SOLU / Bioart Society

#ArsBioarctica

On the Colour of Melting Ice.

Laura Lowe spent a few weeks in May – June 2025, at the Ars Bioarctica residency conducting artistic research for her ongoing body of work "The Strcutural Colour Paintings". Lowe was gathering visual material of melting ice and embedded 'black carbon' pollution through the iridescent colours these materials reveal under polarised microscopy, as well as, by capturing the ice's surface with gelatin prints. She travelled across a thawing landscape of glaciers, tundra lakes, cascading waterfalls, and the Arctic Sea collecting her samples of ice.

19 June 2025

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Learning from the Mountain

Dancers Gesa Piper and Paula Kramer were in Ars Bioarctica residency in February 2025. They focused on outdoor movement practice in relationship to temperature, cllimate, light and the rotation of panet Earth, partly accompanied by photographer Venla Helenius.

9 May 2025

#TokyoArt&ScienceResearchResidency

Processes

Lau Kaker was selected for the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency in 2024. This is their third and final blog entry about their experiences in residency.

28 March 2025

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Field Work

Lau Kaker was selected for the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency in 2024. This is their second blog entry about their experiences in residency.

19 March 2025

#TokyoArt&ScienceResearchResidency

Getting to Know the Vat

Lau Kaker was selected for the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency in 2024. This is their first blog entry about their experiences in residency.

28 February 2025

#ArsBioarctica

The changing nature of field studies

In November 2024 Ellen Bjerborn spent time at Kilpisjärvi Biological station, observing the changing nature of field studies in a new era. Much of the field work at the station is no longer done by human hands but rather by machines, and the staff at the station function to service the machines that monitor and collect samples.

13 December 2024

#ArsBioarctica / #RewildingCultures

Wind Machine

In the fall of 2024 Lauri Linna studied the wind and its life, observing the arctic atmosphere at the Rewilding Cultures residency at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

29 November 2024

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Carbon Synthesis

Donna Franklin, Tracy Hill and Sarah Robinson were in Ars Bioarctica residency at Kilpisjärvi in September working on their long-term Carbon Synthesis project.

31 October 2024

#TheNorthEscaping

IORE/AORTA - A Terrestrial Hope Affair

Hannah Wiker Wikström travelled to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for The North Escaping residency in July 2024. During her time in residency, she worked with a film, which will be a part of a longer research on timespacematter imagination.

16 October 2024

#RewildingCultures

Homecoming with gifts from distant relatives

Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka as the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 grant receivers in spring 2024. They are travelling from Serbia to Finland by land in a manner of 'symbiotic movement'. In this second blog entry they write about their experiences on the road.

26 September 2024

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Symbiotic wilderness

Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka as the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 grant receivers in spring 2024. They are travelling from Serbia to Finland by land in a manner of 'symbiotic movement'. In this first blog entry they write about the methodology of their trip.

6 September 2024

#TheNorthEscaping

Electric Ecologies Under the High Sun

Christine Hvidt travelled to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for The North Escaping residency in June 2024. During her time in residency, she worked and lived through the frames of Electric Ecology, training sensing and spending time with the places and the peoples there.

30 August 2024