For this session we will dig into ways of working with the history of your field. How do you use the architecture/design/craft or art history in your own research and production? The session will be led by guest Artist and Researcher EvaMarie Lindahl.
EvaMarie Lindahl, PhD, is a visual artist and researcher based in Sweden. Her research-driven art projects are situated in the intersection of Critical Animal Studies, the visual arts and activism. Lindahl has developed an art practice that encompasses large-scale graphite drawings as well as text-based performance work and collective self-organisation. Through her projects, Lindahl is questioning the writing of art history from an anthropocentric and patriarchal position by correcting, re-writing and imagining new (art) histories. This has developed into an art practice that could be called art history activism. In her current work, she is questioning the human-animal dichotomy and addressing the human habit of oppressing other animals by using them as resource and material in art production.
During her 1 week residency at UmArts, Lindahl will explore the painful practice of tail docking in horses, examining how this distressing tradition can be traced throughout paintings in art history.
Lindahl earned her doctoral degree at Edge Hill University (UK) at The Centre for Human Animal Studies in 2022 and her Master of Fine Arts at The Malmö Art Academy (SE). Her doctoral research project titled Resistance Within the Museum Fauna – Challenging Anthropocentrism through Counter Art Histories and Non-Human Narratives is a practice-based thesis within visual art and critical animal studies that is engaged in decentring the human in art history in favour of non-human animals.
Lindahl’s work is frequently exhibited and performed, she has been awarded project and working grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and is represented by several private and public collections.
Sharing is caring! And Um…Azing. Bring something you are working on, an essay, an application, finished piece, a project proposal, or art piece in progress. Anything that would be useful to have feedback on and we’ll provide the conversation. Together we will untangle threads and question marks and provide new perspectives.
Dates for upcoming Um…Crits:
11 October
11 November