Being With: Seals – Hanna Tuulikki

Welcome to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney podcast, Being With, featuring local and international voices from across the rīvus exhibition and program. Each episode we dissect the rich and diverse relationships we hold with nature, science and technology through creative and conceptual practices that span art, design, environmentalism and activism. 

Being With discusses ancestral and futuristic knowledge systems and cultural practices as tools for understanding. Join us and our guests to find out how our micro and macro relationships with the natural world can be understood and be nurtured.

Hanna Tuulikki
Born 1982 in Brighton, England
Lives in Glasgow, Scotland

Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice spans performance and audiovisual installation, blending vocal music, choreography, costume and drawing. In her work, she investigates how the body communicates beyond and before words to tell stories through imitation, vocalisation and gesture. With a largely place-responsive process, she considers how bodily relationships and folk histories are encoded within specific environments, ecologies and places. Her recent work engages with what it means to live on a damaged planet, proposing contemporary queer ritual as a way to process the trauma that comes with ecological awareness.