The second season of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast

The second season of IHME Helsinki’s Art, Science, Ecology podcast has been published in collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves. IHME Helsinki is an art-commissioning-agency that promotes citizens’ adaptability to ecological boundaries. In the podcasts IHME Helsinki’s Advisory Board members discuss with researchers, artists and curators, offering examples of the role that art can play in the sustainability transition.

Art, Science, Ecology, season 2 episodes:

Sustainable energy and identity

In the first episode of the second season of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast, Advisory Board member, artist and Researcher at the BIOS Research Unit Antti Majava continues his discussion about sustainable energy and identity with Emma Hakala, Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor at the Aleksanteri Institute. This episode discusses the green energy transition, the importance of defending democracy, energy identities, and the role of art in promoting them.

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Ecocide as an International Crime

In the second episode of the podcast, Ute Meta Bauer, member of IHME Helsinki Advisory Board, Professor at Nanyang Technological University and founder and Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, continues her discussion about ecocide as an international crime with artist and researcher Nabil Ahmed. Ahmed and Olga Lucko are co-directors of Studio INTERPRT, which uses design and spatial analysis to defend environmental justice and to make ecocide an international crime. Ute and Nabil discuss INTERPRT’s research on ecocide and issues related to cultural loss and accountability.

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At the Intersection of Art and Agriculture

Advisory board member, Director and Curator of Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna, Maria Lind discusses the intersection between art and agriculture, and also food security, with the Swedish Kultivator collective. Kultivator, founded on the island of Öland by Mathieu Vrijman and Malin Lindmark Vrijman, carries out experimental projects, exhibitions and workshops exploring people’s relationship with the environment that feeds them.

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Sustainable Curatorial Practices: biennials and public art

IHME Helsinki Executive Director and Curator Paula Toppila discusses the book Curating in a time of ecological crisis. Biennials as agents of change with the author Professor Felicity Fenner. Fenner is Professor in the Master of Curating & Cultural Leadership programme, at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, Sydney. In this podcast, Felicity shares her experiences and insights on curating public art, the development of environmental art from the 1960s to the present day, and the impact of art projects and biennials on the environment.

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The first season of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast was published in 2021. The second season continues the conversations begun then, and which are even more relevant today. In the first season, the Advisory Board was joined by Emma Hakala, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen and Nabil Ahmed, alongside curator José Roca, Tracey Warr, Director of Research at the Dartington School of Art, artist and researcher Samir Bhowmik, and artist and researcher Susan Schuppli. The podcast series launched a collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves (HOW). HOW is a multilingual, non-profit, community-based online platform that connects a network of radio and audio actors across local borders. You can hear all the episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, as well as on Helsinki Open Waves.