Embodied Geography is an informal discussion between several participants with a focus on the way geography can be understood, interpreted, connected with and experienced through, with and by bodies.
Using Emilija Škarnulytė's exhibition, The Goddess Helix, as well as the artist’s forwarding of geographical context as part of a way of understanding the world and her relation to it, the conversation will weave through subjects ranging from the impact of extractivism on communities to algae blooms, sea monsters to sustainability.
The 45 minute conversation mediated by Kunsthall Trondheim director and curator of The Goddess Helix, Adam Kleinman, will be followed by a social moment, giving opportunity for the audience to continue the dialogue with each other and the participants.
The discussion will be held in English, and the event is free. Welcome!
Participants:
Elizabeth Sanna Barron: is a professor of Geography at NTNU. Barron's research interests center around the intersection of the politics of knowledge and governance systems in addressing conservation, resource management, and sustainability initiatives.Her project Arctic Auditories, is an environmental humanities project focused on acoustic ecologies and climate change.
Adam Kleinman: Director of Kunsthall Trondheim and curator of The Goddess Helix by Emilija Škarnulytė.
Celina Stifjell: recently completed a PhD at NTNU focusing on feminist monstrosity in popular culture. She-Monsters and Sea Changes: Imagining Submersion in Speculative Feminist Fiction thinks through feminist, interspecies and literary theory to examine the role of “she-monsters” in the context of filmic and literary depictions of aquatic stories which keep alive a utopian impulse of transformation.
Elly S Vadseth: artist and PHD fellow at the institute of Art and Media studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. With a practice grounded in movement and the sentient body, Vadseth research interest lie in the intersection of time based media, performance and gestural storytelling. In embodied dialogue with discourses in environmental humanities and eco-feminism her place-sensitive work and research circulate around sense-making and interspecies way-finding in shifting land and water ecologies.
Mattis Danielsen was originally scheduled to participate but has been prevented from doing so.
Mattis Danielsen: was born into a reindeer herding family in Røros. He brings with him the cultural heritage and identity as Sør Sami. Danielsen studied archeology at the University of Tromsø and has spent much of his life searching for, documenting and advocating Southern Sami culture and history whilst pushing indigenous perspectives in the field of archeology in Norway.