Aboagora 2016: Fate/Urðr
Aboagora 2016 was held on June 15-17 at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. The symposium explored the ways in which agency is understood in relation to the past. What possibilities do we have in our lives and how are we bound by the past? Layers of lived lives mark our surroundings, our societies, and our bodies. They are inscribed by the choices of others before us and yet, at each moment, we are given a degree of free will. Can we understand ourselves and our place in the world only by recognizing our heritage, our roots? Does our past bind us to a fate we cannot alter?
Agora Speakers
Pekka Haavisto (Member of the Finnish Parliament), “Peace, Environment – and Fate”
In addition to the keynote addresses and workshops, Okeanos, a site-specific sound and light installation by IC-98 in collaboration with Max Savikangas, was available to the public during Aboagora.