Merpersons
Onsite installation and film screening of Merpersons (7 mins)
Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki
19 April - 16 May (Thursdays only or by appointment)
Merpersons is an installation that consists of video, photography and text. It focuses on documenting a group taking part in a merpersoning workshop. Merpersoning is a take on mermaiding, aimed particularly at those who cannot, or will not, fit the stereotypical notions of mermaids, be it due to oppressive body or gender norms, or to westernised understandings of mythology in relation to water. Merpersoning is refusal of cis-sexism, restrictive body norms, gendered swimming spaces, as well as heterosexist mythology and popular culture.
Merpersons installation and film is a collaborative work produced by the Museum of Impossible Forms presented at m{if} project space in Kontula, Helsinki.
Access: The film merpersons (7 mins) is captioned.
Language: English. Exhibition texts are available in Finnish and English.
The film is also accessible from www.museumofimpossibleforms.com starting from 19 April.
Following Covid-19 health and safety requirements for safe distancing entrance to the installation will be limited to a maximum of four visitors at a time. Please be prepared for the possibility of having to wait, if visiting without an appointment. We ask that visitors wear masks and follow hand hygiene recommendations. Toilets and other facilities will still be available.
Merpersons is produced for Rehearsing Hospitalities Spring 2021
Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a Safer Space. We follow a Safer Space policy to create a welcoming, inclusive, awesome environment.
Events at the Museum of Impossible Forms are completely free and accessible without prior booking.
Museum of Impossible Forms is accessible by lift with thresholds up to 4cm on the way. The toilet has no thresholds but is not spacious enough to meet accessibility standards. The nearest accessible toilet is located at Kontula metro station.
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