KUNST SALON VISION: MILKY WAYS

Mælkens Sprog: M/Otherhood, befrugtning og kosmisk stofskifte.

Hvis et spædbarn modtager mælk fra et andet menneske, modtager det også en verden. I mælkens sukkerstoffer og mikrober er der gemt informationer som i barnet fortolkes og omsættes til at danne et nyt indre liv. 

Hvad betyder denne biologiske og kosmiske overlevering? Hvilke forståelser kan rumme en mere flydende opfattelse af, hvornår en ny verden bliver skabt indeni og omkring mennesker?

Denne salon udfolder den finske billedkunstner Jenna Sutela’s arbejde med kropsvæsker og hendes erfaringer med at arbejde på tværs af biologiske, teknologiske og poetiske systemer. 

Til salonen får Sutelas seneste filmværk Milky Ways dansk premiere. I Milky Ways sendes brystmælk på en kosmisk rejse gennem en simuleret menneskelig fordøjelse. Filmen handler om overleveringen af mikrobiotiske verdener mellem mennesker og udfolder videnskabelige og mytiske spor om befrugtning. 

Jenna Sutela og kurator Aslak Aamot Helm vil tale om Jennas praksis og samarbejdet med kunstplatformen Primer. Efter filmvisningen vil samtalen blive udvidet med videnskabelige og filosofiske perspektiver fra lektor i bioinformatik Mani Arumugam og lektor og kurator Adam Bencard.

Milky Ways er et led i en længere udviklingsproces med den danske kunstplatform Primer, hvor en solo-udstilling med Jenna Sutela kan opleves i efteråret 2023. Filmen er skabt i samarbejde med Det Finske Kulturinstitut i Danmark, Novo Nordisk Center of Basic Metabolic Research og Medicinsk Museion ved Københavns Universitet.

Arrangementet vil være på engelsk. 

ART SALON: MILKY WAYS
Language of milk: M/Otherhood and cosmic metabolism.

If an infant receives milk from another human, it also receives a world. Information is stored in the milk's sugars and traces of microbes, which the child interprets and transforms to form their cognition. 

What does this biological and cosmic transmission mean? Which psychological models can accommodate a more fluid understanding of what happens, when new worlds are created within and around people?

This salon unravels visual artist Jenna Sutela's artistic practice and focus on her interest in bodily fluids and her ways of addressing biological, technological and poetic systems.

In the salon, Sutela's latest film Milky Ways will have its Danish premiere. In Milky Ways, breast milk is sent on a cosmic journey through a laboratory simulation of human digestion. The film builds a multi-stranded narrative based on the handover of microbiotic worlds between people, while unfolding scientific, cosmic and mythical narratives about metabolism.

The event will set Jenna Stula in conversation with curator Aslak Aamot Helm about her practice and collaboration with the artistic platform Primer. The conversation will expand towards scientific and philosophical perspectives together with Mani Arumugam, researcher in microbiotic development, and Adam Bencard, medical humanities at Medicinsk Museion.

Milky Ways was made as part of a longer exchange with the Danish art platform Primer, where Sutela will have a solo exhibition in the autumn of 2023. The production of the film is a collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark, the Novo Nordisk Center of Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen and the Medical Museum.

You can also experience a newly commissioned work "Pond Brain" by Jenna Sutela at Copenhagen Contemporary from May 11 to December 30th as part of the research exhibition "Yet it Moves!"

The salon will be in English.