Militarized Nature - exhibition examining landscapes where ecological processes and military infrastructures converge

Militarized Nature | An exhibition by Jack Faber

12/8/2025 – 1/9/2025

Militarized Nature, the current site-responsive exhibition by Jack Faber, is situated within his long-term artistic research project addressing contested territories, climate frontlines, and accelerated surveillance regimes. Developed across multiple geopolitical contexts, the project interrogates how ecological systems become entangled with military imaginaries and their extinction economies. This exhibition offers a reflexive turn: re-routing those concerns through the institutional, architectural, and affective infrastructures of artistic research itself.

Taking the form of a site-specific cartographic installation, Militarized Nature unfolds across the former glass-paneled terrain of Myllytori, with its prominent brutalist “neo-Valhalla” stairwells and open-air space. The exhibition transforms the site into a semi-transparent interface for reflecting on fragile environments, institutional opacity, and cinematic legibility. As both an ethical proposition and a critical gesture, the work positions the institution not merely as a context to challenge but as a subject: a screen, a sensorium, and a shifting actor within the apparatus of research and destruction.

The exhibition brings together moving images, large-scale ultra-panoramic photographic prints, sculptural installation, and cinematic site-specific works to examine landscapes where ecological processes and military infrastructures converge. These contested zones—including coastal crash sites, iceberg observation stations, and undisclosed high-arctic locations—emerge as unstable environments in which non-human life adapts within architectures of surveillance and control.

Faber’s practice spans urgent themes of ecology, militarization, and the rights of humans, animals, and artificial intelligences. Through Militarized Nature, these trajectories converge in a site-specific constellation that reimagines militarized landscapes as spaces of both environmental reclamation and psychological tension.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program of talks, screenings, and discussions with researchers, artists, and local communities.

More information: https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/exhibitions-at-myllytori/