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TelepART mobility support programme expands to include academic researchers

TelepART mobility support programme expands to include academic researchers

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Poet Robert Powell: “The concept of borders has become enlivened and electrified”

Poet Robert Powell: “The concept of borders has become enlivened and electrified”

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Staff’s Choice: Best books to read in your hammock

Staff’s Choice: Best books to read in your hammock

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Tuula Närhinen’s DEEP TIME DEPOSITS – online gallery

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Tuula Närhinen: DEEP TIME DEPOSITS: Exhibition / Below Zero 2020 Finnish pioneer of environmental art dug into the Thames mud.

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Throwback to Pertti’s Choice London popup a year

Throwback to Pertti’s Choice London popup a year ago. Looking forward to new adventures with this amazing crew drawn here by @tanraabe

For five years #telepart has supported mobility of

For five years #telepart has supported mobility of Finnish and Finland-based performing artists. Now it expands to include academic researchers too! Link in bio. #instituutit Photo of @lumocompany performance @jacksons_lane by @miabergiusphotography

What is our staff reading this August? Featuring e

What is our staff reading this August? Featuring eg. ’Some kind of heavenly fire’ by @maria_lax_ (this amazing pic), #helmetkirjastot reading challenge and Verso Live by @versobooks Link in bio!

Last chance to visit Tuula Närhinen’s exhibitio

Last chance to visit Tuula Närhinen’s exhibition ’Deep Time Deposits’ at Beaconsfield Gallery! Open on 31/7 and 1/8, from 11am to 4pm. Please wear a face covering!

More info: https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/tuula-narhinen/

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“Right now would be the best time, maybe the las

“Right now would be the best time, maybe the last chance, to truly implement all those measures that were designed to enable sustainable development and societies"

Victoria Pratt, of Invisible Flock, spoke to us about “Out from the Flood”, a collaboration with SubZero

”Out from the Flood”, an online generative data visualization, goes live at 5pm (BST) today

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“The question of intimacy has always been up for

“The question of intimacy has always been up for debate.” Shimmer and PUBLICS’ collaborative project “Across the Way With…” interrogates the nature of intimacy in the context of digital communication and isolation.

Link to our interview and their readings, released every Monday, up in our bio 👆

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“Nature has answers to many of our problems, if

“Nature has answers to many of our problems, if we just look closely”

Aleksi Vesaluoma of Caracara Collective spoke to us about their new project, Network - out now!

Links to Network and the interview up in our bio 👆🍄

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"When we reduce nature to be seen as exploitable r

"When we reduce nature to be seen as exploitable resources we forget that we ourselves are embodied biological beings that are equally part of the biosphere".

Check out the full interview with Aapo Nikkanen, link in bio!
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Just released! Watch the full version of Monitor M

Just released! Watch the full version of Monitor Man in The Time of Pandemic on Vimeo. Link in bio.

Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic is a new rendition of Yassine Khaled’s (@yassinekhaledart) piece Monitor Man (2016-2019). Originally based on virtual communication in public space, Khaled’s new short film explores the private space - homes of isolated participants across the world.

Khaled’s work aims at underlining this historical time we’re living in through different cultural reflections. Although dire in many aspects and marked by necessary isolation, people all over the world have stayed united becoming more and more dependent on technology. Exploring everyday quarantined life experiences in three different continents, Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic highlights paradoxical times of increased isolation and stillness in an ultra connected world.
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