We welcome peers, partners and publics to a series of free monthly breakfasts at SOLU Space in Kalasatama.

This symposium brings together artists, scientist and other practitioners to stimulate deeper reflection on the convergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning techniques and synthetic biology.

The fourth iteration of SOLU Dialogues, event researchers in nuclear culture – Ele Carpenter, Erich Berger, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Alex Ressel and Susan Schuppli – will share their different research practices, and reflect on how their recent field trip to Onkalo informs these discourses and practices.

Hilde Methi and Neal Cahoon are currently in Kilpisjärvi in The North Escaping residency, following up some curatorial threads from their previous work together.

Reading matters is a regular reading circle that activates the SOLU library and brings people together to discuss matters connected to our projects and wider programme.

Antti Tenetz writes about his experiences in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency. Tenetz travelled to Japan to have his residency in Decembr 2023.

Open call for Ways of seeing: life – glass – chem workshop with Laura Beloff at Biofilia from 9–19 April 2024. Deadline for applications 18th February.

In March 2024, Jean Danton carried out a field study on permafrost in an area of peat mounts (palsas) around Kilpisjärvi. He extracted soil and ice samplers while explored the ecological network in interaction with the permafrost thawing process. Permafrost is, in some way, a bioindicator of both atmospheric temperatures and social dynamics of the globalization; a trace of impermanence from a distant latitude. A geo-somatization that reveals a dispossession, an epochal swerve.

We are looking for a Finnish artist or an artist based in Finland for a month-long art & science research residency in Tokyo, Japan, during autumn and winter 2024.

Andscapes was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group critically engaged with questions of scale and the tools used to understand our surroundings. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.

TALE was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group set out to navigate the plurality of times that present themselves in the landscape in and around Kilpisjärvi. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.

Wait and Hear was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group proposed an open exploration based on listening and the groups activities were based on both listening and somatic experience. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.