With the exhibition of Jane Remm’s creative research project “Interspecies Social Sculpture”, the doctoral student pays homage to Joseph Beuys, the creator of the world’s first green party, and invites you to participate in a nature walk at the opening of the exhibition.
On August 25, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., there will be a tour of the opening of the exhibition of Jane Remm’s artistic research project “Interspecies Social Sculpture”, which conceptualizes the garden and the forest as a multi-perspective creative environment. Expanding Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture into a multifaceted context, the artist explores what it means to harness everyone’s creative potential in a modern age, when the world in an ecological crisis needs to adapt to degrowth.
“Interspecies social sculpture” combines the ecological dimension in the form of increasing biodiversity, the dimension of interspecies co-creation and the social dimension through public events. The experiential exhibition tour opens up different perspectives on the garden and forest through active participation. “It’s an attempt to co-create with other species and thereby think about the role of art in the long term,” says Jane Remm and continues: “This is a garden diary where drawings and writings have accumulated over the course of a year. It is a multi-perspective composition that is constantly changing through the cooperation of different actors. I act as an equal among other beings. It is an attempt to act in art locally, slowly and on a small scale. At the same time, this is a provocation through which I am investigating whether growing food, hay or firewood can be positive activism in today’s world, and in the context of Estonia. It is an attempt to give the everyday garden and forest a creative and artistic conditionality, and the suspicion that in competitive capitalism local peripheral actions have little value. It is the hesitation that co-creation with other species will not succeed. It is the uncertainty that less is not better. Let’s get entangled into that uncertainty and vulnerability.”
“Interspecies Social Sculpture” is the second peer-reviewed project of Jane Remm’s artistic
research doctoral thesis.
The “Interspecies Social Sculpture” exhibition is open during tours on August 25, September 15 and 22, and October 4.
The tour starts at 17:00 from the Mähkli bus stop: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fidsotPcnY2HtJgc9, passes through points in the forest and garden and leads to the common dinner table. Public transport to the place is poor, those coming from further away could share a car, while those coming closer could travel by bike or on foot. Weather conditions must be taken into account when it comes to clothing. The trip is free.
Registration: https://forms.gle/vytS5ybUy8L9h98F8
More information about the project.
Jane Remm is an artist, art teacher and artistic researcher, doctoral student at EKA and art didactics lecturer at Tallinn University BFM. Jane Remm’s work focuses on the representation of the experience of nature, co-creation and communication with different life forms. She is interested in what are the possibilities to understand and interpret the life experience of other species and communicate with them as equal dialogue partners using the means of art. She values manual working and co-creation with other species as a way of perceiving herself as part of nature.
CV: https://www.etis.ee/CV/Jane_Remm/, creative portfolio: www.janeremm.ee
Events previously held in the project: 06.08.24 “Determining, noticing, drawing and thinking walk” within the nature observation marathon led by Liina Remm, Indrek Hiiesalu, Jane Remm, Riin Magnus and Tiit Remm, 16.06.24 “Omailmatalgud” led by Timo Maran; 15.07.24 “Bat walk” led by Jaanus and Piret Remm. The review of the project will take place as part of the 4th trip. Reviewers: prof. Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts) and Taru Elfving (CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, Finland).
The artist thanks dialogue partner Marta Konovalov, EKA Doctoral School, Remmik, all human and non-human neighbours of Karula.
“Interspecies Social Sculpture” is partly related to the project “Artists and designers as researchers, rethinkers, and partners of nature in the context of degrowth” (01.07.2023–31.12.2024), PR02049, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture.
