Opening and Conversation with writer Laura Suurhasko:
Friday 7.8. 18:00–20:00

Screening times:
Friday 7.8. 18:00–20.00 (opening)
Sunday 9.8. 12:00–16:00
Thursday 20.08. 16:00–20:00
Friday 21.08. 16:00–20:00
Saturday 22.08. 12:00–16:00
Sunday 23.08. 12:00–16:00

MAR/MÆR is a performance art duo formed by Mari Pitkänen and Kaja Mærk Egeberg. Since 2017, MAR/MÆR have explored Camouflage Strategies through performances in public space. The first work was created along the wall of Lapeyrouse Cemetery in Port of Spain during the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. The most recent performance took place in Søndermarken, Copenhagen, in collaboration with oak trees, lichens, and the BLOOM Festival. A video exhibition at the SOLU Bioart Society presents documentation of the processes of the performance works.

The Camouflage performance series emerged from a desire to disappear completely — to dissolve into the surroundings and become one with the site. Drawing on camouflage strategies found in the animal world, we explore camouflage as a way of transcending the boundaries between bodies and space. In doing so, perception becomes unsettled, and the experience of space is rendered fluid and unstable.

Our practice evokes expressions of in-betweenness and creatureliness. Our current research turns toward lichens as companions in being-with, thinking-with, and performing-with, seeking new ways of understanding the complexities of symbiosis through interspecies collaboration.

The film screening exhibition takes place in the midst of the artistic process with MAR/MÆR's 7th work in their ongoing performance cycle Camouflage Strategies: BEDROCK : : ROCKBED, currently being developed in collaboration with Reality Research Center and Mad House Helsinki. More info on the performances here.

In the opening conversation on the 7th August MAR/MÆR, In conversation with writer Laura Suurhasko, will share insights into their research and creative process leading up to the performance presentation on 13th –16th of August 2026 at Mustikkamaa.

Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Government Grants for Artists (Norway), Taiteen edistämiskeskus, Helsingin kaupunki