{"id":9521,"date":"2022-10-08T13:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/?p=9521"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T09:11:49","slug":"20221008-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/20221008-2\/","title":{"rendered":"20221008"},"content":{"rendered":"

We wrote an appeal Chaim \u201cPoju\u201d Zabludowicz\u2019s membership of Kiasma Support Foundation must be revoked<\/a> (2022) to the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma with artist Terike Haapoja. I’m thankful for having the opportunity to work with them. The appeal is direct in its confrontation with the institution. For me it represents a step in a series of inevitable actions, which the 2021 article for No-Niin<\/a> and it’s later 2022 translation for Tiedonantaja<\/a> call for. I’m particularly proud that we issued a very clear demand and named people who are responsible for the current state of affairs. Our writing is in accordance to how Aruna D\u2019Souza advices art-writers to engage<\/a> with institutions, for example not to be afraid to “name names\u201d. The text also includes a short pedagogical snippet informing audiences of “artwashing” and “soft power” (in Finnish), which are cute and could work in a textbook.<\/p>\n

Kiasma\u2019s Director Leevi Haapala describes Zabludowicz\u2019s role on the board of the support foundation as unproblematic, for instance, appealing to the organization\u2019s safer-space policy. When someone who represents art organizations being boycotted and who funds the covering up of human-rights violations holds a seat at the heart of a state institution, we have to ask: for whom is the organization keeping the space safe?<\/p>\n

The safer-space policy cannot mean that the museum is excused from concern for human-rights violations or for apartheid, nor can it in any way support them. [\u2026] We challenge Kiasma \u2013 the organization arranging [Ars22 Gathering] discussions \u2013 to extend its safer-space policy to its own institutional structures, too. The first step in this would be to revoke Chaim \u201cPoju\u201d Zabludowicz\u2019s membership of the Board. Otherwise Kiasma will endanger its credibility as a platform for discussions of social responsibility, and will be complicit in the artwashing of a political activity that endangers human lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We wrote an appeal Chaim \u201cPoju\u201d Zabludowicz\u2019s membership of Kiasma Support Foundation must be revoked (2022) to the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma with artist Terike Haapoja. I’m thankful for having the opportunity to work with them. The appeal is direct in its confrontation with the institution. For me it represents a step in a … <\/p>\n

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