ArsBioarctica Residency

I wish…

October 19, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
Filed under: Rosanne Van Klaveren
Social Tagging: goodbye

I’m back home now, although in my mind I’m still in Kilpis…. not only to look back at all work initiated, partly completed and partly unfinished, but mostly to look back in regret. Wish I could stay longer! Wish I was still there! Wish I didn’t had to leave at all…

Winter was truly coming when I left, while autumn has just started here in Belgium. Driving south felt like driving the wrong direction – back in time. Here in Hoegaarden, looking at the green grass outside and all the green leaves still attached to the trees, I cherish another wish: I WISH TO GO BACK!

Rudolf

October 8, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: reindeer

Today I tried to catch a reindeer, but all I got was his nose….

Homework

October 7, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: logo • picnic blanket

The very inspirational and also exhausting Field_Notes workshop is almost completely digested by now… This week I have visited the local school, have been to Kautokeino, seen the first snow, studied my Circumpolar Studies course, made many new entries for the FOOD RELATED platform and even made plans to come back in July to give a workshop at the Riddu Riddu festival! In between all these activities, I did some old-school homework with fabrics and a needle: two new logo’s for my Arctic picnic blanket that express my appreciation for being allowed to work here.

How to catch a lemming

September 28, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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During a field trip that was part of the Field_Notes workshop, I catched a lemming!

There are many of these small rodents this year, it is almost impossible NOT to see one when you’re out hiking. Usually they disapear as soon as possible in one of their holes, but if you are lucky no entrences nor hiding sides are available for the creature. Then you have the possibility to catch it! This is how to do it:

Run as fast as you can after it, with big steps but with a good focus on the direction it is heading. Be prepared that it can change direction quicker than you, so try to predict its movement. BELIEVE that you won’t miss when grabbing it, KNOW that you won’t let it escape if it reacts nervously. Then just jump towards the ground, more or less throwing your body downwards and catch the animal with both hands. Enjoy a good look of it!

Workshop given!

September 25, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: berries • cultural probes • norway • Tromso • workshop

Today I gave my first FOOD RELATED workshop….. in Small Projects in Tromso. It was nice. Just a few people showed up, but we have enjoyed ourselves, inspired each other and made a very usefull mapping while discussing the online platform.

And…. we ate almost al berries that I picked in the Kilpisjarvi-backyard yesterday!

Workshop initiated!

September 21, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: cultural probes • food • norway • presentaton • Saami • workshop

Cultural probes

September 14, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: cultural probes • Saami • workshop

I am working on my cultural probes these days… creative questionnaires for a workshop that I am hoping to give for Saami. This is all part of my artistic PhD, more specifically a project called FOOD RELATED. If you want to know more: www.foodrelated.org

Wireless

September 11, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: hiking • reindeer

To enjoy the freedom of being wireless has an extra meaning when you’re out on the tundra.

First steps…

September 8, 2011 by rosanne · Comments Off
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Social Tagging: autumn • backyard • silence • welcome

Hello!

My name is Rosanne van Klaveren and I have just arrived in the residency. This afternoon I have been scrolling around in the ‘backyard’ to welcome that what brought me here: blue berries, fresh air, cotton grass, arctic willow, reindeer, but most of all: SILENCE! I also welcomed the autumn, ‘coss it was still summer when I left home in Belgium. I’ll stay here till mid October, so most probably I’ll see that beautiful golden shine change into a white blanket. Thank you, ArsBioarctica, for giving me the opportunity to live and work here!

amorphous infinites

August 25, 2011 by rebeca · Comments Off
Filed under: Adam Euwens, Rebeca Mendez

Arrived at Kiekula, our beautiful temporary home. We woke up at 5 am and walked to the shore to film with my 16mm Bolex. This is a digital still image.
Some places, like the arctic tundra, where I spend long periods of time, I experience the sensation of being surrounded only by vast horizons in a complete surrender to spatial
infinity.
Tomorrow morning, I will film a new video work in collaboration with artist Carolina Trigo and of course, Adam Eeuwens. Images to come.

Captured at Kilpisjarvi at 5:30am.