The project Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology, and Accommodations supported by the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux hosts its first gathering on Tuesday 25.3.2025. The event is held in-person at Metro54 in Amsterdam and at M-Cult in Helsinki, with an online connection both ways. There will also be online access available via YouTube for remote participants.
Date: 25.5.2025
Time: 7.30 pm (EET) 6:30 pm (CET)
Location: Helsinki, Amsterdam and online
Language: English
Entrance: Free – RSVP by emailing rsvp@metro54.nl
This is the first open gathering for this project, and will open the conversation that will unfold throughout the programme, setting the stage for future workshops and new artistic commissions by Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith.
“For this gathering, we will center the circulation of knowledge, histories, toolkits, and collective engagement with urgent questions around access, power, technology, and artistic practices. We’re pleased to announce contributions from:
- Joy Mariama Smith – A performance/installation/movement artist, activist, facilitator, and curator whose work examines the interplay between the body and its physical environment.
- Blue Fleming – An artist engaging with abolitionist movements, gender politics, and Black radical traditions, reclaiming motherhood, fatherhood, and sex work as acts of resistance.
- Pernilla Manjula Philip – An artist and designer exploring alternative perspectives on medical care products and the agency of the chronically sick body in relation to the medical industry.
- Flis Holland – An artist tracking the collisions of trans and celestial bodies, examining the instability of categorisation and seeking to loosen the link between seeing a body and knowing it.
The histories of disability justice in arts and culture have been marked by shifting attention—without sustained commitments to infrastructural change. Everyday Priorities insists on moving beyond temporary gestures toward deeper, transformative (un)learning.
It asks: How is space made to uphold the right to mobility, information, and technologies for radical expression by artists and their communities? How do hegemonic power structures erase certain bodies, deeming them disposable—and how do artists, activists, and thinkers intervene?”
Join this gathering to learn more!
Location:
M-Cult (Helsinki) Address: Mäkelänkatu 41, 00550 Helsinki
Metro54 (Amsterdam) Address: Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam
Accessibility information:
Online event:
If you’re attending remotely, you’ll receive a digital access link closer to the event.
For the online event, live captioning will be available.
Online event will be streamed on YouTube and there will be chat open for discussion.
M-Cult Office, Helsinki:
M-Cult Office is located on the ground floor. The door
The doorway is 80 cm wide, and the door has a 5 cm high threshold. At the entrance, there are two steep steps of 16 cm and one step of 7 cm to access the space.
Inside the office, there is a gender-neutral toilet. To reach the toilet, there are the following steps:
Step 1: 14 cm
Steps 2 & 3: 19 cm each
Step 4: 17 cm
The doorway to the toilet is 72 cm wide.
For more information please contact info@m-cult.org.
Metro54, Amsterdam:
The gathering space at Metro54 is located on the ground floor.
The doorway is 100 cm wide. The doorway to the toilet is 80 cm wide. However, the toilet doesn’t meet the requirements to be deemed wheelchair accessible.
For more information please contact info@metro54.nl