Screening – Sammy Baloji: Aequare. The Future That Never Was (2023)

Artist Sammy Baloji's film about the Yangambi Agricultural Centre in Congo combines footage from colonial propaganda and film clips from the artist's field research. The film presents visually contemplative landscape images, interspersed with views of obsolete buildings occupied by Congolese agents and workers. The duration of the film is 20 minutes, and there will be two screenings. Before and after the screenings we will be giving out IHME Helsinki Commission 2021 Katie Paterson’s To Burn, Forest, Fire incense packages and invite everyone to organize their own incense ceremony on the International Day of Forests 21 March 2025.

Program

17.30: Doors open: welcome to collect Katie Paterson’s To Burn, Forest, Fire incense package for your private ceremony on the International Day of Forests

18.00: Words of Welcome and introduction to the film, Paula Toppila, IHME Helsinki

18.10: Sammy Baloji: Aequare. The Future That Never Was (2023), 20 min.

18.30: Break and Q&A with Sammy Baloji

19.00: Words of Welcome to the second screening, Paula Toppila, IHME Helsinki

19.10: Sammy Baloji: Aequare. The Future That Never Was (2023), 20 min.

19.30: Event ends: welcome to collect Katie Paterson’s To Burn, Forest, Fire incense package for your private ceremony on the International Day of Forests

20.00: Doors close

More information about the artist is available here.

The capacity of the event venue is 214 people. The venue is accessible.

The organizer: IHME Helsinki