Digital Commoning Practices & Pollyanna and the prepper
6.-28.3.2021
Open Tue-Sun 12-18
Maximum 3 visitors at a time with 2 meter safe distance
We require the use of a face mask while visiting gallery
You can find the live stream program here!
Photo: Leena Saarinen
Station of Commons: Digital Commoning Practices
upstairs
06-30.03.2021
The exhibition "Digital Commoning Practices" departs from Station of Commons; a practice of re-appropriation of technology as Commons within public space, which stands for radical alternative strategies to the neo-liberal system in terms of digital means of production, communication and distribution. "Digital Commoning Practices" starts with a question: How to think of a collaborative process embedded in technology that can find form into new knowledge and know-hows within, against and beyond capitalist modes of production?
"Digital commoning practices" intends to both elaborate a critical discourse on the economization process, and to reflect on digital tools development to resist, and rebel, against privatization of technological means. Activist and architect Stavros Stavrides insists that commoning practices must welcome a multitude of knowledges, discourses, practices and know-hows for the emergence of commoning spaces. The dynamic at work operates as a collective and transformative effort always in the making. The exhibition invites artists, activists, urbanists, publishers, designers, programmers, feminists and educators to open and share their work in an Open Source way of doing and thinking.
An exhibition as timelime
The exhibition process produces a month long timelime to articulate different temporalities; live audio streams, lectures, discussion and workshops.This format imagines an exhbition as an intersection of eventfull temporalities more than a division of space in the traditional white cube practice. "Digital Commoning Practices" timeline develops over three phases.
The exhibition opens with the celebration of the first anniversary of the Open Source audio stream. Together with Helsinki based *N10 collective*, Station of Commons will broadcast 5 sound artists whose work has developed in absence of concert situation.
The second phase aggregates a network of activists, theorists and artists involved in physical and technological spaces. This moment intends to intersect their knowledges and practices to examine and think together commoning practices in the current hybrid spaces. This phase interrogates how digital commoning practices can come to terms with old gender stereotype and how can all technology pirates work together.
The third phase entittled "Commoning Education/Educating the Commons" discusses how can digital practices and radical education can learn from each other. Learning together from the practices of the participants we will deploy an edifice to initiate an operative digital commoning practice.
deploy an operative edifice
With artistic and discursive contributions by:
Heta Bilaletdin, Juan Gomez, Pahat Kengät, Tommi Keränen, Malin Kuht, Constantinos Miltiadis, Martino Morandi, Jara Rocha, Gregoire Rousseau, Selena Savic, Dubrovka Sekulic, Femke Snelting, Cornelia Sollfrank, Stavros Stavrides, Nora Sternfeld, Samuli Tanner, Värvöttäjä.
06.03.2021
N10 Open Source audio stream:
Pahat Kengät
Pahat Kengät is an electronic musician and composer from Finland. With their music Pahat Kengät seeks to recreate a variety of emotional states and experiences as electronic soundscapes, utilising a selection of electronic and acoustic instruments, and voice. The music itself ranges from soft drones to hectic noise, with focus always remaining on static and repetitive minimalism.
Värvöttäjä
Värvöttäjä is a Helsinki based ambient music project that collects sounds from the environments and pieces them together into new atmospheres.
Tommi Keränen
Tommi Keränen is a noise maker from Helsinki. Active since the mid 1990s, he performs and records as a solo artist, and is a member of Testicle Hazard, Large Unit, Köttskogen, Gentle Evil and The Truckfuckers. He uses mainly primitive electronics and non-standard digital synthesis to create slabs of vivid swirling noise. His discography consists of over two dozen entries ranging from cryptic tapes to some critically acclaimed releases like the Bats in the Attic CD (among The Wire's Rewind picks in 2010).
Samuli Tanner
Samuli Tanner plays you some playful and drifting sci-fi music and beats with some kind of old and new machines. So it is a win-win show.
Heta Bilaletdin
Utilizing samplers, vocals, field sounds, a computer, random items and dusty four-track tapes, Heta Bilaletdin creates music concrete, sludgy beats, sugary melodies, peculiar dub and disjointed disco. Expect the unexpected and humane feelings squeezed out of electronic instruments.
In the space (Ground Floor)
Malin Kuht
First Session: Intersecting Commons
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11.03. 19:00 Activist and urbanist Stavros Stavrides
12.03. 19:00 Dubrovka Sekulic
13.03. 19:00 Artist and technofeminist Cornelia Sollfrank
Second Session: Commoning Education/Educating the Commons
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18.03. 19:00 “The Relearning Series”
Femke Snelting, Jara Rocha & Martino Morandi in discussion with SoC founders Juan Gomez and Gregoire Rousseau.
19.03. 19:00 Gregoire Rousseau and Nora Sternfeld in dialogue.
20.03. 19:00 “Distributed resources versus distributed tech”
by Marcell Mars
Supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut Finnland and best brewery in town Valillan Panimo.
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Leena Saarinen: Pollyanna and the prepper
downstairs
6.3.-28.3.2021
Pollyanna and the prepper(1) is a research project on the posthuman world and looks for sustainable solutions for producing materials in the time of the ecological crisis. The project deals with the feeling of uncertainty when it comes to the future and the apocalypse looming around the corner, but also aims to take a solution-oriented approach to the issues at hand.
I study different survivalist, DIY, handicraft and traditional skills and methods of collecting and processing materials. I study how to repurpose and transform domestic waste material (plastic and biowaste) and how to harvest materials from nature (nettle, rhubarb, willow, reed) and process it for use in different implementations, like fiber processing, weaving, melting plastics, making cordage, paper or plant-based bioplastics.
My aim is to regain better understanding of some of the traditional knowledge, skills and technologies that are losing footing in general knowledge, the set of skills that could be useful in the posthuman or post-apocalyptic world. I see the value in slow processes and in the labor and effort of making something from scratch. Through the process I try to redefine my relationship to the material world. My aim is to be more aware and appreciative of the resources around us that go unnoticed or are taken for granted. I try to find function and meaning in the waste material, seeing it as something valuable instead of throwaway by transforming it into something new. I want to show the potential of the materials and our interdependence of our environment.
Through the project I also want to share the knowledge and tools that I’ve gained in the process. I’ve collected some of the research information, recipes and instructions on how to do or make things into a zine called Recipes for disaster. The idea is to gather and share some of web-based knowledge and my research into a booklet form just in case for the future, if or when the SHTF(2) and the internet stops working.
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1) Pollyanna and the prepper refer to the survivalist culture. Pollyanna is a person who is in denial about potential dangers of catastrophe, and always optimistic that nothing bad will happen to them. Prepper is a survivalist who has thought about potential dangers and has prepared in advance. The project deals with the contradiction of the two perspectives existing simultaneously.
2) Shit hits the fan
