The Institute for Coping with Destruction is currently activating three artists Heini Aho, Leena Kela and Eero Yli-Vakkuri. They are exploring ways to cope and adapt to environmental changes of the Baltic Sea and investigating how we change as the sea contaminates us. Their backgrounds are in performance and visual arts. As artists they like to investigate weird agencies which emerge when nature and culture fuse.

The Institute joined Godzilla for a week in Örö. Their stay served two agendas. They wanted to reach remote islets South of Örö to see their shapes, wildlife and visible traces of culture. They also wanted to visit Dansagrundet islet, where they have established relations starting from 2022. In 2023 they commissioned a hand operated borewell to the barren islet, which produces freshwater from the brackish seawater. The Institute perceive tasting as a tool for analyzing environmental changes and the taste the pump produces is a way for them to get in touch with the changes of the sea. On their trip this year they wanted to taste the product of the borewell, but as the birds had their nests on the island, they didn’t land on it, but took time to observe the birds and the borewell pump from Godzilla and a rowing boat.