with Malin Arnell, Dimitris Athanassiadis, Gerd Aurell, Luis Berríos Negrón, Francesco Camilli, Sofia Johansson, Toms Kokins, Eliza Maher Hasselquist, Irma Olofsson, Lars Östlund, Janina Priebe, Per Sandström, Jundan Jasmine Zhang, and invited guest Eva la Cour.
This forest colloquium is organized alongside the exhibition Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest in collaboration with UmArts. Free admission, with lunch and coffee provided throughout the day.
As part of the UmArts community, the Geopolitics of the Forests group hosts artist and filmmaker Eva la Cour as guest presenter and respondent. Considering la Cour’s work with geoaesthetics and her “fundamental dissatisfaction with the representational discourse, and its historical and colonial legacy”, the working group will present and contrast mediations of research from our respective disciplines and perspectives in regards to forests.
The day will begin with a walk through the current exhibition Eight Degrees/Contemporary Art on the Forest at Bildmuseet as context, and an initial live narrated screening of la Cour’s recent film work. Then the group members will present in various formats, with research representation and environmental remediation as loose common concerns.
Geopolitics of the Forests is a group of scholars at UmArts who study the forest from different disciplinary perspectives. The day’s moderator and organizer is Luis Berríos Negrón, chair of the Group, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, and a Research Fellow at UmArts Research Center for Architecture, Design, and the Arts at Umeå University.
Limited seating, the event will be held in English.
Pre-registration is required: https://forms.office.com/e/kTPda3KPJS
Registration deadline: Monday, October 28
More info and full program here