Thursday 7 November 2024 at 17:00 – 18:30
MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C, 00180 Helsinki

Set within Erich Berger’s exhibition Spectral Landscapes at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre and the artistic practice of Pia Lindman, this conversation will explore questions and topics that intersect both artists’ inquiries: How do we experience and know about phenomena that are usually seen to be below and beyond the human sensorium and its capacities? Why is it now, that we have to tend to questions of scale, temporality and aesthetics while struggling with environmental breakdown? What are Anthropomemes?

The evening will begin with a short introduction to the exhibition. The audience is warmly welcome to participate in the discussion.

Pia Lindman explores the world of the subsensorial. After being poisoned by Mercury, her nervous system became sensitized to micro-signals from within her body. These signals she transforms into images, melodies, words, and colors, allowing her to tune into atmospheres, toxicities and materiality in different spatial and social conditions.

Lindman has exhibited at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, MoMA, MoMA PS1 and HKW in Berlin and was a fellow at Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT (2004–2007). Her contribution to the Venice Biennale 2024 shows until 24 November in the Finnish Pavillion as part of the group exhibition The Pleasures We Choose.

Erich Berger is an artist, curator, and researcher based in Helsinki. His focus is on the intersection of art, science and technology with a critical take on how they transform society and the world at large. Berger’s interest in issues of deep time led him to work with geological processes, radiogenic phenomena and their socio-political implications in the here and now.

Berger moves between visual arts and science and works as a doctoral researcher in Anthropology at the University of Oulu in Finland. His solo exhibition Spectral Landscapes is on display at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre between 2 and 17 of November.