Sequences XII: Pause – Artist talk; WAUHAUS and Rhoda Ting/Mikkel Bojesen
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Join us for an artist talk with artist group WAUHAUS and artist duo Rhoda Ting/Mikkel Bojesen.
WAUHAUS is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary arts collective. The collective’s works are situated between different genres of art and they take place at various venues, such as small black box theatres, urban sites, large stadiums, and the main stages of established theatre houses. The members of WAUHAUS are scenographer Laura Haapakangas, director Juni Klein, scenographer Samuli Laine, sound designer Jussi Matikainen, choreographer Jarkko Partanen, sound designer Heidi Soidinsalo, producer Minttu-Maria Jäävuori and managing director Julia Hovi.
In Some Unexpected Remnants, WAUHAUS examines the temporal and material legacy of waste. The video piece lingers over Vuosaarenhuippu, a former landfill transformed into recreational land, and an active waste center in Kuopio. Through this slow, observational approach, they meditate on the lifespans of materials that society attempts to forget- landfills that outlive us, matter that never fully disappears, offering quiet, lingering engagement with entropy and renewal. The performance-based origins of the video are evident in its choreography of machines and landscapes, emphasizing the entanglement of natural and artificial rhythms. Their piece becomes a poetic artifact of slow decay and adaptation, showing how waste, like memory and land, breathes and mutates in silence.
Rhoda Ting and Mikkel Bojesen
(Rhoda Ting (b. 1985, Australia) and Mikkel Bojesen (b. 1988, Denmark) are an artist duo based in Copenhagen, working at the intersection of art and science. Their practice centers on non-human agency, microbial systems, and speculative futures, often incorporating living organisms and laboratory materials into sculptural and performative installations. Their practice incorporates scientific collaboration, working with bacteria, spores, and other life forms to make visible the unseen processes of the Earth. By cultivating living systems in sculptural contexts, their work draws attention to interspecies collaboration and temporal cycles far beyond human perception.
Deep Time invites viewers to step outside the narrow framework of human temporality, making visible the geological timescales that precede and outlast human history. By presenting the earth’s evolutionary archive, the work reframes the human experience as a minor blip in the planet’s chronology. Rhizome, by contrast, brings the microscopic scale into focus, highlighting the entangled, non-linear, and decentralized networks of fungal life. As a sculptural installation composed of petri dishes with living fungi, the piece operates as a living system, a slow, unpredictable collaboration between art and organism. The work evolves over time, shifting unpredictably, and resisting spectacle. Their practice challenges not just the viewer’s pace of attention but also their understanding of evolutionary, ecological, and aesthetic systems.
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