🎶As part of the Enfleshed Book Launch event, MIF welcomes you to a concert by multi-instrumentalist G.Popov aka OMFO who will bring sounds from the Ural mountain ranges 🗓 SUNDAY 28.5.2023 17:00 - 20:00 🗣German Popov is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, sound artist, and researcher. Throughout all of his projects, he works on re-establishing contact with sources and archetypes of modernity. A significant part of his research is dedicated to incorporating ethnographic and anthropological data into artistic activities. He has been involved in various musical and social events focused on the topic of Central Asia. Under the stage name “OMFO,” he published several musical works and soundtracks, which achieved international acclaim. His current research is based on combining ancient art forms with novel techno - scientific pursuits and performative concepts. He conducts research in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Popov has collaborated with Sainkho, Huun-Huur-Tuu, Almagul Menlybayeva, and Atom TM. He has received grants from Aga Khan Music Initiative, AFK, and Hivos Publishing labels including Solaris Music, Essay Recordings, Universal, G - Stone, Atlantic, and Blue Asia. Curating at the Water Music Festival at House of World Cultures, Berlin; performances at Venice Biennale; Biennale of Sydney; and Lahore Biennale. His music is featured in the film Borat (2006).

in collaboration with @kohtataidehalli celebrate the launching of the publication 📕ENFLESHED- ECOLOGIES OF ENTITIES AND BEINGS Internal alchemy; Siberian perspectivism; Anti-Cartesianism; Shamanisms; Quantum Theory; Ecofeminism; Electromagnetism; Cosmologies; Environmentalism; Mumming; Decoloniality; Feminist Sci-Fi; Poetry-as-Theory; Mythologies; and more. ✨The launch will take place at Kohta on FRI 26.5.2023 from 18:00-20:00 🗓 On SUN 28.5.2023 from 17:00 - 20:00 we will gather at MIF for an evening of Uralic tunes, Siberian stories and wisdom, fumes of spices and nutrition. Program: 📽Screening: Before the Snow (27’ 25) by Christian Vagt. The film portrays three Indigenous storytellers from Western Siberia who in different ways share their stories, experiences, and messages. They make it possible for an outsider’s public to explore their culture and region through stories of the dead and of ghosts, a fairy-tale, and warnings to respect the customs. The film was produced on a minimal budget but with ample support of the storytellers themselves. Stories were chosen by them on the request to tell something about the way Indigenous people deal with ghosts and the dead. 🎼Concert by multi-instrumentalist G.Popov aka OMFO who will bring sounds from the Ural mountain ranges 🍝Dinner composed of various dishes across Eurasia by Cooking Disorders & Comrades (Kristiina Koskentola & co). ☕️Milk tea in Manchurian and Mongolian style will be served throughout the event. The event is kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund. ENFLESHED- ECOLOGIES OF ENTITIES AND BEINGS has contributions from Zoénie Deng, Rick Dolphijn, Stephan Dudeck & Christian Vagt & Yuri Vella, Taru Elfving, Giovanna Esposito Yussif & David Muñoz Alcántara (NÆS-Nomad Agency/Archive of Emergent Studies), Fu Xiaodong, Han Xiaohan, Kristiina Koskentola, Marjolein van der Loo, Mi You, German Popov, Nikolay Smirnov, Bo Wang, and Müge Yilmaz. Edited by Kristiina Koskentola and Marjolein van der Loo. The publication is generously funded by Mondriaan Fund, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds, Globus Opstart, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.

