Satu Herrala

Biography

Satu Herrala is a curator and researcher with a background in dance and choreography. She is interested in how attuning to bodily coexistence informs ways of being, knowing and acting, and how collective action emerges from embodiment. She is working on doctoral research on embodied curating at Aalto University. Her curatorial works include Love Harvest festival with Anna Karhu-Cormier & Maija Mustonen (2024-), Forest as a Geopolitical Stage with Jussi Lehtonen & Tamara Cubas (2019-2023), A I S T I T / coming to our senses contemporary art programme with Hans Rosenström (2021) and Baltic Circle Festival programmes 2015-2019.

Photo credit: Elis Hannikainen

Forest as a Geopolitical Stage

Building a collective body of resistance and care from South to North

Symposium participation

Forest as a Geopolitical Stage initiative took place in Uruguay and in Finland in 2020-2024. It investigated the role of art and research amid large-scale, unpredictable social and ecological changes, the possibilities to make hidden narratives public, and the resistance that arises from intersecting struggles in south and north