AREA Publications
Faecal Pharmakon
This article explores the evolutionary emotion ‘disgust’ towards parasites in faecal matter.
Souvenir of the ‘Me’
The article unpacks the concept of the parasitic souvenir.
Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice
A practice-led research exposition exploring architectural practice through feminist spatial practice providing possibilities for un-learning and speculation.Exhibitions and Creative Outputs
Blanchette, C. (2026). Parts for People [solo exhibition and research survey].
Blanchette, C. (2025). Parasitic Souvenirs [installation]. In AeRaTe – Artistic Research Exhibition.
Blanchette, C. (2025). The Bite [installation]. In Välillä Väärässä [exhibition]. Imatra.
Blanchette, C. (2024). Shit Load [sculpture]. In GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE: Meanings and Materialities exhibition, Cable Factory, Helsinki, 6–15.6.2024.
Koivisto, E. & Suomi, M. (2025). Kudos – Library for Material Relations [installation]. Forum Kortteli, Turku, 9.12.2025–7.2.2026.
Meriläinen, A. (2026). Kotiteatteri esittää: Makuuhuoneessa [pre-examined artistic component]. Tehdas Teatteri, Turku (premiere 17.6.2026).
Meriläinen, A. (2025). Hypnos [media art, pre-examined artistic component]. Cirko, Helsinki (premiere 6.2.2025).
Meriläinen A. (2025). Excluded [installation]. AeRaTe Exhibition. Aalto University, Espoo.
Journal Articles and Expositions
Blanchette, C. (2025). Faecal Pharmakon. In Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness and Beyond, Aachen 2024 (pp. 277–283). British Computer Society.
Blanchette, C. (2025). Souvenir of the 'Me'. In The Presence of Exchange: GIFT in Artistic Research and Beyond. Art Theoretical Writings from the Academy of Fine Arts (pp. 48–65).
Koivisto, E. (2025). Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice. VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, 14.
Conference Presentations
Blanchette, C. (2025). AeRaTe Symposium [presentation]. Aalto University, Helsinki.
Blanchette, C. (2025). Politics of the Machines: Synthetic Sentience [paper presentation]. Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Blanchette, C. (2025). TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science [paper presentation]. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Blanchette, C. (2024). GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE: Meanings and Materialities [presentation]. Cable Factory, Helsinki.
Blanchette, C. (2024). Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & Beyond [paper presentation]. RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Heinonen H., Meriläinen A., Pusa T. (2025). Click here: The teacher showed porn! – On the responsible presentation of porno-art in higher education. FERA Conference 2025, Rovaniemi.
Meriläinen A., Heinonen H., & Pusa T. (2026). Navigating the taboo: Porno-art, pedagogy, and academic freedom in higher education [lecture-demonstration]. Artist and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices, Uniarts Helsinki, 27–29.8.2026.
Meriläinen A. (2025). Presentation about Boxes. AeRaTe Symposium. Aalto University, Espoo.
Torrey, M. (2026). Earth, sea, sky divide: Practice-based research with Cambrian blue clay. College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Torrey, M. (2026). Paper as a responsive threshold: Material correspondence and assemblage in collagraphs. Symposium on Paper, Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Torrey, M. (2026). The spatiotemporal collagraph: A material exploration of granite. Materiality and Immateriality International Printmaking Conference, Wrocław, Poland.
Torrey, M. (2026). Thinking with the sea: Interactions and new perspectives inspired by the blue humanities. Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland, 30 September–1 October 2026 (forthcoming).
Torrey, M. (2026). What color is the Cambrian sky? Material thinking with Cambrian blue clay. 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities, Cappadocia, Turkey. (Accepted; not presented.)
Torrey, M. (2025). AeRaTe Symposium. Aalto University, Helsinki.
Torrey, M. (2025). Distant surfaces: The spatiotemporality of Cambrian blue clay as an exploration of the deep time of pigments. SECAC Conference, Cincinnati, OH. (Accepted; not presented.)
Torrey, M. (2025). The spatiotemporal collagraph: A material exploration of granite. 6th PARSE Biennial Artistic Research Conference "Some Like It Hot", University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Torrey, M. (2024). The life of a brick: Using expanded printmaking as a material exploration of Wiang Kum Kam in Northern Thailand. Session "The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay," Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA) World Congress 2024, Lyon, France.
Vera, Alejandra (2026). From matter to method: Situated and relational approaches through geothermal clay. Conference publication (Accepted to DRS International conference 2026 Edinburgh, 8-12 June 2026)