Tromsø Culture night at TKF: Thinking with Peatlands - Reverberations
We warmly welcome you to the culture night at Romssa Dáiddasiida - Tromsø Kunstforening!
Throughout two exhibitions and a symposium, artists, natural scientists, environmental activists and the public have lent the peatlands as a prism for exchange, learning and interaction. Together we have dived deep into the bog, listened, smelled, felt it and learnt from it.
In Thinking with Peatlands - Reverberations, thoughts, sounds and understandings may dwell on, and inspire change in prevailing narratives about peatlands and mires.
Together with RE-PEAT, Tromsø Nature & Youth has started work on a counter-map of Rávdnjemuotki/Finnheia in which the mires and all its inhabitants, cultural and historical as well as plants and minerals, play the lead role. In the audiovisual installation Anarchiving Rávdnji by Andreas Kühne, Polina Medvedeva and Risten Anine Gaup, we follow forward traces in the same transforming landscape, entangling past, present and future.
In Reverberations you can encounter works by Andreas Kühne, Polina Medvedeva & Risten Anine Gaup, Brit Pavelson, Else Lagerspetz, Jaan Evart, Enn Kärmas & Villu Järmut, Marko Kohv from the Estonian Fund for Nature/University of Tartu, Geir Tore Holm, Ingrid Bjørnaali & Maria Simmons, Magnus Skei Holmen, Caitlin Franzmann, Nature & Youth Tromsø, RE-PEAT and Jamie Walker, Randi Nygård, Søssa Jørgensen and Venice Agreement.
The mire is the opposite of binary. It is liquid and solid, a collaborative ecosystem made up of minerals, nutrients, plants and so much more. A living memory medium, where visible and invisible stories are preserved - over thousands of years. A hybrid archive that is considered a portal between the worlds of the living and the non-living. As an archive, peatlands can tell us about known and unknown cultural histories locally through different centuries as well as changes in the global climate.
Thinking with Peatlands is the third part of the project Down in the Bog - Thinking with Peatlands following the previous chapters Hibernation and Sporulation; two processual group exhibitions that have followed the seasons from a snowy Romsa/Tromsø in March to summer in Tallinn, Estonia, and back to autumn here in the north with the symposium Thinking with Peatlands, which now has its Reverberations at Romssa Dáiddasiida - Tromsø Kunstforening.
This project is part of Karolin Tampere's ongoing research as a PhD fellow in artistic research at Tromsø Art Academy - UiT The Arctic University of Norway and The Faculty of Fine Art, University of Bergen. Tampere is also part of the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. The project as a whole is curated by Karolin Tampere, the symposium and Reverberations in collaboration with Camilla Fagerli