Programme

Talk by Icelandic artist RÚRÍ, the first in a series of lectures organized by Umeå School of Architecture in the framework of EURAU 26.

Join us for the last Um…Crit of the semester. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tarsh Bates will present their research project Scentsory Foraging – Exploring olfaction, environmental orientations and aesthetics.

Drop in to Michael Lukaszuk’s open studio session at UmArts. Mike is an electronic music composer, sound artist and UmArts Postdoc in New Media Art. His postdoctoral project explores generative music and improvisation with digital devices.

Ele Carpenter will present her Nuclear Culture fieldwork from the Northern Territory of Australia and the Joint Research Centre of the European Union, Ispra, Italy, carried out during 2024. This curatorial research into planetary nuclear aesthetics invites us to stay with the trouble of the Nuclear Anthropocene through a decolonial unravelling of the spatial and social aesthetics of nuclear technoscientific practices.

UmArts will live screen the online symposium Critical Art vs. Prank Politics organised by V2 in Rotterdam. The event is organised by Dani Ploeger featuring contributions by Aram Bartholl, Francis Hunger, Nora O’Murchú, Dani Ploeger, Hito Steyerl, Florian Weigl.

This talk, by YoungSuk Lee, UmArts WASP-HS Art and AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå Institute of Design (UID), introduces a design experiment through four interactions that mirror and amplify biases in human relationships – dominance, exclusion, hostility, and fractured balance.

The first Post Industrial Making Working Group meeting brings together researchers exploring possibilities and challenges in the intersection of traditional sloyd/craft and digital design, between hi-tech and low-tech making. 

Robin Durand will give a lecture about his Small Visionary project Little things/Små grejer, followed by a workshop where participants will have the opportunity to contribute their own small things to the project researching everyday buildings with unexpected solutions in the area of Umeå Municipality.

Ana Zdravković invites you to contribute to her project You can’t see the forest for the trees / Du ser inte skogen för alla träden. Contribute by bringing an element (an artwork, an object, or any other meaningful addition) to the installation at UmArts Research Centre. Don’t miss the Open Studio Event 11 April at 15.00.

Welcome Ana Zdravkovic UmArts new Artist Researcher in Residence from Belgrade. During her residency she will explore forests through their biodiversity and intricate web of connections, where every organism plays a role in maintaining a cohesive whole. With a special focus on the micro-world of mosses, lichens, fungi, and other small-scale organisms.