This event is organised to co-incide with a visit of Taidekoulu Maa students to Kitchen Lab Tarvo in West Helsinki, at a time when the small independently run Art School Maa, based on Suomenlinna, is under threat of closure. The session will involve reading aloud statements of support that have been received in Finnish and …

Spork is a sound art duo of Vytautas Bikauskas and Bailey Polkinghorne. They explore relationships between food and sound in communal cooking, serving, and eating. The kitchen soundscape is amplified, extended and translated with sensors, surface microphones, and motorised utensils. For this performance Spork is making and sounding a sorrel soup – a traditional Eastern-European …