
Leena Pukki’s The Time of a Slime Mold (2021, in featured image) has been selected to be screened at the SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival, taking place from October 25–28, 2023 in New York City, US. The screening featuring nordic films will take place on October 27 at 5pm.
In The Time of a Slime Mold: The movement of slime mold is combined with pattern subjects selected from Karelian thread blankets. Slime molds are primitive Amoebozoa organisms that can move even they do not have a brain or nervous system. The poem heard in the background expresses themes of time, circulation and decomposing.
Leena Pukki (b. 1984) is a visual artist who is interested in cultural hegemonies, relationship between human and other species, history, utopias, feelings and power relations. Pukki received her MA from the Aalto University 2015 and BA from Lahti University of Applied Sciences Art Institute in 2007.
SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival, October 25–28, 2023, New York City, US
More information: SLA Art Space Animation Film Festival
AV-arkki has promoted and distributed Finnish media art since 1989. AV-arkki’s promotional efforts have made the artists’ participation in this event possible. If you want to hear the latest news from our distribution, subscribe to our newsletter!