In her Arktikum Science Centre exhibition The Call of Things, artist Jessica Houston draws attention to the environmental distress of the North and South Poles with ‘talking objects’ and photographs that Houston took during her travels.

As viewers move through the exhibition, ‘calling’ the
objects with their phones, oral narratives and field recordings related to each
polar artefact sound out into the space. The contributors range across disciplines,
including ecologists, Indigenous leaders, sea ice, philosophers, poets, whales, and
academics.

“Knowledge of the environmental distress
is produced across a human and more-than-human spectrum. It is situated and
embedded, drawing upon convergences of multiple perspectives”, Houston
describes.

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The Call of
Things becomes a platform for the many people involved, and the
exhibition emerges as an interactive collaboration.

Houston wants to provoke dialog about the material consequences of our
relationship with nature. The Call of Things evokes the complex, interwoven events
that have shaped the geography of the poles, and relate to the current condition of
the environment.

The Call of
Things
22.10.2020–28.2.2021
Arktikum Science
Centre, Pohjoisranta 4, Rovaniemi, Finland

More information:
Artist Jessica
Houston, info@jessicahouston.net , www.jessicahouston.net &
www.thecallofthings.net
Exhibition designer Anna Hyvönen, Arctic
Centre, firstname.surname@ulapland.fi, +358 40 4844 289

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