Reside/Sustain was primarily involved in knowledge production (articles, essays, interviews written by both project participants and invited experts from different fields), knowledge dissemination through various channels, organising and participating in different events on the topic of sustainable development from art and residency perspective, as well as providing art residencies for artists and art field professionals in collaboration with Finnish actors, and enabling exchange of practices.
Miina Hujala is an artist and curator that has been curating the Finnish-Russian residency programme Connecting Points at HIAP (Helsinki International Artist programme) from 2016 until 2023, she is also a curator of a display window art space called Alkovi in Helsinki (from 2009).
Angelina Davydova is a journalist and environmental/climate expert based in Berlin. She is a fellow with the program Media in Cooperation and Transition and a climate projects coordinator with the cross-border journalistic network n-ost (Berlin). She is also a co-host of a podcast the Eurasian Climate Brief and a member of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group. Angelina has been an observer with the UNFCCC since 2008.
Adel Kim is a Russian-born curator currently based in Helsinki. She co-organises in the Association of Artistic Residencies of Russia and runs airofrussia.com, a database of Russian residencies. She did MA thesis research on the residency field in Russia (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and Manchester University, 2020) and wrote the first toolkit on residencies in Russian language Art Residencies: For Whom, Why, and How (2021).
We are open to ideas and collaborations!
Please be in touch: info@residesustain.art
RESIDE/SUSTAIN was a part of programming within the Connecting Points programme in HIAP (Helsinki International Artist programme).
Connecting Points was a Finnish-Russian exchange program that aimed at strengthening collegial activity in the artistic and cultural realm in Finland and in Russia. The programme ended in 2023.
https://www.hiap.fi/
KONE FOUNDATION
Kone Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation that awards grants to promote academic research, culture and the arts. They pursue active arts and research policies and constantly seek to provide alternatives to the mainstream.
https://koneensaatio.fi/en/
