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| ==== Spectres In Change ==== | ===== Spectres In Change ===== |
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| Spectres in Change is envisaged as a 5-year project that invites international contemporary artists to work at the multidisciplinary research institute focused on climate change in the Turku Archipelago, Finland. | Spectres in Change is envisaged as a 5-year project that invites international contemporary artists to work at the multidisciplinary research institute focused on climate change in the Turku Archipelago, Finland. |
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| * [[spectres 02017]] | * [[spectres 02017]] |
| * [[spectres 02019]] | * [[spectres 02019]] |
| | * [[spectres residency 02019]] |
| | * [[Post Glacial Rebound]], soundwalk 02022 |
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| > The island of Seili offers a rich context for artistic investigations and interventions as a microcosm that reflects the acute planetary challenges of the present against complex historical trajectories. Long-term scientific mapping of changes in the local ecosystem entwines here with centuries of institutionalised othering and biopolitics through the histories of illness and gender. The island has been a home to the Archipelago Research Institute since mid-1960's and holds a unique scientific collection of data. This provides now the basis for interdisciplinary modelling of future impacts of climate change as well as for analysis of the complex co-dependencies between different species including humans. Prior to the establishment of the Institute, the island served as a hospital, or a site of confinement, for lepers since the early 17th Century and then as a mental hospital for women. | > The island of Seili offers a rich context for artistic investigations and interventions as a microcosm that reflects the acute planetary challenges of the present against complex historical trajectories. Long-term scientific mapping of changes in the local ecosystem entwines here with centuries of institutionalised othering and biopolitics through the histories of illness and gender. The island has been a home to the Archipelago Research Institute since mid-1960's and holds a unique scientific collection of data. This provides now the basis for interdisciplinary modelling of future impacts of climate change as well as for analysis of the complex co-dependencies between different species including humans. Prior to the establishment of the Institute, the island served as a hospital, or a site of confinement, for lepers since the early 17th Century and then as a mental hospital for women. |
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| === The place === | ==== The place ==== |
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| **Seili island**: name derived from 'seal'. used since the 1600s as a hospital, first a leper colony, then a mental hospital (especially for women in the 20th ct) until 1962. Since 1954 home of the Archipelago Research Institute of the University of Turku (http://www.utu.fi/en/units/cerut/archipelago-research-institute/Pages/home.aspx). | **Seili island**: name derived from 'seal'. used since the 1600s as a hospital, first a leper colony, then a mental hospital (especially for women in the 20th ct) until 1962. Since 1954 home of the Archipelago Research Institute of the University of Turku (http://www.utu.fi/en/units/cerut/archipelago-research-institute/Pages/home.aspx). |
| **Histories of Illness**: the relationship between the island and illness - leprosy, mental illness, tick-borne diseases (boreliosis and encephalitis); illness on different scales - individuals, society, ecosystems; lineage and tradition, genetics. Tick populations (Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes perscilcatus) are growing, as is the number of ticks carrying boreliosis (lyme disease). Deer are 'tick factories' carrying 2000-3000 ticks every summer. As deer are a protected species, both deer and ticks propagate more. Ticks are an ecological problem but the solution has to include a sociological aspect (e.g. landowners shouldn’t breed deer for hunting as this provides an influx of new hosts…). | **Histories of Illness**: the relationship between the island and illness - leprosy, mental illness, tick-borne diseases (boreliosis and encephalitis); illness on different scales - individuals, society, ecosystems; lineage and tradition, genetics. Tick populations (Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes perscilcatus) are growing, as is the number of ticks carrying boreliosis (lyme disease). Deer are 'tick factories' carrying 2000-3000 ticks every summer. As deer are a protected species, both deer and ticks propagate more. Ticks are an ecological problem but the solution has to include a sociological aspect (e.g. landowners shouldn’t breed deer for hunting as this provides an influx of new hosts…). |
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| === Spectres in Change === | ==== Spectres in Change ==== |
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| **Spectres**: biological species appearing and disappearing; traces, interference, things coming in and out of existence; liminal dispruptions, tensions, invitations to stop and look; ruptures in the comfortable status quo; ghosts as memories of social phenomena; ghosts like scars affecting present social and eco-systems; disruptions in the present as (hi)stories or speculative layers of the landscape; spectres as things that can only be observed over long periods of time through sensing, communing, noticing - creating an archive of sensibilities about the island - how does the island exist through us and other beings?; How do we listen to the island? The island has a history of observation (e.g. patient records, 300 years of data about priest ceremonies for the first ice-breaking in the spring, biological time series). Observers and caretakers… Patience. "You know that something is there but you let it lie dormant." | **Spectres**: biological species appearing and disappearing; traces, interference, things coming in and out of existence; liminal dispruptions, tensions, invitations to stop and look; ruptures in the comfortable status quo; ghosts as memories of social phenomena; ghosts like scars affecting present social and eco-systems; disruptions in the present as (hi)stories or speculative layers of the landscape; spectres as things that can only be observed over long periods of time through sensing, communing, noticing - creating an archive of sensibilities about the island - how does the island exist through us and other beings?; How do we listen to the island? The island has a history of observation (e.g. patient records, 300 years of data about priest ceremonies for the first ice-breaking in the spring, biological time series). Observers and caretakers… Patience. "You know that something is there but you let it lie dormant." |
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