GREEN HOUSE EXHIBITION AND VIDEO HANDBOOK

In Green Matters Mia Mäkelä approaches environmental issues such as eutrophication of the Baltic Sea from a new angle. She experiments with green algae, an essential source of oxygen with prospects of being it for energy and food in the future, and explores their possible use with traditional rug-making. In the process Mäkelä engages with an eclectic set of knowledge, ranging from marine biology to environmental politics.

The GM - exhibition consisted of the algae experiments, herbarium, photos and the video handbook, installed inside a green house at the botanical garden of Turku  at TURKU2011-Cultural Capital of Europe event.

Commissioned by Capsula for Curated Expeditions to the Baltic Sea.

Algalab, a workshop on algae gathering and rug making took place at Tenerife Design Festival in 2011.

GREEN MATTERS Screenings

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Love&Anarchy festival. Helsinki

Oulu Art Museum

G11 Gallery, Berlin

Imagine Science festival. Abu Dhabi

Green Shorts Film Festival (Film Skillet)

Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival

Natural History Museum. New York

Imagine Science Festival. New York

State festival. Berlin

ArTension, Berlin

Ruisrock, Turku

Wasteland, Kouvola

Ekumene Lab, Barcelona

TechnoEcologies, RIXC. Latvia

Baltic Sea week. Helsinki

Tenerife Design festival, Spain

TURKU Cultural Capital of Europe 2011, Turku

ART + SCIENCE

Collaborators

TURKU UNIVERSITY ARCHIPELAGO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TURKU UNIVERSITY BOTANICAL GARDEN, COUNTY OF MERIKARVIA, KIVIKANGAS OY, FOILTEK OY, GENELEC OY

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Support

AVEK, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF VISUAL ARTS, FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ART, FRAME, TURKU2011 - CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE 2011

GREEN MATTERS WAS PRODUCED AS PART OF THE CURATED EXPEDITION TO THE BALTIC SEA PROJECT BY CAPSULA.