Art Salon Vision: Milky Ways
Language of milk: M/Otherhood and cosmic metabolism.
If an infant receives milk from another human, it also receives a world. Information is stored in the milk’s sugars and traces of microbes, which the child interprets and transforms to form their cognition.
What does this biological and cosmic transmission mean? Which psychological models can accommodate a more fluid understanding of what happens, when new worlds are created within and around people?
This salon unravels visual artist Jenna Sutela’s artistic practice and focus on her interest in bodily fluids and her ways of addressing biological, technological and poetic systems.
In the salon, Sutela’s latest film Milky Ways will have its Danish premiere. In Milky Ways, breast milk is sent on a cosmic journey through a laboratory simulation of human digestion. The film builds a multi-stranded narrative based on the handover of microbiotic worlds between people, while unfolding scientific, cosmic and mythical narratives about metabolism.
The event will set Jenna Stula in conversation with curator Aslak Aamot Helm about her practice and collaboration with the artistic platform Primer. The conversation will expand towards scientific and philosophical perspectives together with Mani Arumugam, researcher in microbiotic development, and Adam Bencard, medical humanities at Medicinsk Museion.
Milky Ways was made as part of a longer exchange with the Danish art platform Primer, where Sutela will have a solo exhibition in the autumn of 2023. The production of the film is a collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark, the Novo Nordisk Center of Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen and the Medical Museum
Practical information
- The event will be in English
- Tickets cost DKK 10
- Find tickets at Billetto
- Takes place at Medicinsk Museion, Bredgade 62
- 9 May 2023 at 16-18
- The salon will be in English
