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Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with soil at the Research Pavilion #3 (2025)

Riikka Latva-Somppi
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Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil Research Pavilion #3, Venice, Italy 2019 The video documents the artistic research project Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil, that explores the relationship between humans and soil through a study of soil contamination in the Venice Lagoon area. In this research, ceramic artists collaborate with soil contamination experts focusing on the current state of the local soils and sediments, linking them with the anthropogenic impact in the area. The group of artists, researchers and MA students studied the soils and sediments of the Venice Lagoon using ceramic art and methods of soil contamination research. The video follows the artists on their sediment sampling fieldwork and documents the research environment, also recording the artists’ work at the Research Pavilion where they coiled large clay pots from local brick clay, and painted them with the contaminated soil. Working with Soil group: Maarit Mäkelä (PI), Riikka Latva-Somppi, Özgu Gündeşlioğlu and Catharina Kajander and students Tzuyu Chen, Pauliina Purhonen and Hanna Kutvonen. The project was led by Empirica research group of Aalto University’s Design Department and done in collaboration with the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE. The local brick factory Terreal SanMarco provided local brick clay for the artworks.
typeresearch exposition
keywordssoil, ceramics, pollution, interdisciplinary, fieldwork
date09/06/2025
published17/06/2025
last modified17/06/2025
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightRiikka Latva-Somppi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3750220/3758309
published inAalto University
portal issue1. 2025


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nameTraces from the Anthropocene_ Working with Soil at the Research Pavilion #3
copyrightRiikka Latva-Somppi
licenseCC BY-ND
usagesvideo
nameNäyttökuva 2025-06-10 kello 16.17.36
copyrightRiikka Latva-Somppi
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