REFLECTIONS on SENTIENCE
Cohort Testimonials
Between 2024 and 2025, with the support of the Kone Foundation, the Gifts from the Sentient Forest (GSF) project brought together a diverse cohort of artists, writers, performers, musicians, and researchers from Finland and abroad to explore the creative possibilities of engaging with Northern Finnish forests as 'sentient'. The following testimonials offer practical insights into working with forests — creatively, imaginatively, and somatically — as sentient ecologies.
Please browse their insights below by clicking on the titles of their reflections. More information about the work of the GSF cohort is available in the Gifts from the Sentient Forest Exhibition Catalogue available as a free PDF by clicking here.
Annette Arlander
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Evgenia Emets
​Encountering the Forest Oracle
Satu Kalliokuusi
The Shaman Stumps — The Wise Ones of Our Forests
Zoë Koivu
Lydia Kokkola
Reflections on Writing and Healing
Milja Laine
Samin Lee
The Smell of the Forest's Entangled Life
Dagmara Maslowska
Listen — The Forest Speaks to You
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Mykyta Peregrym
Let It Be 'Through the Birch Leaf'
Julija Pociūtė
Marjo-Riikka Stenius
Wonder as a Portal into the Forest's Sentience
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Mira Sunnari