NEW YORK, June 11, 2014— Van Alen Institute is pleased to announce that architect Martti Kalliala will spend two months working with the Institute as part of MOBIUS fellowship program in fall 2014.

The MOBIUS fellowship is a three-year pilot program organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Finnish Institute in London. The program enables transatlantic mobility and collaborative practices between independent and institutional operators, aiming to support long-lasting professional relationships in the fields of visual arts, museums, and archives.

Kalliala’s work focuses on the identification and conceptualization of emerging spatial conditions. Current themes in his work are the relationship between shifting modes of sovereignty and jurisdiction and built form, and notions of progress, liquidity, and technological disruption as drivers of the production of space—the home, the workplace, and the city itself.

Kalliala recently curated A Thousand Islands, a series of conversations exploring limits, boundaries, islands, and enclave geographies in the globalized flow of logistics, manufacturing and transnational finance. He co-produced Disruption Begins at Home, an investigation into the ethos of homeownership under a financialized economy of debt. He is the editor and co-author of Solution 239-246, Finland: The Welfare Game (Sternberg Press, 2011) and a contributor to the Airbnb Pavilion at 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Kalliala will collaborate with Van Alen to develop a public program as part of the Institute’s Fall 2014 Events, which will continue Van Alen’s multi-year initiative Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape.

For more information, visit: http://marttikalliala.com/ http://m0bius.net/ http://www.ficultureny.org/ http://www.finnish-institute.org.uk/