Welcome to the opening of the exhibition "Down in the Bog: Hibernation"

'Down in the Bog: Hibernation' is an exhibition and a place for learning and sharing from peatlands around the world, arguing for the need of increased attention and care. 'Hibernation' is the first of the three chapters of the overall project 'Down in the Bog - Thinking with Peatlands'. Slowly growing, like peat forming, this project-in-process is composed by Karolin Tampere. The works on display, the discursive and live program, aim at large to give poetic, imaginative and dreamlike nutrition to more sturdy layers of awareness, knowledge and care. To together learn from the ecosystems of Peatlands.

'Down in the Bog - Thinking with Peatlands' is led by an ambition to create cross-pollinating meeting grounds for art, environmental issues and the public. The exhibition project emphasizes the sharing and embodying of knowledge and awareness to create attention towards the need for increased care of peatland areas, locally, nationally and internationally. Practically and conceptually the topic of Peatlands will act as a guiding map and compass to learn about historical, cultural and contemporary changes in the environments around us in Sápmi, Northern Norway, Estonia and selected locations internationally.

The project will continue its second chapter Sporulation presented at EKKM (Estonian Contermporary Art Museum) in Tallinn June 14 - September 1 2024, to return to Tromsø with the third and deepest layer. The symposium 'Thinking with Peatlands' will respond to the resonances activated alongside the forming of the previous chapters. Save the date for the 3 day symposium September 27-29 2024
Stay tuned! More information will follow.

The project is supported by the Norwegian Arts Council

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PROGRAM DURING THE EXHIBITION PERIOD

With invited contributors and guests, the exhibition will at moments create a framework for concerts, conversations and meals. A stage for sharing themes and listening experiences that open up and connect us to familiar and unfamiliar stories from peatlands and their cultures. 

Note: To not miss details and possible changes of dates, times or places, please also follow information from Tromsø kunstforening / Romssa Dáiddasiida online 

04.4.24 3-7pm
Power to the Peatlands!
A Riso-printing workshop in collaboration with MONDO BOOKS
Learn riso-printing while defending peatlands with slogan aesthetics!
A selection of flyers, logos or images from this workshop will be proposed to be used by environmental organizations that are working with peatlands. 

Interested? Please contact: post@tromsokunstforening.no / subject line: Riso-workshop 4.4.24.
Limited capacity. 

13.4.24
Concert by Elina Waage Mikalsen
Elina is a Sámi-Norwegian interdisciplinary artist, musician and composer from Romsa/Tromsø, Sápmi. In her sound practice, she often mixes field recordings, voice, electronics, and home-built instruments to create sonic spaces that exist somewhere between reality and fantasy. A place where untold stories and cosmologies layer over us, or perhaps push the curtain aside. It is the emotional and narrative properties of sound that interests her, and how sound can function as a time machine that causes time to collapse and sets both past and future in motion. For the past two years, she has been artist-in-residence at the Borealis Festival for experimental music, where she focuses on Sami ways of listening, sound-based practices and experimental approaches to sound.

27.4.24 2pm Central Time / 3pm Eastern Time 
International publication launch: Odorant Peatlands / Turberas Olorosas by Ensayos
This is an edition representing the wetlands and peatlands of Karokynká, Tierra del Fuego; Bog Hollow, New York; Bogerudmyra, Oslo; and Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country. The edition includes four scent vials representing each location as well as a booklet with texts by Camila Marambio and agustine zegers, Hsuan L. Hsu, and Kashina.

The event will have simultaneous English/Spanish translation.
Note: Please register by filling in the form at ensayostierradelfuego.net 

11.5.24
Concert by Estonian kantele player Eva Väljaots 
Eva is a folk musician who plays various types of traditional kannel – an ancient string instrument widespread in Finno-Ugric cultures. Her performances employ widening playing techniques, bringing out the variegated timbre of kannels. In 2022 she was nominated as the best solo artist at the Estonian folk music awards, Etnokulp. Her debut album Hundinuiaõis * Bulrush Bloom was released the same year and consists of her self-penned music, which she performs on several kannels and hiiu kannel/jouhikko.

12.5.24
Last day of exhibition!

2.6.24
Venice Agreement  - Protect global peatlands locally. On the ground local action

Save the date! 
27 - 29.9.24
Thinking with Peatlands
symposium, curated by Camilla Fagerli and Karolin Tampere
Through conversations, field recordings, music, and research practices, the symposium will focus on local issues through a global lens. Walks, talks and listening on and near peatlands in Rávdnjevággi/Finnheia and Sállir/Kvaløya. 


The exhibition 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.