Sille Kima is an artist, engineer and a mover in body, sense and sound. Her work is rooted in sensuality and collective ways of being. Her work looks at the interplay between the setting of boundaries and dissolution within relationships and power structures, with a dedication to scalar approach and directed towards the planetary. She also makes music about boredom in love and pollinate tomato blossoms, both on her windowsill and in gardens with open gates. One of those is an open garden and a garden residency she is co-running near Narva Art Residency in Narva, Estonia.

She asks, how does the trauma-activated boredom of coming to a standstill in environmental struggles color the relationship of human and the rest of the planetary ecosystem? How can we radically attend to the non-human with tenderness – without exploitation? What does it mean that “Where slavery has been, love is already tainted” (Hortense Spillers)?

In Pavilosta she will continue creating a new work based on sound and sensoriality that would convey the affect of benevolent boredom, in order to explore what is necessary for making space for solidarity and change in the realm of the pre-political, having ecological justice, the roots of (neo)colonial pain and violence stemming from Europe, and its effect on post-soviet Baltic identities in mind.

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