Communities of Coexistence art exhibition is promoting awareness of evolutionary processes and biodiversity

What is the language of lichen? How do biological interactions shape the evolution of organisms and maintain biodiversity? What can we learn from the social life of microbial communities, or what kind of cultures build from human-insect interaction? How do the disciplines of art and science meet each other? Communities of Coexistence exhibition will be held in the University Jyväskylä Library 7.–26.3.2023 and minisymposium on Thursday 23.3.2023.
Näyttelyssä on esillä myös Aistė Ambrazevičiūtėn töitä.
Published
23.2.2023

Exhibition and public program in March 2023 is a festive month marking our four years of work together as scientists and artists in Evolution in Action-project and promoting awareness of evolutionary processes and biodiversity. For the exhibition Communities of Coexistence we have invited five artists and researchers – , , , (Christina Stadlbauer and Ulla Taipale) – whose art works and practices engage with themes such as communities, interactions between species, symbioses, biodiversity and evolution.

Public program of the exhibition consists of school workshops, and on 7th of March , a case study as a part of Riina Hannula’s doctoral thesis, to University of Helsinki sociology department.

Program will end with the minisymposium Engagement in collective acts: multidisciplinary views on 23rd of March (12:00-17:00). The minisymposium will bring together four invited speakers from different disciplines who all share the interest to understand the different aspects of collective acts within and among species and sustainable use of common resources: Visual Artist , Professor (Ecology and Genetics Research unit, University of Oulu), Associate Professor (Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki) and Researcher (HELSUS, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki).

Exhibition and programme location:  (Seminaarinkatu 15 B, Jyväskylä).

with Poster and photos

For further information and registration:

Tiina Hirvonen, evoluutiopajat@gmail.com, phone: 044 566 0806

Registration for school workshops (school groups only): evoluutiopajat@gmail.com and Riina Hannula's case study (open for participants 16+, register until 5. 3.): hannulariina@gmail.com

Evolution in Action is a group of artists, art educators, biologists and evolutionary biology researchers who are developing workshops and teaching materials combining science education and art-based methods. We are based at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science of Ģֱ.