11 September 2025 | 10:00–11:30

Panel Session: Repairing for Peace

This year, ABOAGORA Retreat VIII: Repairing for Peace invited artists and researchers from a range of different disciplines to imagine peace at the time of accelerating militarisation.
10 September 2025 | 18:00- 20:00

Evening Session: Veni Vidi Voice & My Body the Earth

Wednesday evening session offers an invitation to the explorations into the realm of Venus. First, Ida-Marie Corell gives an audiovisual performance of her work on Venus, and after artists Pia Palme, Satu Hakamäki and Elie Halonen will share their 30-minute performative ecology. It all will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
11 September 2025 | 18:00 - 20:00

SPIRIT LAND/VUOIŊŊALAŠ EANADAT 

Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat is a practice-based transdisciplinary artistic research project around animated Sámi landscapes. It is an act of decolonisation in a hybrid form, composed of…
11 September 2025 | 15:00 – 16:30

AGORA: The Role of History in War and Peace

In my remarks on The Role of History in War and Peace, I will seek to examine the role of history and historians as both instigators of war and how they can be used to prevent and defuse conflict.
10 September 2025 | 15:45 – 17:15

Workshop: Mapping Venus

Mapping Venus, though art and knowledge transfer, sensuous excursions and embodied reclamations – an invitation. 
10 September 2025 | 12:15- 13:30

Opening Ceremony

We officially open ABOAGORA 2025 with opening remarks, Venusmusic by Mareike Dobewall, and a showcase of the virtual part of the immersive installation "The Layers of the Peace Machine"; "Layer of Sharing".