Withstanding - a podcast series by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York brings together art professionals from both sides of the Atlantic to share and speculate on more just and sustainable conditions for artists and art practitioners at large. Each podcast episode features a sound-based art work, including new commissions. The accompanying essays offer further reading and references on the topics of each episode.

Uwa Iduozee, a Finnish-Nigerian photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Helsinki and New York is the Finnish Fine Arts Academy’s and Saastamoinen Foundation’s artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) starting January 2021. The residency period is catered to a US-based Finnish artist, due to travel restrictions resulted from COVID-19.