Note: these workshops are for registered participants, taking place as part of the program 13.30-15.00. Registration to workshops on-site.
A Stitch in Sorrow: Crafting Stories of Ecological Grief and Care Workshop
Facilitated by artist and researcher Eline Gaudé as a representative of the pan-European art collective Sympoietic Society.
DESCRIPTION
Amidst the climate emergency and wider ecosystem collapse, this workshop offers an exploration of embroidery and storytelling as a means of navigating ecological grief. By harnessing the tactile and reflective nature of handicrafts, we delve into the complex intersection of creative ecology and more-than-human mourning. Through shared narratives and collective acts of creation, we honor and remember our planetary losses while fostering connections to the sentient world. No prior experience needed.
PARTICIPANTS: maximum 10
Facilitated by Jan Lütjohann. who is a German sculptor and educator living and working in Helsinki.
DESCRIPTION
In this workshop, participants combine carving reclaimed wood with the type of freeflowing conversation that happens when the hands are busy. The wood is reclaimed from construction sites, forest clearings, maintenance and other sites where public and private institutions cut down trees and forests. The workshop is based in Jan Lütjohann’s artistic practice, and particularly in the ongoing artwork Daylight, Traces, Talks. Since 2020 this work has taken the shape of an ongoing series of sculptures, exhibitions, a long series of over sixty workshops, and a public artwork commissioned for a new construction by the city of Helsinki.
At Climate & Death 2024 the workshop invites to reflect on the complex nature of individual human activity in the view of a collapsing climate and the brevity of a human lifespan through a concrete manual activity and thematic conversation.
The workshop is suitable for beginners and does not require any special skill or ability other than willingness to follow basic work-safety practices.
PARTICIPANTS: maximum 12
Daylight, Traces, Talks
Eco-emotions Workshop: Exploring Grief Through Collective Eco-Poetry and Embodiment
Facilitated by psychologist Juni Sinkkonen, Tunne ry together with Taneli Saari
PARTICIPANTS: maximum 12