29.9. — 2.10.2025

Organised by Publics, Co hosted by Amos Rex & Kiasma

Free and open for all. Register at www.amosrex.fi/en/register-to-positioning

Program:

Monday 29th – PUBLICS

Optional program please see below for Monday morning and evening events!
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome notes – Paul O’Neill & PUBLICS
14:00 – 14:30 Lisa Rosendahl – ‘Something Moves In the Space Between’
14:30 – 15:00 Nkule Mabaso – ‘Curating Photography and Other Discourse Gaps’
15:00 – 15:30 Moderator Paul O’Neill & PUBLICS with Respondent + Final word Max Hannus
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee + Snack
16:00 – 17:20 For the Record 1 – Moderator Taru Elfving
Nella Aarne, Satu Herrala, Kaisa Karvinen, Itha O’Neill, Evelyn Raudsepp, Eveliina Tuulonen
17:20 – 17:30 PUBLICS Thank you (Please see optional programme below)

Tuesday 30th – Amos Rex

09:00 – 09:30 Nari Tea
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Intro Paul O’Neill + Kieran Long
10:00 – 10:40 Catherine David – ‘documenta X 1977–2025’
10:40 – 11:10 Moderator Paul O’Neill with Respondent + Final Word Bassam El Baroni
11:10 – 12:10 Lunch
12:10 – 12:55 Nick Aikens with Charles Esche – ‘L’Internationale: A Mission Statement in Times of Emergency’
12:55 – 13:15 Museum Why Network – Christian Skovbjerg, Evelyn Raudsepp, Anne Thomasen
13:15 – 13:40 Moderator Marti Manen with Respondent + Final word Giovanna Esposito Yussif
13:40 – 15:00 For the Record 2 – Moderator Antra Priede
Ramiro Camelo, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Solvita Krese, Sten Ojavee, Satu Oksanen, Ingrid Orman
15:00 – 15:30 Nari Tea ’Steeping Points’
15:30 – 16:10 Maria Lind – ‘A walk in the Forest’
16:10 – 16:40 Liisa-Rávná Finbog – ‘Geažideami: Curating a decolonial aesthetics (from a Sámi perspective)’
16:40 – 17:00 Moderator Paul O’Neill with Respondent + Final word Nkule Mabaso
17:00 – 17:50 PUBLICS Introduction to artists – Film Screening;
Unconditional Love, Agnė Jokšė, 2021
Birth of a Grenade, Shubhangi Singh, 2022
A Night We Held Between, Noor Abed, 2024

Wednesday 1st – Amos Rex

09:30 – 10:00 Nari Tea
10:00 – 10:15 Intro to day’s schedule – Paul O’Neill
10:15 – 10:55 Serubiri Moses – ‘Travel as Method’
10:55 – 11:25 Moderator Marcia Harvey Isaksson with Respondent + Final word Ute Meta Bauer
11:25 – 12:45 For the Record 3 – Moderator Marti Manen
Miina Hujala, Piia Oksanen, Irina Mutt, SunnySide space, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Sakari Tervo
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:05 Mia Wennerstand – Reading from ‘All Your Names Are Fiction’
14:05 – 14:35 Ann Mirjam Vaikla – ‘Curatorial | Corporeal’
14:35 – 15:05 Valentinas Klimašauskas – ‘On Inventing Friends & Generosity’
15:05 – 15:30 Moderator Max Hannus with Respondent + Final word Solvita Krese
15:30 – 16:00 Nari Tea ’Steeping Points’
16:00 – 16:30 Mi You – ‘Art in a multipolar World’
16:30 – 17:00 Tom Holert – ‘Curatorial Thought and Epistemic Politics’
17:00 – 17:30 Moderator Bassam El Baroni with Respondent + Final word Kieran Long
17:30 – 18:00 Outro Toast with Paul O’Neill & PUBLICS
18:00 – 18:30 Live Performance – Natalia Beylis with Lau Nau and Cucina Povera (Marja Ahti and Olli Aarni)

Thursday 2nd – Kiasma

10:10 – 10:30 Welcome words – Kiira Miesmaa, Intro – Paul O’Neill
10:30 –11:00 11:00-11.30 Cătălin Gheorghe – ‘Curatorial transformations’
Biljana Ciric – ‘Positioning’
11:30 – 12:00 Moderator Antra Priede with Respondent + Final word Marti Manen
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
12:30

10:00-18:00 Exhibition Intro – Saara Karhunen & tour ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’
(Meet at Lobby by Info Desk)

Screening ‘The Future Futures Talk Show 2024’ Next to the Theatre space.
13:00 – 14:20 For the Record 4 – Moderator Anne Szefer-Karlsen
Anne Julie Arnfred, Mélanie Bouteloup, Taru Elfving, Bilge Hasdemir, Helen Kaplinsky, Nontobeko Ntombela
14:20 – 15:00 Ute Meta Bauer – ‘The Curatorial – Architectures of Discourse’
15:00 – 15:30 Moderator Paula Toppila with Respondent + Final word Serubiri Moses
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Mariam Elnozahy – ‘Art After Defeat’
16:30 – 17:00 Annie Fletcher – ‘Self-Determination: A Global Perspective’
17:00 – 17:20 Moderator Paul O’Neill with Respondent + Final word Bassam El Baroni
17:20 – 17:50 Final Words Bassam El Baroni with Paul O’Neill, PUBLICS & Others
18:30 – 21:00 Drinks – Sinne gallery (Iso Roobertinkatu 16, 00120 Helsinki. More information on visiting Sinne.)

For more information visit www.positioningsymposium.com