Imagining Godzilla

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Imagining Godzilla

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Imagining Godzilla is an experimental mobile artistic and art-science research platform with a focus on investigating the environmental challenges facing the Baltic Sea and its surroundings.

06/08/2026

Researcher leg 10:

Ramona Hägele is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Helsinki and Oulu and the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes (CSSM). Working at the intersections of sociology, anthropology, political science, the environmental humanities, and artistic research, she explores how knowledge about the ocean and climate change is produced through scientific, political, and everyday practices.

Although rooted in the social sciences, Ramona enjoys collaborating with artists and artistic researchers to experiment with sensory and creative approaches aiming to work with the more-than-human in aquatic enviornments. Her research has taken her aboard research vessels, merchant ships, ferries, and sailing boats, but Godzilla was her first voyage on a sailing catamaran (and, happily, one without seasickness).

During her time aboard Godzilla, Ramona planned to explore her currently under development more-than-human encounters and methods, such as sensory swimming, aquatic sounding, and cyanotype printing as ways of engaging with the Baltic Sea beyond traditional ethnography. Instead, the journey unfolded through conversations, shared observations, and life at sea. Together with the fellow artists, she reflected on topics ranging from Finland’s contemporary art scene to the Baltic Sea’s pollution and biodiversity loss, to the layered and hidden histories of the archipelago. The experience reaffirmed her interest in collaborative, place-based research and in learning with and from aquatic environments. Follow Ramona's research and collaborations at

06/08/2026

Artist/Researcher leg 10:

Nina Liebenberg is a South African-born, Helsinki-based researcher, artist-curator, and educator. Her work explores curatorship as both methodology and material practice that activates intersections between art, science, and public engagement. Her current Kone-funded project, titled 'Object Lessons', uses the curatorial as a tool for rethinking disciplinary boundaries and draws on scientific and historical collections to generate new forms of knowledge.

During her time spent on Godzilla, Nina observed the juxtaposition of the Nordic seascapes with those of the Atlantic and Indian oceans that converge in Cape Town, the city in which she grew up. Time spent at sea and the visit to Seili Island (known for its history of leprosy and mental asylums), enabled her to gather embodied data she will use in her continued engagement with the Finnish Medical archives and the Maritime collections. In her future exhibitions and digital curations, this rich experience will enable her to re-imagine these historical materials through strategies that celebrate affect, metaphor, visual suggestion, and analogy.

06/08/2026

Artist leg 9:

Christelle Mas is a French visual artist based in Oulu, northern Finland. Her interdisciplinary practice combines photography, scientific imaging, video and interactive media to explore the relationships between humans and fragile marine ecosystems. Working in close collaboration with scientists, she transforms research, environmental data and microscopic observations into immersive visual experiences that bridge science and speculative fiction.

Her ongoing project, Oceanaia, developed in Unity, imagines future underwater ecosystems shaped by climate change and human activity, inviting audiences to reflect on possible futures through interactive storytelling.

During the Imagining Godzilla residency, Christelle documented the journey through photography and video while observing the Baltic Sea from a new perspective. Life on board offered an opportunity to experience the sea beyond the laboratory and research institutions, revealing its changing light, weather, movements and human connections.

These recordings will become part of Oceanaia, an interactive artwork that imagines future marine ecosystems shaped by climate change and environmental transformation. The residency also deepened her understanding of how artistic research can emerge through collective experiences, navigation and encounters with the sea itself.

The Baltic Sea has become the central inspiration in Christelle's artistic practice. Living in Oulu, on the shores of the northern Baltic Sea, close to Hailuoto—the largest island in the Gulf of Bothnia—she chose northern Finland for its unique Arctic coastal landscapes and its close relationship with the sea.

For several years she has collaborated with researchers at the University of Oulu and Oulu Biocenter, and more recently with the Marine Research Institute at Klaipėda University in Lithuania. These collaborations have deepened her understanding of eutrophication, oxygen depletion, pollution and the expanding dead zones that threaten one of the world's most vulnerable seas.

04/08/2026

Artist Leg 8:

Iida-Liina Häkkinen is a photographer, activist and a generalist of the culture field, currently based in Helsinki. She specializes in creating visual content for projects in performing arts. In addition to this she’s a member of the multiart collective Recover Laboratory since ten years and has taken different roles varying from producer to performer to curator in different productions, exhibitions and events. She thinks it is essential that arts and culture don’t exist in isolation, but as an active, engaged and political part of society. She’s currently going through a change of field and pursuing international studies in Transdisciplinary Environmental Sciences. Iida worked onboard Godzilla the past two summers and now came to visit the crew as a participant.

