Thinking with Peatlands - Symposium

Registration required, find form below.

Locally anchored in Rávdnjevággi/Finnheia, Isrenna and Hvilhaug (Romssa Dáiddasiida - Tromsø Kunstforening), culture, geography, history and natural science will interweave with art practices and environmental engagement. Throughout three days the Mire will be a common starting point and a meeting place where we will share, investigate and learn together with invited contributors and participants from near and far. The symposium will take shape as field walks on the mires, sound, listening, presentations, film screenings, conversations and more.

Like the slow growth of new peat forming, we are currently composing the program which layer by layer will become the symposium. The details for the program will be published no later than September 13th.

Thinking with Peatlands is the third part of the overall project Down in the Bog - Thinking with Peatlands. This project consists of three chapters where the process based exhibitions Hibernation and Sporulation were following the seasons from a snow covered Romsa/Tromsø to summer and autumn in Tallinn, Estonia. Practically and conceptually the topic of peatlands act as a guiding map and a compass, to learn about both historical, cultural and contemporary changes in the environments around us.                           

The project is curated by Karolin Tampere, the symposium in collaboration with Camilla Fagerli.

In order to be able to organize in the best possible way, we require registration. The registration form and some more information can be found here LINK

This symposium 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.