Framework: The Finnish Art Review
Issue 10 June´09: Rescue Plan

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In the cover image the sculptor, performance artist and cattle keeper Miina Äkkijyrkkä guides her cattle through the forest. Her personal conflict with authorities merges together with the uncertain destiny of the endangered native cattle breed of which there are only a few members left. Her experiences have caused personal uncertainty and helplessness in a situation where she literally has to ask: Where can we go?

Similarly, the prospects concerning the future of the global society merge together with the ongoing financial crisis, the fastening climate change and its impact on the global environment. Even if the consequences of the current developments are still unknown and unfurling, they can already prove that science or technological development do not alone lead to real development and welfare – on the contrary, the course of events may take quite an opposite direction. If the ’world balance’ can only depend on economic growth, how do we rescue the home for the human race?

Keeping the demise of neoliberal ideology in mind, the contributors in Locating have been asked to sketch out alternative starting points for today’s economic, political and aesthetic practices and draft outlines for alternative models. One of the key questions is, What role can the visual arts, broadly understood, play in broadening the scope of cultural practices? Among writers and cultural actors are Chuck Dyke, Michel Bauwens, David Elliott, Miina Äkkijyrkkä, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, Antoanetta Ivanova, Kim Levin, Elena Sorkina & Oliver Ressler, Morten Goll & Joachim Hamou & Tone Olaf Nielsen, and Marita Muukkonen & HeHe.

The magazine provides a wider context for Jussi Kivi’s Fire & Rescue Museum to be arranged at the Finnish Pavilion in the 53rd Venice Biennale by FRAME Finnish Find for Art Exchange and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. In Focus Sven Spieker and Jonni Roos examine this artistic case study which has its origin in the artist’s long-standing passionate interest in everything that relates to firefighting.

The artists reviewed in Features are: Jan-Erik Andersson by Yrjö Haila, Sasha Huber by Hans Fässler and Suzana Milesvska, Antti Laitinen by Poka-Yio and Juha-Heikki Tihinen, and Jani Ruscica by Maxine Kopsa and Kari Yli-Annala.

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Issue 10: Rescue Plan