Artist, writer, and School of Critical Studies faculty Amanda Beech will present her five-channel video installation Map of the Bomb and deliver a keynote lecture at the Sixth Research Pavilion: Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries in Helsinki, Finland.
The exhibition opens Friday, Dec. 5, and runs through Sunday, Dec. 21, at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki).
Commissioned by Fieldwork Marfa, Map of the Bomb, was filmed in Marfa, Texas; Los Angeles; and Beirut. The piece follows a female protagonist who moves through multiple timelines in a noir-inspired investigation of how reality might be understood and altered through complex structural patterns. She joins forces with an empiricist counterpart to develop a new sonic code intended to reshape the future from within. Their story unfolds in parallel worlds that appear simultaneously, prompting questions about how time and space can align across diverging realities.
The group exhibition, Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries, explores how artistic research can respond to a future shaped by overlapping global crises. The pavilion revisits Roland Barthes’ text How to Live Together, which reflects on the value of what he called idiorrhythmic practices, forms of coexistence that respect individual rhythms while still allowing for community.
Through experimental curatorial methods such as discursive events, performance, and alternative modes of display, the pavilion frames the exhibition as an active site of inquiry that asks how new imaginaries and forms of collective life might take shape today.
There is an opening event for the exhibition on Thursday, Dec. 4, featuring several talks and performances, including the keynote lecture by Beech.
