funding for the doctoral research by kone foundation
Kone Foundation decided in April 2024 to support my doctoral research “Law of Ecocide and the agents of societal change in the international campaigning” by funding it for two years ahead. Biggest gratitude for this decision to fund the work! Read more HERE.
“Kone Foundation’s Metsän puolella (On the Side of the Forests) initiative diversifies discussions around forests through research, art, activism and journalism.”
Chapter in a book: Figurations of Peripheries Through Art and Visual Studies – Peripheries in Parallax
Published 1st Dec 2023, Routledge, New York, London. “Can artists and lawyers see the same goal? Understanding Law of Ecocide through art, articulations, and creativity” Editors M. Loukola, M. Mäkiranta, J.Tolonen. Read more HERE.
taivaankansi, 7:15
This song was created during spring 2022 and it is about leaving the physical plane and how the words are at times lost, and yet how the water then can rise from the deeper realms to cleanse our being.
Raila Mar, songwriter, vocals, recording, graphic
Teemu Takatalo, instruments, arrangement, mixing, mastering
Helena Kunwar, photograph
WONDER (LAW OF ECOCIDE), 4:07
This song has first been born long time ago, and it has been shapeshifting – to finalize itself into this current form of supporting the Ecocide law internationally. Gilbert Kuppusami from Mauritius/Finland and his band have made the arrangements for this version of it, and Teemu Takatalo from Mutual Sound Studios has mixed and mastered the final version.
Raila Mar, songwriter, vocals, recording, video & editing
Gilbert K Kuppusami, arrangement, drums
Tuukka Ojala, keyboard
Tommi Laine, guitar
Pasi Riikonen, bass, recording engineering
Tuija Kuoppamäki, back vocals
Teemu Takatalo, mixing, mastering
TURTLE SONG, 6:03
This song was originally made in Copenhagen, Denmark with inspiration of an Danish artist Hans Scherfig’s gravestone, which he designed to be like a turtle and where children can play nowadays. The instrumental sections are composed and finalized by Teemu Takatalo and the cello solo by Ulla Lampela. The painting “Transformations” is an artwork developed over a period of long time and now completed to support this collective movement of Stop Ecocide International.
Raila Mar, vocals, lyrics, composing, recording, cover art
Teemu Takatalo, instruments, arrangement, recording, mixing
Ulla Lampela, cello Recorded at Mutual Sound Studio
Risto Ylihärsilä, mastering
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