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Testing Grounds Episode 3: ‘Skaftfell Art Center – The Tensions of Environmental and Cultural Sustainability for Artists and Institutions’ now available
How can arts institutions and artists be more sustainable – in terms of their impact not only on the environment, but also on local communities? Skaftfell Art Center is NAARCA’s Icelandic partner. It’s based in Seyðisfjörður, a small but vibrant town in Eastern Iceland, surrounded by mountains and sea. Seyðisfjörður’s unique location and atmosphere has…
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Paper making workshop at Cove Park with Caitlin Dick
On 25 February 2023, Aberdeen-based artist and former Cove Park resident Caitlin Dick taught young people aged 7+ how to transform an everyday paper recycling pile into beautiful hand-made seed paper. After learning the basics of paper making, participants experimented with a touch of nature by adding leaves, flowers and colours – making each piece…
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Testing Grounds Episode 2: ‘Artica Svalbard – Climate Change and the Built Environment’ now available
How does the built environment affect our experience of the climate crisis – and vice-versa? Artica Svalbard is NAARCA’s Norwegian partner. It’s located on the Svalbard archipelago, in Longyearbyen – one of the world’s most northerly towns. Here, the climate crisis is impossible to ignore. In this episode, Charlotte Hetherington, director of Artica Svalbard, introduces…
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Writing Commission: Mairi Macleod (Scotland)
We are delighted to announce that the first NAARCA Writing Commission has been awarded to the Glasgow-based Gaelic writer Mairi Macleod, the recipient of the 2022 Young Gaelic Writer Residency at Cove Park, developed in collaboration with, and funded by, Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council. Mairi will attend a two-month residency at Saari Residence …
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Plant-based photography workshop at Cove Park with Edd Carr
On 28 January 2023, Edd Carr, a visual artist based in Leeds and co-founder of The Sustainable Darkroom, conducted a plant-based photography workshop at Cove Park for children and young people aged 7 and over. Edd’s practice examines our relationship to the ecological crisis and the nonhuman world which served as a starting point for group…
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Testing Grounds Episode 1: ‘Introducing NAARCA’ now available
As the climate crisis accelerates, how can artists’ residencies be testing grounds for new – and better – ways of living and working? The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) is a coalition of seven organisations that are exploring this question together. So, how did NAARCA come about? What are its goals? And… what…
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Why Collaborate?
How did the NAARCA collective come into being? Leena Kela (Executive Director, Saari Residence, Finland): The NAARCA project stems from a common concern and frustration in relation to the ways in which the environmental crisis is impacting the arts sector on one side, and the ways in which the arts sector is itself responding to…
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NAARCA Eco-Coordinator, Jaana Eskola (Finland), conducts residency site visits
Earlier this year, Jaana took part in the Creative Climate Leadership Scandinavia training programme (CCL) organised by Julie’s Bicycle. The sustainability coordinating work Jaana is doing within the NAARCA alliance forms part of the legacy project work within CCL. As part of the project Jaana will be conducting site visits to the NAARCA residencies around…
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Residency Exchange: Rikke Luther visits Skaftfell
EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT Rikke Luther – On Moving GroundSep 17 – Nov 20, 2022 Opening Sep 17, 16:00-18:00 in the Skaftfell gallery, and 18:00-19:30 in Herðubío (film screening) Gallery talk with the artist: Sep 18, 14:00 Opening times: Tue-Sun 17:00-22:00, Mon closed Rikke Luther’s solo exhibition at Skaftfell presents the artist’s ongoing research into political, societal…
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Art Commission: Rikke Luther (Denmark)
We are delighted to share that the first NAARCA Art Commission has been awarded to Danish artist Rikke Luther. Over the course of two years (2022-24), Rikke Luther will embark on a research project entitled More Mud which will include residencies at Baltic Art Center (Sweden) and Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art (Iceland) and…