Nadine Gouders
Nadine Gouders is an ideals-led cultural worker supporting artists, designers and cultural institutions in the realization of projects. She’s worked for several Dutch museums as a curator, project manager and registrar, shaping her as a researcher and ally in the production of artistic work and exhibitions. Her practice is connected by projects with a sensibility for social-political developments and impacts felt by the humans and non-humans she works and co-exists with.
Comrades Against Extinction is an installation and musical procession develop by lawyer, academic, writer and activist Radha D’Souza and artist Jonas Staal, in collaboration with musicians Ánnámáret, Anni Elif, Ali Saad, and the Philomela Choir. The work consists of a large tower covered with paintings of animals that have been made extinct from the colonial period to the present, which was erected on the main Kansalaistori square in Helsinki, facing the national parliament.
During the inauguration of the tower, Ánnámáret, Elif, Saad and the Philomela Choir led a musical procession from the parliament to the square, carrying the images of the extinct, each termed “comrade” in a different – sometimes extinct – language. The score, based on a script written by D’Souza and Staal, contains the names of the extinct, as well as slogans that declare intergenerationality, interdependency and regeneration as the pillars of our shared human and non-human struggle against extinction.
18.08.2022
Helsinki Festival, Helsinki