The most important thing that happened to me during this year of wars and disasters are the two cats Pipo and Pompe that came into my life in July and radically changed my days. There were other exciting things, too, old and new projects and people, some of them listed below, but nothing as overwhelming as these two characters whose wellbeing I am now responsible for and whose constant benign presence I can enjoy.
 

 
Projects and ongoing events in 2024
As an auspicious start for the year I was elected honorary member of Artists’ Association MUU (2024-), see here, and an interview in Finnish, here.
Pondering with Pines – Miettii mäntyjen kanssa – Funderar med furor (2022-2024), my main concern and a development and continuation of my previous projects related to trees was concluded this year, although I will continue working with the materials. See presentation in English at Uniarts website, the three-lingual blog here and the archive on the RC, here. One example is The Pine of the Year – The year of the Pine, see here.
I have had the opportunity to participate in the project Gifts from the Sentient Forest, which will continue in 2025, see project website and my personal archive on the RC.
The podcast Talking with Trees – Puhetta Puille – Talar med Träd on Soundcloud, here will continue in some manner.
Animal Years via qr codes on location on Harakka Island, see map here was temporarily out of function, but will be repaired in the Spring.

Exhibitions, events and performances in 2024
Tala om det för Tallen (Tell it to the Pine) in Hippolyte studio 1-24.11.2024. See here.
With the Pine in Kaivopuisto Park 2-3-1 at Muu Mediataidetori 17-21.10.2024.
Männyn kanssa – With a Pine – Med en fura, Telegraf gallery on Harakka Island 20.8.-1.9.2024. Se here.
Citizen Pine, installation as part of City is sound, city is quicksand 21-23.5.2024.
Screening of With the Master Pine – mix and Dearest Pine Tree in pop-up exhibition, Yögalleria 10.4.2024.
Rakas Kuusi (Dear Spruce) in the compilation Tuhon ja tunteiden metsä or Trees and Destruction by AV-arkki at the Tampere Film Festival 7 and 9.3.2024. See program book.
Day with Pine in the MUU Gala compilation at Taidekeskus Itä, Lappeenranta 17.2.2024.
Listening with a Pine (mix) as part of the program The Strolling Creatures of Light at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre 27.1.2024.
Performing in Auringonvihreä – hommage to poet Gunnar Björling by Sanna Kekäläinen at the Helsinki Observatory 25-27.1.2024.
Pondering with Pines – Conversation in Three Languages, exhibition at Muu Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre 7-21.1.2024. See info. Small review in Finnish here.

Publications in 2024
How to Do Things with Artistic Research – Animal Years Revisited. Acta Scenica 65, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2024. See here.
Arlander, Annette, Barton, Bruce, Householder, Johanna and Man, Michelle. 2024. “The Work of Sharing: Discussing Performance in the Mode of Performance”.Performance Philosophy Journal Vol.9 No.1 (2024): Performance Philosophy Problems, 121-135.
“Workshop with a Pine” in Mend-Blend-Attend: Advancing Artistic Research, Proceedings of the 13th SAR International conference on Artistic Research, 86-95.
“Revisiting the Rusty Ring: Ecofeminism Today?” A video essay from 2020 reprinted in Special Retrospective Issue of PARtake: The Journal of Performance As Research, 6(2). See here.
“Writing to Trees with the Trees – experiments in NIROX and Mustarinda” in Taub, Myer (ed.) Forests and Fences, London & New York: Routledge, 2024, 29-47.
”’Kertaa ja koosta’ – työmenetelmä ja julkaisumuoto” [Upprepa on sammanställ – arbetsmetod och publikationsformat] in Järvinen, Hanna (ed.) Miten tehdä esityksellä [How to do things with performance], Tampere: Vastapaino 2024, 191-223.
Conversation in Jatun Risba, Daniele J Minns, O.Pen Be: “Queering ecologies to cultivate unity”, Antennae issue 64, 2024, 165-176.
“Practicing with Trees” in Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley (eds.) Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages, Routledge 2024, 219-224.

Talks, presentations and academic tasks in 2024
Opponent for Alexandra Ianchenko, “Estranging Trams: Atmospheres of Trams in Art”, Tallinn University 12.11.2024.
Lecture in the course Research through Art and Design, Aalto Arts 7.11.2024.
“Pondering with a Pine in the Park”, Metsäsuhdeklubin iltapäivä [Human-Forest Relationship Research Club] Metsä, kestävyys ja dialogi at Forest science’s day 23.10.2024, see here
“In Assemblage with a Pine” at PSi#29 Assemble in London 20-23.6.2024.
“Pondering with a Pine Near You” for the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi at PSi#29 Assemble in London 20-23.6.2024, see working group blog
”Miettii mäntyjen kanssa – miten kohdata puu subjektina taiteellisen tutkimuksen kontekstissa” [Pondering with Pines – how to encounter a tree as a subject in the context of artistic research], see <program for seminar in Lusto 27-28.5.2024.
Performance and response at Artistic Research Working Group online meetings 19.4. and 3.5.2024.
Presentation “Repeat, revisit, recreate – Revisit, recreate, reflect” at Helsinki Photomedia conference 11-14.4.2024.
Seminar with MA students of Contemporary Dramaturgy and Performance Research at Uniarts Helsinki 5.4.2024.
Seminar on autotheory, autofiction, autoetnography and performative writing for doctoral students at Uniarts Helsinki with Hanna Järvinen and Pilvi Porkola (2023-2024).
Seminar on Documentation and Sharing for doctoral candidates in Oslo 7-8.2.2024.
Lecture on documentation for MA students at SKH (Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola) 2.2.2024.
Conversation with Karoliina Lummaa and Olga Cielemecka at Muu Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre 13.1.2024 See info
 
Thank you
for all these opportunities to collaborate with fascinating people and beings of all kinds, and best wishes for the coming year 2025!