SOLU dialogues: More than Person River
16 August 2025 at 14:00-16:00
HIAP Gallery Augusta (Suomenlinna B 28 / 2)

Bioart Society and Sympoietic Society co-host a dialogue between Mari Keski-Korsu and the Baltic Sea that draws on her work with intuitive more-than-human communication, hydrobodily care, healing practices, agency, empathy, and grief. 

In her practice, Keski-Korsu attends to hyper questions of ecological crises through micro-level manifestations. Her current project More than Person River, in collaboration with artist Eija Mäkivuoti, explores the possibilities of more-than-human decision making and agency of Torne river. As an extension of this body of work, on this occasion responding to the seas surrounding the island of Suomenlinna, Keski-Korsu guides a workshop that uses hydrophones as well as sensory, sonic and vocal exercises to collectively listen to these living and dying marine ecologies. 

This iteration of SOLU Dialogues is hosted in collaboration with Sympoietic Society as part of their exhibition and public programme at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme’s facilities in Suomenlinna. In 2025, Keski-Korsu’s More than Person River project receives funding from a Horizon Europe project called VOICE.

Registration: This event has limited capacity and so we ask people to register and commit to attending. To sign up email yvonne.billimore[at]bioartsociety.fi

Access: Please note that parts of the workshop involve traversing uneven ground along the shoreline. If this creates an access barrier please contact yvonne.billimore[at]bioartsociety.fi so we can make the suitable adjustments.

SOLU Dialogues is an ongoing event series by Bioart Society where art, science and society meet. Through varying formats artists, scientists and other practitioners are invited to present and discuss their work with an emphasis on research in process/public.  

Mari Keski-Korsu is a post-disciplinary researcher and artist who explores micro-level manifestations of the ecological polycrisis. Her work is based on multispecies collaborations and the medium of expression is a hybrid combination of participatory performance, visual and live art. Her practice involves intuitive more-than-human communication, hydrobodily care and walking methodologies. Currently, she is finalising her doctoral thesis in Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art and Media. Her artistic research focuses on more-than-human ritualising and embodied knowledge in change in the Circumpolar North, attempts to encounter the microbial life of the permafrost thaw. She is an artist member in an interdisciplinary research group working in Abisko Scientific Research Station in the Access Abisko program (2022-2024). In 2025, she is a part of the VOICE project which is focused on using an ‘artist-driven’ approach and Art-Technology-Society Interactions to bring people together to tackle environmental problems.

Photo on top: More than Person River, Mari Keski-Korsu & Eija Mäkivuoti, 2025. Photo: Brita-Kaisa Välimaa.