Pelottomuuden Poetiikka / Poetics of Courage 💎 27 MAY 2024, 18:00 - 22:00 Kiilaklubi ja Kiilan albumin 2023 julkaisutilaisuus / Kiilaklubi and launch of a 2023 Kiila Album Kiilaklubi is a traditional poetry club organized by Kiila ry presenting stage poetry, video art and music. Poetics of Courage is a celebration through the prism of contemporary leftist poets and artists, where we can collectively build strength with words while holding space for us, our communities, nuanced lives, and multiple identities. Kiila Album - The multi-artistic 17th edition of Kiila Album explores feminist takes on leftism in history and the present, in the art field and grassroots movements, and unpacks the practices of knowledge and power Kiila ry - Founded in 1936 as a non-aligned group of leftist writers, Kiila has grown throughout its history into an association for art workers of all fields. The association brings together artists, writers, critics, researchers, and other creative professionals, regardless of language orcitizenship. They have been the key mouthpieces of Finnish left-wing and working-class art. PROGRAM: 🔺 18:00-19:00 - Kiila Album 2023 launch. Introduction to the Kiila Album history and present. Editors: Minna Henriksson, Christine Langinauer and Martta Tuomaala. Contributors: Roxana Crisólogo Correa, Ainur Elmgren, Sadia Khatri, Karolina Kucia, Kaisa Lassinaro, Azar Saiyar, Tuukka Salonen, Vidha Saumya, and Shubhangi Singh. 🔺 19:20 Welcome and poetry: Kemê and Leena Pukki (SPA/LAD/ENG/FI) 🔺 19:30 Stage poetry: Iiris Laisi (FI) 🔺 19:45 Video art: Dawn to Dust by Shubhangi Singh. (ENG) 🔺 20:00 Stage poetry: Kihwa-Endale 🔺 20:15 Video art: Venla Helenius & Elina K, Hypinä (FI/ENG) 🔺 20:30 Stage poetry: Emma Leppo (FI) 🔺 20:45 Video art: Minna-Kaisa Kallinen and Aurora Ala-Hakula: In and Out of Sync With Jenny / Synkassa ja ei Jennyn kanssa (FI/ENG) 🔺 21:15-22:00 Music: Yam Ha (Juuso Paaso ja Jussi Kivi) The event is supported by Helsinki City Kiila album is funded by Yrjö Sirola Foundation, the KSL Study Centre, and the People's Culture Foundation's crowdfunding campaign

🎼Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra x Sergio Castrillón x Laponia Improvisations 26 MAY 2023, 19:00-21:00 Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra welcomes cello player Sergio Castrillón and Laponia Improvisations for their second concert at Museum Of Imposible Forms. The concert starts at 19:00. Welcome! #HelsinkiImprovisersOrchestra #SergioCastrillón #LaponiaImprovisation Accessibility information: The space is accessed by two lifts, 4 cm thresholds on the way. There is no accessible toilet, the nearest toilet is at Kontula metro station.

Making Worlds: Experimenting with Writing and Illustrating Children's Picturebooks Workshop series with artist and educator Dahlia El Broul @dee.fishes Dates: Saturday, May 13 & 20, June 3 & 10 Time: 11:00–15:00 Do picturebooks reflect your experiences or that of children around you? Making Worlds is a workshop series consisting of four sessions that explore the art of writing and illustrating children's picturebooks through personal experiences. This workshop is open to anyone interested in exploring experimental writing and illustration, regardless of their prior experience in crafting stories or creating visual art. Each session will centre around a specific topic, such as discussing picturebooks: words/images and how they make us feel, exploring poetry and experimental writing techniques to identify missing elements and create our own stories, utilising found and archival material to create illustrations, and printmaking using linoleum blocks or gel printing. During the first workshop, participants will have access to a variety of books to examine, and they are also welcome to bring books in any language from home. Alternatively, the group may visit the Kontula Library together to check out books for discussion. All workshops will include time for socialising, music, and snacks, as well as a lunch break. Language of the workshops: English Max of 10 people Please RSVP by May 8, to confirm your attendance. (email Dahlia.Elbroul@gmail.com) We hope to see you there! Bio Dahlia El Broul is an artist and educator from New York City, and has lived in Finland for the past ten years. Her artistic practice investigates children’s picturebook production and critical pedagogy—crisscrossing the terrain of illustration, collaborative practices, theory, education, critique, and imaginings of the possible to support the social conditions for collective work. www.dahliabroul.com

💎 On Friday 14.4. we will gather together with @luontoliitto @metsaryhmä and @debtforclimatefi to discuss the colonialist actions of Finnish forestry companies in Brazil and Uruguay. Activities that increase Finland's ecological debt to Uruguay and Brazil. #deudaxclima 📹 We will be screening 'Metsäjätin kovat otteet maailmalla' (Yle MOT, 2019). After the film researcher Markus Kroger and Brazilian activists will tell us more about issues described in MOT movie. The movie is in finnish and portuguese, with subtitles in finnish. The discussion will take place in english and finnish languages. In the event there will be an amateur activist interpreter to translate the discussion and the finnish parts of the MOT episode. ❌Veracel is a company owned by the Finnish company Stora Enso. Veracel has been violent against brazilian people living in Bahimia area, which Veracel claims to own. Come to watch Yle's MOT documentary about what happened there and to learn more directly from the Bahimia brazilian activists . ❔Four years after the making of MOT movie, a question remains: Has anything changed? Brazilian activists tell more about what has happened and what the situation is at the moment. Researcher Markus Kroger will tell about extractivism and how finnish owned forest companies are colonizing South America. ❔Together, as a multi-movement, we ask: What are we doing to resist the colonialism of Finnish companies in South America? Free entry to the event! 🗯Location: Museum of Impossible Forms in Kontula (Keinulaudankuja 4E, second floor). 🗯Time: Doors 17.30. The programme starts at 17.45. 🗯 Language: the event will be in English and Finnish, with an amateur activist interpreter present to translate the discussion and the Finnish parts of the MOT episode. Accessibility information: The space is accessed by two lifts, 4 cm thresholds on the way. There is no accessible toilet, the nearest toilet is at Kontula metro station.

