Programme

This year’s Swedish Research Council Symposium on Artistic Research explores the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures.

‘Ensayo de cuna a Guataúba // Rehearsing a lullaby to the herald of woe’ (TBD) by Luis Berríos Negrón with Félix Becker, Randi Kjær, and the Umeå Barockkör.

For the last Um…Crits for the semester we will talk crowdsourcing, artist books and photography when following the creative process of Robin Durand’s SVP Project Små grejer (Little Things).

We are proud to announce our post-doc Daniel Shanken’s installation at Chemist Gallery in London. The Pits is a new installation that descends through tiers and levels: the pit in your stomach, in the ground, and your brain.

We are excited to welcome Mira Eklund, Stockholm-based artist, composer, performer and actor, reflecting on her recent exhibition at Väst på Fjället, entitled “En samling, en horisont, en kör, en till, en solnedgång”.

This forest symposium is organized alongside the exhibition Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest in collaboration with UmArts.

Warm welcome to a guest talk by Associate Professor Ionat Zurr. Zurr is an artist and a researcher who formed the Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996 which led to the establishment of SymbioticA Laboratory the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2000.

Welcome to an Open Studio Event with Anders Lind, a composer/sound artist situated as an associate professor at the Department of Creative Studies, Umeå University. During week 43, Lind will work in the UmArts Research Studio on an interactive sound/light art installation that will be exhibited during the Autumn Lights Festival in Umeå with a […]

Taiga – The Centre for Transdisciplinary AI at Umeå University in collaboration with UmArts and Bildmuseet organizes a two-day open symposium on wicked problems and AI.  We will examine and discuss the role AI plays in both generating new wicked problems to solve, contributing to the wickedness of already existing problems, but also the way AI […]

Perhaps the most insidious form of toxicity today lies in the blurred distinction between what is toxic and what is not. This talk looks closely at the toxic/non-toxic entanglements of a very familiar entity in art history and theory, namely the white surface.