Tracing
working with speculative ethnography and other-material relations in different places, spaces and landscapes.
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.
Documentations from Tracing I: scores for becomings at SÍM Residency, Iceland, October 2024
during which my research on the mountain Esja resulted in an installed collection of scores, a solo performance and a sketch of a booklet.


