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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-[[File:Four jars.jpg|center|1000x1000px|''Sedimenting soils'' ]]
+<gallery mode=packed heights=300px>
-Exploring the geologies, biologies and imaginaries of soils around the Mustarinda House. Remi and Hilde to write up ?
+Four jars.jpg
+Skjermbilde 2025-05-06 kl. 23.49.47.png
+</gallery>
-Knowing-sensing and imagining soils ------What was it... ? focus on the first days and a short, possibly poetic, descriptive text...?
+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.
-Multarinda. (Explanation of multa = soil - dirt and ... )
-Cosmos with a lid
-Hilde can describe the procedure of sedimentation.
+<gallery mode=packed heights=300px>
+Glass jar.jpg
+Soil sample, detail.jpg
+Soil sample, detail 2.jpg
+</gallery>
-Invite Eliina to write a paragraph on what was seen in the jars... ?
+=== The container ===
-[[File:Glas jar with soils.jpg|thumb|''Sedimenting soils''|left|267x267px]]
-A “process room” inside is used as a workshop space, then turned into a research-process-exhibition, ''The Glass Jar,'' on show during the Summer until August 28, 2023.
-[[Participants]]: 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 holds a piece of the Finnish forest. It contains fragments of soils, water - and time: materials that resist interpretation through silence, obscurity and movement.
-June, 2023, Mustarinda / Paljakka
+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.
-Fieldwork = Knowing-sensing/Sensing-knowing with artistic methods and tools, in relation to trees, forests, soils, better to be specific - the dead insect.... this is what I thought would be described as Fieldwork :)
+''Kristin Taarnesvik and Hilde Methi''
+[[Category:Responses]] [[Category:Paljakka]]