Sentient Soils Study: Difference between revisions

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To familiarise yourself with the soils outside where you are walking, you can carry out a simple sedimentation experiment. Place a few spoonfuls of soil in a glass of water and cover with a lid to form a cosmos. Stir first. Biological and geological materials will slightly colour the water inside the glass. The colours range from black and brown to different scales of greys. Mineral particles sink to the bottom and join together in different layers, determined by the density and porosity of each individual part. Light biological components swirl around. When the circles of water have subsided, they slowly settle and become weightless, floating silently.

The container

The container holds a piece of the Finnish forest. It contains fragments of soils, water - and time: materials that resist interpretation through silence, obscurity and movement.

The container functions as an archive. It does not attempt to explain the forest, but offers images of its mineral and temporal textures. The content floats, sinks and settles, changes shape - and unfolds a new sensory knowledge.

The container does not preserve the forest - it extends it. It carries a fragment of the particular place that remains responsive and alive. It is both a piece of the place and a narrative.

Kristin Taarnesvik and Hilde Methi

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-The geologies, biologies and imaginaries of soils were studied around Mustarinda House. A “process room” inside was used as a workshop space and turned into a research-process-exhibition, ''The Glass Jar,'' on show during the Summer until August 28, 2023.
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-[[File:Glas jar with soils.jpg|thumb|''Sedimenting soils'']]
+Four jars.jpg
-[[File:Glass_jar_with_magnifying_glass.jpg|thumb|''Sedimenting soils, glass jar and magnifying glass'']]
+Skjermbilde 2025-05-06 kl. 23.49.47.png
+</gallery>
+To familiarise yourself with the soils outside where you are walking, you can carry out a simple sedimentation experiment. Place a few spoonfuls of soil in a glass of water and cover with a lid to form a cosmos. Stir first. Biological and geological materials will slightly colour the water inside the glass. The colours range from black and brown to different scales of greys. Mineral particles sink to the bottom and join together in different layers, determined by the density and porosity of each individual part. Light biological components swirl around. When the circles of water have subsided, they slowly settle and become weightless, floating silently.
-In June 2023, we gathered in Mustarinda to explore the
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+Glass jar.jpg
+Soil sample, detail.jpg
+Soil sample, detail 2.jpg
+</gallery>
-Now visible in this room are the working group’s first encounters and reflections with and on the soils of Mustarinda.
+=== The container ===
-working group has been processing and sharing methods to connect with soils, each other and the surrounding area.
+The container holds a piece of the Finnish forest. It contains fragments of soils, water - and time: materials that resist interpretation through silence, obscurity and movement.
-of artists Malin Arnell & Mar Fjell (SE), Rusto Myllylahti (FI) and Kristin Tårnesvik (NO), artist-coordinator Sallamari Rantala (FI/LT) and curators Hilde Methi (NO) and Remi Vesala (FI),
+The container functions as an archive. It does not attempt to explain the forest, but offers images of its mineral and temporal textures. The content floats, sinks and settles, changes shape - and unfolds a new sensory knowledge.
+The container does not preserve the forest - it extends it. It carries a fragment of the particular place that remains responsive and alive. It is both a piece of the place and a narrative.
+''Kristin Taarnesvik and Hilde Methi''
+[[Category:Responses]] [[Category:Paljakka]]