The Healing Screening & Talk With Søren-Emil Schütt WED 29th March 18:00-20:00 Screening: The Healing, 2021 Dir. Hannah Elbke & Natalia Anna Cipiel An artistic parade and healing session aimed to remove the social housing community AKB Lundtoftegade (Copenhagen) from the so-called ghetto list – a list with fateful consequences. 1,500 people in Copenhagen live in social housing in Lundtoftegade under threat of ending up on the government’s so-called “hard list of ghettos” and 60% of the residents being forcibly relocated as a result. When administrative channels and dialogue with policy makers are closed and evictions seem imminent and inevitable, a group of residents, determined to fight to the end, see only one way out: to ask for spiritual help and expel the forces of evil through 'The Healing', a community ritual to heal their social housing area and change their fate. Under the leadership of Sǿren-Emil, young and old from different backgrounds and conditions, bring their creativity and contribute their art to this collective performance project. Will the healing succeed? Warmly welcome! #thehealing #tilvægs

💎Welcome to Debt for Climate Finland dialogue evening & dinner! On Monday 27th February we gather together to discuss ecological & financial debt. We look 70 years back, into 1953 when Germany got their debt cancelled, and together with the global movement we ask: why not the Global South? 💡Political ecologist Toni Ruuska from Helsinki university will be speaking with us about debt and the economic systems which were designed by the Global North to benefit the Global North. ❔What should rich countries, like Germany or Finland, do in this situation? Free entry! 🗯️ Time: Doors open 5pm. Program starts: 6pm. 🗯️ Language: The event is two language finnish and english and there are amaeur activist interpreter at the place. Everyone is welcome to the event! No previous knowledge of colonialism or debt as part of the ecocrisis is required. By discussing together we learn from each other! You may donate some money to cover the food costs (2-3 euro for example) at the event. 🫶 💎Tervetuloa dialogi-iltaan & illalliselle! Maanantaina 27.2. kokoonnumme yhteen keskustelemaan ekologisesta & taloudellisesta velasta ja katsomme 70 vuotta taaksepäin, vuoteen 1953, jolloin Saksa sai valtiovelkansa anteeksi. Yhdessä globaalin liikkeen kanssa kysymme: miksi ei myös globaali etelä? 💡Poliittinen ekologi Toni Ruuska Helsingin yliopistosta tulee puhujavieraaksemme keskustelemaan velasta ja talousjärjestelmästä, jonka globaali pohjoinen suunnitteli hyödyttämään globaalia pohjoista - siis itseään. ❔Mitä rikkaiden maiden, kuten Saksan tai Suomen, pitäisi tehdä tässä tilanteessa? Tilaisuuteen vapaa pääsy! 🗯️Aika: Ovet 17.00. Ohjelma alkaa klo 18.00. 🗯️ Kieli: Tapahtuman keskustelut on englanniksi, osa pienkeskusteluista on suomeksi ja paikalla on amatööri aktivisti tulkki. Kaikki ovat tervetulleita tapahtumaan! Aiempaa tietoa kolonialismista tai velkaantumisesta osana ekokriisiä ei tarvita. Yhdessä keskustelemalla opimme toisiltamme! Voit lahjoittaa rahaa ruokaan, (esim. 3 euroa). Rahalla katetaan ruokakustannukset.🫶

