The contemporary-art-commissioning agency IHME Helsinki is continuing its collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves on new episodes of theArt, Science, Ecology podcast. The members of the IHME Helsinki Advisory Board are hosting its second season, carrying on discussions started in 2021. The new episodes update ideas about ecocide, sustainable energy, and energy identity, and about the role of the arts in all this, topics that are even more urgent today than in 2021.
IHME Helsinki unites the worlds of art, science, and climate work. We promote the cultural change needed in the environmental crisis and motivate citizens to adapt to a life within planetary boundaries. Each year we produce a public artwork and a series of events with international artists and local partners to bring hope amid the environmental crises. Our work is made possible by support from the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kone Foundation, and Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation.
At the Intersection of Art and Agriculture
In this third episode of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast recorded in March 2025 IHME Helsinki’s Advisory Board member Maria Lind, Museum Director of the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna, will discuss art and agriculture with the Kultivator collective. Kultivator is an independent art practice on the island of Öland, Sweden, founded and run by Mathieu Vrijman and Malin Lindmark Vrijman. Kultivator is also an experimental project platform that initiates and runs projects, exhibitions and workshops that investigate our relationship with the landscapes that feed us. In this podcast Maria, Malin and Mathieu discuss points of intersection between art and farming, emphasizing the importance of long-term perspectives, environmental concerns, and food security.
Reading recommended in the podcast:
Alexander Etkind:Nature’s Evil(2023), Polity Books:https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=natures-evil-a-cultural-history-of-natural-resources--9781509547586
Julia Watson:Lo–TEK. Designby Radical Indigenism (2019), Taschen:https://www.taschen.com/en/books/architecture-design/04698/julia-watson-lo-tek-design-by-radical-indigenism/
Anything published by Donna Haraway.
Credits
Producers:Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio
Host and guests:Maria Lind, Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman
Sound technician:Bailey Polkinghorne
IHME jingle:Viljami Valdén
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