THE RAINS ARE DIFFERENT NOW – Inkeri Aula, Mark Niskanen ja Jani-Matti Salo

Mark Niskanen & Jani-Matti Salo in collaboration with Inkeri Aula The sound installation The Rains Are Different Now is centered around changing environments, uncertainty, and local knowledge. The exhibition is prepared with the ethnographic material of the multinational research project, SENSOTRA (Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe 1950-2020). The exhibition is supported by Satakunta Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and Taike – Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Inkeri Aula is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Eastern Finland who studies changing environmental relationships and shared sensory experiences across generations in the SENSOTRA project. Aula’s diverse research themes include translocal communality, social imagination, Brazilian research, and multisensory ethnography. Mark Niskanen and Jani-Matti Salo create multidisciplinary installations that weave together everyday phenomena and technologies. Their work draws on their respective backgrounds in music, lens-based media, audiovisual research and scenography. The duo’s recent works have delved into the world of the senses, human interactions, memories, experiences of solitude and togetherness, and their associations with global themes. Their work takes the form of site-sensitive situations of a personal, amorphous and ephemeral nature.