Saturday meditation sessions resume at Drala Thang in Helsinki tomorrow, 11-12 #vajrayanabuddhism #nyingma #dzogchen #arogtér

FUNDRAISER Darkness Visible II – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators in Athens. Buy a t-shirt, and/or donate

Public talk: Art as an Agent of Ecological Change. 20/09 Keynote with STEVE KURTZ of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) A panel discussion with Helsinki Biennial artists A round table with Steve Kurtz, Hege Tapio, Tapio Makela and Kati Kivinen helsinkibiennaali.fi/en/event/pub...

I was so delighted to make it to the final hour of GLOBUS HYSTERICUS, an exhibition by performance duo Kainulainen & Latva at Forum Box in Helsinki, that I had to jot a few words down about it, which you can read here. www.linkedin.com/posts/kira-o...

SUKA OFF's fundraiser to travel to the International Contemporary Dance Festival, Mexico City, August. Unforgettable, unique, disturbingly exquisite and extraordinary. Please be a patron by donating to their appeal.

Facing alienation, anxiety and addiction as a practitioner - an evening talk on the power of view, meditation and Action 25th June, 2025 18:00 – 21:00 Lama Trømstal Dorje teaching in English, takes place at Drala Thang, Helsinki and via Zoom. aroterlineage.org/en/events/fa...

I'm keen to see this, courtesy of Helsinki's PUBLICS and AMOS REX 24 Hours with Tony Cokes, a retrospective of video works 12/13 Sept 202 with performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti), + Finland super group Sonic Wilderness Remix; Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera

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I was just thinking about the last artwork that got me really excited and inspired here in Finland. A powerfully articulate and moving work, attributed to Elokapina, Finland and Restore Wetlands, Sweden, 2024. Well considered for it's impact, and - for it's ease of removal.

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Dinner with Alphoniso Lingus, recently departed, almost exactly ten years ago following our key notes at the Medical Humanities Conference in Dartington. We adored him. Gosh he was gorgeous, so open, enquiring and curious.

Opening on 10th May at 3pm at Taragaon Next, Kathmandu, SAMBANDH, by Lingam. K 'the exhibition highlights our current climate situation and explores the profound relationship between climate change and glaciers.'

From the earliest hour, the crows have the air, their ligneous timbre scratching the skies. Dungchen and rolmo announce themselves with orchestrated awe, insistent and epic, like cavalries of sound amidst heroic strikes of thunderous booms. I love the small of coffee in the morning.

And so ends the residency at Gallery Mcube in Patan, Nepal. Image: Tilt series, post card for mail art project. Drawings made during the residency period.

I'm giving an artist talk: Propositions Tuesday 29th April 4 - 5.30pm Gallery Mcube in Patan, Nepal This is the culmination of a months work during a residency funded by a mobility grant from Suomen Kulttuurirahasto Image: Tilt series, UN Park, 2025 Digital collage

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Small works in progress emerging during a month residency at Gallery Mcube, Lalitpur, Patan, Nepal. Originally conceived as visualisions of actions for camera, the clunky collages are taking on their own life. Tilt, a proposition, UN Park, Patan.

'The weather is a collaborator' Thank you to Leonor Veiga for her detailed review of ‘Nurture Gaia’: The Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 in Third Text, and for being so attentive to the details of my work, including working with the ambient weather conditions. www.thirdtext.org/veiga-bangko...

The Monument is a telescope archive post

Feminist Futures : Art, Activism and South Asian Womanhood curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala Taragaon Next Museum, Kathamndu The stunning exhibition presents works from 10 South Asian artists critically engaging with gendered histories, social inequities taragaonnext.com/events/femin...

I am in Nepal for another Vajrayana né'khor (pilgrimage) and during April a residency at Gallery Mcube in Kathmandu. Photographed by Kathmandu artist Zayk I am wearing gö-kar-chang-lo'i dé robes, displaying the white skirt and uncut hair of a Naljorma, yogini.

