Artist Pilvi Takala shares insights into her practice and discusses the themes that drive her work, focusing on Close Watch, with curator Dr. Michael Birchall and frieze magazine assistant editor Chloe Stead. The event was a partnership between Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and frieze magazine during Zurich Art Weekend.
On Discomfort: Artist Talk: Pilvi & Ali Eisa Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK 19 April 2023
A discussion between artist Pilvi Takala and Ali Eisa (Lloyd Corporation) on the development of her work, with a focus on her latest installation, Close Watch.
EMMA Talks: Pilvi Takala and Christina Li on Close Watch EMMA Museum, Espoo, Finland 24 March 2023
Artist Pilvi Takala and curator Christina Li discuss Close Watch and its making process and themes.
Excess Force Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK 23 May 2023
Speakers
Dr Koshka Duff, Author, Abolish the Police, Lecturer, Nottingham University
Thomas Marriott, Designer and Researcher, Goldsmiths College
Dr Nikhaela Wicks, University of Kent
Moderator
Jennifer Fleetwood, Goldsmiths College
The Panel discussion focused on the use of excess force and other forms of violence that can typify interactions with private security and police forces. Amidst recent revelations about the working culture at the MET, failing detention centers, and questions around far-right actions, the question of how well communities are cared for and served by existing systems of policing and security are ever present. Is reform possible, or do we need to radically rethink?
EMMA Talks: Whose Safety? EMMA Museum, Espoo, Finland 24 March 2023
Speakers
Markus Himanen, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN)
Mikko Kemppainen, General Counsel, Securitas Finland
Libin Mohamed, Secretary General, African Anti-Racism Society Finland (AFARS)
Pilvi Takala, artist
Moderator
Javiera Marchant Aedo, Equality expert and educator
Increasingly, the private security industry is playing a crucial role in upholding public order and defining what safety means in our society. Contracted guards are obliged by law to perform their job in a peaceful manner, without bias and prevent discrimination, yet work protocols and the system they operate within constantly produce discriminatory and exclusionary practices in public spaces, such as ethnic profiling and excessive use of force. In this discussion, various experts address the way in which the industry creates unsafe environments, changes that have been implemented in security organisations to tackle this. and what more can be done to make public space safer for all.
Together Against Hate Shadow Report 2
Stopped – ethnic profiling in Finland