GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE
Meanings and Materialities
Conference – Exhibition

Cable Factory (Valssaamo), Helsinki
6–15 June 2024

Conference 6–8 June 

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    Exhibition 6–15 June

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    Papers

    Cynthia Blanchette
    Parasitic Souvenirs

    Eylul Bombaci
    Exchanging Guidance, Exchanging Magic: Spiritual Encounters in Digital

    Aurora del Rio
    Gift of Inheritance: what is a gift that we cannot experience?


    Juan Duarte
    Embodied Listening


    Irina Garnets
    Spaces as boundary objects

    Jeremy Gould
    Stitching the community together. Album quilts as restorative gifts

    Heidi Hänninen
    Case KAS! - giving for the public / space

    Sonja Lampinen, Olli Pyyhtinen & Niina Uusitalo
    Garbo-asemics: the givenness of waste as material data


    Nina Lykke
    Wondering about immanent miracles and miraculous gifts from the dead

    Francisco Martinez
    Asemic Library between Gift and Waste

    Katri Naukkarinen & Laura Beloff
    Flavobacterium, Gâteau Vivant and the Economy of Gifting

    Karsten Paerregaard
    Don’t Waste Gifts on Me! – Mountain Offerings, Environmental Pollution and Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes

    Beáta Paragi
    Gifts with burden attached. Coding the spiritual essence into EU-financed aid projects and funding agreements

    Pilvi Porkola
    Performance as a gift – Pedagogical experiments in artist pedagogy
     
    Margrit Shildrick
    Keynote (together with Alexandra Urakova): The Gift as a Present, the Gift as Presence: Disrupting Gift Theory?

    Eunsil Shin
    Accursed Gift: contaminated soil bags and the shape of time after the Fukushima nuclear disaster

    Tracey Sowerby
    Performativity, Presence and Peril: Reflections on the Meaning of Diplomatic Gifts

    Daniel Spotswood
    Fractals of a Mountain: human-environment relations in the Peruvian Andes

    Virpi Timonen, Eunsil Shin, Malin Bäckman, Federica Previtali & Friedemann Neumann
    Human material and environmental legacies through the prism of gift

    Alexandra Urakova
    Keynote (together with Margrit Shildrick): The Gift as a Present, the Gift as Presence: Disrupting Gift Theory?

    Umut Vedat
    Exploring the Aesthetics of Digital Gifts: An Artistic Inquiry into Online Gaming Communities

    Frederic Vandenberghe
    Marcel Mauss, MAUSS, and Maussology. An Archeology of the Essay on the Gift