Feeding Title: a Shared Menu Dinner hosted by Felix M. Siegl FEB 14th, 20th, 21st, 28th 18:00-22:00 all dates Due to limited capacity, registration is required. If you want to become a part of Feeding Title, send a message to @museumofimpossibleforms on Instagram or to feeding@felixsiegl.com. (more detail below) Feeding Title is a two-part collective journey. Every dish will tell one bite-sized tale of the many possible histories of food. Throughout the evening, those fed are encouraged to share their working titles, unfinished projects and creative processes. After all, Feeding Title, at its core, is space and time to discuss, share and evolve ideas over a (warm) meal. The project stretches twelve courses over four independent evenings and borrows its structure from the twelve-course menu of haute cuisine. Feeding Title conceives the single courses as fragments, combining three each to lead through each evening. Together we will detach these fragments from their strict corset and re-embed them in shared reflection. TUE, 14.02.2023 MON, 20.02.2023 TUE, 21.02.2023 TUE, 28.02.2023 Each evening can host a total of twelve people. All meals will be museum-made and vegetarian. If you want to become a part of Feeding Title, send a message to @museumofimpossibleforms on Instagram or to feeding@felixsiegl.com. Please include the following in your message: - the date you want to join - any dietary-related allergies - if/what you want to share About Felix M. Siegl: Felix is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary artist, artistic researcher and aspiring curator. His practice is rooted in investigative research, discourse analysis, and as of recently, speculative (fiction-)futures. He views making as site-time specific and collaborative - believing in co-creating out of the need to react to the Contemporary from more than one preset. More info at felixsiegl.com and @felixmsiegl

Intoxication and Machine-Bodies Workshop with Teo Ala-Ruona DEC 15th and 16th 13:00-16:00 both days Due to limited capacity, registration is required. To join please send an email to ana.teo.alaruona@gmail.com You can decide to take part on either one or both of the days! Intoxication and Machine-Bodies is a workshop that invites us to dive into somatic fictional exploration around intoxication from pollution and your body as a machine. The workshop's themes are based on Ala-Ruona's upcoming work, Enter Exude (2023), and his long-term practice on somatic fictioning. On the first day we will focus on intoxication mainly through a series of breathing exercises and imaginative practice. We will work with fictional intoxication and high: through imagining ourselves into intoxicated states we search for ways of moving and changing. The second day of the workshop focuses on somatic fictioning around cyborgian bodily transformation. We will imagine different technological worlds inside the body, and look for machine-like quality in ourselves through bodily fictioning and group exercises. There is no need to have any specific experience to attend, just come with a curiosity to experiment and play with your imagination and body's potentiality to reach into fictional states. The workshop includes both solo, pair and group work. The workshop is free of charge and for 8 people max. About the artist: Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki based performance artist, whose work focuses on speculative somatic fiction and body horror in forms of performances and texts. By often using his own body as a site for various speculative stories to take place, he experiments on how through fiction he can transform himself, as well as the perspectives from which others look at his body. Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been shown in Warehpuse9 (Copenhagen), Drifts-festival (Helsinki), Jason Platform (Copenhagen), Takomo-theatre (Helsinki), Baltic Circle -festival (Helsinki), Bangkok Biennial (Bangkok) and NAVEL, Gas-gallery and Human Resources (Los Angeles). More info at teoalaruona.net and https://www.instagram.com/teoalaruona/

History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails by Azar Saiyar Year of Production: 2016 Running Time:7’ Finland “ We say ignorance is bliss. And you want to ask – to whom.“ We used to believe that being left-handed could lead to criminality, stupidity, and immoral behaviour. So we tried to educate our children not to use that hand. History bleeds under your fingernails is a short film piece on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of educating the bodies that do not fit. Azar Saiyar is Helsinki-based filmmaker and visual artist whose art has been shown at film and media art festivals, galleries, exhibitions, museums and from television. She often uses archive materials and plays with images and words of collective memory to look towards the ways of looking, speaking, remembering and telling stories.

The Score by Aleksandra Bilic Year of Production: 2022 Running Time: 25’ UK In 1992, Maja Bilić and her children fled their home in Sarajevo on what would turn out to be the last flight to Britain from the former Yugoslavia, escaping the violence of the Bosnian War. Among the possessions she left behind was the prized piano she’d cherished since childhood. 30 years later, her daughter Aleksandra—now a filmmaker, writer and producer—has revisited her mother’s complex relationship with both her instrument and her lost home short film “The Score.” Aleksandra Bilic is Head of Development at My Accomplice and is a producer specialising in documentary films. Recent credits include The Great Hack (Netflix), 8 Barv - The Evolution of Grime (BBC Films), and Nascondino (BFI/Doc Society) which premiered at LFF in the Grierson Documentary Competition and is set for a 2022 release. She currently has one feature film in late development with the BFI, and a slate of work focusing on female led talent and looking to move into drama series. She is an alumni of Sheffield Future Producers 2017 and Film Independent DocLab 2021.

