IHME Helsinki x Climate Security Festival: Zhanna Kadyrova’s PALIANYTSIA
IHME Helsinki x Climate Security Festival: Zhanna Kadyrova’s PALIANYTSIA
Photo: Zhanna Kadyrova, PALIANYTSIA, exhibition view at Galleria Continua Paris, France. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Continua. Photographer: Oak Taylor-Smith
Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova’s PALIANYTSIA will be on display in the entrance hall of the Finnish Meteorological Institute during the Climate Security Festival from September 19 to 20.
Kadyrova will be present at the festival to introduce the work and give a talk. PALIANYTSIA features found river stones reminiscent of a type of bread called palianytsia. During the war, the term has become a shibboleth distinguishing friends from foes, as Russian occupiers struggled to pronounce it correctly.
At the festival, the stone “loaves” from PALIANYTSIA will be available for purchase, with all proceeds going to beneficiaries in Ukraine selected by the artist.
IHME Helsinki and the Safer Climate network have joined forces to organize the second Climate Security Festival at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. The theme of the festival is Food Security inspired by IHME Helsinki Commission 2024 Maaleipä Challenge by Cooking Sections. Discussions on food security continue at Maaleipä Feast on Saturday 21 September at Kellohalli in Teurastamo. The 14 finalist breads of the challenge will be on display and tasted. Read more at maalepa.fi website and join us!
Kuva/Photo: Zhanna Kadyrova, PALIANYTSIA, exhibition view at Galleria Continua Paris, France. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Continua. Photographer: Oak Taylor-Smith
Ndjara Dance Company: Shift
Ndjara Dance Company: Shift
Image: Daria Rodinova
Shifts in ecological communities
Shift is an afro-contemporary dance piece by Ndjara Dance Company, performed at the festival by dander - coreographer Njara Rasolomanana and musician Senja Suvanto.
This dance piece, still in development, addresses the shifts in animal movement due to climate change.
Changes in resources and changes in environmental conditions force species to change their behavior, their routes and their distributions. Species that can move, move, but many are immobile, as plants and fungi, and their shift happens slowly, through generations.
Mismatches in timings, phenological mismatches, between organisms dependent on each other impact a large number of species . As an example, organisms that produce their offspring in seasonal environments need to time their reproduction with the occurrence of food. Many bird species travel thousands of kilometers to their breeding grounds, from Africa to the Arctic, to find food. Yet, climate change impacts the timings of insect peaks differently from bird migration times, causing declines in the survival of birds’ offspring in the Arctic .
As the climate warms up, many species’ distributions are shifted towards the poles. This delimits the distribution of many species as such, but also due to competitive species expanding their distribution to areas previously dominated by the other species. As new species invade an area, or local species decrease or increase in abundance due to the changes in climate, the communities change. Some species would not survive with a competitor, while loss of a species could allow another species’ populations to increase and thrive.
While species would need to move to survive, it is not obvious they can!
