My name is Mirka Sulander and I am a Visual Culture, Curating and Contemporary art (MA) student at Aalto University. I was chosen for an internship at ZKM as part of the Beyond Matter Fellowship Program.
I got interested in the Beyond Matter project because I wanted to learn more about the technological side of creating exhibitions and to get hands-on experience on contemporary curating. At ZKM I am looking forward to researching further how history can be reached and made vivid again through virtual reality.
During my MA studies I have concentrated on psychogeography in film, photography, music and storytelling.
I hope I can benefit my multidisciplinary background also while working with ZKM’s exhibition called Iconoclash. The exhibition is especially interesting for me because it brings science, art and religion side by side and looks at them through an intriguing topic: iconoclasm and the critical gesture towards images.
Already in my MA thesis, I have researched spirituality as part of art making and looked more closely at criticality which can turn into destructing and denying force.
I am looking forward to being part of the professional team of ZKM working on the interesting theme of iconoclash and to provide the audience with new virtual experiences.