Tracing

Tracing is a practice based project that deals with ethnographic research methods as artistic openings, as well as the construction of place and landscape through sensorial and fictional. In this practice, I develop and play with methods drawing from ethnograpic research and my background in anthropology. 

On ethnography as an artistic tool

Intuitively, I see art making and ethnography or anthropology similar in their way of articulating and attending to creation of meaning in multiple levels of social realities. In the practice of Tracing, I craft these similarities in two ways. 

First, I look at performances as already excisting potentialities that can be crafed visible through speculative ethnographic research. Second, I develop excersises/performative proposals such as somatic thick description, visual descriptive documentation, other-material interviews, or fictional embodied autoethnography, that all draw from ethnographic research methods, ethics and models. For me, the practice of Tracing is wild and playful while rooted in a borrowed framework of ethnography. 

Currently, my work with this practice focuses on other-material relations, with especially other-than-living, mineral and geological.

In 2024, Tracing is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.