Poster design by Cyane Findji and
THE SURPLUS: Reimagining Care, Sound, and Place through Curatorial Practices of Sharing
The collectively curated initiative THE SURPLUS aims to enhance our relationships by listening, being open and willing to share. THE SURPLUS is composed of three distinct yet connected projects: Kerro mikä resonoi - Urban Sound Shelves, Scrying into a Shell and re:place. Each project works as an amplifier to our environment through acknowledging existing conditions and legacies, and building therefrom. By doing so, we create additional layers: an abundance that we call “the surplus”. The projects facilitate an exploration of the ways in which knowledge-building processes, urban sound, and unused spaces are embedded and reactivated in contemporary society. By emphasizing the redistribution of these surpluses we show that practices of redistribution and care need not always comply with the notion of the sharing-economy.
Kerro mikä resonoi - Urban Sound Shelves is a site installation, taking the form of participatory open-source sound archive. It’s a call to reimagine sounds of the city: the project reflects through sound on the sociology of space and infrastructures of the places we live in.
Scrying into a Shell - Investigating the Collaborative Surplus of Care is a live discussion and a podcast series focusing on the theme of relational care, which aims to create a cognitive surplus by initiating interdisciplinary discussions and emphasizing knowledge through sharing.
re:place deals with the question of usefulness in the context of urban space including thoughts, reflections and ideas about reactivating and rethinking marginal, abandoned or unconsidered places.
THE SURPLUS is curated by students of the master program in Visual Culture, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) at Aalto University, Finland.
THE SURPLUS is curated by students of the master program in Visual Culture, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) at Aalto University, Finland.