Resonance: Finland 2023 brought together ten artists – Elina Brotherus, Hertta Kiiski, Kawthar Al Harthi, Khadija Al Maamari, Lada Suomenrinne, Maija Blåfield, Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa, Rosaliina Paavilainen, Ruqaiya Mazar, and Safa Baluchi – at the Saari Residence near Turku in Finland in June 2023 to develop and produce new works during an intensive period of production and exchange

A new body of works looking at the politics and poetics of the relationship with bodies of water within one's environment

A feature-length artist film telling the story of three Cuban young men that were condemned for their beliefs and their creations. It is about the power of the imagination to transcend circumstance. Co-commissioned in partnership with the Sharjah Art Foundation.

A feature-length film charting the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers across seven days representing seven decades.

In this essay, Jen Calleja reflects on the ideas of resonance in her work as a literary translator and responds to a series of visual arts commissions 'translating' scores into new works.

Saara Turunen’s piece, translated from Finnish into English by Owen F. Witesman and from Finnish into Arabic by Maria Pakkala, draws on the autobiographical to speak about resonance from two different directions.

In this short story, translated from Arabic into English by Marilyn Booth, a woman tries to visit her lover who lives in the fifth floor of a strange building.

A series of visual arts commissions by four artists from Oman – Rawan AlMahrouqi, Safa Baluchi, Ruqaiya Mazar, Riham Noor Al Zadjali – and Finnish artist Elina Brotherus responding to the theme of resonance.

An artist film exploring how the world is structured through the creation of borders and boundaries limiting movement, thinking, questioning and agency.

An essay written in response to the body of work Wandelhalle (after Sebald’s Austerlitz) by Karen Stuke commissioned by The Wapping Project in 2013 for one of the final exhibitions at the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.

A short story looking at the childhood game of resonances and echoes called The Telephone in Chile, The Broken Telephone in Argentina, and Chinese Whisperers in the UK.

A text reflecting on Laura's commission – a music album recorded in the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in March 2019.

A solo music album composed for and recorded within our former home – Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.

A writing commission by choreographer Lea Anderson, exploring the openings for imagination in dull films and TV.

A poetry commission, reinterpreting fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s Miscellaneous Notebooks. 

In this essay, Kapka Kassabova takes the childhood game of hopscotch as a staring point to think about borders.

A woman, performed by Scottish dance artist Tess Letham, sets out to draw a borderline directly onto a landscape.

A major commission examining the impact of accelerating geopolitical, technological and environmental changes on the composition, nature and use of airspace.

This text-based artwork draws on the script for Alia Syed's film Eating Grass (2003, 24 minutes), filmed in Karachi, Lahore, and London on 16mm.

A poem commissioned for the publication Passage, 2017.

A long-form poem commissioned to respond to the theme of passage and first published on 1 November 2016.

An intimate portrait of Bo Gritz – 'the American Soldier' – one of the most decorated combatants in US history and the inspiration behind RAMBO.

One of three writing commissions for the publication Transition, Transformation, Transience.

One of three writing commissions for the publication Transition, Transformation, Transience.

One of three writing commissions for the publication Transition, Transformation, Transience.