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From Dakar, Senegal.
Based in Helsinki, Finland.
Doing stuff with @subverse_thesummit

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AK Wane is an artist, writer and curator from Dakar, Senegal.

The year at Jan van Eyck was spent working on a book, a rememory that belongs to somebody else. An exploration of archives, family histories, motherhood and colonialism. AK has gone to France, Senegal and Guinea, in a search through archives and hoping the places themselves will speak to them.

These images were collected throughout the year.
1. Washing a screen
2. Archive in the Jan van Eyck library
3. Door in Foix, Ariège
4. Archives Nationales de La Guinée à Conakry
5. Tests
6. Door in Maastricht
7. Preparing for screen printing with @romyfinke26
8. Screen printing with @margriet.thissen
9. Bookbinding with @zinasefue
10. I can’t believe it’s a book (designed by @zinasefue)

#janvaneyckacademie #akwane #artistinresidence

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Friends in the Neatherlands and in Europe! Please save for Next Week date 23 - 25 October to dance with the Death at #Thanatophile 💀💃🏽💀🎊@janvaneyckacademie OPEN STUDIOS 2026. Come and see the Death in the face and the wonderfull work of all the residents @nazarzar @florameteoro @carolinericcalee @taqwabnali @lukasheistinger @mathias.palazzi @jeune.thomas @mahmoud_khalil_b @plum404 @punxh @sophiegisbertz @yigelongpanpan @gabaa_4 @khaizel22 @tagliagio @tuomaalamartta @the.omaradel @sonxseed @themissing_texture @rori_rob.ritzen @thaonguyenphan_ @younes_zarhoni @anahita_norouzi @alexandriadouziech @nisrinembarki1 @avery.sofie @percyniinoi @amshuchukki @yannichanbiaofederer @nathaliemuchamad #andreasengman @hej_hyuna @lorenamal @anna.karima

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This week 👉 Join @alexandriadouziech and @anna.karima in conversation at this week’s participant presentation.

The two will discuss their individual projects, exploring shared questions about ancestors, labour, vulnerability, and the experience of working with, within, and outside institutions and archives.

⏰ 17:30 CEST
📅 Wednesday, 23 September 2026
📍 Jan van Eyck Academie

➡ @alexandriadouziech engages the senses to make history felt in the body, positioning plants and their commodities as storytellers and living archives of human resilience. Drawing from her ancestors and family experiences, she will share new and ongoing projects that trace stories of survival while revealing the colonial residues that continue to shape the present.

➡ @anna.karima will present an ongoing research project exploring family history, acts of remembering, and the archive as a site of both presence and absence. Drawing on national, municipal, and colonial records in search of traces of their great-grandmother, AK’s work asks what parts of a life are seen as worth recording and what is lost to time.

Together, they will explore where their practices intersect — in the labor of looking, the ethics of representation, and the vulnerability required to work honestly with inherited histories.

📸 Alexandria Douziech: courtesy of the artist
📸 AK Wane: courtesy of the artist

#janvaneyckacademie #artistresidency #artistinresidence #alexandriadouziech #akwane

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🌱 Follow The Plants is out now! This anthology, edited by Madeleine Collie @madeleine___collie & Yvonne Billimore @yvonnebillimore traces plants through history, art, and collective research.

Several HIAP faces are featured inside, including resident alumni Matti Aikio @mattiaikio and Sirkku Rosi @sirkkurosi and former Residency Assistant AK Wane @anna.karima - all connected through Madeleine Collie’s 2025 HIAP residency, during which she worked on the publication.

Congratulations to everyone involved 🎉 Get your copy and join the related workshops and performances at HIAP Gallery Augusta this Saturday 29 August.

🔗 Link in bio for more information.

Photo: Nina-Lou Simeon / HIAP A light green book titled “Follow the Plants” by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore (eds.) is lying on grass and small wild plants. The cover has hand-drawn sketches of plants and a loose map-like layout with paths and notes scattered across it.

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Bioart Society and @food_art_research_network are thrilled to end this month by announcing the contributors, partners and programme for Follow the Plants Research Assembly, 26 – 29 August 2026, Helsinki (and on the airwaves)!

As the perfect accompaniment to the Follow the Plants publication, the assembly seeds correspondences between plants, people and places in the book and those situated in Helsinki. Joining us are artists, writers and activists who have been following plants through/with plantations, labs, kitchens, wildfires, hedgerows, dreams, reindeer, love and ancestors, and who, in different ways, position and perform their research as a lively and living practice

°°°Contributors°°°
Event programme curated by @madeleine___collie and @yvonnebillimore featuring: @ediblearchives (Shalini Krishan and Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar), @iamajoq, Joona Sorsa, @lenanty, @kyriaki.goni.studio, Margherita Pevere, @mattiaikio, @nathaliemuchamad, @rubianemaia_artwork, @sepideeraa, @sirkkurosi, @sonjadonner.

Film programme curated by Danai Anagnostou/ @kennofilmi featuring: @anna.karima, @alanavhunt, Barbara Hammer, Catriona Gallagher, @elianurvista, Otar Iosseliani, @theos_perspective, Yugantar Collective.

For the outline of the programme and more information on the contributors, visit the link in Bioart Society’s insta bio.

All Follow the Plants Assembly programme is free of charge but some venues have limited capacity. Registration opens in early August.

