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SUMMARY:Screening: Thawing of the Frozen Rivers
DESCRIPTION:Screening of Thawing of the Frozen Rivers\, by Kristiina Kosken
 tola with Han Xiaohan\n\n\nWe start with a conversation between the artist
  and curator and writer Anders Kreuger\, Director of Kunsthalle Kohta in H
 elsinki. Kristiina will speak about her collaboration with Manchu shamanic
  composer Han Xiaohan.\nRefreshments and snacks will be offered after the 
 screening.\n\n\n\nAbout the work\nWhile the original installation\, first 
 shown in 2025\, includes 3 channel moving image with sound\, ritualistic p
 erformances\, small statues of animal gods\, Manchu\, Mongol\, Kazakh and 
 Karelian carpets\, the work has been exceptionally adapted for a dialogic 
 screening at Villa Eläintarha.\nIts title\, ‘Thawing of the Frozen Rive
 rs’\, transcends the literal reference to melting ice and extends the no
 tion of ‘thawing’ to the process of warming rigid and isolating system
 s such as distinctions between species\, nations or cultures based on bina
 ry oppositions. Both the work and the title articulate the process of rec
 onnecting\, of opening ourselves to new relationships: between ourselves 
 as humans but also to non-human entities and spiritual worlds. Like Kristi
 ina Koskentola’s larger practice\, ‘Thawing of the Frozen Rivers’ s
 eeks to foster a deeper\, more empathetic interconnectedness emphasizing 
 the limits (and failures) of human-centred knowledge and agency.\nThe riv
 ers\, alongside with the Taiga forests and the vibration of the shaman dru
 ms as natural pathways\, serve as speculative metaphors for connection and
  flow\, for multispecies coexistence and planetary healing.\n\n\nAbout the
  artist\nKristiina Koskentola\, PhD\, is a Finnish transdisciplinary artis
 t with Karelian heritage\, currently dividing her time between Amsterdam\,
  Helsinki and Northern China\, where she has been spending her winters for
  over a decade\, living and working with various communities. This has had
  a profound impact on her work\, thinking and being in and of the world. H
 er interdisciplinary\, multisensory and collaborative practice\, spanning 
 moving image\, sound\, publications\, musical performances and convivial c
 ooking events\, engages with ecological philosophy\, shamanic knowledge sy
 stems and posthuman discourse. The work often combines field research with
  collaborative and polyvocal methodologies. Koskentola’s work has been f
 eatured in many exhibitions in the international context\, among them the 
 3rd Helsinki Biennial in 2025. Her book ‘Enfleshed’ was published by O
 nomatopee in Eindhoven\, the Netherlands\, in 2023.\n\nAbout the curator\n
 Anders Kreuger is a Swedish-born curator and writer who has been directing
  Kohta\, an artist-initiated kunsthalle for Helsinki\, since 2019. Before 
 that he was\, among other things\, Senior Curator at M HKA\, the Museum of
  Contemporary Art Antwerp\, member of te editorial team of the London-base
 d art journal ‘Afterall’\, Director of the Malmö Art Academy in Swede
 n and Founding Director of NIFCA\, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary A
 rt\, in Helsinki.\n\nImage caption\nfilm still Han Xiaohan Ritualisitc per
 formance by the Amur River (2024) © the artists\n\n&nbsp\;
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