Everyday Priorities –
Art, Technology and Accommodations
Everyday Priorities—Art, Technology and Accommodations is an invitation to collectively examine technologcies that mirror racist, colonial, and ableist power structures and histories while also considering their potential to reshape conditions for everyday life. Building upon and working alongside the efforts of those who have long been engaged at the intersection of art, technology, body politics, and transformative disability justice, the programme asks in what ways are artists, activists and thinkers addressing the material and accessibility problems that are deeply rooted in the violent logic of hegemonic power structures—which erases certain bodies deeming them disposable? With the first workshop gathering, we want to center the workshop as a site of study, where we contextualize the conceptual framework as well as the parameters of the conversations
📅 May 6th , 2025
📍 Metro54 (Amsterdam) – In-person gathering with connection to M-Cult
📍 M-Cult (Helsinki) – In-person gathering with connection to Metro54
🌍 Online access available for remote participants
With this second gathering, we zoom into relations between bodies, access needs and technology—centering technologies' alleged promises on comfortable and livable lives in the contemporary city. In this part of the programme we focus on the work of artist Flis Holland with contributions from artists Joy Mariama Smith, and others to be confirmed.
In Flis Holland’s current work, the time-saving devices of a hyper-efficient “smart city” are co-opted by users with slippery relationships to the clock, such as the neurodivergent and chronically ill. By opening up their work we will start to tackle the broader questions of our project: How is space made to uphold the right to mobility, information, and technologies for radical expression by artists and their communities? How do hegemonic power structures erase certain bodies, deeming them disposable?
Programme
18.30 Ams / 19.30 Helsinki Event starts
18.40 Ams / 19.40 Introduction and info of the hosting location in Helsinki
18.50 / 19.50 Intro to collective note making / comments collecting.
18.55 / 19.55 In conversation with Flis Holland
19.25 / 20.25 break
19.30 / 20.30 Responses from Joy Mariama Smith and Amal Alhaag
19.45 / 20.45 questions and comments from audience / going through collective note board
20.00 / 21.00 Final Wrap comment (participant to be confirmed)
20.15 / 21.15 Ending of the event
Everyday Priorities—Art, Technology and Accommodations is an invitation to collectively examine technologies that mirror racist, colonial, and ableist power structures and histories while also considering their potential to reshape conditions for everyday life. Programme is created and curated by Metro54 and M-Cult and is supported by the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.
This gathering will open the conversation that will unfold throughout the programme, setting the stage for future workshops and new artistic commissions by Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith.
Read more: Everyday Priorities—Art, Technology and Accommodations
🔗Registration instructions & accessibility information on our websites
To attend in Helsinki, Amsterdam or online, please sign up for the event through this form.
Registration by 4.5.2025.
Date: May 6, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm (AMS) 7:30pm (Helsinki)
Language: English
Entrance: Free – RSVP by emailing rsvp@metro54.nl
Helsinki
Location: M-Cult OfficeMäkelänkatu 37-43
00550 Helsinki
Finland
Accessibility info:
M-Cult Office is located on the ground floor.
The doorway is 80 cm wide, and the door has a 5 cm high threshold. At the entrance, there are two steep steps of 16 cm and one step of 7 cm to access the space.
Inside the office, there is a gender-neutral toilet. To reach the toilet, there are the following steps:
- Step 1: 14 cm
- Steps 2 & 3: 19 cm each
- Step 4: 17 cm
The doorway to the toilet is 72 cm wide.
Amsterdam
Location: Metro 54,Westerdoksdijk 597
Language: English
Accessibility info:
That gathering space at Metro54 is located on the ground floor.
The doorway is 100 cm wide
Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations is created and curated by Metro54 and M-Cult. The project will also commission works by artists Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith and supported by the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.