GARDEN OF BECOMINGS, 2021-2024
A multimedia publication and a co-working platform

Garden of Becomings, created in collaboration with cultural anthropologist Inkeri Aula, is both a multimedia publication and a co-working platform moving in the borderline of art and social research. This open-access publication in the form of a virtual 360 environment opens up and shares the accomplished work and the background elaborations of our three-member art/research collective. The site is taken care of like a living garden, where our cultivation can produce serendipity, insights not originally searched for, in the wild growth and the appearing weedy landscapes. The constant construction of the virtual 360 environment enables sharing complex working processes in a novel way with other artists and researchers, while simultaneously creating a foundation seeding and cultivation of new works of art and research.

We publish documentation, photographs, and recordings of projects, but also background research, experiments, and abandoned paths. The conventional academic publishing is slow and demanding with the long-term processes of referee rounds and editing; in a similar vein, artistic work is time-consuming and the final product contains only a phase of the whole process. Unlike in conventional academic and artistic published works, our Garden of Becomings brings forth unpolished, unfinished processes in a transforming phase.

Garden of Becomings is a living organism–always a work-in-progress, never finished, and never polished.

The project is kindly supported by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike).