Archives
People often ask us for recordings of our events, and we are amassing quite an archive of these. However, we do not make them available directly online because we don’t want the recording to take precedent over the live event. Our events are live, lively and interactive! Recordings of performances lose that energy. (Also, we don’t want to fill up our server with gigabytes of digital video!)
In order to access our Transmedia Archive of video, photo, audio and text documentation, visit us or write to us.
A selection of short excerpts of our documentation will shortly be available online.
Talks-Discussions-Texts
A significant part of the Museum of Impossible Forms’ Archival work is to contribute to the existing discourse(s) on Decoloniality, Queer Feminist and norm-critical thinking through participation, contribution and intervention within the varied topographies, beyond events and projects within its own space.
(upcoming) Museum of Impossible Forms: Voicing the Margins
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2021
Essay for in Marginaaleista museoihin. (From Margins to Museums), (eds.) Rastas, Anna & Koivunen, Leila (toim.), (trans.) Nurmenniemi, Jenni, Tampere: Vastapaino, FI
(upcoming) Cultural production and racism: How to challenge racist structures
Marianne Savallampi and Ali Akbar Mehta, 2020
Essay for Different shapes of racism. Critical perspectives on racialization, whiteness, & coloniality of power, (ed) Suvi Keskinen, CEREN, Helsinki University, FI
(upcoming) The Shape of Museums to Come
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2020
Essay for The Museum of the Future. 43 New Contributions to the Discussion about the Future of the Museum, (ed) Nora Sternfeld, (pub.) Schnittpunkt and Joachim Baur
(upcoming) SAFE{R}: Evolving the Conditions for Collaboration
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2020
Essay for Six years in the Third Space, Third Space, Helsinki (published online)
Who is Welcome? – Thinking Hospitality as Museum of Impossible Forms
Ali Akbar Mehta and Marianne Savallampi, 2020
Event Partner contribution for Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2, (ed.) Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela, (pub.) Archive Books, Berlin, in collaboration with Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Helsinki
CreaTures: Panel Discussion on Creative Practices for Transformational Futures
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2020
Panel Discussion, Creative Practices for Transformational Futures, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI (online)
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2019
Artist talk and Workshop, Helsinki Art Museum HAM, Helsinki
Queer Notes, (panel discussion) with Abdullah Qureshi
Marianne Savallampi, 2019
Panel Discussion, UrbanApa, Ateneum Museum, Helsinki
Resistance and Reimagining Alternatives
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2019
Transcript of talk and panel discussion at Nordic Decolonial Workshop, Center for Ethnic Research and Nationalism (CEREN), Helsinki University, Helsinki
How to be a hospitable without being a motel: Thinking Hospitalities
Marianne Savallampi and Ali Akbar Mehta, 2019
Essay for Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 1, (ed.) Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela, (pub.) Archive Books, Berlin, in collaboration with Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Helsinki
Re: Musing the Museum: part II
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2018
Transcript of talk at TAKU and MAL annual event at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Para-institutions. Beside And Beyond The Museum
Christopher Wessels, 2018
Video of Talk at The University-Autonomie Symposium Table 3, moderated by Nora Sternfeld
Locating: Museum of Impossible Forms
Ali Akbar Mehta, 2017
Essay for Kone Foundation Boldness Blog
REPORTS
Annual Report 2020 | by Artistic Directors Ali Akbar Mehta and Marianne Savallampi
Concerning operations of Museum of Impossible Forms, 2020
Made to the board and general members of Taiteen, kulttuurin ja opettamisen edistämisen keskus ry (TKOK) | Center for Promotion of Arts, Culture and Learning