CONTEMPORARY ART ON THE FOREST
2024-03-15 to 2025-01-19
Tankar i Hatten/Thoughts in the Hat
Director: Gerd Aurell and Micael Norberg
Camera: Micael Norberg
Editing: Micael Norberg
Sound mixer: Daniel Westman
Production: Gerd Aurell with support from Film i Västerbotten/Lill Casslind
and UmArts, Umeå University
Sweden 2023
Music:
”Kohmelsovalsi”, trad. / Tauno Krossi: Performed by Magnus Sjögren
”Tankar i Hatten” trad/arr Norrlåtar/Birger Burman, text: Magnus Sjögren
Matti Aikio, Gerd Aurell & Micael Norberg, Åsa Elzén & Malin Arnell, Toms Kokins, Elia Nurvista, Norrakollektivet, Uriel Orlow, Edith Marie Pasquier, Jörgen Stenberg, and Lena Ylipää.
EIGHT DEGREES / CONTEMPORARY ART ON THE FOREST at Bildmuseet Umeå
The exhibition brings together contemporary art exploring our complex relationship with the forest, ranging from ideas of an inviolable intrinsic value to the conception of something to be utilised, such as an economic asset or a space for recreation. What is a forest? And what pressing questions about it are relevant here and now?
Through photography, film, sculpture, drawing, textiles, sound, and installations, the artists invite us to reflect on the forest, observed and depicted from various perspectives and with diverse experiences. Their works provoke questions about tradition and future, forestry practices, land conflicts, biological diversity, and the forest as a sacred space.
The exhibition Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest is produced by Bildmuseet.
