Publication Launch | Follow the Plants

Book, Events, Publication

Food Art Research Network and Bioart Society invite you to join us for a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, and published by Discipline and Onomatopee.

Follow the Plants is an expanded invitation to follow plants through histories, growing seasons, metabolic cycles, literature, art, bodies, archives, and collective ritual. Bringing together artworks, dialogues, roundtables, essays, and scores, the publication offers both examples of and prompts for collective research, tracing the multiple worlds through which plants circulate and generate meaning.
The book’s contributions invite us into processes of encounter that explore intersections of art, science and  ecology, through diverse knowledges and situated practices. In response, the assembly establishes correspondences between the publications contributions, and local practitioners, places and publics in Helsinki, inviting further processes of collective research to unfurl beyond the page.

This free, multi-day open programme will take place in venues across Helsinki brings research to life through film, performance and social practice. Both theoretical and embodied, it unfolds through growing, cultivation and food-based practices, situating artistic research within the creative lives of plants.

Contributors:

Event programme curated by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, featuring: Edible Archives (Shalini Krishan and Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar), Joana Quiroga, Joona Sorsa, Katie Lenanton, Kyriaki Goni, Margherita Pevere, Matti Aikio, Nathalie Muchamad, Rubiane Maia, Sepideh Rahaa, Sirkku Rosi, Sonja Donner.

Film programme curated by Danai Anagnostou, featuring: AK Wane, Alana Hunt, Barbara Hammer, Catriona Gallagher, Elia Nurvista, Otar Iosseliani, Theo Panagopoulos, Yugantar Collective.

Follow the Plants is published by Onomatopee and Discipline, and funded by Creative Australia, Saastamoinen Foundation, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University and the University of East London Sustainability Research Institute.  The assembly is generously funded by Saastamoinen Foundation with support from the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and it was developed with support from Creative Australia’s HIAP international residency programme.

Assembly programme:
The programme is free of charge but some venues have limited capacity. Registration opens in early August.

Image: Sirkku Rosi, Bundle, aquarelle on paper, 2025.