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Talking with trees is my main occupation this year, or so it seems. Sure, there have been some seminars and lectures, and now recently moderating an interesting symposium on the theme of forgetfulness, Lethe, at SKH in Stockholm. I have also participated in two library talks with Eleanor Bauer about our respective X-position publications, first… Continue reading In Helsinki and Stockholm

On fifth February I returned to the pine in Nobelparken in Stockholm and read the letter from the pine in Brunnsparken in Helsingfors written 31 January. I had it printed on paper in the city library and fastened it to my notebook. When it was time to write a reply, I decided to try if… Continue reading In Stockholm Again

A week in Stockholm in the middle of January in order to witness the Research Days at SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts, gave me the opportunity to make a first attempt at writing letters between pines. The first letter, written next to (or ‘dictated’ by) the pine on the hill in Nobelparken is already… Continue reading Between Pines

A new year with new friends! But first goodbye to some old friends: I have completed my performances and conversations with the two pine trees in Stockholm and Helsinki. They are recorded on the RC catalogue, (see Helsinki here and Stockholm here), as well as published as podcast episodes on SoundCloud with a separate playlist… Continue reading Pondering with a Pine in the Park

A small exhibition, “Furorna i Bodafors” [the pines in Bodafors] in the gallery at the Malmsten school in Lidingö, Stockholm, as well as a talk to the students there, was included in my commitments related to the Wood Art Residency Bodafors. Alessandra di Pisa, the curator, helped me plan and actually built the exhibition, which… Continue reading Exhibition and experiments in Stockholm

In the beginning of October I began weekly conversations with a new pine tree, growing on the southern shore of Seurasaari Island, a popular public park, and decided to visit the pine on Sundays, if possible through the winter. I am speaking Finnish with the pine and hope to do something for a festival next… Continue reading The Seurasaari Pine

I spent a few days in Stockholm to visit the two pines that I regularly go to, the one in Nobelparken that I practice with (see images below) and then the pine in Lill-jansskogen that I have conversations with, in general once a month or so (see the image above). This time I worried that… Continue reading Quick visit to Stockholm

Returning to the pine trees in Helsinki coincided with small events of exhibiting old work. First I participated in “Konstrundan”, an open studios weekend (2-3.9) with artists participating all over the country. I covered the windows in my studio and created a miniature cinema of sorts, in order to show performances with pine trees on… Continue reading First Weeks of Autumn in Helsinki

During my last sojourn in Bodafors I was playing with my old GoPro camera, walking on the forest paths around the villa where I stayed. I had the camera on my forehead and walked the chosen path first one way (south) and then back (north). When editing, I then inserted a smaller image of my… Continue reading Walking in the Woods

After almost two weeks at Saari Residence with the project In Light of Plants (see presentation) I’m writing these notes on the train back to Helsinki. The main work was our joint conversations based on presentations, although I have been making some experiments on my own as well, and quite a few diary notes, too.… Continue reading With the Saari Pines

During the last week of July in Bodafors I played with a woodchip wig constructed from “locks” of woodchips, leftovers from the work by Klara & Klara, who have been in the residency at the same time. The three “locks” are fastened on a headband and the rather heavy wig is easy to wear as… Continue reading With a Woodchip Wig

On Saturday 23 July I had the opportunity to perform a small action called “Pondering in the Park” in Basel, Switzerland, invited by Hanga Séra and Elsbeth Caroline Iten. They organised an event titled Performance as Research in the context of the exhibition Bang Bang – translocal histories of performance art in Museum Tinguely. It… Continue reading Bang Bang with social elegance