Caroline Dear, Heli Konttinen, Leon Patchett, Katja Syrjä, Tiina Vainio, Kimmo Ylönen

Our workshop, which will have an environmental theme, will be a dialogue with the natural surroundings of the Finnish archipelago conducted through modern art. We will consider the loss of diversity among species, the transformation of the archipelago and the expansion of reeded areas, amongst other matters.

The workshop will also include lectures by professor of horticulture Carl-Adam Hæggström, university lecturer Outi Tuomela, who is an expert on reeds, and art theoretician Tanja Uimonen. Apart from work at the Saari Residence, the workshop will also involve a trip to the Åland archipelago and to the LUMO natural materials bank in Koroinen, Turku. Our overall aim with the workshop is generative creative impetus for our shared exhibition, which will be held on Åland and in which the primary material used will be reeds.