Satu Herrala at AeRaTe
Biography
Satu Herrala is a curator and researcher with a background in dance and choreography. She is interested in how attuning to bodily coexistence informs ways of being, knowing and acting, and how collective action emerges from embodiment. She is working on doctoral research on
embodied curating
at Aalto University. Her curatorial works include
Love Harvest
festival with Anna Karhu-Cormier & Maija Mustonen (2024-),
Forest as a Geopolitical Stage
with Jussi Lehtonen & Tamara Cubas (2019-2023), A I S T I T
/ coming to our senses
contemporary art programme with Hans Rosenström (2021) and Baltic Circle Festival programmes 2015-2019.
Forest as a Geopolitical Stage Building a collective body of resistance and care from South to North
Symposium participation
Forest as a Geopolitical Stage
initiative took place in Uruguay and in Finland in 2020-2024. It investigated the role of art and research amid large-scale, unpredictable social and ecological changes, the possibilities to make hidden narratives public, and the resistance that arises from intersecting struggles in south and north