Contributors
FEMINIST CULTURE HOUSE
We are an intersectional feminist curatorial and editorial collective based in Helsinki. We produce exhibitions, publications, and tools for change to try and create fairer working conditions, better representation, and more inclusive institutional structures within the art field.
https://feministculturehouse.org/
KATYA (KATEKULER)
Katya (katekuler), they/she, is an audiovisual artist and activist. Their main interest lies in the intersection of non-linear narratives, memory, experimental animation, visual design, autoethnographic research, and activist archives. They want to find out how fluid, simultaneous, non-linear, rhizomatic nature of human memory could be reenacted through artistic practice without compromising the value of the artistic process itself. As an immigrant from Russia who lived in Slovenia, Belgium and Portugal before coming to Finland, she is searching for the ways of preserving immigrant identity and memories of home while being in a loop of constant forgetting-remembering, and to keep changing while preserving her own story as opposed to current dominant fascist narratives.
*They love learning languages, music of a million genres and origins, film photography, and cats.
https://www.instagram.com/katekuler/
SHOHREH SHAKOORY
Shohreh Shakoory is a researcher, curator, and artist based in Helsinki and Berlin. She holds a BA in Art History from University of Rome, an MFA in Media Art from Bauhaus University Weimar. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfBK). Shakoory has worked as a curator, producer, and researcher with institutions including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Savvy Contemporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and Sinema Transtopia in Berlin. She is currently the curatorial fellow at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Saastamoinen Foundation.Rooted in critical theory and post-colonial discourse and interdisciplinary and hybrid in approach, her practice uses different formats and languages to explore world-making processes, speculative futurism, and the relationship between cosmology and technology through artistic research and curatorial practice.
BILGE HASDEMIR
Bilge Hasdemir (she/her) is a researcher and curator working and thinking through the ways in which engaged practices and collective instituting processes actualize their critical and social potentialities. She currently coordinates the PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board at PUBLICS in Helsinki. As part of an Innovative Training Network on socially engaged art and the future of European independent art spaces, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Iceland, where she is now completing her PhD. Previously, she served as Curator at Aalto University (2019-2021). Her curatorial praxis also engages with labor and migration struggles in the cultural sector, as well as critical policy analysis. She is member of advocacy group Artists in Iceland Visa Action Group (Aivag).