ARSBIOARCTICA (FI)
Collaboration as demarcate - June 2021
During the Ars Bioarctica Residency, we were going deeper into our understanding of our relationship with the environment through focusing on the colours of the landscape and the sustainability of our processes. In Kilpisjärvi, we worked with the markings that the plants could leave behind through embossing, ink and pounding. We exposed the juice of the plant bodies to the midnight sun, to see if they would act photochromatic.
While doing field work and discussing with artists and scientists, we were looking at cultural landscapes, domestication patterns, and the fencing up of nomadic ways of living with the Land. Through our interactions with the plant bodies and waters in Kilpisjärvi, we began to perceive how they are being together in this environment. This made us reflect on our place in this landscape, seeing that we are not separated from the ecosystem but one and the same, maintaining an interdependent relationship.
This research was continued and shared in SOLU Space Helsinki (2022).
