Contamination Lab: 'Life in the Ruins' workshop
Jiyoun Lee and Arlene Tucker (2025)
In the workshop 'Life in the Ruins': Exploring Contamination Lab through movement and text with Georgie Goater, we will attune our bodily senses and playfully engage with contamination as collaboration, through the lens of life in the ruins and the art of encountering the unexpected. An embodied matrix of movement and text-based tasks, relational scores, and reflection facilitates a safer playground for bodymind inquiry, with an invitation to experiment, be present with the emergent, and, hopefully, ask more questions. These workshops are free and open to the public.
Workshop in Helsinki on November 4th from 18-19:45, Humina, Uutiskatu 2, Helsinki, https://www.huminary.net/
Workshop in Oulu is on December 13th 2025, from 14.15:45 at Veeran Verstas, Lossikuja 6, Tuira
Accessibility: The Humina space is wheelchair-accessible. The accessible toilet is reached by going out and entering the same building across the car park. Veeran Varstas has stairs with no elevator and is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. The workshop is open to all interested; however, unfortunately, there is no sign-language interpreter. For further inquiries, please get in touch.
Co-curators Jiyoun Lee and Arlene Tucker created Contamination Lab in 2024 to study things we don't know yet, to clarify misunderstandings and to create togetherness. Our network of transnational participants investigates contamination and what it means to contaminate or to be contaminated through ecological and human perspectives. Contamination Lab is inspired by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s book The Mushroom at the End of the World, as it “argues that staying alive— for every species—requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across differences, which leads to contamination. Without collaborations, we all die.”
Georgie Goater is a dance artist from Aotearoa, currently based in Helsinki. Her work has spanned Aotearoa, the UK, and Finland as a performer, facilitator, and choreographer over the past two decades. Her practice has developed within disability and multicultural art contexts, honouring each person’s unique embodied intelligence and perception, activated by relational and feminist perspectives.
https://www.globeartpoint.fi/creatives/georgie-goater/