Our weekly Saturday morning meditation group is tomorrow at Drala Thang Koroistentie 6, 00280 Helsinki 11.00 - 12.00 Hosted tomorrow by me in English all levels are more than welcome

Thinking in eighths today Glimpses from Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen's phone of the 2nd of 3 parts of: A score of tilting | glancing | standing | stepping Discreet actions for a public space for Tapiola Sinfonietta's CITY LIFE (Minimalismi-festivaali) at Espoon Kultuurikeskus

Tapiola Sinfonietta's Minimalism Festival begins tomorrow evening, my minimal performance interventions will be in the foyer areas throughout the evening. Aku Sorensen, conductor Steve Reich: City Life Philip Glass: Concerto for saxophone quartet Terry Riley: In C www.espoo.fi/en/events/es...

The video in this link features an exchange between Leonora Carrington and her niece Joanna Moorhead during which Carrington defies Moorheads attempts to intellectualise her work. 'The visual world is to do with what we see as space which changes all the time.'

This summer sees the completion and celebration ceremonies of the magnificent Great Enlightenment Stupa at Danakosha Ling here in Finland, under the guidance of Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche. Her Holiness Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will preside over a 5 days event

This morning as the rain pelts, listening to the sonorous and sombre Blue Veil by Lucy Railton

Open call for Saari Residency, a rural residency providing a accommodation, workspace and a monthly stipend. Those coming from the Global South can apply for support for air travel and visa costs. Artists, curators, writers, musicians, dancers . . . @koneensaatio.fi

Timothy Snyder, as eloquent as always He also includes in the link organisations to donate to in support of Ukraine.

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Today is the first in the year of the Wood Snake in the Tibetan calendar Losar Tashi Deleks to one and all

Thank you to Frame Contemporary Art Finland for inviting me to talk about showing my work at Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 for which I was awarded a travel grant. Photo: post performing for 3 hours in the heat and humidity in the courtyard of National Gallery of Thailand.

And so ends this edition of Bangkok Art Biennale. Menopausal Gym, 2024 National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok Art Biennale A huge thanks to everyone involved #BAB2024

We see you all the way from Finland!

Today I'm listening to an amazing and very moving episode with David Keoghan, stone lifter extraordinaire. @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social you're so right, it is in a way a kind of performance art

LA friends Such a must, and there is a luscious looking book

My work 'Menopausal Gym' is in super company at the National Gallery of Thailand at part of Bangkok Art Biennale. If you're in Bangkok, don't miss the exhibitions both there and the nearby National Musuem of Thailand. #BAB2024

Today's listening here in Helsinki I'm working my way through Maria Sommerville's pitch perfect The Early Bird shows, each one's charmed me. Heard of from of from @janehughes-artist.bsky.social chatting with Paul O'Neil I believe. I pay attention!

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On Monday 24th February, here in Helsinki #wemustnotforget #WeStandWithUkraine

A petition in Finland in protest at attempts to curtail academic freedom by the Trump administration. Finland based researchers, please read and sign www.openpetition.eu/fi/petition/...

Two great days of sound and visuals in Kathmandu 21/22 Feb Boiling Harmonies 2025 If you're in KTM this weekend do go A different venue on each of the two days. www.boilinghead.com/boiling-harm...

Today I'm listening to Yellow Fang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7p...

Speaking of theremins and wants, click to see OpenTheremin V4 which celebrates the '125 year anniversary of inventor Lev Sergeevich Theremin' I've only just learned about Open Theremin, so much to look, learn and relish here. #theremin #opentheremin www.gaudi.ch/OpenTheremin/

Perseverance turns 4 today #altmars

AGF Poemproducer via Mastodon regularly posts this list of alternative technology for pretty much online everything Handy to know Thanks #AGF #poemproducer pad.riseup.net/p/online-too...

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Today I'm listening to Compounds by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen who gave me a beautiful CD of the collection Many a fascinating conversation I've enjoyed with Tina on their work, it's multiple pathways and associations #tinamarianekroghmadsen

A great wierdass Bioart Society kirppis/fleamarket today. Thanks to everyone who came along to the Bioart Society's Helsinki space SOLU to browse and buy; books, rocks, scientific glass, prosthetics, magnifying lenses and boxes, slime mold other disorders of things. #bioartsociety #workshopology

Today I'm listening to JELLY by Andrew Poppy who says: 'Jelly is a sonic homage to Rauschenberg’s Night Shades and Phantoms: traces of thoughts on the surface of a sheet of polished metal.' #andrewpoppy