Art, Science & Environment (ASE)
The group consists of members of faculty, and doctoral students doing artistic research focused on combinations of artistic thinking and scientific practices in biology.
The ASE group is led by Prof. Helena Sederholm who has recently co-edited peer-reviewed books on biological art (Art as We Don鈥檛 Know It, Aalto ARTS Books 2020) and avantgarde in Finland (Avantgarde Suomessa, SKS 2021), curated the Starry Skies of Art exhibition (2016) about art and astronomy with science writer Markus Hotakainen for the Serlachius Museum G枚sta, accompanied by a book of the same name.
Doctoral students of the ASE research group:
Marjo Heino
Artisthood and participatory landscape conservation
Heino analyzes essence of being an artist, fellowship of artists working together, and varied roles of an artist in a framework of locally founded participatory art projects. The research focuses on the Kokem盲ki river and surrounding area and consists of project presentations and bringing forth thoughts of the participating artists.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
The Intensities of Matter 鈥 Affective Encounters in Environmental Performance Art
This doctoral research will be discussing theoretical and philosophical positions within the field of affect, critical materialism and new materialism in dialogue with researcher鈥檚 own artistic creation of environmental performance art to facilitate an ethico-aesthetic engagement with climate questions.
Teemu Lehmusruusu
Trophic Verses 鈥 Soil as Mediation of Existence consists of media and environmental art installations produced between 2018鈥2021, and of a research part that examines the ontology of soil life and nutrition circulation. The theme is approached through artistic practice, transdisciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection.
Margherita Pevere
Pevere鈥檚 practice-based research 鈥Living matter and vulnerability in biological arts鈥 unfolds from her bioart works 鈥淲ombs鈥 and 鈥淪emina Aeternitatis鈥. Rooted in feminist post-humanism, it borrows the concepts of 鈥渘on/living鈥, 鈥渓eaky bodies鈥 and 鈥渧ulnerability鈥 to probe how vulnerabilities like transience and sexuality exceed a human-only experience and reveal a radically open embodiment.
Bart Vandeput
In Aalto ARTS Bartaku carries-on his entanglement with Baroa belaobara, aka chokeberry, crossing biology, philosophy and technology. The workings depart from intuitions on a plantation in West-Latvia. They are plant-based attempts to enquire into light, energy and bodies. The work is process-based, transmedial and -contextual and tying various species. It materializes in interventions, exhibitions, talks, worklabs, and written and vocalized wordings.