Here, Not. Dialogues on art and the making of here is an edited collection of conversations, photographic work, and text, that investigate how cultural and artistic practices deal with belonging, identity and access in the urban spaces of Helsinki. 

Border thinking helps us reflect on how cultural work participates, everyday, in the global and local dynamics through which we produce geographies that are accessible, safe, and home for some and not for others. In the book, these reflections develop together with fourteen arts and cultural workers based in Finland. Their contributions focus on what is happening across and beyond the threshold of the art gallery, how art sits and is bridged into the city.

Contributors: 
Alejandra Alarcón, Francesca Bogani Amadori, Micol Curatolo, Lucy Davis, Amy Gelera (S.U.R.), Lotta Hagelin, Naomi and Wanda Holopainen, Impropias Collective (Mercedes Balarezo Fernández, Yes Escobar, Paola Nieto Paredes, Daniela Pascual Esparza), Alice Mutoni (Ubuntu Film Club), Muniba Rasheed, Eliisa Suvanto (Porin kulttuurisäätö).
Edited by Micol Curatolo. 
Design by Lù Chén.

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Find the book at: 

PUBLICS, Helsinki (FI)
Lot Projects, London (UK) 18.8.2024
Under the Leaf Book Fair (FI) 7-8.9.2024 
TULCA Festival, Galway (IE) 9.11.2024 
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (IE) 14.11.2024