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Futurity Island is part of the third edition of Helsinki Biennial<\/a>, Protection: Under the Surface and Above, Becoming Something and Belonging Somewhere<\/em>, curated by art historian, curator and HAM\u2019s Head of Exhibitions Kati Kivinen, and curator, art historian and researcher Blanca de la Torre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curators have been inspired by the protected island of Vallisaari, which has survived without human habitation for decades. The 2025 Helsinki Biennial examines the significance of protection and turns the gaze from humans to the rest of nature. In the works, the human figure gives way and is replaced by animals, water, plants, insects, minerals and other living agents, as well as their role as components of the well-being of our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by artists Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas in collaboration with architect Indr\u0117 Umbrasait\u0117, sound artist Nicole L\u2019Huillier, and materials scientist Markus J. Buehler, the Futurity Island is a learning environment that attunes us to the voices of the insect world, whose reality remains largely mysterious to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Futurity Island repurposes peatland drainage pipes-once tools of environmental extraction-into a platform for interspecies communication. Echoing the tubular shelters of Hydropsyche larvae, the pipes become acoustic instruments amplifying non-human voices. The soundscape blends larvae recordings with soil toxicity data sonified through transducers. Nanoscale models of caddisfly silk proteins-known for their underwater binding properties-are translated into sound frequencies that form a spatial score, evoking the silky nets spun by Hydropsyche to stabilize and shape aquatic ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of the Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE and Ellex Valiunas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many thanks to MIT.nano, Vladimir Bulovi\u0107, STUDIO.nano, Samantha Farrell, Tobias Putrih, Giedrius Gulbinas, Special Mention Projects, Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE, Ellex Valiunas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioner: Blackwood Gallery for the Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea<\/em> curated by Christine Shaw, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9Helsinki Biennial \/ Maija Toivanen, Urbonas Studio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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