Art, Science, Ecology Podcast 2

In this third episode of the Art, Science Ecology podcast, season 2, recorded in March 2025 IHME Helsinki’s Advisory Board member Maria Lind, Museum Director of the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna, will discuss art and agriculture with the Kultivator collective. Kultivator is an independent art practice on the island of Öland, Sweden, founded and run by Mathieu Vrijman and Malin Lindmark Vrijman.

Kultivator is also an experimental project platform that initiates and runs projects, exhibitions and workshops that investigate our relationship with the landscapes that feed us. In this podcast Maria, Malin and Mathieu discuss points of intersection between art and farming, emphasizing the importance of long-term perspectives, environmental concerns, and food security.

Reading recommended in the podcast:

Alexander Etkind: Nature’s Evil (2023), Polity Books.

Julia Watson: Lo–TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism (2019), Taschen.

Anything published by Donna Haraway.

Credits

Producer: Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio

Host and guests: Maria Lind, Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman

Sound technician: Bailey Polkinghorne

IHME jingle: Viljami Valdén

The contemporary-art-commissioning agency IHME Helsinki is continuing its collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves on new episodes of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast. The members of the IHME Helsinki Advisory Board are hosting its second season, carrying on discussions started in 2021. The new episodes update ideas about ecocide, sustainable energy, and energy identity, and about the role of the arts in all this, topics that are even more urgent today than in 2021.