When Light is Displaced by Zaina Bseiso Year of Production: 2021 Running Time: 7’ Palestine/ USA Interested in its parallels with the fate of the Jaffa oranges, the filmmaker tells her father about her intention to film the last orange grove in Los Angeles. Their disagreement transforms the grove into a space of contemplation on the politics of storytelling in the multi generational experience of Palestine in exile. Zaina Bseiso is a filmmaker and curator working primarily in documentary and experimental cinema. Her interests revolve around diasporic relations to land, hope and potentialities. She explores Return as a notion that conflates and contracts sounds, images and ways of existing in the world. Recently, she joined the programming team at the Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival. She is also a 2022 Sundance Humanities Sustainability fellow. Her work has screened at Curtas Vila do Conde, Guanajuato, RIDM, DokLeipzig and Ajyal Film Festival, among others.

Society of Cinema presents: Memories Ablaze Film Screenings + Talk Wednesday December 14th, 2022 From 18:00 to 20:00 Join us for the upcoming Society of Cinema series of screenings. This winter our program ranges between essay films and hybrid fiction exploring archival histories, ancestral consciousness, and multi-generational experiences; connecting personal and collective narratives. The six films consider history, nature, technology, and corporeality through diasporic viewpoints. Program: When Light is Displaced (2021), Zaina Bseiso The Score (2021), Aleksandra Bilic History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails (2016), Azar Saiyar Followed by a conversation with Azar Sayiar The conversation will be held in English. All films are subtitled in English. The screenings are curated by Danai Anagnostou.

COLLAGE SUDAKA / bodily narratives in trans-formation Performative encounter + conversation with Maricarmen Gutiérrez Castro and Jorge Tadeo Baldeon Rodriguez WED 7th December 18:00-20:00 Maricarmen Gutiérrez Castro and Jorge Tadeo Baldeon Rodriguez have been developing a methodology for a Temporal Sensitive Laboratory, where they aim to re-signify and re-imagine colonial visual representations of bodies “from the South”. Within this hybrid laboratory, they experiment with different languages (live performance, theoretical inputs, video performances, video projections) and use the space as a documentation-collage. In this encounter, Maricarmen and Jorge will share performances and documentation from this initial part of their research which is currently developed at Saari Residency. They will also share previous works and open a conversation with the audience, hoping to collectivise the questions: what do we see and what don’t we see when we see in “other” bodies? About the artists: Maricarmen Gutiérrez Castro (she/they) was born in Cusco, Peru. She is a performance maker,researcher and feminist activist. Her interdisciplinary work centres the body-territory in the struggle and celebration against patriarchal, colonial and capitalist violence. Co-creator of Sonqo Ruro collective. She has created and co-created feminist performances in public spaces in Peru, Germany and The Netherlands. She holds an MA in Performing Public Space by Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (NL). Currently she is part of the MA program Raumstrategien at Weissensee Hochschule (Berlin) and a resident artist at Saari Residence (Finland). Jorge Tadeo Baldeon Rodriguez (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent manager, living and working between Peru and Germany. They use diverse artistic media, including performance, pedagogical tools, and space design, to link glocal social and cultural processes in critical reflection. His joint works with diverse collectives have been shown in Matadero (Spain, 2017), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (Brasil, 2021) and Museo Reina Sofía (Spain, 2022). He is co-director at elgalpon.espacio (Peru) and member of Yuyachkani Group (Peru)

Curupira E A Máquina Do Destino by Janaina Wagner Year of Production: 2021 Running Time: 25’ Brazil/ France Filmed in 2021 on the roads Transamazônica, BR-319 and the real village of Realidade, in the south of Amazonia, Curupira e a máquina do destino is the encounter between the entity Curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.

Tellurian Drama by Riar Rizaldi Year of Production: 2020 Running Time: 26'23" Indonesia May 5th, 1923. The Dutch East Indies government celebrated the opening of a new radio station in West Java. It was called Radio Malabar. In March 2020, the local Indonesian government plans to reactivate the station as a historical site and tourist attraction. Tellurian Drama imagines what would have happened in between: the vital role of mountain in history; colonial ruins as an apparatus for geoengineering technology; and the invisible power of indigenous ancestors. Narrated based on the forgotten text written by a prominent pseudo-anthropologist Drs. Munarwan, Tellurian Drama problematizes the notion of decolonisation, geocentric technology, and historicity of communication.

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