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Another Story: Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough

Egle Oddo is an artist living and working in Finland. Her work focuses on linear and non-linear narration as an art form. Interested in operational realism, meant as the presentation of the functional sphere in an aesthetic arrangement and its inter-relations, she combines photography, moving image, installation, sculpture, environmental art, and experimental live art. In her pieces industrial production morphs towards delicate handcraft, life forms appear and emerge out of sculptures and objects, film photography appropriate digital images, selected trash mix with fashion, precious edible minerals and ancestral recipes are served as part of ritual meals. Her practice is context-based, committed and based on long term research. Her work is present at international biennials, Museums and relevant institutions, as well as cutting edge and independent alternative spaces and events, to mention few: Manifesta12, Zilberman gallery, 3me Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, 54th International Exhibition Venice Biennale, Triennial Agrikultura, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Transmediale, Pace Digital gallery New York, Loop Barcelona. Her work is part of private and public collections, among them the Archive of MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome). Her research is available in the following publications: Flash Art 68, 7–9/2023, Czech & Slovak Edition, cover and article; Performative Habitats, eds. Egle Oddo & Lori Adragna, Postmedia Books, Milano; Antennae, The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, #53 Vegetal Entanglements, ed. Giovanni Aloi, New York; RUUKKU, #16 Working with the Vegetal, eds. Annette Arlander, Jerry Mättä, Malin Lobell; CrossSections, ed. Basak Senova, published by De Gruyter & Edition Angewandte, Vienna.

© Eden Tinto Collins, A Pinch of Kola at Frac Grand Large, 2023-24, photo : Martin Argyroglo

Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough is a group exhibition and a series of public events curated by Kisito Assangni for Pixelache Helsinki. Realised in collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Technology and with EMMA Museum, the exhibition will see the light in Autumn 2026. It introduces the public to the works of fifteen international artists from different contexts who take on the concepts of power relations, decolonial aesthetics, affective spaces, resilient communities, new technologies, and find them reflected in new visualities conducive to look towards the future of the museum as a lived experience.

Participating artists: Kongo Astronauts, Yto Barrada, Neïl Beloufa, Black Quantum Futurist, Eden Tinto Collins, Theo Eshetu, Miatta Kawinzi, Christian Nyampeta, Johan Thom, Sofia Yala, and five artists based in Finland which will be revealed later.

Curator Kisito Assangni: “Combining video, sound, photography, video games, installation, film and performance, most of the pieces in the show embrace a sense of reinvention and agency with the aim to shape various interpretative environments. They speak to the informed viewer as much as the uninitiated. This exhibition is an experimental platform for critical reflection and non-hegemonic world-views. The title, Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough, derives from an African proverb which means sometimes, despite the importance and place of projects, you have to let the results speak for themselves. Especially, in a practice where the process holds as much importance as the outcome, and where the notion of an unfinished, remixable project is central. Media art, through its inherently interdisciplinary, participatory, and technologically responsive nature, has the capacity to radically reshape the future of the museum––transforming it from a static repository of objects into a dynamic site for the co-production of knowledge.”

Technology introduces a new infrastructure offering nearly unlimited possibilities for art in a hyper-connected, post-digital world. Intertwined with the museum, media art marks a profound disruption of the representative regime of aesthetic experiences and objects through its nature to question global cultural systems. To what extent can media art allow us to shape the future of the museum, and set a greater model for interstices of knowledges?

EMMA Museum states about the collaboration: “Pixelache’s event at EMMA opens the art collections to the public from a new angle and strengthens the museum’s role in the field of media art. The perspectives of Pixelache—an electronic arts pioneer—and curator Kisito Assangni bring new voices to the fore and situate the media art collections in a topical context”.

© Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the ground might free us (begin again), 2024, Video Still

Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough presents works that epitomise the growth of new media art and produce sensory, affective and intellectual experiences in the context of museum. By fostering interstices of knowledges–those liminal, transdisciplinary spaces between science, technology, and embodied experience–media art redefines the museum-space as an agent of epistemic plurality and future-oriented thinking. This exhibition is an experimental platform for critical reflection and non-hegemonic world-views. It transcends cultural hierarchies, embracing what theorist Irit Rogoff in her 2000 book Terra Infirma calls “criticality”— a practice that constantly questions and destabilizes the authority of knowledge production. This shift opens up new intersticeç—spaces of intersection— where diverse forms of knowledge, from indigenous epistemologies to speculative futurisms, can coexist and interact. By challenging linear narratives and fixed hierarchies of values, media art could be the saving grace of the museum of the future. As society becomes increasingly mediated by technology, media art offers a compelling pathway for museums to remain relevant, accessible, and reflective of contemporary life.

Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough expounds the critical potential media art has to shape museums physically and philosophically in a digital world striving for new ethical standards, equity and inclusion. The exhibition is part of Another Story, a long term project designed by Egle Oddo and supported by Kone Foundation. Over the course of a three-year program, three invited curators will delve into international media art archives to curate annual exhibitions.

Initiated to instigate emerging trends and explore new narratives, the project aims to critically examine contemporary media art practices and compare curatorial approaches. By showcasing the evolving field, the project’s ambition is to create meaningful connections to diverse global archives, and to unleash valuable repositories of knowledge that warrants further exploration and revitalization. Another Story will be a prelude to Pixelache Helsinki 2026 Festival’s celebrations, with events linking directly within the festival’s programme.

The project is realised in collaboration with Finnish Museum of Technology, EMMA Museum of Modern Art Espoo, and Villa Eläintarha. Supporting the project: Kone Foundation, The Arts Promotion Centre, The Department of Culture and Leisure of Helsinki City.

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