The Billion Workshop
The Billion Workshop is an artistic process exploring soil microorganisms as message-makers.
At the Sibelius Museum, the artist draws local plants, then buries the drawings so microbes can transform them through decay. Displayed at Aboagora, these works reveal a dialogue between the artist, the soil and decomposers. In the workshop, we discuss soil biodiversity and care, and the participants can create their own messages to the earth using natural materials. These messages are buried on site, inviting reciprocity and attention to the vast life beneath our feet.
Photo: Pauli Pylkkö
Leena Pylkkö
Leena Pylkkö is a sculptor and performance artist whose work combines material playfulness with philosophical reflection. In her sculptural practice she works naively and spontaneously with clay, in a style she calls philosophical naïvism. Pylkkö has also performed at various events with her cheerful “Moppa”, which is centered on cleaning as an artistic act. Alongside sculpture and performance, plant drawing, botany and environmental art have long been a parallel strand in her practice, but with the Aboagora will now become the main topic.
Pylkkö studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and graduated with a diploma from Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Germany. She also holds a Licentiate degree in Philosophy from Åbo Akademi University.