GATHERING
with Satu Herrala
Embodied Curating: Attuned Bodies As Collective Forces
1st of December
19:00-20:30
What if the production and presentation of art and welcoming audiences were regarded as embodied activities? What if our myriad embodiments mattered–on their terms–through all art practises? What then would working in art spaces, and visiting art events feel like? What if they were experienced as transformative processes and evoking vital forces in the bodies who engage with them?
Curator and researcher Satu Herrala will share attuning practices based on her research on embodied curating, and propose approaches to co-resonate with a possibility to weave our bodies into a temporary collective body. Along bodily practices she will introduce key concepts that are formative to her articulation of embodied curating.
Satu Herrala is a Helsinki-based curator and researcher with a background in dance, choreography and somatic movement practices. She is interested in exploring how attuning to bodily coexistence informs ways of being, knowing and acting, and how collective action emerges from embodiment. Currently she is working on a doctoral research on embodied curating at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Together with Anna Karhu-Cormier and Maija Mustonen she founded and co-curated Love Harvest Festival at Frantsila Herb Farm in 2024 and 2025. In 2021 with Hans Rosenström she co-curated a contemporary art programme A I S T I T / coming to our senses consisting of exhibitions, performances, discursive events and public art. Between 2020 and 2024 she co-directed Finnish-Uruguayan art and research initiative Forest as a Geopolitical Stage with Jussi Lehtonen and Tamara Cubas. From 2015 to 2019 she worked as the artistic director and curator of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival.
Recently she has worked as a dancer with Biret Haarla Pieski and Pauliina Feodoroff. She often teachers at various art universities in Finland and abroad, and mentors at Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence, among other places.
This event is free / Language: English / please register at info@playground-nomadicground.com