what is nonhuman in our everyday lives as well as our relationship to it. Examples such as domesticated animals like dogs and cats, or farm animals, or the moon, mountains, or even stem cells and cars came up. We questioned what were the power dynamics in the memory and what could be our own biases when engaging with the topic and other beings.

For the audios we asked participants to label the sound recording after the emotion they were feeling as they were exploring the local urban space of Vallila. We then used the titles in one video and then archival shots from @finna.fi for the second.

Towards the end of the workshop we asked participants to rotate ideas on how art organizations could further engage with what is nonhuman.