LiLa 2021

Online living in the Landscapes

Due to COVID-19 the 2021 spring school was held online. The participants came from Nesna, Norway, Rovaniemi, Finland and Syktyvkar, Komi Republic of Russia. The school consisted of researchers, lecturers and MA and PhD students from different disciplines to learn from each other in the study of landscape. The school was concluded with an exhibition that was opened at the UArctic Congress May 2021.

The school started in January 2021 and gathered once a month via zoom meetings. The basis for the school was built on Tim Ingold’s Temporality of Landscape and the tasks during the school were related to dwelling, taskscapes and sociocultural layers of the landscapes from the three different locations of the school. The participants shared insights into these landscape layers through folk stories, seasonal traditions and personal taskscapes. These workshops, discussions and multidisciplinary approaches worked as reference material for the participants that worked individually or in teams to produce them into artistic products and research outcomes.

The artistic processes resulted into a virtual exhibition that was published in May 2021. The images are glimpses from the works. The art-based works in the exhibition examine different approaches to landscape and the exhibition is divived into prologue and five sections. The sections are Dialogic approaches to landscape, Everyday landscapes, Materiality of landscapes, Seeking community processes in online settings and Posthuman collaboration with the landscape.

 

More information:

Timo Jokela, timo.jokela (at) ulapland.fi
Mette Gårdvik, mette.gardvik (at) nord.no
Elina Härkönen, elina.harkonen (at) ulapland.fi