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 learned from the local environment and plants growing under the snow cover. 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.

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 shown in SOLU Space Helsinki (2022).