The assembly programme is realised in a city wide partnership and will take place at @hiap_suomenlinna , @hamhelsinki , Kaisaneimi Botanic Garden (outdoor garden) with @ooo_radio, @cinemaorion with @kennofilmi and @k.o.e.k.e.i.t.t.i.o

The assembly funded by @saastamoinenfoundation with support from @fininst_uk_ireland

Images:
1,2,5: Designed by Maríana Martínez Balvanera @melein
3: Shalini Krishan, courtesy Edible Archives
4: Nathalie Muchamad. Photo: Séverine Fernandes, ville de Malakoff
6: Sepideh Rahaa, Songs to Earth, Songs to Seeds, part of a media art installation, Vallisaari, Helsinki biennial 2023. Photo: Kirsi Halkola
7: Margherita Pevere, Lament, 2024, performance view. Photo: Romane Iskaria

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𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Thank you to everybody who joined the Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes finissage event and shared energies, sounds, and sacred codes. Special thanks to:
@ibaaku
@chellachella

Photos/videos by @robvanhoorn, @itsmunganyende , @zineb_seghrouchni @martamatera_ , @tresjulie77 , @surajit_mudi

The finissage performance ‘Sonic World Building’ is part of the programme DAR creates to cultivate exchange, reflection, and collective practice within the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes, presented in collaboration with Marres @marres_maastricht and RAW Material Company @raw.gram2011

#marresmaastricht #curatedbydar #sacredcodes #africanfuturism #liveperformances

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Découvrez la liste complète des signataires initiaux de la lettre ouverte.
Il a fallu que ses voix se mettent ensemble pour que la lettre voit le jour.
Une immense reconnaissance envers chacun et chacune. Consultez le site, lien en bio pour lire la lettre et la signer. #lettreadiomaye @ndeydebo @fatimsmr @cie.ciss @ibaaku @photographe_ambulante @anna.karima @rbs_dia @nzingabm @jen_hoood maky_madiba_sylla @nobsidienne @elou_skn @diiakus @miduoff @maua_ya_jua @salimata.diop @isciencemusic @hajarpounou @ruins_and_seeds @nathalievairac @kerimooo710 @madzootrk @jb.joire @ob_dieme @germaineacogny @archivebkj @laemotionne @cleophee_moser @smoscareface @pendaksc @annadgne @ndiayececile @josephinembouptfm @elena_bougaire @connyschneider111 @nampemanla @sisterlb_officiel @alain.gomis.3 @nkem.ebiere

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AK Wane has taken on a 2026 residency period at the #janvaneyckacademie, supported by the @saastamoinenfoundation 👏

They work primarily in video, in between experimental and documentary practices, to give voice to historically underrepresented people. They work within and without the archive, searching for meaning in what has been told and what has not.

Wane’s ongoing work "a rememory that belongs to somebody else" is a research into family and colonial histories, and the creation of one’s own archive, a project that they will be further expanding during the JvE residency.

Welcome @anna.karima

📷 Photo by Kerry Etola Viderot

#maastricht #artistinresidence #artistresidency #saastamoinenfoundation

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Our exhibition ’Still I Rise’ has soon passed its halfway mark and I’ve invited the artist, writer and curator @anna.karima who’s work exists at the intersection of documentary and experimental practices, to interact with our works and activate the exhibition with a workshop.

Join us in a mapping workshop about the ways we orient ourselves in relation to nature. The workshop takes place in the exhibition space Vintti, as a side event of the exhibition Still I Rise.

Did you collect sticks as a kid? Did your grandfather teach you to fish? Do you have a particular technique to climb trees?
Come share stories of nature, trees and traditions with us!

Welcome this Saturday @seinajoentaidehalli from 12 o’clock.

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Short film work 🎥

I had the greatest pleasure to work with @sashahuber on this beautiful film. Such an wonderful experience of a community spanning over generations. Keep your eyeballs peeled since it will be screening in a gallery near you!

Synopsis: Rosa Emilia Clay was a teacher (in Tampere, Kuopio, and Urjala), a singer, and a choral conductor born in 1875 in Omaruru, Namibia. She was the daughter of Feroza Sabina Hazara from the Bantu tribe and British merchant Charles William Clay. She was soon taken from her mother by her father and, at the age of four, adopted by Finnish missionaries.

In 1899, Rosa became the first African-born person to be granted Finnish citizenship. Facing racism, differential treatment, and great personal loss, she left Finland for the United States in 1904.

On Rosa’s 150th birthday, 31 August 2025, we – some of her sisters from the future – gathered to honor and celebrate her life as the community she never had during her time in Finland.

ROSA

5:30 min

Director/Artist: Sasha Huber
Rosa: @isabella._shaw
Community: @nahadi_babelturm Carla Nahadi Babelegoto, Sasha Huber, @anna.karima, @sarahnakiito Nakiito, @dr_faith_mkwesha, @iidavalme
Producer: @jonathan_clabburn
Cinematographer: @alvipakarinen
2nd Camera: @amulios Espinosa
Music: @isabella._shaw
Sound design: @iaingrantsound
Editor: @jonathan_clabburn
Color grading: Hannu Käki
Stills photographer: @ananyatanttu
Runners: Emilia Kabalu @numbieee, Derek Okekeani @foolishdex, Iida Valme
Garments: @SofiaIlmonen

Thank you: Irene Omwami, Anna Rastas, Petri Saarikko, Bindi Vora

Archival photo of Rosa Emilia Clay by Impi Hermilna Backman (1889) / The Finnish Heritage Agency

Support: Arts Promotion Centre Finland @taikegram

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snippets from September & October💌

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AK Wane and Lola Olufemi discuss what we can learn from archives of revolutionary movements and which lessons to bring into modern activist practices.

📖 Read ‘Dreaming of Liberation: An Interview with Lola Olufemi’ by Anna Karima “AK” Wane on NO NIIN Issue 31: Persistent Traces of Removal.

🔗 Link in bio

@anna.karima
@lowlamichelle
@micolcuratolo
@museumofimpossibleforms

Photo: Lola Olufemi at SLOW Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, 2025. Photo by Yelyzaveta Babaieva.

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