04/08/2026

Imagining Godzilla 2026 is now over! Thank you to our wonderful last leg artist-researcher participants Marek, Nina, & Ramona and to Tuomo and Sari at KUBU for organising the closing event for the exhibition last Saturday. BIg thanks to everyone who has taken part this year! Godzilla is now back in her home port, waiting for new adventures!

04/08/2026

Researcher Leg 6:

Rebecca Carlson

I am a social science researcher with a background in media production and visual anthropology. My research explores circulation and transformation, particularly what happens when people, materials, and nonhuman life cross meaningful boundaries and unsettle familiar ways of understanding the world. I currently coordinate SAFIRE, a Research Council of Finland–funded PROFI 8 programme at the University of Oulu focused on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary environmental restoration research.
During the Oulu–Hailuoto leg aboard Godzilla, I experimented with cyanotype and lumen photography using Baltic seawater, aquatic plants, and sunlight. The work explored how water, light, and living materials could take part in making images, while also testing artistic approaches that may support the methodological toolkit of the MARBLOOM project and its research on cyanobacteria.
The trip was a chance to develop new ways of thinking about ecological change, perception, and environmental sensing.

04/08/2026

Artist Leg 8:

Henna Nerg is an artist based in Helsinki who got their master’s degree from KMD Bergen in Norway in 2023. Her work explores themes of otherness and abjection. She is an active member of the drag performance groups the Vampy Villains and the Hagfags, as well as a founding member of the activist artist collective Wild Thingz. Both conceptually and physically, she is iinterested in exploring othered bodies and aesthetics that are considered monstrous and demonized.

Nerg is an artist who works in the fields of sculpture and installation and performance, focusing on material sensitivity. In her work, Nerg combines found and recycled materials in various ways. She engage with contemporary, socially engaged, and global phenomena, approaching them from a critical intersectional and ecofeminist perspective.

During the Godzilla residency, she was collecting samples and motives of animal and human coexistance.

26/07/2026

Artist Leg 8:

Inma Herrera, born in Madrid in 1986 and rooted in Andalusian heritage, is a visual artist, printmaker, bodyworker, and educator living and working between Helsinki and Madrid. Through installations that bridge printmaking, sculpture, video, and performance, Herrera explores alchemy and material transformation. Her practice engages with matter through the elemental forces of Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire, studying the concept of imprint where the human body becomes a medium, a vessel, and a catalyst.

Herrera’s work unfolds connections between materiality, embodiment, and metamorphosis, often drawing from references to the history of printmaking and alchemy, geology, psychology and somatic practices.

26/07/2026

Researcher Leg 5:

Jan Christian Schulz is a social designer, transdisciplinary researcher and creative educator. His work embraces crafts guided as the exploration of matter and creation of novel material assemblages. Operating at the intersection of design and science, he investigates environmental processes and the emergence of ecosystemic relations through the interaction with natural and technological materials. In his recent projects, these materials become media to understand, process and communicate different ways of engaging with lively ecosystems.
On Godzilla, Jan's project invited listeners to remotely experience a glimpse of the acoustic world of the northern Gulf of Bothnia. At scheduled moments throughout the journey, a hydrophone connected to a live-streaming setup broadcasted the underwater environment of this large brackish-water ecosystem in real time.

https://janchristianschulz.com/The-Gulf-of-Bothnia-Underwater-Radio

26/07/2026

Artist Leg 5:

Jozef E. Masarik is an art practitioner and theoretician dealing with the issues surrounding our embodiment and its relatedness to its surrounding environments. Building on his previous endeavor in Greenland, where he was studying qivittut, the Greenlandic mythological beings, he is pursuing his artistic research on the impact of specific environments on sensory perception and embodied epistemologies of remoteness. Prolonged exposure to a specific environment remains fundamental in his artistic research. During his stay on Godzilla he focuses on seascapes and islands of the so-called North.

Sailors and their experience with seascapes - often evading Western rationalism - have been shaping the image and the imaginary of the north since the early Middle Ages. Seascapes and islands, thus, become a specific sensorium re-structuring our worlds at large. Thus, the situated perception becomes an actual experiment on situatedness and perception itself. Jozef scrutinizes the role of place and embodied situatedness in perception and knowledge production through digital imagery. He observes how glitches and distortions in perception are reproduced and cascade across different modes of representation. For him, it is both a question of technologies, of modes of reproduction across various media, and it is also a question of synthetic truths and synthetic forms of questioning.

https://jozefeduardmasarik.cargo.site/

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