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. She is working at the Fine Arts Discipline, School of Design UWA. Zurr is considered as one of the pioneers in the field of Biological Art (AKA Bioart). She often works in collaboration with other artists and scientists and have developed a body of work and projects which reach beyond the confines of art; her work is often cited as an inspiration to diverse areas such as new materials, textiles, design, architecture, ethics, fiction, and food. Zurr exhibited in places such as Pompidou Centre in Paris, MoMA NY, Mori art Museum, GoMA Australia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Ars Electronica, National Art Museum of China, YCAM Japan and more. She published extensively and her recent co-authored book: Tissues, Cultures, Art was published by Palgrave McMillan in 2023.
people: Tarsh Bates
For this session we will follow up the interesting conversations that started at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts’ research seminar a couple of weeks ago where Dr. Malin Arnell did a super enlightening presentation of her Phd on the topic of Why do we engage with artistic research. That same day a debate article Statstrogna konstnärer utan publik- Statens växande satsning på högskoleanknuten konstnärlig forskning riskerar att beröva konsten både dess lockelse och dess frihet came out in the journal Respons by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck taking the lead in the questione whether artistic research is important at all?
Let´s get together and talk more about this burning topic. UmArts Deputy Director Ylva Fernaeus, Associate Professor at Umeå Institute of Design will lead the conversation.
Um…Crits is open to everyone in the UmArts community- Researchers, teachers and freelance artists. Interested in joining this session? Let us know if you are coming by sending an email to clara.west@umu.se
Have you noticed that the smells around you have changed? Do you miss the old smells or love the new ones?
Join researcher Tarsh Bates to share your memories and experiences of the smells in your environments and explore tools for understanding how smell connects with your feelings about environmental change.
Aromas are everywhere and affect us and the life around us in ways that words can’t describe. Changes in the smells of the world around us can have a significant impact on how we feel physically and emotionally but we don’t usually notice unless it smells bad. Construction and climate change cause some of the biggest changes at the moment, but we don’t have a lot of control over these. Finding ways to create new smellscapes can help us feel more connected to the life around us and more empowered to create positive change.
Workshops times:
4 May 13.00-16.00 Register here
5 May 13.00-16.00 Register here
This workshop is part of the Scents of Solastalgia project developed by Tarsh Bates and Susan Hauri-Downing at PICA. SoS is part of Scentsory Foraging, a transdisciplinary research project which ventures into the in/tangibility of olfaction in multi-species metabolisms and consists of three explorations. Scentsory foraging is part of my postdoctoral research in Design and Molecular Biology at Umeå University, supported by Umeå Institute of Design, Department of Molecular Biology and Um…Arts.