All my curatorial practice in BKN has been connected to care and hospitality.
During collective art walks as a part of WAP, I tried to be attentive and not miss any mushrooms on our way. At times, it looked like a game of hide and seek and many artists joined in.
It is important to note that Björkö is a birch island, rich in birch and birch mushrooms. Mushrooms and birch trees have a special symbiotic relationship: they help each other survive in harsh conditions. So local gifts of nature became metaphors of our collective walk experience.
We baked a pie based on my grandmother's recipe, who loved to bake because homemade pies have a great potential to bring close people together. I feel stronger this way and can maintain the broken link between generations.
Cooking and eating together is also an important part of my artistic practice. It is a process of handling and digesting the knowledge and experiences gained together.
Marina Pugina is an independent curator and researcher in exile. She used to work with contemporary art archives, various forms of artistic self-runs, modes of temporal collectivity, and co-participation.
She is a researched based curator living a some what nomadic life. I take on reserach based projects or projects envolving varous communities.
